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As Chandrayaan-3 Mission is at its final stage before its historic landing scheduled for 23 April, Mahindra Group Chairman Anand Mahindra has expressed his excitement on the X platform (formerly known as Twitter). Business magnate Mahindra wrote said he will eagerly wait, pray and cheer for theChandrayaan-3 spacecraft's soft landing on the lunar surface.

Chandrayaan-3 will make a soft landing on the Moon on 23 August (Wednesday) at around 5:45 PM (IST) in the evening. The Lander module of Chandrayaan-3, comprising Vikram lander and rover Pragyan will soft land on Moon where the speed will go down from 6000 km/hour to zero. Launched on 14 July 2023, Chandrayaan-3 underwent more than five manoeuvres so far.

Chandrayaan-3 was launched on 14 July whereas Luna-25 took off on 11 August. Chandrayaan-3 is expected to land on the lunar surface around August 23 after completing a 40-day journey. On the other hand, Luna-25 is expected to land on the moon around August 21, two days ahead of Chandrayaan-3.

G20 Energy Ministers' Outcome document and Chair's Summary on Energy Transitions' issued last month besides in several other similar G20 documents. ET gathers that China argued that the G20 documents could not use the term 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' in the official text as it is in Sanskrit, which is not one of the six official languages recognised by the United Nations. It is learnt that most participant nations weighed in favour of India on the matter with some even observing that the theme was the prerogative of the Presidency and host nation.

J Robert Oppenheimer’s life story is one for the movies. Oppenheimer was a brilliant, ambitious, driven, exacting, anxious and guilt-ridden chemist turned theoretical physicist. Dissatisfied with laboratory work in chemistry at Harvard University, Oppenheimer received his PhD in theoretical physics at Germany’s University of Gottingen.

New Delhi: Tata Group-backed Air India will launch a new performance management system called Rise.AI for its non-flying staff next week. “Rise.AI will introduce a fair, transparent, and completely digitized appraisal system, with clearly defined job descriptions and specific performance goals so that our staff know what is expected of them and what they must deliver on," the airline’s chief executive officer Campbell Wilson told employees in an internal email. The platform will link back to the Vihaan.AI organizational goals, Wilson said.

Bhagwad Gita, in Christopher Nolan's just-released biopic, Oppenheimer. Physicist J Robert Oppenheimer has left his telling mark in the ushering of the nuclear age, and underlined the double-edged sword that science is in the hands of mankind, whether in the form of the A-bomb or AI.

Anurag Thakur has sought an explanation from the Central Board of Film Certification and asked it to take corrective action. Thakur is understood to have asked the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) to get the scene where Oppenheimer appears to indulge in a sexual intercourse while reading verses from the Bhagavad Gita deleted from the movie. He has also asked the Board to fix accountability on persons responsible for clearing the movie with the scene in question. Information Commissioner Uday Mahurkar had written an open letter to Nolan, terming the scene a «disturbing attack on Hinduism» and appealed to the film director to remove the scene worldwide. In the film, Oppenheimer — played by Cillian Murphy — is shown having intercourse with psychologist Jean Tatler (Florence Pugh) as she asks him to read a verse from what appears to be a Sanskrit book, whose title or cover is not visible. On Tatler's insistence, a confused Oppenheimer reads out the verse she points at: «Now, I am become Death, destroyer of the world». According to reports, the CBFC gave the film a U/A rating, making it suitable for viewers above 13 years, after studio Universal Pictures cut some scenes to reduce its length.

Leonardo DiCaprio, known for his passion for the environment, has shared a report about the Pathala Eel Loach. The report appeared on the Re:wild portal, an organisation dedicated to protecting and restoring biodiversity. The Hollywood actor's endorsement has brought widespread attention to this fascinating new addition to the world of aquatic life.

Rahul Gandhi has changed after he completed his 4000-km-long walk and describe him as a wise man. “My thoughts about Rahul Gandhi changed after seeing his ‘tapasya’ when he walked 3000-4000 km. I used to think he was not serious about the common man and did not understand their pain," Ramnik Muni said.

NEW DELHI : Indians were over the Moon with the launch of Chandrayaan-3 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday. Since Chandrayaan-2 failed about four years ago, scientists are hopeful that this third lunar mission's lander Vikram and rover Pragyaan will descend softly and safely on the Moon on 23 August.

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday at 2.30pm launched the Chandrayaan-3. The spacecraft blazing fire made its way to the far side of the moon in a follow-up mission to its failed effort nearly four years ago to land a rover softly on the lunar surface. Chandrayaan-3, the word for “moon craft" in Sanskrit, took off from a launch pad in Sriharikota in Odisha with an orbiter, a lander and a rover.

The unique launch of 'Prism: The Ancestral Abode of Rainbow', a collection of science articles, was held at the SDSC-SHAR on Thursday evening, as preparations were going on full swing there for the country's much-awaited Moon mission Chandrayaan-3. ISRO Chairman S Somanath released the book by handing it over to Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Director S Unnikrishnan Nair while the countdown for the historic launch was progressing at the space centre.

This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit the full collection for book lists, guest essays and more seasonal distractions. In 1786 William Jones, a British civil servant in Calcutta, told the Asiatic Society that Sanskrit had too much in common with Greek, Latin and other European languages for it to be by chance.

Rum brands across the globe are making spirit connoisseurs sit up and take notice of this spirit that is now being revered in the same light as other premium spirits. The other traditional tale of rum’s origins has roots in the Caribbean, but there is a strong history of rum being created in India, due to the country’s vast sugarcane fields, that predate this. From long before the world discovered rum, in Indian history, Sidhu, or molasses rum, was popularly consumed in the country. The distillation process of rum has been refined and adapted, adding finesse and flavour, to bring out the finest forms of this alcoholic beverage ever produced.

Cardi B made heads turn at Paris Haute Couture Week in a green stunning Gaurav Gupta creation. Her outfit featured a body-hugging embellished silhouette with a plunging neckline and a matching hood. The fashion designer posted pictures and videos of her on his official Instagram account.

Air India from the government in January last year, Tata Group has put in place various measures to turn around the fortunes of the loss-making carrier, including placing the largest order for 470 planes and expanding international operations. Tata Group has four airlines — Air India, Air India Express, AIX Connect and Vistara, which is a joint venture with Singapore Airlines.

On April 20, which also coincidentally marked the birthday of Adolf Hitler, Binance unveiled and shortly after took down its new Twitter emoji due to its resemblance to a swastika.