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September – October. Dussehra (Vijayadashami) Floating. Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. It is celebrated on the tenth day of Ashvin, the seventh month in the Hindu Calendar [ 8] October – November. Diwali. Floating. Hindu festival of lights.
A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. The Hindu calendar, also called Panchanga ( Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्ग ), is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes. They adopt a similar underlying ...
Champa Sashti festival is a six-day festival observed from the first to the sixth of the Hindu month of Margashirsha (November – early December). It is one of the most important festivals dedicated to Lord Khandoba .This festival celebrates the victory of Khandoba against the demons Mani-Malla. Prathamastami.
Vijayādaśamī ( विजयादशमी) is a compound of the two words vijaya ( विजय, 'victory') [ 16] and daśamī ( दशमी, 'tenth day'), [ 17] connoting the festival on the tenth day celebrating the victory of good over evil. [ 1][ 9][ 18] The same Hindu festival-related term, however, takes different forms in different ...
It is an official holiday in a dozen countries, while the other festive days are regionally observed as either public or optional restricted holidays in India. [49] In Nepal, it is also a multiday festival, although the days and rituals are named differently, with the climax being called the Tihar festival by Hindus and Swanti festival by ...
June. 2 June – 2023 Odisha train collision: train number 12841 Coromandel Express running at 130 km/h (81 mph) collides with a freight train (Goods Train) in Odisha 's Balasore district. The accident happened around 19:30 IST near Bahanaga Bazar station when the train was on the way to Chennai Central from Shalimar railway station near Kolkata.
The Indian national calendar, called the Shaka calendar or Śaka calendar, is a solar calendar that is used alongside the Gregorian calendar by The Gazette of India, in news broadcasts by All India Radio, and in calendars and official communications issued by the Government of India. [ 1] Śaka Samvat is generally 78 years behind the Gregorian ...
Major January holidays including New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, and Lunar New Year may come to mind when you think of the first month in 2023. Between January 1st and January 31st, though ...