{"id":982812,"date":"2025-12-31T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982812"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:41:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:11:58","slug":"uttar-pradeshs-baghpat-divided-over-khap-panchayats-ban-on-smartphones-dress-code-for-minors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/31\/uttar-pradeshs-baghpat-divided-over-khap-panchayats-ban-on-smartphones-dress-code-for-minors\/","title":{"rendered":"Uttar Pradesh&#8217;s Baghpat divided over khap panchayat\u2019s ban on smartphones, dress code for minors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHPAT: People in Baghpat district are divided over the khap panchayat\u2019s ban on the use of smartphones and wearing half-pants in public places by those under 18. <\/p>\n<p>In its Saturday diktat, the panchayat also objected to holding weddings in banquet halls, asserting that marriages should be held in villages and homes. It suggested the kurta-pyjama for boys and the salwar-kurta for girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHPAT: People in Baghpat district are divided over the khap panchayat\u2019s ban on the use of smartphones and wearing half-pants in public places by those under 18. In its Saturday diktat, the panchayat also objected to holding weddings in banquet halls, asserting that marriages should be held in villages and homes. It suggested the kurta-pyjama for boys and the salwar-kurta for girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}