{"id":422884,"date":"2026-01-10T06:28:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=422884"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T00:43:22","slug":"noted-newsreader-michael-chand-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/01\/10\/422884.html","title":{"rendered":"Noted newsreader Michael Chand passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kathmandu, Jan 9:<\/em> Renowned newsreader and journalist Michael Chand passed away on Friday morning at the age of 77.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to family sources, Chand died at his residence in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chand had a distinguished career spanning more than four decades as an English news editor and newsreader at Radio Nepal, where he earned wide recognition for his voice and professionalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Bhuvan Chand\u2014the first actress of Nepali cinema\u2014and their three daughters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Jan 9: Renowned newsreader and journalist Michael Chand passed away on Friday morning at the age of 77. According to family sources, Chand died at his residence in Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, after a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer. Chand had a distinguished career spanning more than four decades as an English news editor and newsreader &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":422858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-422884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422884"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422885,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422884\/revisions\/422885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422884"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=422884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}