Should the Indian Standard Time (IST) be advanced? Stating that such a change is the need of the hour, city scientists have said that advancing the IST by half an hour will save energy by upto ...

The Indian Standard Time is set to be legalised. Funnily, it's not that we did not have Indian Standard Time; we did, but what we lacked was standardising it.

To make Indian Standard Time (IST) mandatory, the government will shortly notify Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules, 2025. The draft rules were issued in January 2025 for stakeholders ...

The Union Consumer Affairs Ministry said here on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) that the proposed Legal Metrology (Indian Standard Time) Rules will mandate synchronisation of all legal, administrative ...

Govt mulling to make adoption of Indian Standard Time mandatory on anvil: Report Elaborating the purpose, the official said that the policy would ensure synchronization of all networks and ...

Assam's rejection of Indian Standard Time has sparked a set of fiery debates about nationalism, federalism, daylight, energy, geography, the tyranny of the (Indian) west over the east, and time in ...

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 ...

India once had different time zones for cities like Mumbai, Kolkata, and Chennai. Each city followed its own local time. In ...

An Australian woman’s video about “Indian standard time” may trigger you, but in your heart, you’ll agree with her. Despite being notoriously impatient on the roads, some Indians do have a ...