tirupati l saturday l july 20, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION Trump calls for unity in his first address after assassination bid After formally accepting his third presidential nomination from the Republican Party, Donald Trump on Thursday said he will work for all ‘Will be President for all of America’ Don takes potshots at Biden, Pelosi Starting his 92-minute speech in a soothing and calm manner, he promised he would be a president “for all of America”, including Democrats, saying he wanted to heal the divided country. The 78-year-old also recounted in detail the attempt to assassinate him last Saturday, which he said deeply affected him, and narrated how sad he was about a supporter killed by the gunman ■ “I am not supposed to be here tonight. I stand before you... only by the grace of almighty God,” Trump said, recounting the assassination attempt on him ■ However, a few minutes into the speech, Trump shed his new-found softer image and wore his familiar bombastic avatar calling Joe Biden “the worst president in US history” and former House Speaker “crazy Nancy Pelosi” Record Trump’s PRESIDENTIAL acceptance speech was the longest in U.S. history CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Four flights cancelled in AP, many delayed What exactly happened and how it created chaos Microsoft said the issue began at 1900 GMT on Thursday, after a defective update to CrowdStrike Falcon, an IT solution designed to protect Windows systems, ended up crashing the system instead E xpress N ews S ervice @ Vijayawada A global Microsoft outage on Friday caused significant disruptions across various industries, including software, hospitality, aviation, and retail. The outage led to the cancellation of a total of four flights, including three from Visakhapatnam and one from Vijayawada. As a result of the technical issue, a total of 18 flight services, both arrivals and departures, at the Rajamahendravaram airport were delayed, but not cancelled. “Three flights from Visakhapatnam - two to Hyderabad and one to Kolkata - were cancelled due to the Microsoft outage. The status of Saturday’s flight schedules can only be ascertained once the issue is resolved,”said Visakhapatnam International Airport Director Raja Reddy . Further, Gannavaram Airport authorities informed that Indigo flight 6E7134 was cancelled due to technical issues. The flight, scheduled to arrive Vijayawada from Bengaluru at 8:30 pm on Friday and return at 8:45 pm, faced an unexpected cancellation of both its toand-fro services. In addition to the flight cancellation, technical difficulties also impacted the online services of Indigo and Air India Express. As a result, the airlines were unable to issue digital boarding passes, and so the staff had to manually fill the boarding passes. Airport authorities said airline staff worked diligently to resolve the issues and ensure minimal disruption to passengers’ travel plans. According to Madhurapudi Airport Officer Gneneswar, six flights to Hyderabad, two to Bengaluru, and one to Chennai are operated from RajamaP4 hendravaram. What is CrowdStrike that caused the chaos CrowdStrike is a US-based cybersecurity firm that provides incident response and threat hunting services. It is known for its expertise in detecting and responding to advanced threats Over 2,600 flights cancelled globally Passengers look at screens, some of them showing Blue Screen errors, at T3 of Delhi international airport on Friday | PTI Out of more than 1,10,000 scheduled commercial flights on Friday, 2,691 have been cancelled globally, according to aviation analytics firm Cirium Tech outage cripples world Massive tech blackout affects airlines, banks, media outlets chaos at major airports as operations disrupted Indigo cancels 200 flights EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ New Delhi/Mumbai/Bengaluru AIRLINES, banks, media outlets, and financial institutions across the world were on Friday thrown into turmoil by one of the biggest IT crashes in recent histoy, caused by an update to an antivirus programme. The mass IT outage came after some widely used Microsoft 365 applications and services shut down for hours as a result of the update. There were unprecedented chaos in major cities, including in India, with flights grounded, communication shut down, and shops closed. Millions encountered the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) error, causing sudden system shutdowns or restarts. Microsoft, which said it was actively working to fix the outage, attributed the BSOD issue to a recent update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which admitted that its action affected Microsoft Windows devices. In India, almost all the airlines and major airports were affected as they struggled to provide online booking, web check-ins, and flight status updates. IndiGo cancelled around 200 flights across the country . SpiceJet, Air India, Akasa, and Vistara also faced disruption due to a technical error in Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing platform that powers critical systems. Throughout the day, airlines were seen doing manual check-ins and issuing handwritten boarding passes. Operations at key airports such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru were badly hit, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. Aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu said his ministry and Airports Authority of India (AAI) are actively managing the situation. Banking regulator RBI in a statement said that critical systems of most banks are not in cloud and that only a few banks are using the CrowdStrike tool, which created the chaos. “Our assessment shows that only 10 banks and NBFCs had minor The reasons for this outage has been identified and updates have been released to resolve the issue Minister for Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw disruptions, which have either been resolved or are being resolved. Overall, the Indian financial sector in the Reserve Bank’s domain remains insulated from the global outage,” an RBI statement read. Auto major Maruti Suzuki India said it had briefly halted production and dispatch operations due to the outage. Although many IT employees found it difficult to log into Microsoft applications on Friday no major setbacks were re, ported for the IT industry except production downtime. “Those who were using Microsoft Azure were not able to login,” an IT employee said. Meanwhile, in