{"id":124740,"date":"2026-09-16T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=124740"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:42:28","slug":"nuakhai-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nuakhai-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuakhai Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Nuakhai Festival Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Prime Minister of India extended greetings to people on the auspicious occasion of Nuakhai.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Nuakhai Festival<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an important <\/span><b>social festival of Western Odisha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word nua means new and <\/span><b>khai <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">means food.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Objective:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is an agricultural festival which is observed to <\/span><b>welcome the new rice of the season.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is observed on the <\/span><b>fifth day of the lunar fortnight<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhaadra (August\u2013September).<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rituals of Naukhai Festivals<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nuakhai is <\/span><b>understood to have nine colours and<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a consequence nine sets of rituals are followed as a prelude to the actual day of celebration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People offer the newly <\/span><b>harvested crop called Nabanha<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to their respective presiding deities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After offering the Nabanha, people relish different types of delicacies prepared from the newly harvested crop.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nuakhai Juhar is a major ritual of the festival.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ddnews.gov.in\/en\/nuakhai-celebrates-farmers-harvest-and-spirit-of-togetherness-pm-modi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DD News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nuakhai Festival  is an important social festival of Western Odisha. Read more about Nuakhai Festival, Objective, Rituals, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":124766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10293,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-124740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-nuakhai-festival","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124740"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124815,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124740\/revisions\/124815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}