{"id":25640,"date":"2017-05-08T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=25640"},"modified":"2017-05-08T12:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T12:08:19","slug":"un-vesak-day-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/un-vesak-day-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Vesak Day-2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: The UN Vesak Day celebrations are scheduled for May 11 \u2013 14, 2017 in which of the following country?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Thailand<br \/>\n(b) Sri Lanka<br \/>\n(c) Myanmar<br \/>\n(d) China<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (b)<br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>The UN Vesak Day celebrations are scheduled for May 11 \u2013 14, 2017 in Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li>The theme of the UN Vesak day is \u2018Buddha\u2019s Teachings, Social Justice and Sustainable World Peace\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>In this international Buddhist seminar, more than 400 delegates from 100 countries will participate.<\/li>\n<li>Vesak day is also known as Buddha Purnima and Buddha Day.<\/li>\n<li>This day is widely celebrated by Sri Lankan majority Sinhalese Buddhists.<\/li>\n<li>UN General Assembly declared an International Day of Observance for Vesak in 1999 on the initiative of the then Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddharashmi.org\/Home\/tabid\/36\/ctl\/Details\/mid\/429\/ItemID\/35\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.buddharashmi.org\/Home\/tabid\/36\/ctl\/Details\/mid\/429\/ItemID\/35\/Default.aspx<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.island.lk\/index.php?page_cat=article-details&amp;page=article-details&amp;code_title=163787\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.island.lk\/index.php?page_cat=article-details&amp;page=article-details&amp;code_title=163787<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.lk\/2017\/04\/19\/local\/113591\/narendra-modi-confirms-participation-un-vesak-day-sri-lanka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/dailynews.lk\/2017\/04\/19\/local\/113591\/narendra-modi-confirms-participation-un-vesak-day-sri-lanka<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: The UN Vesak Day celebrations are scheduled for May 11 \u2013 14, 2017 in which of the following country? (a) Thailand (b) Sri Lanka (c) Myanmar (d) China Ans (b) Related facts: The UN Vesak Day celebrations are scheduled for May 11 \u2013 14, 2017 in Sri Lanka. The theme of the UN Vesak [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":25556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1155],"tags":[2334],"class_list":["post-25640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","tag-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}