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Friday, January 30, 2026
TopicTime zones

Topic: Time zones

The IST story—How Indian Railways, and Sardar Patel, helped synchronise India’s clocks

Several requests have been made to have a separate time zone for the eastern region to leverage daylight-savings schedule. It's time for India to at least discuss the pros and cons.

NASA’s Mission 2026: Set up lunar time zone that could prove ‘foundational’ for future exploration

ScientiFix, our weekly feature, offers you a summary of the top global science stories of the week, with links to their sources.

Scientists want to redefine the second. But we need better clocks

Getting the time right is important in so many ways, from running a railway to doing millisecond trades on the stock market.

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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India’s tech ambitions need private sector investment in R&D. Budget 2026 holds the key

India’s private sector remains hesitant to invest in R&D. This is understandable, as the domestic market often fails to reward differentiated technologies adequately.

SEBI green-lights NSE IPO. What exchange’s CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan revealed about next steps

Speaking at ThePrint OTC Thursday, NSE CEO Ashishkumar Chauhan said the exchange has been trying to list itself since 2016, but it couldn’t happen due to one reason or the other.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.