Four years after it broke many hearts, ISRO's Chandrayaan is all set to soar towards the moon in its third expedition on Friday in an attempt to put the country in an elite club of nations that accomplished lunar missions with a soft landing.

All six people on board a helicopter carrying Mexican tourists were killed when it crashed Tuesday near Mount Everest in Nepal, authorities said.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday hit out at Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray over the latter's taint jibe, saying it seems the former CM needs some psychiatric treatment due to the ongoing political situation in the state.

At least 22 passengers were injured, including four seriously, after the private luxury bus they were travelling in hit a trailer truck on the Samruddhi Expressway in Maharashtra's Aurangabad district in the early hours of Wednesday, the police said.

Mangaluru: An incident of alleged caste abuse involving a BJP worker and a Dalit girl has come to light in Kandavara village under the jurisdiction of Bajpe police station. The young woman has filed a complaint against the accused, identified as Sudarshan, who was a BJP worker.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has made a significant decision to implement a 20:80 evaluation formula for Pre-University Course (PUC) exams in subjects without practicals, starting from the academic year 2023-24. According to a report by The Indian Express, this new evaluation pattern will involve an 80 marks examination and the remaining 20 marks will be awarded based on internal assessment.

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City Police Commissionerate has registered 21 cases of communal disturbance in the past one month.

Kolkata: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) on Tuesday said it has "banned" a monk who will go for atonement to the hills and seclude himself, after his comments on Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna Paramahansa triggered a controversy.