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Thursday, 28 April 2005

What matters on this day

Chaitra Krishna Paksha until 8:10 AM

New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change

Sunrise5:47 AM

Sunset6:50 PM

Nakshatra until 3:13 AM, Apr 29

Avoid 1:56 PM – 3:34 PM

Auspicious 11:52 AM – 12:44 PM

Sankashti ChaturthiSankashti The monthly Ganesha fast, broken after sighting the moon and offering arghya. The Chaturthi falling on a Tuesday is Angarki Sankashti and is kept more widely. Why today, and how to observe it →

Coming up

The rest of today

Inauspicious periods

1:56 PM – 3:34 PM

5:47 AM – 7:25 AM

9:03 AM – 10:40 AM

12:44 PM – 2:29 PM, 5:06 PM – 6:50 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

Moonrise11:09 PM

Moonset8:45 AM

Shiva until 12:59 AM, Apr 29

Balava

Guruvara

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