Reported By Pallava Bagla Edited By Deepshikha Ghosh

1.55 am on Saturday came and went. Amid a stunned silence at the ISRO mission control room, India's top space scientist K Sivan first briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then made the grim announcement. Communication to the Chandrayaan 2's lander Vikram was lost. At 3.10 am, an ISRO scientist - not the chief -- announced that a planned press c...

The Chandrayaan 2 Moon mission will land on the lunar surface in less than an hour, as India looks to create history by becoming the first nation to reach closest to the Moon's south pole.

The forest fires in Uttarakhand, which have devastated acres of green cover in the hills, may have a lasting impact on the Himalayan glaciers and cause them to melt faster, say experts.

India's space agency today successfully launched its heaviest rocket ever - the 630-tonne, three-stage Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III - with an experimental crew module. The mission will take the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO a step closer to sending astronauts to space.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US in September, the new government has shown its willingness to press ahead on the Indo-US nuclear deal sealed by the previous UPA regime.

1.55 am on Saturday came and went. Amid a stunned silence at the ISRO mission control room, India's top space scientist K Sivan first briefed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and then made the grim announcement. Communication to the Chandrayaan 2's lander Vikram was lost. At 3.10 am, an ISRO scientist - not the chief -- announced that a planned press c...

The Chandrayaan 2 Moon mission will land on the lunar surface in less than an hour, as India looks to create history by becoming the first nation to reach closest to the Moon's south pole.

The forest fires in Uttarakhand, which have devastated acres of green cover in the hills, may have a lasting impact on the Himalayan glaciers and cause them to melt faster, say experts.

India's space agency today successfully launched its heaviest rocket ever - the 630-tonne, three-stage Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III - with an experimental crew module. The mission will take the Indian Space Research Organisation or ISRO a step closer to sending astronauts to space.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US in September, the new government has shown its willingness to press ahead on the Indo-US nuclear deal sealed by the previous UPA regime.