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Prime Minister Narendra Modi comforts scientists and a stunned nation from the lunar program's command centre in Banglalore, after India's space program lost contact with an unmanned spacecraft moments before it was due to make a historic soft landing on the Moon.
India is undertaking its latest attempted Moon landing, a historic moment after two previous failures since 2019. Chandrayaan-3, which means "Mooncraft" in Sanskrit, will attempt to reach the Moon's little-explored lunar south pole.
India launches a rocket seeking to land an unmanned spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, its second attempt to become only the fourth country to do so.
India has successfully launched a new mission to land a robot explorer on the South Pole of the moon, a journey that will take over a month.
Just a few hours before the world learned of the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8, India was busy getting rid of traces of its British colonial past. At the instigation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avenue built by the British and originally called the "Kingsway" has been renamed "Kartavya Path", which means "path of duty" in Hindi. More recently, Modi inaugurated a statue of Subhas Chandra Bose, a controversial Indian freedom fighter, at the same spot where a statue of King George V had stood until the 1960s. Beyond renaming monuments, a part of Indian society wants an apology from the British for the atrocities they committed, such as the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in 1919. Our correspondents report.
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