Overview
- Drik Panchang sets the festival for Thursday, March 26, with the Navami tithi running from 11:48 am that day to 10:06 am on Friday.
- The main puja window is the Madhyahna muhurat from 11:13 am to 1:41 pm, with the birth moment centered around 12:27 pm.
- Uttar Pradesh announced on Wednesday an extra public holiday on March 27 to ease travel and temple access for devotees.
- Ayodhya will stage a noon Surya Tilak for Ram Lalla with a full live telecast on Doordarshan, and trust officials report more than one lakh visitors arriving daily.
- Holiday schedules and local orders are in force, with NSE and BSE shut nationwide on Thursday, banks closed in several states, and slaughterhouses and meat outlets closed in Nashik and Malegaon.