{"id":12825,"date":"2020-08-07T08:19:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12825"},"modified":"2020-08-07T08:19:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T08:19:26","slug":"low-key-independence-day-celebrations-in-west-bengal-kolkata-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=12825","title":{"rendered":"Low-key Independence Day celebrations in West Bengal | Kolkata News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section class=\"_2suu5 _24fIT clearfix  undefined undefined \">\n<div class=\"_3v5m2 image_wrapper \">\n<div class=\"_2gIK-\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-77404855,imgsize-552883,width-400,resizemode-4\/77404855.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that due to the on-going lockdown, there would be a small programme, where Covid warriors would be felicitated in the presence of a few people.\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><span class=\"_3sXlO _1Ee83 img_cptn\">Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that due to the on-going lockdown, there would be a small prog&#8230;<span class=\"ZnWck\">Read More<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA: The Bengal government has decided to hold a <!-- -->low-key<!-- --> Independence Day celebration this year. <br \/>Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that due to the on-going lockdown, as advised by the Centre, there would be a small programme, where Covid warriors would be felicitated in the presence of a few people. Everyone would adhere to social distancing norms and wear masks, Nabanna officials said, adding the CM would unfurl the national flag at <!-- -->Red Road<!-- --> and there would be the Guard of Honour. Even the I-Day programme at the Raj Bhavan was likely to be curtailed, sources said. <br \/>The state has directed minimal gathering for Ganesh Puja on August 22. There should be no crowding on <!-- -->Janmashtami<!-- --> (August 11) and Lokenath Baba\u2019s birth anniversary (August 12), the administration said. August 9, when a tribal festival is slated to be observed, August 16, <!-- -->Parsi New Year<!-- -->, and August 17, Manasa Puja, have been kept off total lockdown list. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/low-key-i-day-celebrations\/articleshow\/77402047.cms\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that due to the on-going lockdown, there would be a small prog&#8230;Read More KOLKATA: The Bengal government has decided to hold a low-key Independence Day celebration this year. Chief minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that due to the on-going lockdown, as advised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kolkata"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/1596788369_photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}