{"id":130851,"date":"2023-03-09T12:19:34","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=130851"},"modified":"2023-03-09T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T06:49:36","slug":"yaoshang-festival-begins-in-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/yaoshang-festival-begins-in-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaoshang festival begins in Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Yaoshang festival begins in Manipur : <\/strong>The\u00a0Yaoshang festival\u00a0has begun in\u00a0Manipur\u00a0on March 7, 2023, and will continue for five days. The festival is celebrated by the Meetei who are predominantly Hindu and it is celebrated at the same time as Holi. However, during the Yaoshang festival, apart from playing with colour, the festival also witnessed a number of cultural and religious activities for five days. The Manipur Governor and CM conveyed warm greetings to the people of Manipur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-march-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 2023 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><br><br>From some years back, the village level sport competition held by different clubs or organisations during the Yaoshang festival has become a major feature of the celebration. The Manipur Governor, Chief Minister and others conveyed warm greetings to the people of Manipur in connection with the festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaoshang festival begins in Manipur : The\u00a0Yaoshang festival\u00a0has begun in\u00a0Manipur\u00a0on March 7, 2023, and will continue for five days. The festival is celebrated by the Meetei who are predominantly Hindu and it is celebrated at the same time as Holi. However, during the Yaoshang festival, apart from playing with colour, the festival also witnessed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":130852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5004],"tags":[71,104],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-130851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-march-2023","tag-art-culture-current-affairs","tag-manipur-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130853,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130851\/revisions\/130853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130851"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=130851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}