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India successfully crossed a decisive milestone by accomplishing the demanding task of soft landing a robotic spacecraft on the Moon. Chandrayan-3’s Vikram lander is now firmly sitting on the South polar region of the lunar surface and getting ready to collect valuable data about the moon, its interior as well as the extremely thin atmosphere surrounding it. And the six-wheeled Pragyan rover, which was cocooned in Vikram till landing, has begun its exploration crisscrossing the landing area at snail’s space.

While all of Spain was busy celebrating the national team’s epic triumph in the women’s soccer World Cup, the country’s tormented political situation was also becoming clearer. In the corridors of power, something has shifted during these heatwave-stricken mid-August weeks. This, even if the final outcome is not yet written in stone — and unexpected turns could be just around the corner.

New Delhi: India started their campaign at the Women’s Asian Hockey 5s World Cup Qualifier with a 7-2 win against Malaysia on Friday in Oman.

New Delhi: Indian 50m pistol women's team of Tiyana, Sakshi Suryavanshi and Kirandeep Kaur shot a combined score of 1573-6x to win the gold medal at the World Shooting Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Friday. China finished second with a score of 1567-9x while Mongolia took the bronze with a combined score of 1566-3x.

New Delhi: HS Prannoy and doubles pair of Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy advanced to the quarter-finals, while compatriot Lakshya Sen bowed out of the BWF World Badminton Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.

New Delhi: In a historic first, three Indian led Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra made it to the javelin throw final at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on Friday.

The public mood across India is now somewhat visible behind hitherto hazy political cloud. The latest Mood of the Nation Survey of India Today – Cvoter has just found that the BJP is on its downhill journey along with its partners in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), while the opposition INDIA alliance is moving fast upward nearing very close to offer neck and neck contest to NDA in the Lok Sabah election 2024.

India’s chess prodigy R Praggnanandhaa lost to Magnus Carlsen in the Chess World Cup final, ‘X’ announced, the same microblogging site that Elon Musk bought and gave it a new avatar. Fide world champion Carlsen was magnanimous in victory giving Praggnanandhaa a new moniker, kind of tag to live with for the rest of his teenage playing years – ‘Mentality Monster’, gross.

When BJP rule in the country is dead and gone, a good deal of the damage it has caused to the Indian society, polity and economy will no doubt be reversed. But there are at least two areas where such reversal will be difficult: one is the architectural vandalism it has perpetrated. This vandalism began with the destruction of the Babri Masjid, which, quite apart from stoking communal animosity, was an instance of barbarism: no civilized and sensitive group would wantonly destroy a 400-year old structure; and this vandalism has continued with the insertion of a structure next to the parliament building that destroys the carefully planned old layout. (The fact that it was a colonial regime that had conceived it is not a justification for such vandalism).

While Darjeeling tea planters are pressing central government again to impose a minimum import tax (MIT) on imported Nepal tea, to arrest the steep decline in Indian high value export earnings, Nepalese producers feel bilateral level talks may help improve the situation.