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Leap Day 2024: History, significance and some interesting facts of Feb 29

Leap Day 2024: An extra day added to the Gregorian calendar every four years is called Leap Day. Here's all you need to know about the history of this day, significance and more

Leap Day 2024: History, significance and some interesting facts of Feb 29
Updated On : 29 Feb 2024 | 11:22 AM IST

Leap year: The importance of one extra day and what would happen without it

2024 is a leap year, the year with an extra day. But where does it come from and what if we ignore it?

Leap year: The importance of one extra day and what would happen without it
Updated On : 28 Feb 2024 | 12:31 PM IST

Nestle India Q3CY23 result: Profit up 37%; firm announces 1:10 stock split

The revenue from operations for Q3CY23 came in at Rs 5,036.8 crore, compared to Rs 4,601.8 crore year-on-year

Nestle India Q3CY23 result: Profit up 37%; firm announces 1:10 stock split
Updated On : 19 Oct 2023 | 11:31 AM IST

Calendar printing business slumps in post-Covid times, age of mobile phones

After wall clocks, it is now the calendars that are vanishing from the walls

Calendar printing business slumps in post-Covid times, age of mobile phones
Updated On : 18 Dec 2022 | 1:06 PM IST

What year is it really? Scholars say not the year printed on our calendars

The more the origins and development of dating systems have been and are studied, the more it becomes apparent that time is only what we make it.

What year is it really? Scholars say not the year printed on our calendars
Updated On : 04 Apr 2018 | 9:53 AM IST

Is govt having second thoughts on releasing the Gregorian calendar?

Every year the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity releases and circulates the calendar

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Updated On : 09 Jan 2018 | 10:50 PM IST