{"id":438492,"date":"2026-11-08T07:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=438492"},"modified":"2026-11-08T07:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T02:02:08","slug":"kukurtihar-being-observed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/11\/08\/438492.html","title":{"rendered":"KukurTihar being observed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kathmandu, Nov 8: KukurTihar, the festival honouring dogs, is being celebrated across the country today, the third day of Yamapanchak during this year\u2019s Tihar festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though KukurTihar is usually observed on the second day of Tihar, calendar adjustments moved it to the third day this year, Dr Purushottam Bhattarai, chair of the Nepal Calendar Determination Committee, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People honour dogs with garlands, tika, and special treats for their loyalty and their traditional role as messengers of Yamaraj, the God of Death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also known as NarakChaturdashi, the festival celebrates the close bond between people and dogs. <strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov 8: KukurTihar, the festival honouring dogs, is being celebrated across the country today, the third day of Yamapanchak during this year\u2019s Tihar festival. Though KukurTihar is usually observed on the second day of Tihar, calendar adjustments moved it to the third day this year, Dr Purushottam Bhattarai, chair of the Nepal Calendar Determination &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":438493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,5,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-438492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438494,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438492\/revisions\/438494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438492"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=438492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}