{"id":351807,"date":"2020-05-18T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=351807"},"modified":"2020-05-18T11:04:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:34:55","slug":"coronavirus-lockdown-kannadigas-in-dhaka-worried-desperate-for-bengaluru-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coronavirus-lockdown-kannadigas-in-dhaka-worried-desperate-for-bengaluru-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus lockdown: Kannadigas in Dhaka worried, desperate for Bengaluru flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, Mohamed Samiulla left Bengaluru for a new job in Dhaka, Bangladesh as the general manager in charge of operations at a garments factory. The move came with the prospect of a better career and the promise of more money. <\/p>\n<p>Just into his new job, Bangladesh enforced a lockdown to tackle Covid-19 and has remained so for two months. Now, Shamiulla neither has a job nor a way to get back to Bengaluru. <\/p>\n<p>Shamiulla is one among more than 60 Kannadigas stranded in Dhaka, desperate to return to Karnataka. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel helpless, literally, because I\u2019m neither here nor there,\u201d Shamiulla told DH over the phone. \u201cI was staying in an apartment, but I have now moved in with a friend because I had problems paying rent.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, Mohamed Samiulla left Bengaluru for a new job in Dhaka, Bangladesh as the general manager in charge of operations at a garments factory. The move came with the prospect of a better career and the promise of more money. Just into his new job, Bangladesh enforced a lockdown to tackle Covid-19 and has remained so for two months. Now, Shamiulla neither has a job nor a way to get back to Bengaluru. Shamiulla is one among more than 60 Kannadigas stranded in Dhaka, desperate to return to Karnataka. \u201cI feel helpless, literally, because I\u2019m neither here nor there,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}