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| Company type | Private company |
|---|---|
| Industry | Almanac |
| Founded | 1 January 1973 |
| Founder | Jayantrao Salgaonkar,Jayraj Salgaokar[1][2] |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Almanac |
| Services | Horoscope,Matchmaking,Career assessment, Kundali Matching |
| Revenue | ₹550 million (US$6.5 million) |
Number of employees | 150 |
| Website | kalnirnay |
Kalnirnay (lit. 'timely decision') is a calmanac (Calendar +Almanac) published inIndia. The almanac gives information about the Panchang, auspicious days, festivals, holidays, sunrise and sunset. It has recipes, stories on health and education, monthly Bhavishya and articles on Hindu astrology.[3]
Kalnirnay was founded in 1973 byJayantrao Salgaonkar and Jayraj Salgaonkar. It initially started as a hand-printed almanac for Marathi subscribers. The logo and typography was designed byKamal Shedge.[4] The first issue was sold to 10,000 subscribers. It gradually grew to become the largest selling[5] publication in the world, with around 19 million copies being sold annually.
Its website was launched in 1996, its desktop e-version was subsequently launched, and it is now available asAndroid andiOS applications.
Kalnirnay is published annually, by Sumangal Publishing, as a calendar almanac for all Indian religions.[6] It contains auspicious dates, festivals and celebrations ofHindus,Muslims,Christians,Sikhs,Jains,Buddhists,Parsis andJews in detail. It also provides useful information about DailyPanchanga, auspicious times for weddings (Muhurat), Daily Sun Rise – Moon Rise Timings,Sankashti Chaturthi Chandroday (Moon rise) Timing, Monthly Astrological Predictions for allZodiac Signs, etc. It is published in nine languages –English,Marathi,Hindi,Gujarati,Tamil,Telugu,Kannada,Malayalam andPunjabi with Marathi accounting for the bulk of its readers.[7]
In addition to dates and times of religious and cultural relevance, each issue also contains articles on topics such as health, food and beauty.[8]