Colombo, Apr 22: An improvised pipe bomb discovered close to Colombo’s main airport was successfully defused by the Sri Lanka airforce, police said.
A police source told news agency that a “homemade” pipe bomb had been found late Sunday on a road leading towards the main terminal, which remains open with heavy security after deadly attacks on churchs and hotels.
Airforce spokesperson Group Captain Gihan Seneviratne said the IED was believed to be locally manufactured.
Kozhikode, Aug 8: The death toll in Kozhikode air crash is likely to rise as the condition of 22 injured passengers is said to be extremely critical. A total of 149 injured passengers have been admitted to hospitals in Malappuram and Kozhikode districts. 22 others have been discharged after first aid, says K Gopalakrishnan, Malappuram Collector
Deceased passengers:
Mohammed Riyas VP, 24 years - Palakkad,
Saheer Sayed, 38 years -Malappuram,
Lailabi KV, 51 years -Malappuram,
Rajeevan Cherikka Parambil, 61 years - Kozhikode,
Manal Ahamed, 25 years - Kozhikode,
Sharafudheen, 35 years - Kozhikode,
Janaky Kunnoth, 55 years - Kozhikode,
Azam Muhammed Chembayi ,1 year - Kozhikode,
Santha Marakkat, 59 years - Malappuram,
Sudheer Vaariyath, 45 years -Malappuram,
Sheza Fathima, 2 years -Malappuram,
Remya Muraleedharan, 32 years - Kozhikode
Aysha Dua, 2 years – Palakkad
Shivathmika, 5 Years- Kozhikode
Zhenobia, 40 years – Kozhikode
Sahira Banu, 29 years - Kozhikode
Deceased crew:
Deepak Sathe (Pilot)
Akhilesh Kumar (Copilot)
New Delhi, Aug 7 : Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the Central government as India crossed the 20 lakh COVID-19 positive cases.
Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader reiterated his earlier tweet, sent out on July 17, which stated "The 10,00,000-mark has been crossed.
With the rapid spread of COVID-19, by August 10, more than 20,00,000 will be infected in the country.
The government must take concrete, planned steps to stop the epidemic."
"20 lakh-mark has been crossed, Modi government is missing," the Congress leader tweeted today.
The Union Health Ministry has said active cases as a percentage of total cases have seen a significant drop from 34.17 per cent on July 24 to 30.31 per cent.
Days after Twitter accounts of several billionaires were hacked to engineer a crypto scam, Twitter on Saturday said it is embarrassed, disappointed and, more than anything, sorry for what happened with some of its high-profile users as attackers successfully manipulated its employees and used their credentials to access internal systems, including getting through the two-factor protections.
In the first detailed summary of the "social engineering attack" via a crypto scam that hit at least 130 users this week, Twitter said for 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account and send Tweets.
"We are continuing our forensic review of all of the accounts to confirm all actions that may have been taken. In addition, we believe they may have attempted to sell some of the usernames," the micro-blogging platform said in a statement.
For up to eight of the Twitter accounts involved, the attackers took the additional step of downloading the account's information via "Your Twitter Data" tool.
This is a tool that is meant to provide an account owner with a summary of their Twitter account details and activity.
"We are reaching out directly to any account owner where we know this to be true. None of the eight were verified accounts," said Twitter.
The company said the attackers were not able to view previous account passwords, as those are not stored in plain text or available through the tools used in the attack.
"Attackers were able to view personal information including email addresses and phone numbers, which are displayed to some users of our internal support tools," informed Twitter.
In cases where an account was taken over by the attacker, they may have been able to view additional information, Twitter added, saying its forensic investigation of these activities was still ongoing.
"We are actively working on communicating directly with the account-holders that were impacted".
The company said it will soon restore access for all account owners who may still be locked out as a result of the remediation efforts.
The New York Times reported on Friday that the Twitter crypto scam can be traced back to a group of hackers who congregate online at OGusers.com, a username-swapping community where people buy and sell coveted online handles.
The report said that the Twitter hack is not from Russian, Chinese or North Korean hackers but was done by a group of young people, "one of whom says he lives at home with his mother".
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