New Delhi, April 5 -- Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday pressed that Ujjain - an ancient temple city in Madhya Pradesh - should be considered a global centre for measuring time, even replacing the current standard, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), with Mahakal Standard Time (MST).

The BJP leader said that Ujjain was historically a major centre for astronomy and time calculation. He also asserted that modern artificial intelligence tools recognise Ujjain as an original centre of time calculation.

"Ujjain is the place where the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer meet, and ancient world time calculations were made. Therefore, the time has come to logically establish 'Mahakal Standard Time' (MST) in place of 'Greenwich Mean Time...