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November 24, 2025 3:59 PM

INS Mahe commissioned into Indian Navy; Army Chief calls for stronger jointness in multi-domain warfare

The Indian Navy on Monday commissioned INS Mahe, the first vessel of the Mahe-class Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC), at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai. The ceremony was presided over by Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Upendr...

November 24, 2025 10:41 AM

Malaysia says it plans to ban social media for under-16s from 2026

Malaysia plans to ban social media for users under the age of 16 starting from next year, joining a growing list of countries choosing to limit access to digital platforms due to concerns about child safety. Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said...

November 23, 2025 7:27 PM

PM Modi calls for “human-centric” tech, global compact on AI at the third G20 session

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged G20 member nations to fundamentally rethink how emerging and critical technologies are developed and deployed. Addressing the third session of the G20 Summit, themed 'A Fair and a Just Future for All – ...

November 23, 2025 10:58 AM

Meta buried ‘causal’ evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege

Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a class action by U.S. school districts agains...

November 20, 2025 4:03 PM

Spanish court orders Meta to pay $550 mln to digital media companies

A Spanish court has ordered that the multinational tech company Meta pay 479 million euros ($552 million) to Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulation. Madrid's Commercial Cour...

November 19, 2025 6:52 PM

NASA set to release new images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

NASA is set on Wednesday to release new images of an interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet probably even older than our solar system. 3I/ATLAS was first spotted in July by an Asteroid Terrestria...

November 19, 2025 6:45 PM

Century-old Kodaikanal Observatory data offers new insights into the Sun’s magnetic future

Astronomers have tapped into more than a century’s worth of solar observations from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO) to reconstruct the Sun’s past polar magnetic behaviour—paving the way for better predictions of its future activity. Fo...

November 19, 2025 12:59 PM

Breakthrough in rare-earth magnetism promises more efficient quantum technologies

In a major scientific breakthrough, researchers have discovered a new form of magnetism in a rare-earth compound - an advance that could pave the way for faster, more energy-efficient quantum and spintronic technologies. A team from the Jawaharlal N...

November 19, 2025 11:28 AM

Indian scientists help rewrite 50-year-old biological rule

Indian scientists, in collaboration with researchers from Rutgers University, have challenged a fundamental biological concept that has shaped textbook understanding of bacterial gene regulation for nearly five decades. Their findings could open new ...

November 18, 2025 10:31 PM

Cloudflare restores services after outage impacts thousands of internet users

Cloudflare has fully restored its services after an outage on Tuesday at the web-infrastructure company prevented thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT. The company said the outage that began around 6.30 a.m. ET ...

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