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Tuesday, January 27, 2026
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Topic: Chandrayaan-1

‘Proud moment’ — IITian scouted landing sites on moon for NASA’s Artemis 3 using Chandrayaan-1 data

Soniya Agrawal -
IIT-Roorkee scholar Prateek Tripathi was selected for NASA's summer internship. His expertise came in handy in researching Shackleton, a large crater on moon's south pole.

Earth’s oxygen creating rusty mineral on Moon, data from Chandrayaan-1 shows

Mohana Basu -
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Discovery of water on moon: What India’s first Chandrayaan mission achieved a decade ago

Sandhya Ramesh -
Inserted into lunar orbit on 8 November 2008, Chandrayaan-1 was instrumental in discovering water on the moon, and had a brief tiff with NASA over this.

First private landing on moon fails as Israel’s Beresheet lander crashes

Sandhya Ramesh -
Beresheet crashed at 1925 GMT Thursday, when the craft’s main engine shut off during the braking procedure before touching down.

ISRO’s women scientists who busted ‘Mars is for men’ and other such myths with MOM

Minnie Vaid -
Mars Orbiter Mission allowed Indians to see women scientists upfront, dispelling long-held stereotypes of the fuzzy-haired Einsteinian male scientist.

ISRO seeks to tap the south side of the moon for waste-free nuclear energy

Anurag Kotoky -
It will launch a rover in October to explore virgin territory on the lunar surface and analyse crust samples for signs of water and helium-3. 

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Opinion

India-Pakistan ready for lehenga diplomacy. Maryam Sharif has made the first move

Shobhaa De -
Sometimes, we end up embroidering the truth as we overthink and overanalyse a fastidious lady’s personal wardrobe preferences for significant occasions.

What would it take for a European reset to succeed?

India’s cheapest growth reform is in agriculture. Mustard shows why

Economy

India & EU announce “mother of all trade deals”. This is why it matters

Keshav Padmanabhan -
Two sides also announce signing of a Security & Defence Partnership, launch negotiations for an intelligence sharing agreement & explore India’s addition to Horizon Europe programme.

Defence

From action near Myanmar to hand-to-hand combat in Kishtwar, meet this year’s gallantry award winners

Vaibhav Pant -
Overall, President Droupadi Murmu has approved Gallantry awards to 70 armed forces personnel, including six posthumous, on the eve of 77th Republic Day.

National Interest

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

Shekhar Gupta -
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.

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