India's ambitious third Moon mission's spacecraft Chandrayaan-3 on Wednesday successfully underwent a fifth and final Moon-bound orbit maneouvre, bringing it even closer to the lunar surface.

The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) has officially been renamed as the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society with effect from August 14, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Union minister for Jal Shakti Ganjendra Singh Shekhawat today said the Vishwakarma scheme, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi from the ramparts of the Red Fort on Independence Day, was not about politics or the Other Backward Classes.

The 19th round of India-China Corps Commander level meeting was held at the Chushul-Moldo border meeting point on the Indian side on 13-14 August 2023, the Ministry of External Affairs said in a press statement.

Cabinet nod to Rs 13,000 cr ‘PM Vishwakarma’ scheme, 7 projects of Indian Railways

The Union Cabinet gave a nod to the PM e-Bus Sewa for augmenting city bus operations. A total of 10,000 electric buses will be deployed on public-private partnership (PPP) model in 169 cities.

The craftsmen will be provided a subsidised loan of Rs 1 lakh in the first tranche, and another Rs 2 lakh in the second tranche, at a concessional interest rate of 5%.The scheme will be launched with a financial outlay of Rs 13,000 crores on Vishwakarma Jayanti on September 17.

The Union Cabinet also approved the extension Digital India project with an outlay of Rs 14,903 crore. The extended programme aims to re-skill and up-skill 6.25 lakh IT professionals and train another 2.65 lakh persons in information security.

Uttarakhand, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami Tuesday announced the withdrawal of cases registered against youths during the anti-Agnipath protests in the state last year. Uttarakhand had seen several protests against the Centre’s Agnipath scheme that recruits the youth into the armed forces for a four-year stint as ‘Agniveers’.

Words like eve-teasing, prostitute, and housewife may soon be out of the legal lexicon and will be replaced by terms like street sexual harassment, sex worker and homemaker, respectively.

The Sports and Youth Services department, in partnership with Hockey India, premiered the documentary film “India’s Game – a compelling account of a sports team that united the nation and ignited the flame of national pride.”

Former Gujarat chief minister Suresh Mehta Wednesday announced the launch of a “non-political” platform as an attempt to present an alternative narrative and spread awareness among voters about different issues

 In a major mobilisation, the CBI Wednesday deputed 53 officers, including 29 women, drawn from its units across the country to probe Manipur violence cases, officials said.

NCP president Sharad Pawar Wednesday asserted he will not align with the BJP and instead work towards bringing about a change in 2024 when the Lok Sabha polls will be held as he sought to downplay his meeting with politically estranged nephew Ajit Pawar, saying it was about a family issue.

The police have arrested one Rajkumar a.k.a. Bittu Bajrangi for his alleged role in instigating the mob during the communal clashes that took place in Haryana’s Nuh during a procession organised by the Hindu groups July 31, an official said Wednesday.

The number of people known to have died in the horrific wildfire that levelled a Hawaiian town reached 106 Tuesday, authorities said, as a makeshift morgue was expanded to deal with the tragedy.

The Madurai bench of Madras High Court quashed the FIR registered against Lois Sophia, who was arrested for raising slogans against BJP in 2018 on board a flight on which then State BJP president Tamilisai Soundarajan had also travelled.

Days after his Lok Sabha membership was restored, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Wednesday nominated to the parliamentary standing committee on defence.

InterGlobe Aviation’s promoter Shobha Gangwal Wednesday sold a nearly 2.9 per cent stake in the company for a little over Rs 2,800 crore through open market transactions.

Mohit Kumar became Wednesday the first Indian wrestler to win the junior World Championship title since 2019 after edging out Russia’s Eldar Akhmaduninov in the 61kg final while Priya lined herself up to be country’s only second woman grappler to grab the title.