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Friday, January 9, 2026
TopicMoon landing

Topic: Moon landing

Chandrayaan-3 LIVE: ‘Glad to be your partner’ — NASA tells ISRO after successful Moon mission

PM Modi spoke to ISRO Chief S Somanath and extended his congratulations following the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3.

Excitement on a rise: Prayers, parties planned for Chandrayaan-3 moon landing

ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft is scheduled to land on the lunar south pole at 1234 GMT on Wednesday, days after failure of Russian vehicle trying to achieve the same feat.

‘Smooth sailing continuing’: ISRO ready for Chandrayaan-3 lander’s touchdown on 23 August

A successful landing on the moon’s south pole Wednesday will expand knowledge of lunar water ice, which is potentially one of the moon's most valuable resources.

‘Lost communication’: Japan’s ispace concedes failure in bid to make first commercial moon landing

The first private moon landing failed after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander, with ispace concluding it had most likely crashed on the lunar surface.

On Camera

Why Pinarayi Vijayan is going soft on an Ezhava leader’s anti-Muslim hate speech

Pinarayi Vijayan once called Vellappally Natesan, the general secretary of SNDP Yogam, Kerala’s Pravin Togadia. Now he is giving his hate speech a free pass.

500% tariffs ahead for India? Trump’s lined up a big bad Bill for countries buying Russian oil

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says bill will be 'well-timed, as Ukraine is making concessions for peace and Putin is all talk, continuing to kill the innocent'.

2025: Pakistan’s deadliest year in over a decade

Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.