{"id":34196,"date":"2020-11-30T02:36:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34196"},"modified":"2020-11-30T02:36:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T02:36:41","slug":"dev-deepawali-festivities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/dev-deepawali-festivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Deepawali Festivities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on November 30 on the occasion of Dev Deepawali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dev Deepavali is also known as &#8220;the Diwali of the Gods&#8221; or &#8220;Festival of Lights of the Gods&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It falls on the full moon of the Hindu month of Kartika (November &#8211; December) and takes place fifteen days after Diwali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The steps of all the ghats on the riverfront of the Ganges River, from Ravidas Ghat at the southern end to Rajghat, are lit with more than a million earthen lamps (diyas) in honour of Ganga and its presiding goddess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gods are believed to descend to Earth to bathe in the Ganges on this day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on November 30 on the occasion of Dev Deepawali. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The Dev Deepavali is also known as &#8220;the Diwali of the Gods&#8221; or &#8220;Festival of Lights of the Gods&#8221;. It is the festival of Kartik Poornima celebrated in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[99],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020","tag-days-events-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196","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\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34198,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions\/34198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34196"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}