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Thursday, 28 March 1996
What matters on this day
Chaitra Shukla Paksha until 10:40 PM
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise6:19 AM
Sunset6:33 PM
Nakshatra
until 12:20 AM, Mar 29
Avoid
1:58 PM – 3:29 PM
Auspicious
12:02 PM – 12:50 PM
No festival or vrat falls today for your region.
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The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
1:58 PM – 3:29 PM
6:19 AM – 7:51 AM
9:23 AM – 10:54 AM
12:50 PM – 2:28 PM, 4:55 PM – 6:33 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
Moonrise12:39 PM
Moonset2:00 AM
Atiganda until 4:15 AM, Mar 29
Balava
Guruvara
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