{"id":404115,"date":"2025-03-15T11:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T06:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=404115"},"modified":"2025-03-15T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T06:14:16","slug":"u-s-state-of-texas-declares-march-13-as-nepali-lumbini-advocacy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2025\/03\/15\/404115.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. State of Texas declares March 13 as &#8216;Nepali Lumbini Advocacy Day&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-146c3p1 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-1adg3ll r-1b5gpbm r-a8ghvy\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-a8ghvy\"><strong> March 15, Kathmandu:<\/strong> The legislature of the U.S. state of Texas has officially designated March 13 as &#8216;Nepali Lumbini Advocacy Day&#8217; following a resolution passed on March 13. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-146c3p1 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-1adg3ll r-1b5gpbm r-a8ghvy\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-a8ghvy\">Introduced by Suleman Lalani, one of the state\u2019s first Muslim and South Asian lawmakers, the resolution recognizes Lumbini, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and key Buddhist spiritual destination, for its historical importance. The announcement coincided with a U.S. visit by mayors from Nepal\u2019s Lumbini Circuit, welcomed by the 89th Texas legislature to promote the region. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-146c3p1 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-1adg3ll r-1b5gpbm r-a8ghvy\" dir=\"ltr\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-a8ghvy\">Spearheaded by Netra Pandey of the Non-Resident Nepal Association and civic leader Prabhat Dixit, the day will be celebrated annually by the Nepali community in Texas to support Nepal\u2019s tourism efforts.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 15, Kathmandu: The legislature of the U.S. state of Texas has officially designated March 13 as &#8216;Nepali Lumbini Advocacy Day&#8217; following a resolution passed on March 13. Introduced by Suleman Lalani, one of the state\u2019s first Muslim and South Asian lawmakers, the resolution recognizes Lumbini, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and key Buddhist spiritual &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":402725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8,3,6,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-404115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administration","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-featured","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404115"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404116,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404115\/revisions\/404116"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404115"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=404115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}