{"id":480,"date":"2021-11-29T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T05:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2021-11-29T14:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T09:03:20","slug":"poudel-to-be-awarded-with-bijayababu-memorial-journalism-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Poudel to be awarded with Bijayababu Memorial Journalism Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu, Nov 29 (RSS) \u2013 <\/strong>Journalist Keshav Prasad Poudel is to be given the &#8216;Bijayababu Memorial Journalism Award&#8217; for this Nepali year 2078 BS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the 10th memorial day of late journalist Bijaya Babu Khatri, journalist Poudel would be awarded, according to Nepal Samachar Kendra&#8217;s chairperson Laxmi Shrestha Khatri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poudel, currently associated with New Spotlight fortnightly magazine, has been actively pursuing journalism since 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A selection committee comprising Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) Chair Bipul Pokharel and Nepal Samachar Kendra&#8217;s chairperson Khattri took the decision towards this effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was instituted in the memory of journalist Khatri who died in a road accident at Saljhandi of Rupandehi district on November 28, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A revolving fund was set up by deceased journalist&#8217;s spouse Laxmi Shrestha on November 28, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award will be presented to Poudel on December 10 this year. Earlier, senior journalist Dhruba Hari Adhikari and Gokarna Gautam (posthumously) were feted with the Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Nov 29 (RSS) \u2013 Journalist Keshav Prasad Poudel is to be given the &#8216;Bijayababu Memorial Journalism Award&#8217; for this Nepali year 2078 BS. On the 10th memorial day of late journalist Bijaya Babu Khatri, journalist Poudel would be awarded, according to Nepal Samachar Kendra&#8217;s chairperson Laxmi Shrestha Khatri. Poudel, currently associated with New Spotlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[306,96,307],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social","tag-bijaya-babu-khatri","tag-journalist","tag-laxmi-shrestha-khatri"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiafirstdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Keshav-Prasad-Poudel-Journalist.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}