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TOP STORIES: MDS3 KA-CHANDRAYAAN-ORBIT

Bengaluru: In a major milestone for India's Moon mission, the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft successfully entered the lunar orbit on Tuesday.

DEL7 ED-PURI-LD ARREST New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath's businessman nephew, Ratul Puri, has been arrested by the ED in a fresh case of money laundering linked to an alleged Rs 354 crore bank loan fraud case, officials said Tuesday.

FGN8 US-TRUMP-LD INDOPAK

Trump asks Imran Khan to 'moderate rhetoric' with India over Kashmir Washington: US President Donald Trump has asked Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to "moderate rhetoric" with India over Kashmir, as he underlined the need of exercising "restraint" by both sides and avoid escalation of the "tough" situation in the region. By Lalit K Jha

NATION:

MDS6 KA-CHANDRAYAAN-SIVAN Bengaluru: "Our heart was almost stopping", was how ISRO Chairman K Sivan described the tense moments when team Chadrayaan-2 attempted to inject the spacecraft into the

lunar orbit on Tuesday.

DEL15 CONG-2NDLD RAJIV-TRIBUTES New Delhi: Top Congress leaders, including party president Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, and former president Pranab Mukherjee, paid tributes to Rajiv Gandhi on his 75th birth anniversary on Tuesday.

DEL18 MANMOHAN-RAJIV

New Delhi: Former prime minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said "unpleasant trends" of growing intolerance, communal polarisation, and incidents of violent crimes propelled by hatred of certain groups will damage our polity.

MDS5 KA-LD CABINET Bengaluru: More than three weeks after he was sworn in as the Chief Minister, B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday expanded his ministry by inducting 17 ministers into his Cabinet.

DES2 DL-YAMUNA FLOOD

New Delhi: The River Yamuna in the city continued to swell on Tuesday and was flowing above the danger level, an official said.

FOREIGN:

FGN10 BANGLA-JAISHANKAR-TALKS Dhaka: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday met his Bangladeshi counterpart A K Abdul Momen and discussed ways to strengthen the bilateral ties.

FGN11 US-MISSILE-LAUNCH

Washington: The US Defense Department on Monday announced the test of a medium-range ground-launched cruise missile, just weeks after tearing up the Cold War-era pact with Russia eliminating that class of nuclear-capable weapons. (AFP)

LEGAL:

LGD8 SC-FACEBOOK New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a plea of Facebook Inc for transfer of cases related to demands for linking of social media profiles of users with Aadhaar number, pending before the high courts of Madras, Bombay and Madhya Pradesh to the apex court.

LGD3 SC-AYODHYA

New Delhi: The Hindu temple in Ayodhya was destroyed to construct a mosque at the disputed site, said advocate for Ram Lalla Virajman, one of the parties in the politically-sensitive Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid case, on Tuesday while referring to an ASI report.

SPORTS: SPF7 SPO-IND-UMESH

Coolidge (Antigua): Pacer Umesh Yadav says he has regained confidence after working on his erratic line and length in the time away from the Indian team and is confident of making the playing eleven in the Test series against the West Indies starting on Thursday.