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Friday, August 1, 2025
TopicDaylight saving

Topic: Daylight saving

Is it 6 o’clock or 7? In Lebanon, it could now depend on your religion amid daylight savings row

Govt has decided to delay daylight savings time until 20 April, but influential Maronite Church, businesses & other organisations have said they won't cooperate.

Not just daylight saving, the inane idea of time zones should be scrapped in favour of UTC

Notion of time zones rests on a fundamental delusion, that a number should tell us when to get up, eat lunch or go to bed. Instead, we should adopt a single global time.

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Trump tariff forces India to shed illusion. Stop conflating status with power

India’s future lies in pragmatism. Protectionism must be phased out gradually, not in disruptive shocks.

Over six-fold spike in digital transactions since 2019-20, govt informs Parliament

Govt says digital payments also uplift under-served communities by providing them financial footprint that can be used to assess credit worthiness in absence of traditional documents.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.