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Narendra Modi keenly tracking the rover's descent from South Africa. “We have achieved soft landing on the moon.

At a press conference soon after the Mars orbiter launch in 2013, a foreign journalist asked the same question: why should India send a mission to Mars when millions are in poverty? Then Isro Chairman K Radhakrishnan told him about the benefits of the space programme, but the journalist persisted with his argument. Many might raise the same question about Chandrayaan-3, India's third lunar spacecraft, which is scheduled to land on the Moon today. Though space research has some very obvious benefits such as telecommunication, weather forecasting, GPS, and detecting water bodies and minerals, going to Mars or landing on the Moon is seen by many as a vanity project.

broken cable car that was dangling precariously hundreds of metres (yards) above a steep gorge was a miracle, a survivor said Wednesday. The teenager said he and the others felt repeatedly that death was imminent during the 16-hour ordeal.

Defense lawyers say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried can't adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate, and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter

Read all the latest updates on Chandrayaan-3 here Also read: Chandrayaan-3 makers haven't received salaries in 17 months? Congress questions, BJP answers 2. ROLE OF LANDER AND ROVER: Vikram lander with a mass of 1749.86 kg including Rover Pragyan inside it, has a mission life of one Lunar day, which is equivalent to 14 Earth days. 3.

Rolls-Royce Phantom collided with an oil truck moving on the wrong side. The oil truck overturned and caught flames after the accident, claiming the lives of the driver and his helper. As per the TOI report, the driver and helper were trapped inside the tanker and couldn't excape when it caught fire.

IPO) of Vishnu Prakash R Punglia will open for subscription on Thursday. The issue, which closes on August 28, is entirely fresh equity up to 3.12 crore shares. Ahead of the IPO opening, the company's shares are trading at a premium of Rs 44 in the unlisted market. Jodhpur-based Vishnu Prakash R Punglia is an integrated engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company, which specialises in water supply projects. It owns a fleet of about 484 construction equipment assets which includes crushers, excavators, loaders, dozers, paver machines, ready mix concrete plants, concrete mixtures, cranes, tractors and transportation vehicles from some of the leading suppliers. The company has fixed a price band of Rs 94-99 per share and investors can bid for a minimum of 150 shares in one lot and in multiples thereafter. About 50% of the offer is set aside for qualified institutional buyers, 15% for non-institutional investors and 35% for retail investors. As on July 15, 2023, the company has 51 ongoing projects with total work awarded amounting to Rs 6,183 crore, of which Rs 2,384 crore worth of work has been executed and the remaining work amounting to Rs 3,799 crore constitutes the order book. As on March 31, 2023, their equipment fleet comprised about 499 construction equipment and vehicles.

Chandrayaan-3 lunar mission aims for a historic soft landing on the Moon's south pole on Wednesday. In case the mission ends successfully, it would mark another milestone for India's space exploration, building on the achievements of Chandrayaan-1 and Chandrayaan-2, contributing to lunar science and exploration insights. Though the ISRO's mission scientists will be programming the landing a day prior, the last 20 minutes would be critical as it would involve autonomous landing maneuvers.

Indian students, who returned to Ukraine to complete their medical degrees amid the ongoing war, shows no signs of improvement. They now increasingly face hostility from certain sections of the local population who perceive India as supporting Russia in the conflict, reported Times of India. As the conflict persists, public sentiment in Ukraine has increasingly turned against Indian students.

Himachal Pradesh, blocking over 200 more roads, including the Shimla-Chandigarh highway, and damaging some houses in Solan district, officials said on Wednesday. No loss of life has been reported so far. With 200 more roads blocked, a total of 530 roads in the state are now shut. The Shimla-Kalka National Highway 5 connecting Shimla and Chandigarh was again blocked near Chaki Mor besides NH 21 (Mandi-Kullu road) and NH 154 (Mandi-Pathankot) road, according to the data of the State Emergency Operation Centre. Some houses have been damaged in Shakal village on the outskirts of Solan city as gushing waters entered houses and reports of damage to few houses and vehicles in Sabathu area following the landslide have poured in, Deputy Commissioner, Solan, Manmohan Sharma told PTI. As a safety measure, three houses were vacated in Panthaghati and Sanjauli areas of Shimla city and landslides and uprooting of trees have been reported in some parts of the city, Deputy Commissioner, Shimla, Aditya Negi said.

An ambitious but failed attempt by Russia to return to the moon after nearly half a century has exposed the massive challenges faced by Moscow’s once-proud space program

India's Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon's South Pole. Regardless of religious boundaries, individuals are coming together to lend their support to the Chandrayaan-3 mission. This demonstration of solidarity is extending worldwide, with people participating in prayers, offering religious observances, and engaging in diverse rituals to foster its success. According to Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Chandrayaan-3 is set to land on the moon today, around 18:04 hours IST. From the Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh to United States, special rituals, prayers, and ceremonies are being conducted to invoke blessings for Chandrayaan-3's success. Religious ceremonies spanning various faiths are being conducted across India to seek blessings for the success of Chandrayaan-3's groundbreaking mission. A Ganga Aarti was dedicated to India's lunar mission.

Chandrayaan-3 on 14 July and since then, the space agency is sharing information about the significant manoeuvres that the spacecraft underwent in outer space. Now, on Wednesday, ISRO said that at around 18.04 hours, Chandrayaan-3 will land on Moon's surface.

The Japanese government says treated and diluted radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will be released into the ocean as early as Thursday

Japan says release of treated radioactive water from Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea to begin as early as Aug. 24. (CORRECTS: A previous APNewsAlert erroneously reported it would begin on that date.)

Defense lawyers say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried can't adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate, and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter

YouTube videos of bikers on the Great Divide route during Covid, Natalia Kunze told her father she wanted to ride the trail. In 2021, Paul Kunze chaperoned his then 12-year-old daughter on a 770-mile section of the trail from Jackson Hole, Wyo., to Kalispell, Mont. “I’m still amazed she was able to accomplish that feat," he says.

Fyre Festival is making a comeback with tickets for its second attempt currently up for grabs at a price of $499 (£391). Organized by Billy McFarland, the original festival, which was slated for the Bahamas in 2017, turned into a catastrophic failure causing over $26 million (£20 million) in losses due to substandard accommodations, inadequate food, and water supply issues.

₹4,000 is all that the family can afford. “My priority is to educate my children," says Srivastava, and the number of days that she does not switch on her sewing machine are few. But the rising mercury has been distressing.

Groundwater begun seeping through the floor of some houses in Rishikesh this week amid incessant rainfall. Officials said that immediate steps were being taken to pump water out of the area, while many flagged the lack of an adequate drainage system. Numerous houses have collapsed in recent days amid subsidence and landslides in Uttarakhand.

NEW YORK — FTX Trading Ltd. founder Sam Bankman-Fried can’t adequately prepare for trial in six weeks while in jail without proper access to computers, necessary medications to help him concentrate and a better diet than bread, water and peanut butter, his lawyers told a magistrate judge Aug. 22.