Sources: Dept. of Information and Public Relations of the Government of Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Governments of India's state of Uttar Pradesh and of the Union Territory of Chandigarh have announced that they had declared Tuesday, April 19, 2016, as the date of the upcoming Mahavir Jayanti public holiday to be observed in Uttar Pradesh and Chandigarh, instead of the previously-announced date of Wednesday, April 20, 2016. [full story]