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Chandrayaan-2 accomplished 90-95% of the mission objectives and will contribute to lunar science, notwithstanding the loss of communication with the lander, ISRO said hours after it lost contact with Vikram, the lander. The Lander followed the planned descent trajectory from its orbit of 35 km to just below 2 km above the surface. All the systems and sensors of the Lander functioned excellently until this point, when contact was lost with it.

In a bid to falsely portray that businesses have collapsed in J&K in the aftermath of Article 370 being revoked, terrorists have been issuing threats to apple growers and traders to not send or sell their produce outside of the state. Friday night's attack is believed to be a fallout of people largely choosing to ignore such threats from them.

Some family members of those killed in the blast at a firecracker unit at Batala in Gurdaspur district early this week urged Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh to ban such illegal factories in residential areas to prevent the recurrence of such mishaps. The victims' families also requested the CM to provide government jobs to the kin of deceased.

Ex-SDM Patti Anupreet Kaur along with five others has been booked by Patti police for embezzling Rs 1.63 crore from the government treasury. The embezzlement allegedly took place between January 9, 2018 and February 11, 2019.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday ordered  immediate crackdown across the state against all illegal fire cracker manufacturing units set up in congested areas.

Among the issues discussed by Transport Minister with Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was start of special trains for the convenience of pilgrims during upcoming 550th birthday celebrations of Guru Nanak Dev in November.

Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Friday expressed profound grief over the sad demise of former Member Parliament Sukhdev Singh Libra (87), who breathed his last in a private hospital at Khanna this morning.