In a significant step towards India's lunar exploration ambitions, the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft has commenced its powered descent with the aim of achieving a soft landing on the lunar south pole. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) confirmed that the spacecraft's descent phase is underway as it inches closer to touching down on the lunar surface.

Aizawl: At least 18 workers were killed and five others missing after an under-construction railway bridge collapsed in Mizoram's Aizawl district on Wednesday, police said.

Sandesh P.G., widely known as 'Khadak Khaki' in both the police department and the public sector, has assumed his new role as the inspector of Moodbidri Police Station.

A court here on Wednesday extended by 14 days the judicial custody of suspended Delhi government officer Premoday Khakha, who allegedly raped a minor several times and impregnated her.

People in several parts of Delhi on Wednesday held special prayers at temples, mosques and gurudwaras for the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 lander module on the moon.

A mishap was averted at the airport in the national capital on Wednesday morning involving two Vistara planes as the air traffic controller inadvertently gave clearance for crossing and take off of two different aircraft on the same runway at the same time before cancelling the take off, according to officials.

Authorities have denied permission to hold on August 28 the VHP's Brij Mandal Jalabhishek Yatra in Haryana's Nuh that was disrupted after communal violence in July, police said.

The Union Government on Wednesday told Supreme Court that it had no plan of touching the special provisions for Northeastern states and argued why they are different from the now-removed special status of Jammu and Kashmir.