The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has successfully driven the installation of 45,911 off-grid solar agricultural pumps in just 30 days. The milestone was recognised as a new world record by the Guinness World Records (GWR) on Friday, an official statement said. The achievement positions Maharashtra as the fast
06 December,2025 06:48 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondentFormer Pentagon official Michael Rubin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to India is seen as US President Trump's "gross incompetence" by the majority of the US people, who dislike Trump, which he claimed is around 65 per cent according to recent polls. "It is being perceived in two different ways. If you're Donald Trump, it's bei
06 December,2025 06:11 PM IST | Washington DC | ANIUS Supreme Court agreed to examine the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, reopening a debate widely considered settled since the late 19th century, CNN reported. By taking up the appeal, the top court has moved beyond the procedural questions it addressed earlier this year--when it
06 December,2025 10:52 AM IST | Washington DC | ANIClaiming "no strategic logic" for the United States embracing Islamabad, former Pentagon official Michael Rubin said Pakistan should be designated as a "state sponsor of terrorism." He also objected to Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir's visit to White House in June and said Munir "should be arrested rather than honoured" if he comes to
06 December,2025 10:48 AM IST | Washington DC | ANIResearchers at the University of East London (UEL) have found an extraordinary new purpose for discarded seashells. Once processed into a fine powder, shells can replace up to a third of the cement in concrete, offering a highly scalable method to reduce carbon output. Cement, the binding agent in concrete, accounts for roughly 7 per cent of globa
06 December,2025 10:45 AM IST | London | AgenciesThe US Southern Command announced that it conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean. This was the 22nd strike the US military carried out against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean that the Trump administration claimed were trafficking drugs. There were four casualties in the strike, bringing the
06 December,2025 10:43 AM IST | Washington | AgenciesThe scheduled departure of critically ill former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia for London for advance treatment has been deferred to Sunday as an air ambulance offered by Qatar could not reach Dhaka, a senior leader of her party said on Friday. The 80-year-old head of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), who was hospitalised on November
06 December,2025 10:36 AM IST | Dhaka | AgenciesUkrainian representatives led by Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Rustem Umerov, and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrii Hnatov, were set to continue their talks with the US negotiation team, led by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, on Friday, after nearly five hours of talks with Moscow led to “no compro
06 December,2025 10:33 AM IST | Kyiv | AgenciesIndia defeated Belgium 4-3 via penalty shootout in their quarter-final clash at the Junior Hockey World Cup here on Friday. Both teams were tied 2-2 at the end of regulation time. Belgium took the lead through Gaspard Cornez-Massant (13th minute). India equalised through Rohit (45th) and took the lead through Sharda Nand Tiwari (48th). Nathan Rogg
06 December,2025 09:18 AM IST | Chennai | AgenciesUsers worldwide were left grappling with widespread internet disruptions on Friday after Cloudflare — a range of internet services provider to thousands of websites — suffered yet another outage. The incident led to access issues in several major platforms, including Canva, and even Downdetector, the highly-used service to track outage
05 December,2025 04:42 PM IST | New Delhi | IANSRussian President Vladimir Putin, on Friday, assured India of uninterrupted fuel supplies as part of a broader push to strengthen bilateral ties between the two nations. At a joint press meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here, Putin said that "We are ready to continue uninterrupted shipments of fuel for the growing Indian economy". The
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