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Tuesday, 3 January 2012
What matters on this day
Pausha Shukla Paksha until 6:12 AM, Jan 04
New Delhi · purnimanta reckoning · change
Sunrise7:18 AM
Sunset5:32 PM
Nakshatra
until 6:42 PM
Avoid
2:58 PM – 4:15 PM
Auspicious
12:04 PM – 12:45 PM
No festival or vrat falls today for your region.
That is a real answer, not a gap — most days of the year are ordinary days,
and a calendar that always has something to sell you is not a calendar.
Coming up
- Pausha Putrada Ekadashi tomorrow Wed, 4 Jan
- Pradosh Vrat in 3 days Fri, 6 Jan
- Purnima in 6 days Mon, 9 Jan
The rest of today
Inauspicious periods
2:58 PM – 4:15 PM
9:51 AM – 11:08 AM
12:25 PM – 1:42 PM
9:21 AM – 10:43 AM, 4:10 PM – 5:32 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
Moonrise1:12 PM
Moonset1:46 AM
Shiva until 9:00 AM
Taitila
Mangalavara
Your observances
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