{"id":289049,"date":"2026-02-27T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/?p=289049"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:25:11","slug":"ban-on-holi-celebrations-in-public-places-and-open-roads-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ban-on-holi-celebrations-in-public-places-and-open-roads-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on Holi celebrations in public places and open roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The District Administration Office (DAO) has urged one and all not to celebrate the Holi festival by gathering in public places and open roads. Issuing a notice, the District Administration Office (DAO) of Kathmandu has banned the celebration of Holi in public places. <\/p>\n<p>Keeping in mind the security of the House of Representatives election scheduled for March 4, the government has urged the people to celebrate Holi only in their home compound. Earlier, the District Administration Office (DAO) used to give permission to organize musical programmes in Thamel, Durbar Marg and Basantapur among other places during the Holi festival. <\/p>\n<p>This year, the government has also banned the sale and distribution of alcohol and the use of musical programs by setting up a stage. According to the District Administration Office, the use of vests, T-shirts, shirts and scarves with election symbols of political parties and candidates&#8217; pictures has also been completely banned. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-289047 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/holi-suchana-11.15-2082_CYZRPy9yw8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"932\" height=\"1215\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. The District Administration Office (DAO) has urged one and all not to celebrate the Holi festival by gathering in public places and open roads. Issuing a notice, the District Administration Office (DAO) of Kathmandu has banned the celebration of Holi in public places. Keeping in mind the security of the House of Representatives election [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":245132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289050,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289049\/revisions\/289050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/245132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}