{"id":837825,"date":"2024-07-27T09:35:27","date_gmt":"2024-07-27T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=837825"},"modified":"2024-07-27T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T04:05:27","slug":"bangladeshs-internet-shutdown-isolates-citizens-disrupts-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/07\/27\/bangladeshs-internet-shutdown-isolates-citizens-disrupts-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s internet shutdown isolates citizens, disrupts business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Md. Rakibul Ahsan was finishing a logo he had designed for a foreign client as the deadline fast approached. Just before he could hit send, Bangladesh&#8217;s internet was shut down, stranding him and the rest of the country offline.<\/p>\n<p> Student-led protests against quotas for highly sought-after government jobs led to violent clashes that killed at least 147 people in Bangladesh this month.<\/p>\n<p>The government responded with a countrywide curfew, sending military troops to patrol empty roads, and a comprehensive internet outage on July 18 &#8211; a tactic it has employed previously at refugee camps and ahead of elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA: Md. Rakibul Ahsan was finishing a logo he had designed for a foreign client as the deadline fast approached. Just before he could hit send, Bangladesh&#8217;s internet was shut down, stranding him and the rest of the country offline. Student-led protests against quotas for highly sought-after government jobs led to violent clashes that killed at least 147 people in Bangladesh this month. The government responded with a countrywide curfew, sending military troops to patrol empty roads, and a comprehensive internet outage on July 18 &#8211; a tactic it has employed previously at refugee camps and ahead of elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}