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Art and Culture with Devdutt Pattanaik | Stories behind diverse calendars of India

August 29, 2025 8:31 am

Why did India adopt the Saka calendar, alongside the Gregorian calendar, after independence? How do history and legends shape our understanding of time?

knowledge nugget, calendars, Gregorian calendar, Roman, Saka, Vikram samvat

Knowledge nugget of the day: New Year’s Day in the Calendar

January 02, 2025 8:35 pm

As we welcome 2025, let’s look at why January 1 is recognised by the Gregorian calendar as the beginning of a new year. Beyond the nugget, get to know about the traditional calendars used in India.

Fwd2cal is an open-source project that is free to use for now.

Tired of adding events to Google Calendar yourself? Here’s how an AI bot can do it for you

December 16, 2024 6:29 pm

The service uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT to copy details from an email and create an event on your Google Calendar.

RPSC Exam Calendar 2024-25: RPSC 2024 calendar released, exams in 2025

RPSC Calendar 2024-25: Geologist competitive exam, group instructor exam dates and more

October 24, 2024 7:40 pm

Upcoming RPSC Exam 2025 Dates: According to the RPSC calendar 2024, the geologist competitive exam 2024 and assistant mining engineer competitive exam 2024 in the Department of Mines of Geology will be conducted on May 7, 2025.

It’s an anxious time for all artistes, including the ones long dead. (Illustration: Pixabay)

It's the season of lists: Are you a list-maker or an avid follower?

December 27, 2023 10:02 am

Even as lists bring order to life, they can never substitute the thrill of discovery

Android Nougat Chrome | Android Nougat Google Calendar | Google Chrome discontinued

Google Chrome and Calendar will soon stop working on older Android devices

November 28, 2023 4:08 pm

Google is dropping support for its seven-year-old Android version with Chrome v120, which will be launched sometime next month.

Satish Kaushik- Satish Shah- Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro

Remembering Satish Kaushik: Satish Shah remembers the jovial man who hid his tragic life story with booming laughter

April 13, 2023 1:38 pm

Satish Kaushik's Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro co-star Satish Shah reveals how the former was deeply disturbed after his son passed away, but still kept the world laughing. Kaushik passed away in March this year.

A calendar tracks the history of Sikhs in Canada

December 25, 2022 2:41 pm

Curated by Karen Dosanjh, a Canadian-born historian, and shared generously by Patrick Herbert, consul general of Canada in Chandigarh, the calendar brings to life the struggles and successes of the first wave of migrants from Punjab to Canada in the early 1900s.