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Commissioner of railway safety (CRS) western circle, Chetan Bakshi, inspected the route relay interlocking (RRI) system at platform No 1 of the Bhopal railway station on Wednesday.

Internet services were hampered in Pakistan on Thursday as the country's telecom authority said one of its six international undersea cables developed a fault. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said the international submarine cable system near Abu Talat, Egypt, developed the glitch on Wednesday.

Government websites across ministries, including that of the Prime Minister's Office, suffered outages due to "malfunctioning" this evening and were restored after a few hours.

Turkish Airlines cancelled 84 flights, primarily domestic and European, due to a global IT outage. Yahya Ustun aims to restore normalcy. The glitch affected US flights, UK broadcasts, and Australian telecommunications. It wasn't a cyberattack but linked to CrowdStrike. Turkey's ICT Authority and DenizBank, owned by Emirates NBD, confirmed the issue.

KOLKATA: Union minister of state for telecommunication Tapan Sikdar said on Friday that the Department of Telecommunication and C-DOT will jointly launch its mobile telephone service in Kolkata between Durga Puja and Diwali.

Elon Musk's Starlink has secured its first office space in India, leasing a 50-seater facility at Delhi's World Trade Centre. This move precedes Starlink's planned commercial launch in India, pending regulatory approval for its satellite internet services. The company recently obtained a crucial license for its operations.

CHANDIGARH: Yet another deadline has passed and the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is still struggling to launch its wireless in local loop (WLL) mobile in the city and Mohali.

Passengers who walked into metro stations on Saturday morning were given free rides after the ticketing systems conked out due to a technical glitch

Large numbers of BlackBerry users across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa were cut off from the internet and messaging services, phone companies in the affected regions said on Monday.

The latest CrowdStrike update led to a massive outage on Microsoft Windows leading to the BSOD i.e. the Blue Screen of Death for multiple users across the globe, affecting the hospitals and airline services primarily.

A surveillance programme approved by US president Bush to conduct eavesdropping without warrants has captured domestic communications on foreign soil.

A massive cyberattack in 2023 disabled thousands of US internet routers, attributed to an unidentified hacking group by Lumen Technologies' Black Lotus Labs. The attack disrupted internet access and affected rural communities, healthcare providers, and farming operations. AT&T also faced a major outage earlier in February due to a software glitch.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy defended the Trump administration's handling of aviation infrastructure amid flight delays and radar outages at Newark Airport. Duffy attributed the issues to long-standing neglect, criticizing the previous administration for inaction.

The Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI) urges govt intervention in telecom equipment thefts affecting mobile network quality in India.