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In 1981, Malaysia decided to standardise the time across its territories to a uniform UTC+08:00. Singapore elected to follow suit, citing business and travel schedules. [14] [15] The change took effect on New Year's Day (1 January) 1982 when Singapore moved half an hour forward on New Year's Eve (31 December) 1981 at 11:30 pm creating "Singapore Standard Time" (SST) or "Singapore Time" (SGT). [16]
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]
3 Dec 2022 (conversion rate, 1 Sep 2023) India: Though stipulated by law, it varies from ₹160 (US$2.16) per day in Bihar, to ₹348/day (US$4.7) in Mumbai (2017), [109] to ₹750 (US$10) per day in Kerala. State governments set a separate minimum wage for agricultural workers. [10] The minimum wages are set according to Minimum Wages Act ...
This is especially true for Healthy life expectancy, the definition of which criteria may change over time, even within a country. For example, Canada is a country with a fairly high overall life expectancy at 81.63 years; however, this number decreases to 75.5 years for Indigenous people in the country. [ 4 ]
Singapore: 0.13% 22 April 2016: 21 September 2016: 4 November 2016 Slovakia [a] 0.12% 22 April 2016: 5 October 2016: 4 November 2016 Slovenia [a] 0.05% 22 April 2016: 16 December 2016: 15 January 2017 Solomon Islands: 0.00% 22 April 2016: 21 September 2016: 4 November 2016 Somalia: N/A [b] 22 April 2016: 22 April 2016: 4 November 2016 South ...
Global map of total central government revenues, as share of GDP, 2022 [1] Global map of total central government expenditures, as share of GDP, 2022 [2]. This is the list of countries by government budget.
Adolf Hitler (1945), Austrian-born Nazi Germany dictator, gunshot [571] [572] (possibly while biting down on a cyanide capsule at the same time) [573] Abbie Hoffman (1989), American political and social activist, phenobarbital overdose [574] Richard Holden (2005), Canadian politician, leapt from 8th-floor balcony [575]
Mass near the M87* black hole is converted into a very energetic astrophysical jet, stretching five thousand light years. In physics, mass–energy equivalence is the relationship between mass and energy in a system's rest frame, where the two quantities differ only by a multiplicative constant and the units of measurement.