The world watched as India launched its first moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, on08. The mission was primarily designed as an orbiter, intended to circle the Moon at a 100-kilometre altitude for a planned two years.

National Unity Day is celebrated on 31 October to honour Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel's birth anniversary. Initiated in 2014, the day emphasizes his contributions to India's integration and promotes the 'Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat' initiative.

India, the birthplace of the game of chess, the concept of zero, and the idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun, has long been the source of some of humanity's most revolutionary ideas. Yet, as historian William Dalrymple argues in his new book The ...

Forty-one years ago, on this day (), India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed as she stepped out of her New Delhi residence by two of her Sikh bodyguards. The assassins pumped more than 30 bullets into her before other security arrived at the scene and killed one and grievously injured the other.