The Union government has directed smartphone manufacturers to ship all new handsets sold in India with the state-run Sanchar Saathi cybersecurity app pre-installed within 90 days, a move aimed at strengthening telecom security that has drawn sharp criticism from privacy advocates and raised compliance questions for global phone makers. What…
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India Hosts Workshop on Veterinary Bio-Waste Management
India Hosts Workshop on Veterinary Bio-Waste Management The Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD), Government of India, convened a National Consultation Workshop on “Veterinary Bio-Waste Management for Sustainable Livestock and Health” in New Delhi on 24 November 2025. The event was organised under the Pandemic Fund Project titled “Animal…
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Cloudflare Outage Hits X, ChatGPT, Gemini & Perplexity
A massive Cloudflare outage on Tuesday evening triggered widespread service disruptions across several high-traffic digital platforms, including X, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Spotify, and multiple global websites. Users worldwide reported persistent 500 error messages, failed loading screens, and broken dashboards as the internet infrastructure giant acknowledged a major internal malfunction.Cloudflare, which…
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Microsoft Azure Outage Disrupts Global Services
New Delhi / Global, Oct 29, 2025 Microsoft’s cloud platform Azure suffered a major global outage on Wednesday that knocked large swathes of services offline including Microsoft 365 productivity apps, Xbox services and several company websites and airline apps as engineers worked to roll back a problematic configuration change. 0…
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AWS Outage Disrupts Fortnite, Alexa and Major Services
A major disruption at Amazon Web Services (AWS) has caused widespread downtime across several high-profile online services, including Fortnite, Alexa and Snapchat. The incident primarily originated in the US-EAST-1 region, with ripple effects noted globally. Services impacted and scale of disruption According to AWS’s status dashboard, the issue began with…
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Arattai App Surges 100x After PM Modi’s Swadeshi Call
India’s homegrown messaging app Arattai has witnessed a phenomenal surge in traffic following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent Swadeshi call. According to Zoho, the company behind the app, daily new sign-ups skyrocketed from 3,000 to 3,50,000 within just three days, marking a 100x increase. Zoho’s Chief Scientist, Sridhar Vembu, highlighted…
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Micron Earnings, Fed Signals, Oil Slump Shape Global Markets
U.S. stock futures held near the flatline on Tuesday as markets braced for earnings from Micron Technology, a series of Federal Reserve speeches, and preliminary September PMI readings. Oil prices, meanwhile, slid after Iraq and Kurdish authorities reached a deal to restart crude exports. Futures muted ahead of key triggers…
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Starlink Nears India Trials with Telecom, Infra Partnerships
Starlink Nears India Trials with Telecom, Infra Partnerships Elon Musk’s satellite internet venture Starlink is inching closer to launching its services in India, with trial operations expected to begin by late 2025. The company is laying a robust foundation through collaborations with telecom operators, data centres, and fibre networks, aiming…
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300 South Koreans Held in US Hyundai Plant Raid to Be Freed
Seoul has confirmed that more than 300 South Korean nationals detained during a large-scale immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant under construction in Georgia, United States, will be released soon. The announcement followed days of urgent negotiations between South Korea and US authorities. Mass Detention at Hyundai-LG Plant The…