The Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) set the launch date for Chandrayaan 2, its 2nd lunar mission, on 15 July.

Depending on when you read this, Chandrayaan 2 will be/will have been launched from ISRO’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota.

Chandrayaan 2 is India’s second moon mission after the Chandrayaan 1 in 2008.

Chandrayaan, the name itself means a ‘moon vehicle’ (Chandra - Moon, Yaan - vehicle).

Here’s everything you need to know about Chandrayaan 2, ISRO's second lunar mission!

Was the Union Budget presented by Modi 2.0 innovative or the same old formula? What worked and what didn’t?

Tune in to an exclusive discussion between Raghav Bahl, The Quint’s Editor-in-Chief, and Nishtha Gautam on Budget 2019.

Rahul Gandhi has been trying to resign for a while now and he officially resigned from the post of Congress president on 3 July after a stint of roughly 1 and a half years - taking responsibility for the party’s humiliating defeat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Rahul’s resignation comes as big news quite obviously - we just finished with the election, the BJP looks strong, the opposition weaker than ever and on top of that Rahul Gandhi who had made his stand as a leader in the last couple of years resigned.

He was elected as the party president unanimously and but quitting didn't come easy - there were meetings after meetings and all the Congress members trying to dissuade him, around 130 office bearers in Congress even quit in solidarity, but Rahul wouldn't budge.

In a letter that he posted on Twitter he wrote, “As President of the Congress Party, I am responsible for the loss of the 2019 election. Accountability is critical for the future growth of our party. It is for this reason that I have resigned as Congress president.”

In this podcast we take look at his career as the reluctant politician to the Congress chief, the ups and downs that the party had under Rahul’s tenure, who the potential candidates are for this vacant position in the Congress and the kind of reactions this resignation has gotten. Tune in!

H1-B visas, trade wars, S-400 missile defence systems from Russia, Iranian oil - after a steady high, a few hugs between Modi and Trump, these are a handful of thorns in the India-US relation and today US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar met to smoothen out the differences.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is one a three-day visit to India. On day one, he met both PM Modi and EAM S Jaishankar.

Before the visit Pompeo seemed to have done his homework as well because in a statement, he said, “Modi hai toh mumkin hai.”

Well done, but is restoring India-US ties going to be mumkin? Let’s dive into that question with today’s edition of The Big Story.

Istanbul has a new mayor and Turkey is in the headlines. Why? Well, that’s what we’re going to tell you on this edition of the Big Story Podcast. 

Ekrem Imamoglu, from Turkey’s Republican People’s Party or the CHP defeated the candidate from President Erdogan’s AK Party, Binali Yildirim, to become Mayor of Istanbul, not once, but for the second time in four months!

These same elections were held for the first time in March this year. Imamoglu had won back then too, by a slim margin of 13,000 votes over President Erdogan’s party.

But then Erdogan’s AK Party, or AKP, raised hell about this victory, alleging that there were widespread irregularities in the voting. What were these irregularities? Well, some officials who were overseeing the elections, weren’t civil servants, Erdogan said.

This was a problem, he said. So then, the country’s electoral board scrapped the election results. Listen to the podcast for the rest of the story!

One nation, one election - we’ve been hearing that for sometime now - it’s ambitious but the plans is slowing in motion.

But how do you even define it? Right now the state assemblies and the Lok Sabha elections are held separately because all terms aren’t in sync but the idea is to hold both state and central elections together.

Modi and the BJP has been trying to build a case for it. But is this a pitch you’d buy? You’d have to consider all sides of the argument first. Tune in to The Big Story for more!

Facebook was in the news for all the scandalous reasons last year and now it’s announced a new cryptocurrency. Here’s what we know: It’ll be launched in 2020 but it’s not going to be a Facebook project. Currently Facebook is creating a new foundation to support it along with 28 partners which include PayPal, Spotify, eBay, Visa, Master Card, Uber, PayU among others.

How is Libra going to be different from its predecessors? How will it work and who can use it? For all your questions on Libra, tune in to The Big Story!

127 children dead in Bihar, most of them in Muzaffarpur over suspected cases of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome or AES.

Bihar has seen an outbreak of AES several times before and it keeps happening. But this year the Bihar government's press release is avoiding calling it encephalitis, instead they're saying the deaths are being caused by hypoglycaemia or low blood sugar.

Why is the Bihar government not calling it AES, what is this mysterious illness and how does it happen? Tune in to The Big Story for more!

Tamil Nadu is dealing with an extreme crisis. First there’s the heat wave, add to that late rains and on an acute water shortage. And Chennai which is the capital of the state seems to be in the worst shape.

The Tamil Nadu state government was clearly not prepared for such a severe water crisis clearly. Instead of making sustainable plans in advance, recently the Tamil Nadu government’s Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments Department instructed all major temples in Chennai to pray to the rain god for water.

In the entire state, Chennai which a city of close to 10 million needs 880 million litres of water per day but it's getting 525 million litres, so that’s how bad the shortage is.

But how is Chennai so dry? How are the people living in the city managing their lives and what are their demands from the government? Tune in to The Big Story for more!

Indian's first lunar probe Chandrayaan 1 had turned heads with its success and cost budget and ISRO is about to launch an even more ambitious mission — Chandrayaan 2, on 15 July, early morning at 2 o'clock and 51 minutes.

Before the launch, tune in to The Big Story to know more about what this mission is going to be about and who are all the brains behind it.