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Severe cyclonic storm Michaung made landfall crossing south Andhra Pradesh coast between 12.30 pm and 2.30 pm on Tuesday leaving its maximum fury to be felt on Monday in Chennai and adjoining areas in neighbouring Tamil Nadu. Southern districts of Odisha and eastern Telangana continue to be on alert. Michaung crossed near coastal south Andhra Pradesh's Bapatla district with maximum gales of up to 90 to100 km per hour, an Amaravati Meteorological Centre official said, adding that the weather system was to move northwards and weaken into a cyclonic storm in the two hours after landfall. The landfall phenomenon lasted around three hours.

From the main stage of the Bharat Mandapam where world leaders assembled for G-20, NDTV's Vishnu Som gets you a very exclusive conversation with the 3 mission leads of ISRO's Gaganyaan, Aditya and Chandrayaan-3 programmes. What is the future of India's interstellar?

A crisis is developing in Chennai and other parts of Tamil Nadu, with heavy flooding of the city area as a result of a severe cyclone off the coast. Cyclone Michaung is expected to hit the Andhra Pradesh coastline, between Nellore and Machilipatnam, tomorrow but the situation in Chennai has been awful today - flooded roads, no power, patchy internet and massive water logging. Some metro services were also affected and the airport was shut down till tomorrow with water on the tarmac.

After its humiliating defeat in the three heartland states at the hands of the BJP, the Congress is facing flak from the INDIA bloc allies who are now taking it to task. The stunning defeats have dwindled the Congress leverage in the alliance and put brakes on its dream of leading the opposition alliance. Will the opposition alliance now insist on an alternative to the Congress as its main mover?

In Mizoram, a six-year-old political party has scripted history. The Zoram People's Movement or ZPM has comprehensively won the  Mizoram assembly polls, the counting for which was held today, a day after counting was held in the other four states. The ZPM won 27 of the total 40 seats, the ruling MNF was reduced to 10 seats and the national parties BJP and Congress won two and one seats respectively.

Political analysts Manisha Priyam and Sandeep Shastri and senior journalist Rasheed Kidwai share their insights on the big takeaways from the election campaigns.

The 17-day ordeal and a humongous operation to rescue 41 workers trapped in the Uttarkashi tunnel ended in smiles and celebrations as all the trapped workers came out of the tunnel. This is the story of the triumph of human grit over immense odds. Here we document the Himalayan rescue, all the twists and turns, and the heroes who made it possible.

Deadly floods in the Horn of Africa. Summer wildfires ravaging Canadian forests. Global temperature records are unprecedented in the history of humanity. Environmental activists say there's no doubt anymore that urgent collective action is needed to preserve a livable planet. As the COP28 UN climate talks begin in Dubai, experts discuss the significance of the meet

NASA chief Senator Bill Nelson, also an astronaut, is on a visit to India to forge new ties with ISRO. NDTV's Science Editor Pallava Bagla speaks exclusively with Nelson on how the two countries will head into a new orbit. Nelson said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a "space fan" on being asked if he can become the first head of state to fly into space. Nelson said he himself flew to space as a politician which was a valuable experience.

All 41 men trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand's Silkyara were rescued Tuesday evening. The 17-day multi-agency operation relied on the banned rat-hole mining technique in the final stretch after high-tech machines failed to drill through the nearly 60 metres of rock that threatened to bury the workers. The extraction process took some time to allow each worker to re-acclimatise to surface conditions, where the temperature is around 14 degrees Celsius at this time. The workers were brought out on specially modified stretchers; these were lowered manually down a two-metre-wide pipe inserted into holes drilled into the hillside. Watch Left Right and Centre.