{"id":487558,"date":"2022-04-28T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=487558"},"modified":"2022-04-28T12:05:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T06:35:02","slug":"snake-like-queues-at-railway-counters-in-dhaka-ahead-of-eid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/snake-like-queues-at-railway-counters-in-dhaka-ahead-of-eid\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Snake-like&#8217; queues at railway counters in Dhaka ahead of Eid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a desperate bid to get advance tickets ahead of Eid on May 3, thousands of Bangladeshi travellersare facing massive &#8220;snake-like&#8221; queues at railway ticket counters in the capital Dhaka. <\/p>\n<p>As Eid-al-Fitr is drawing to a close, marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the ticket counters at the city railway station have started witnessing a mad rush of people since last weekend, Xinhua news agency said in a report on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>People of all ages and even women in large numbers are now thronging Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital to buy tickets. <\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh Railway on April 23 began to sell train tickets in advance for travellers who will flock home to join in the festivities with their kith and kin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a desperate bid to get advance tickets ahead of Eid on May 3, thousands of Bangladeshi travellersare facing massive &#8220;snake-like&#8221; queues at railway ticket counters in the capital Dhaka. As Eid-al-Fitr is drawing to a close, marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the ticket counters at the city railway station have started witnessing a mad rush of people since last weekend, Xinhua news agency said in a report on Thursday. People of all ages and even women in large numbers are now thronging Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital to buy tickets. Bangladesh Railway on [&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":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487558","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=487558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}