{"id":36962,"date":"2017-09-27T10:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=36962"},"modified":"2017-09-27T10:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T10:21:39","slug":"maha-saptami-being-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=36962","title":{"rendered":"Maha Saptami being celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Maha-Saptami\"Dhaka: Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, entered the second day with the Hindu devotees across the country celebrating Maha Saptami on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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The worshippers will sing hymns and offer flowers seeking the blessings of Durga, the saviour of humanity from all evils in the Maha Saptami.<\/p>\n

Draped in new dresses, a large number of devotees irrespective of ages have been thronging the Puja Mandaps and offering prayers before the Goddess Durga, seeking divine blessings for peace, prosperity and welfare of the country and its people.<\/p>\n

In Faridpur, thousands of Hindu devotees have been offering their prayers with due religious solemnity at 737 Puja Mandaps throughout the district.<\/p>\n

In Comilla, worshippers, thousands in n umber, have been thronging in some 752 Puja Mandaps in the entire district to offer prayers to Goddess Durga, seeking blessings.<\/p>\n

A good number of law enforcers, including 8,000 Ansar men and 700 police and Rab personnel, have been deployed across the district to ward off any untoward incident.<\/p>\n

The five-day festival started with ‘Bodhon' of the Goddess Durga marking Sashthi on Tuesday. The festival will come to an end with the emersion of the idols of the Goddess Durga in the nearby rivers and water bodies across the country on October 30. unb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dhaka: Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu community, entered the second day with the Hindu devotees across the country celebrating Maha Saptami on Wednesday. The worshippers will sing hymns and offer flowers seeking the blessings of Durga, the saviour of humanity from all evils in the Maha Saptami. Draped in new dresses, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":36963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n