London/Washington, July 19 (UNI) A major worldwide tech disruption grounded flights, hit services in banks, hospitals and media outlets and left a huge number of businesses grappling with IT issues on Friday. The mass IT outage crippled flight operations in major international airports including in India, Hong Kong, the UK, Australia and the US. Aviation…
Jammu, July 19 (UNI) The Special Operations Group (SOG) of Jammu and Kashmir Police on Friday launched a search operation after a grenade was found in the premises of a district hospital in Poonch. Official sources said a rusted grenade was recovered on Thursday evening on the rooftop of residential quarter of district hospital. “Some…
Lucknow, July 19 (UNI) Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday, emphasized the need to promote natural farming practices and said that the Union government is considering offering subsidies to encourage natural farming methods. Speaking at the ‘Bhartiya Prakritik Krishi Paddhati’ program, the Union Minister highlighted that the consequences of using chemicals and fertilizers…
Aizawl, July 19 (UNI) The Gauhati High Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to inquire into the alleged smuggling of dry areca nuts from Myanmar into India through Champhai district in eastern Mizoram, a lawyer said on Friday. A bench comprising Justice Michael Zothankhuma and Justice Marly Vankung passed the order on…
Itanagar, July 19 (UNI) In a significant move to curb the irregularities and use of unfair means in public examinations, Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu tabled ‘The Arunachal Pradesh Public Examination (Measures for Prevention of Unfair Means in Recruitment) Bill, 2024’ in the State Assembly on the first day of the six-day Budget session…
New Delhi, July 19 (UNI) The Ministry of External Affairs on Friday said that 50 Indian nationals duped into serving with the Russian Army at the Ukraine war front have got in touch with the Indian government and want to be discharged. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said at a briefing that 10 Indians have so…
New Delhi, July 19 (UNI) The Congress on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of creating an economic inequality in the country that is resulting in rich becoming richer and poor becoming poorer and asked whether Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s seventh Budget on July 23 will be able to bridge this gap. Addressing a press…
Bengaluru, July 19 (UNI) A catastrophic global outage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform has paralyzed check-in systems for major Indian carriers, including IndiGo, Akasa, and SpiceJet, since 10:45 AM on Friday. The disruption has triggered chaos at airports nationwide, with processing times grinding to a halt and passengers facing agonizingly long queues. IndiGo, India’s largest…
Dhaka/New Delhi, July 19 (UNI) In view of the violent anti-quota protests across Bangladesh, India has asked its nationals to avoid local travel and minimize their movement outside their residences. The advisory, issued by the Indian High Commission in Dhaka, has asked Indians to reach out to the High Commissioner or Assistant High Commissioner in…
Moscow/New Delhi, July 19 (UNI) The Indian Embassy in Russia said on Friday that three officials of the embassy and an interpreter are in Krasnoyarsk to help passengers of an Air India flight that made an emergency landing in the city in Central Russia on way to San Francisco. In a post on X, the…
