Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned mission to moon, has travelled more than 380,000 km in 12 days after its launch from Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh Oct 22 to enter the lunar orbit Saturday.

India's first unmanned moon mission Chandrayaan-I was Saturday put into lunar orbit at around 5.15 p.m., scientists of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said here.

National general secretary of the Samajwadi Party Amar Singh Saturday demanded that the central government bring down the petroleum prices in the wake of the falling crude oil prices in the international market otherwise the minister will face the music from the public.

Diesel dealers in Uttar Pradesh Saturday threatened to stop business if the state government did not withdraw an entry tax, imposed on them in September.

Leading food and beverage company Parle Agro announced it will buy 600 tonnes of apple juice concentrate worth Rs.60 million from Himachal Pradesh Horticultural Produce Marketing and Processing Corp (HPMC).

Indian hospital major Narayana Hrudayalaya plans to set up a health city in Mexico that will also cater to patients from the US.

For the second successive week, Indian equities finished in the green Friday with a key index gaining 1.8 percent during the week.

Despite Indian carriers accumulating losses worth Rs.100 billion ($2.2 billion), Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel sees fares falling over the next couple of months, even as he promises to resolve the current crisis in the industry.

It's a happy homecoming for the farmers of Saurashtra. Faced with scarcity of water they left their land and profession. But today, thanks to a new water management system employed by the state government, a reverse migration is in progress.

Can countries engaged in exploration and exploitation of the moon introduce plant and animal life there? The issue is back in focus as India's first unmanned lunar spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 gets ready to drop a probe on to the moon's surface.

Even as Chandrayaan-1, India's first unmanned spacecraft to the moon, enters the lunar orbit Saturday, one Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientist says the moon is well on its way to becoming the best international space station.

India has opened its air space for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member-states under an open-sky regime, the government said Friday.

Change has come to state-owned Indian Railways. Come January, tourists can experience a world-class luxury package tour with enchanting train hostesses, Russian belly-dancers, multi-cuisine food even a star-studded Bollywood night thrown in for good measure, plus a lot more - all the frills that one normally associates with global tour packages.

The Communist Party of India (CPI) national secretary D. Raja Friday echoed charges made against union IT Minister A. Raja by fellow Left leaders about graft in the auction of radio frequency to mobile operators.

With prices of third generation (3G)-enabled mobile phone handsets coming down to $50 (Rs.2,000) levels, India should have around 230 million 3G subscribers by 2013, a top industry representative said here Friday.