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New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday congratulated scientists and engineers at ISRO for the successful launch of its maiden Solar Mission Aditya-L1.
A UN-appointed human rights expert on Friday urged the international community to increase assistance to The Bahamas and other small island States that face elevated threats from natural disasters resulting from climate change.
In another success for Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India successfully launched its maiden solar mission Aditya L-1 from Sriharikota on Saturday.
After the success of Chandrayaan-3, India's Indian Space Research Organisation will launch Aditya-L1, the mission to explore the Sun, on Saturday.
The UN World Health Organization (WHO) issued a stark warning on Thursday over rising cases of measles and rubella among children in Yemen, as a vaccination campaign there faces cutbacks due to insufficient funding.
UN rights experts called on States in the global North on Thursday to forgo intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments in the name of human rights.
NASA’s LRO – the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter – spacecraft imaged a new crater on the Moon’s surface that is likely the impact site of Russia’s Luna 25 mission.
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday called for urgent assistance for children caught up in wildfires in Greece, considered to be the worst Europe has seen since the turn of the century.
Chennai/UNI: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said its maiden Solar exploratory Mission Aditya-L1 is not a complete one to study the Sun due to limited mass, power and volume of the spacecraft that carries scientific payloads in space.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Friday said that Vikram Lander on board the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, the third Lunar Mission, has detected plasma in the south polar region of the Moon.
Bengaluru/IBNS: India's space agency ISRO has shared a video of the Pragyan rover being rotated on the Moon's surface as a part of the Chandrayaan-3 mission, which was remotely controlled from the command centre in Bengaluru, in search of a route that avoids craters and rocks on the lunar surface.
Washington/IBNS/UNI: Hurricane Idalia has made landfall in the US state of Florida as a dangerous category 3 storm with wind speeds of up to 125 miles per hour (201 kilometers per hour), the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday announced an expanded partnership to improve access to COVID-19 technology, knowledge and clinical data, stressing the fight against the virus must continue.
Chandrayaan-3's Pragyan Rover has clicked an image of Vikram Lander on the Moon, space agency Indian Space Research Organisation shared on Wednesday.
Toronto/IBNS: With signs of the COVID-19 caseload poised to grow in the weeks ahead, three new vaccines are being reviewed by Health Canadadesigned to specifically target the XBB.1.5 Omicron subvariant now in widespread circulation.
Bengaluru: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) announced on Tuesday that Chandrayaan-3 has reported new findings, marking the first-ever in-situ measurement of Sulphur on the Moon.
Doctors have found a live worm in the brain of an Australian woman, one of the first such incidents recorded in the world.
Chennai/IBNS: After the success of its third Lunar mission Chandryaan-3 created history by making a soft landing on the Moon's south polar region, a buoyant ISRO is all set for yet another interplanetary mission--this time to explore the Sun-and the launch date for the same has been scheduled on Sept 2.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued new guidance on Monday that calls for governments to take action to protect boys and girls in the face of the deepening climate crisis.
Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday announced that the rover, deployed by the Lander on board the third Lunar Mission Chandrayaan-3 in the South Polar Region, came across a crater, forcing it to retrace the path and now safely heading on a new path.
After the success of its third Lunar mission, Chandryaan-3 ensured soft landing on the Moon's south polar region, a buoyant ISRO is all set for yet another inter-planetary mission --to explore the Sun on September 2.
New Delhi/IBNS: After the successful soft-landing of India's lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 on the South Polar region of the Moon on Wednesday, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is now eyeing to study the Sun.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Saturday released yet another interesting video of the Pragyan rover of the Chandrayaan-3 roaming around the 'Shiv Shakti' point.
A new global environmental fund marks a major step towards securing the wellbeing of biodiversity in developing countries and will help to ensure sustainable utilization of their natural resources, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday.
Mahendar Pal Singh, a name that has become synonymous with India’s space odyssey, is not just another scientist at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
ISRO made the country proud after its third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 successfully landed on the Moon and on Friday the science body left the countrymen elated by sharing the first visuals of the rover rolling down onto the Moon's surface as it exited the lander.
New Delhi: With the successful soft landing of Chandrayaan-3 near the lunar south pole, India has become the first nation to achieve this milestone, bringing a feeling of joy that ISRO has waited for the past four years, according to former ISRO chief K Sivan.
New Delhi/IBNS: India is basking on the success of its lunar mission as Chandrayaan-3 soft-landed on the South Polar region of the Moon on Wednesday, leading the nation of 1.4 billion people basking in joy.
New Delhi/IBNS: As Chandrayaan-3 successfully soft-landed on the South Polar region of the Moon on Wednesday-a feat matched only by Russia (then the Soviet Republic), the United States and China - guaranteeing India's place in the elite space club, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chief S Somnath said the last 20 minutes was the most difficult phase of the lunar mission.
As the lander Vikram of India's Chandrayaan-3 mission soft-landed on the Moon, marking a historic day for India and the world, the rover Pragyan will now roll out from the lander to carry out its mission.
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