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Monday, 1 January 1996

What matters on this day

Pausha Shukla Paksha until 4:38 PM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise7:18 AM

Sunset5:30 PM

Nakshatra until 12:59 PM

Avoid 8:34 AM – 9:51 AM

Auspicious 12:03 PM – 12:44 PM

Pausha Putrada EkadashiEkadashi The fortnightly fast of Vishnu. Twenty-four in an ordinary year, twenty-six when an adhika masa falls, each with its own name and katha. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

8:34 AM – 9:51 AM

11:07 AM – 12:24 PM

1:41 PM – 2:57 PM

11:23 AM – 12:44 PM, 2:47 PM – 4:09 PM

These are periods traditionally avoided for starting something. They do not move a festival — an observance fixed by its own rule stays where the rule puts it. More →

Moon, and the five limbs

Moonrise2:13 PM

Moonset3:11 AM

Siddha until 7:27 AM

Vishti

Somavara

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