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The Gazette of India is dated in both the Gregorian calendar and the Indian national calendar. The Indian national calendar, also called the Shaka calendar or Śaka calendar, is a solar calendar that is used alongside the Gregorian calendar by The Gazette of India, in news broadcasts by All India Radio, and in calendars and official communications issued by the Government of India. [1]
Mondays are the start of the week as per ISO 8601. Traditionally, Sunday (Ravivar) is considered as the first day of the week in India and the official calendar published by the Government of India shows the day order from Sunday to Saturday with Monday depicted as the start of workweek with weekends falling on Saturday and Sunday. [6]
For most of India's history, ruling kingdoms kept their own local time, typically using the Hindu calendar in both lunar and solar units. [6] For example, the Jantar Mantar observatory built by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh in Jaipur in 1733 contains large sundials, up to 27 m (90 ft) high, which were used to accurately determine the local time.
Workers on a five-day week are entitled to a 20 working days or 24 working days for six-day week workers. The leave entitlement is increased by one working day for each year of employment in addition to the first year, up to 26 working days, or up to 22 working days if the undertaking operates a five-day week. [14]
The dates of the lunar cycle based festivals vary significantly on the Gregorian calendar and at times by several weeks. The solar cycle based ancient Hindu festivals almost always fall on the same Gregorian date every year and if they vary in an exceptional year, it is by one day. [60]
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The day of the week can be easily calculated given a date's Julian day number (JD, i.e. the integer value at noon UT): Adding one to the remainder after dividing the Julian day number by seven (JD modulo 7 + 1) yields that date's ISO 8601 day of the week. For example, the Julian day number of 21 February 2025 is 2460728.
10 January – Larsen & Toubro chairman S. N. Subrahmanyan's statement on a 90-hour work week and working day on Sunday sparks outrage and debate on work–life balance. [10] 13 January – The Z-Morh Tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir is inaugurated in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. [11]