{"id":12095,"date":"2019-12-02T16:37:03","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2019-12-02T16:37:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T11:07:03","slug":"20th-edition-of-hornbill-festival-begins-in-nagaland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/20th-edition-of-hornbill-festival-begins-in-nagaland\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Edition of Hornbill Festival begins in Nagaland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>The 20th Edition of Hornbill Festival has started in the state of Nagaland.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Hornbill festival:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Hornbill Festival is a celebration held every year in Nagaland.The festival is also called the &#8216;Festival of Festivals&#8217;.<\/li><li>The festival is organized by the Nagaland State Tourism and Art &amp; Culture Departments.<\/li><li>The festival aims to encourage inter-tribal interaction and to promote culture through colourful performances, crafts, sports, food fairs, games and ceremonies.<\/li><li>The festival is named after the Great Indian hornbill,the large and colourful forest bird which is displayed in the folklore of most of the state\u2019s tribes.<\/li><li>The festival was established in 1963 and was inaugurated by the then President Dr. S Radhakrishnan.The festival was held for the first time in 2000.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Great Indian Hornbill:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Great Indian Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) also known as the great pied hornbill is one of the larger members of the hornbill family.<\/li><li>The bird is the state bird of Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh.But it is not a state bird of Nagaland.<\/li><li>The bird is listed as vulnerable species in the International Union for Conservation of Nature\u2019s (IUCN) Red List.<\/li><li>The bird is threatened by (a)Logging (b)Forest clearance for agriculture (c)susceptible to hunting pressure among others.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The 20th Edition of Hornbill Festival has started in the state of Nagaland. Facts: About Hornbill festival: The Hornbill Festival is a celebration held every year in Nagaland.The festival is also called the &#8216;Festival of Festivals&#8217;. The festival is organized by the Nagaland State Tourism and Art &amp; Culture Departments. The festival aims to encourage&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/20th-edition-of-hornbill-festival-begins-in-nagaland\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">20th Edition of Hornbill Festival begins in Nagaland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6800,5236],"class_list":["post-12095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-hornbill-festival","tag-nagaland","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704811950},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}