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NASA cancels plan to send first woman and person of colour on Moon amid Trump's DEI order

March 24, 2025 7:09 pm

After President Trump issued executive orders against DEI, NASA scrapped its promise to land the first woman and person of colour on the lunar surface in 2027 via the Artemis program.

Region around Shiv Shakti point, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 landed, is 3.7 billion years old: study

February 09, 2025 1:17 am

Earth may be 4.5 billion years old but microbial life emerged some 3.7 billion years ago.

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NASA abandons $450 million VIPER mission meant to look for water on Moon’s South Pole

July 18, 2024 7:57 pm

The VIPER project could have played a crucial role in determining how to harvest the Moon’s resources for future missions.

Japanese billionaire Maezawa cancels moon flyby mission

June 01, 2024 3:39 pm

The team had originally aimed to make the circumlunar flight with celebrities on board by the end of last year but that became 'unfeasible', the mission said in a statement on its website.

Are we about to find out the moon's origin? Japan's space agency says it may now have clues

February 14, 2024 10:29 pm

The spacecraft had landed about 55 meters (60 yards) away from its target, near the Shioli crater, a region covered in volcanic rocks.

FILE PHOTO: A handout image of the Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) taken by LEV-2 on the moon

Japanese moon explorer 'awakens' more than a week after upside down landing

January 31, 2024 8:29 am

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said that it re-established contact with its moon lander on Sunday night as the spacecraft resumed its mission, taking pictures of the Moon’s surface and transmitting them to the Earth.

PM Modi spells out ISRO goals: Space station by 2035, Indian on Moon by 2040

October 18, 2023 7:43 am

The Prime Minister also called on the scientists to work towards a Venus Orbiter Mission and a Mars Lander Mission.

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‘India took a walk on the moon,’ says ISRO as rover rolls out of lander

August 24, 2023 1:38 pm

India made history with a soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 near the south pole of the moon on Wednesday evening.

Testament to Team ISRO: guiding ‘solitary journey through vastness of space’

August 26, 2023 2:18 pm

Hundreds of Isro scientists have worked behind the scene to make the moon landing possible and in turn, make India the first country to land a spacecraft on the lunar south pole

Where to watch ISRO's Chandrayaan-3 moon landing in Gujarat

August 23, 2023 1:52 pm

ISRO’s Chandrayaan -3’s soft landing on the lunar south pole and related events will be held at these places in Gujarat

Choksi and his nephew Nirav Modi are wanted in the alleged Punjab National Bank fraud case that they allegedly orchestrated through fraudulent Letters of Undertaking in connivance with some bank officials at the Brady House branch in Mumbai.

‘Personal space, adequate light’: India assures Belgium on Mehul Choksi if extradited

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Four months after Mehul Choksi, the fugitive diamond trader wanted in India for the alleged Rs 13,000 crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) loan fraud case, was arrested in Belgium, India sent a letter of assurance to the country’s government, saying it will keep him in Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail complex, “if extradited”.

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