{"id":58195,"date":"2026-11-13T15:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=58195"},"modified":"2026-11-13T15:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T09:20:53","slug":"government-declares-monday-a-public-holiday-for-chhath-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/government-declares-monday-a-public-holiday-for-chhath-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Declares Monday a Public Holiday for Chhath Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Nov, 13: The government has announced a public holiday on Monday, November 16, in addition to the previously declared holiday on Sunday, for the Chhath festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notice on Friday, stating that Monday, Kartik 30, will also be observed as a public holiday. The government had earlier declared Sunday, Kartik 29, a public holiday for Chhath.<\/p>\n<p>The additional holiday has been announced in view of the traditional rituals of the festival, during which devotees offer prayers to the setting sun on the first day and to the rising sun the following morning before concluding their fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov, 13: The government has announced a public holiday on Monday, November 16, in addition to the previously declared holiday on Sunday, for the Chhath festival. The Ministry of Home Affairs issued a notice on Friday, stating that Monday, Kartik 30, will also be observed as a public holiday. The government had earlier declared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58197,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58195\/revisions\/58197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}