India Friday launched its ambitious third lunar mission Chandrayaan 3, eyeing a rare feat in moon exploration so far only accomplished by the likes of the US, China and the former Soviet Union.

Of the 111 lunar missions in the last seven decades, 62 were successful, 41 failed and eight achieved partial success, according to the US space agency NASA's database on Moon missions.

Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud Friday administered the oath of office to Justice Ujjal Bhuyan and Justice S Venkatanarayana Bhatti as judges of the Supreme Court.

The Higher Education department of Odisha Friday released the first cut-off marks for admission into undergraduate (Plus III) courses at various degree colleges and universities in the state.

In an extremely rare and complex operation, surgeons of Hadassah Medical Center here have reattached a 12-year-old boy’s head to his neck after a serious accident in which he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle.

The state government’s target to increase the average loan size for each women self-help group (SHG) to `4 lakh by the end of financial year 2022-23 could not be achieved due to failure of the banks, as per the data revealed during the last State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) meeting.

Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday inaugurated the ‘Mukhya Mantri Sabha Gruha’ programme in western Odisha paving the way for the construction of about 2,000 Kalyan Mandaps and local assembly halls at an estimated cost of `125 crore. The Chief Minister said that the move will make the social and cultural life of the people more active.

Senior Odisha BJP MP Suresh Pujari Friday claimed that the 543-page chargesheet filed by the Crime Branch in the murder case of former health minister Naba Kishore Das is nothing but ‘waste paper’ and the agency tried to hide the truth.

Ending two weeks of taut suspense, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde finally reshuffled his cabinet and entrusted the crucial Finance Department to the new second Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who also managed to extract several plum departments for his team, here Friday.

The Uttar Pradesh government has withdrawn the ‘Y-category’ security cover provided to Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan saying it was not needed, as his party decried the move as “unfortunate.”

The Supreme Court Friday sought responses of the CBI and the ED by July 28 on the interim bail pleas of AAP leader Manish Sisodia in two Delhi excise policy cases being probed by the central agencies.

Hours after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged the BJP of using the Haryana government to "intentionally" divert water towards flood-hit Delhi through Hathnikund Barrage, the state government on Friday said that the AAP's claims were 'misleading'.

Teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) along with the Delhi Police and other agencies have evacuated 25,478 people since the Yamuna River crossed the danger mark, officials said on Friday.

More than 500 crew members will be joining Air India in each of the coming months and the airline will be rolling out the new crew rostering project soon, according to its chief Campbell Wilson.

Roseau (Dominica), Yashasvi Jaiswal became only the third Indian to score 150 (171, 387b, 16x4, 1x6) on debut while Virat Kohli had to toil for a half century (72 batting, 170b, 5x4) as the visitors reached 400/4 at lunch on day three of the first Test against the West Indies .