{"id":438700,"date":"2026-11-13T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=438700"},"modified":"2026-11-13T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:09:34","slug":"govt-extends-holidays-for-chhath-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/11\/13\/438700.html","title":{"rendered":"Govt extends holidays for Chhath festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> The government has announced one more day as a public holiday coming Monday on the occasion of Chhath festival. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"605\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Home-Ministry-e1657097155184.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-342086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Home-Ministry-e1657097155184.jpg 960w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Home-Ministry-e1657097155184-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/Home-Ministry-e1657097155184-768x484.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Home Ministry issued a notice, sharing the information on it today. Sunday has already been announced as a public holiday, and the Chhath festival falls on the same day this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joint secretary and spokesperson at the Home Ministry, Anand Prasad Kafle, informed that as part of the celebration, there is a traditional practice of offering curd to the setting Sun on the first day (Sunday), and the fasting is concluded by offering curd to the rising Sun the next day (Monday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RSS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: The government has announced one more day as a public holiday coming Monday on the occasion of Chhath festival. The Home Ministry issued a notice, sharing the information on it today. Sunday has already been announced as a public holiday, and the Chhath festival falls on the same day this year. Joint secretary and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":342086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,4,2],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-438700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-en-news","category-top-stories-main"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438700","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\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438701,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438700\/revisions\/438701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438700"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=438700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}