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Time zone: UTC+5:30 (Indian Standard Time) GDP: US$ 219 Billion [1] Website: www.cmdachennai.gov.in: Area note: Area of CMA was expanded from 1189 sq.km to 5904 sq.km in 2022. [2] Population note: As per the 2011 census, population corresponding to the pre-expansion limits was about 8.9 million. [3]
The Indian Standard Time was adopted on 1 January 1906 during the British era with the phasing out of its precursor Madras Time (Railway Time), [2] and after Independence in 1947, the Union government established IST as the official time for the whole country, although Kolkata and Mumbai retained their own local time (known as Calcutta Time and Bombay Time) until 1948 and 1955, respectively. [3]
India uses only one time zone (even though it spans two geographical time zones) across the whole nation and all its territories, called Indian Standard Time (IST), which equates to UTC+05:30, i.e. five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). India does not currently observe daylight saving time (DST or summer time). The ...
Ornamental trellis at Central Square Park. The Central Square is a city square and major intersection in Chennai.Areas surrounding the Ripon Building, Victoria Public Hall, Moore Market Complex, Chennai Central Railway Station, the Southern Railway Headquarters and the Government General Hospital are being developed as part of the Central Square.
A Block, Annanagar East, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600102: Coordinates: Owned by: Chennai Metro: Operated by: Chennai Metro Rail Limited (CMRL) Line(s) Green Line Inter Corridor Line Platforms: Island platform Platform-1 → St. Thomas Mount Platform-2 → M.G.R Chennai Central: Tracks: 2
Chennai houses a major portion of India's automobile industry, hence the name "Detroit of India". It was the only South Asian city to be ranked among National Geographic 's "Top 10 food cities" in 2015 and ranked ninth on Lonely Planet 's best cosmopolitan cities in the world.
Calcutta Time was one of the two official time zones established in British India in 1884. It was established during the International Meridian Conference held at Washington, D.C. in the United States. It was decided that India had two time zones: Calcutta (now Kolkata) would use the 90th meridian east and Bombay (now Mumbai) the 75th meridian ...
Name used in the default map caption; image = Chennai area locator map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = 13.295 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = 12.844 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = 80 Longitude at left edge of map, in decimal degrees; right = 80.3575 Longitude at ...