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Balipratipada (Bali-pratipadā), also called as Bali-Padyami, Padva, Virapratipada or Dyutapratipada, is the fourth day of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. [2] [3] It is celebrated in honour of the notional return of the daitya-king Bali (Mahabali) to earth. Balipratipada falls in the Gregorian calendar months of October or November.
This festival is celebrated a day after Diwali's Bali Padyami in the small village of Gumatapura, in Karnataka, India. [2] [3] A similar festival is celebrated in Thalavadi village of Erode district in Tamil Nadu. [4]
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2024 was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 24th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade.
2024 South Korean martial law crisis. Impeachment of Han Duck-soo. South Korea's opposition files a motion to impeach prime minister and acting president Han Duck-soo, two weeks after president Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached. Death and state funeral of Manmohan Singh. Former prime minister of India Manmohan Singh dies at age of 92. (The Times of ...
Also called: Samvatsaradi (Telugu new year), Ugadi (Kannada new year)Observed by: Hindus in Karnataka, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Goa: Type: Religious (Hindu), social, cultural
Armed conflicts and attacks. Israel–Hamas war. Israel–Hamas war hostage crisis. Hamas says that 33 hostages have been killed in the 14 months since the war started. (The Israel Defense Forces say that Israeli-American soldier Omer Maxim Neutra, previously believed to be a living hostage, was killed during the October 7 attacks last year and his body was kept in Gaza.
The astronomical basis of the Hindu lunar day. In Vedic timekeeping, a tithi is a "duration of two faces of moon that is observed from earth", known as milа̄lyа̄ (Newar: 𑐩𑐶𑐮𑐵𑐮𑑂𑐫𑐵𑑅, मिलाल्याः) in Nepal Bhasa, [1] or the time it takes for the longitudinal angle between the Moon and the Sun to increase by 12°.