{"id":986,"date":"2014-02-01T16:04:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=986"},"modified":"2014-02-01T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T16:04:15","slug":"pm-inaugurates-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/pm-inaugurates-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"PM inaugurates book fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bookfair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-987\" alt=\"Bookfair\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Bookfair.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the month-long \u201cAmar Ekushey Grantha Mela 2014\u201d at traditional Bangla Academy grounds at 4:27pm Saturday. The fair will open at 3pm and close at 9pm. On Fridays the fair will open at 11am.<br \/>\nAccording to the organisers, 534 stalls have been allocated to 232 publishing houses at the Suhrawardy Udyan.<br \/>\nThe Bangla Academy Literary Award 2013 will be awarded to 11 personalities at the inaugural session.<br \/>\nLater in the fair \u201cChhittaranjan Saha Smrity Purashkar\u201d and \u201cMunier Chowdhury Smrity Purashkar\u201d will be awarded to the best publishers for their quality publications last year.<br \/>\nThe book fair was held for the first time in 1972 in an informal manner at the Bangla Academy premises. In 1984, the fair was named as the Amar Ekushey Grantha Mela.<\/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\/pm-inaugurates-book-fair\/\" 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>Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the month-long \u201cAmar Ekushey Grantha Mela 2014\u201d at traditional Bangla Academy grounds at 4:27pm Saturday. The fair will open at 3pm and close at 9pm. On Fridays the fair will open at 11am. According to the organisers, 534 stalls have been allocated to 232 publishing houses at the Suhrawardy Udyan. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"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=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}