Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Indian Eid-ul-Fitr 2016 Public Holidays Chaos

Sources: कार्मिक, लोक शिकायत तथा पेंशन मंत्रालय कार्मिक मामलों (New Delhi) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier tonight, local time, the moon sighting committees of a majority of Indian Sates have announced that there were no news of the Shawwal moon, and therefore that the Eid-ul-Fitr (End of Ramadan) annual Indian public holiday would be celebrated on Thursday, July 7, 2016, instead of the previously-announced date of Wednesday, July 6, 2016. [full story]