{"id":7863,"date":"2018-04-02T15:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2018-04-02T15:18:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T14:18:36","slug":"govt-changes-english-spellings-of-5-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/govt-changes-english-spellings-of-5-districts\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt changes English spellings of 5 districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7864\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bangladesh.png\" alt=\"Bangladesh\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bangladesh.png 225w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bangladesh-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Bangladesh-70x70.png 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>The government of Bangladesh has changed the English spellings of the names of five districts of the country.<br \/>\nAccording to government officials, the step has been taken to make the English names sound more like the districts\u2019 Bangla names.<br \/>\nThe new spellings e Bagura (Bogra), Barishal (Barisal), Chattagram (Chittagong), Jashore (Jessore) and Kumilla (Comilla).<br \/>\nThe National Implementation Committee for Administrative Reorganisation-Reform (NICAR) approved the plan on Monday.<br \/>\nNotably, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina herself presided over the meeting at her office.<br \/>\nNM Ziaul Alam, secretary of co-ordination and reforms at the Cabinet Division, said, \u201cSpellings of some districts date back to the British era. They needed to be changed.\u201d<br \/>\nNICAR works to reorganise districts, sub-districts, police stations, form new ministries, divisions, form and reform different administrative units with the prime minister as its convener.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/govt-changes-english-spellings-of-5-districts\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Bangladesh has changed the English spellings of the names of five districts of the country. According to government officials, the step has been taken to make the English names sound more like the districts\u2019 Bangla names. The new spellings e Bagura (Bogra), Barishal (Barisal), Chattagram (Chittagong), Jashore (Jessore) and Kumilla (Comilla). The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}