Unlike DST, resetting of IST is going to be just a one-time affair. However, calculations done by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in 2011 pegged the energy savings as much lower.

How did various clocks in India reconcile and become Indian Standard Time and because time is ultimately fixed for arbitrary reasons, what happens when our body clocks go out of whack.

Indian Standard Time in India was declared on 1 September 1947, which was five and a half (+5.30) hours ahead of Greenwich Standard Time. ‘Greenwich’ is a place in Britain also known as zero ...

IST, which is GMT plus 5.30 hrs, came into existence in 1905, calculated from the Allahabad Observatory. But Bombay continued to have a different time, 39 minutes behind IST, till 1955!

To be in sync with the Indian Standard Time (IST) and the Earth’ss rotational clock, the Indian clock need to be adjusted after the insertion of a leap second.

IST was fixed in 1906 midway at 82.5°, or 5/ hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Periodically, there are demands from the Northeast region for a separate time zone so that the clocks there ...

Kuril Island: An Earthquake of magnitude 6.2 was recorded on the east of the Kuril Islands late on Friday, as reported by the ...