a statement around 7 in the evening, CrowdStrike said that the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix has been deployed. P9, 10 SC to examine contours YSRC to stage dharna in Delhi on of guv’s immunity from July 24 to highlight atrocities in State criminal prosecution E xpress N ews S ervice @ Guntur S u c h itr a K a lya n M o h a nt y @ New Delhi The Supreme Court on Friday decided to examine the contours of the blanket Constitutional immunity governors in harness have from criminal prosecution, after hearing a plea filed by a woman employee of the West Bengal Raj Bhavan. She alleged that she was sexually harassed by incumbent Governor C V Ananda Bose. Article 361 of Constitution says, no criminal or civil proceedings shall be instituted or continued against the President, or the Governor, in any court during his term of office. A three-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, asked Attorney General R Venkataramani to assist in the case and issued notice to the state government on the plea filed by the woman contractual staffer. “The petition raises the is- sue pertaining to the ambit of the protection which is afforded to the governor under clause (2) of Article 361 of the Constitution,” the bench said in its order of issuing notice to the state government and others. The court granted liberty to the petitioner to implead the Union government as a party in the petition. Senior lawyer Shyam Divan, appearing for the petitioner, argued that Article 361 should not be a bar against investigation. “Evidence has to be gathered right now. It cannot be deferred indefinitely he said. ,” The woman employee had moved the court on July 4 seeking a thorough probe into the case by the police and guidelines on the immunity enjoyed by gover nors. The victim claimed the governor called her on April 24 and May 2 on the pretext of offering a better job, but allegedly harassed her sexually within Raj Bhavan. Express read Orange alert for three Andhra districts Visakhapatnam: In view of heavy to very heavy rainfall, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) Amaravati Centre has issued an orange alert in three districts - Alluri Sitarama Raju, Eluru and West Godavari. Additionally, a yellow alert has been issued for Parvathipuram Manyam, NTR, East Godavari, Kakinada and Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema districts | P3 The YSRC will stage a peaceful protest in New Delhi on July 24 to highlight the deteriorating law and order situation in Andhra Pradesh, party president and former Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy announced on Friday He was speaking to . mediapersons after visiting Vinukonda, where he extended condolences to the family of Sheikh Rashid, who was brutally hacked to death. Attributing the violence and chaos in the State to the TDP, Jagan said these atrocities may warrant the imposition of the YSRC chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy with the family of Rashid, who was brutally murdered in Vinukonda I Express President’s rule in the State. Stating that YSRC MLAs, MPs, and MLCs will participate in the protest to draw national attention to the deteriorating condition of law and order in the State, the YSRC chief said the party will seek appointments with the President, Prime Minister, and Home Minister to apprise them about the events unfolding in the State. Describing the brutal murder of Rashid as “a deliberate act to instill fear in public across the State”, Jagan accused the police of misleading the investigation by claiming that the crime was a result of personal rivalry He also blamed . the police for failing to take action against the perpetrators and instead targetting the vicP4 tims. Indian evacuation from Bangladesh begins, toll tops 75 Yes h i S e l i a n d P r a s a nta M a z u m d a r @ New Delhi/Guwahati With the situation in Bangladesh continuing to remain volatile and the toll of the student unrest over a contentious quota order reaching 75 on Friday , hundreds of Indian students have started streaming into the country through various border crossings. India was careful not to comment on the situation, with External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal saying, “We see this as an internal matter of the country .” Till Thursday, over 300 people, mostly students from India, Nepal and Bhutan, were evacuated via Dawki in Meghalaya. The Meghalaya government said 202 Indians — 198 students and four tourists — were evacuated. The students included 67 from Meghalaya. Ninety-five others from Nepal and seven from Bhutan had entered through Dawki. “On Friday, 96 students crossed the border at GedeDarshana around 5.30 pm. None of the students waiting to cross back was left behind. Another batch of over 100 students are expected to cross into India during at night,’’ according to a source. Sources said border cross- Protesters pelt stones as they clash with police in Dhaka on Friday | AFP ings between India and Bangladesh at Benapole-Petrapole, Gede-Darshana and AkhauraAgartala remain open for students and Indian nationals. “Around 13 Nepalese students were also permitted to enter India after their embassy made an official request,’’ the source added. The Indian Railways cancelled the Kolkata-Dhaka Maitree Express on Saturday and Bandhan Express between Kolkata and Khulna on Sunday There are over 15,000 Indi. ans in Bangladesh, of which 8,500 are students. The Assam government has sought the Centre’s help for the evacuation of students stranded in the neighbouring country P9 . ow n e r n a m e s o f h o te l s up, u’khand harden stance on kanwar N AM I TA BAJ PA I @ Lucknow NDA allies oppose it NDA allies JD(U) and LJP came out against the UP govt’s decision, saying it could trigger communal tension Bigotry, says Cong The Congress said the move shows bigotry, with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra terming it an attack on Constitution A day after it toned down the Muzaffarnagar police’s order asking eateries and shops along the Kanwar Yatra route to display their owners’ names, the Yogi Adityanathled government in Uttar Pradesh on Friday hardened its stance, saying the order will now be applicable across the state. Meanwhile, Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami said similar orders to display the names, addresses, and mobile phone numbers of owners are already in place in his state. The Muzaffarnagar police had on Monday issued an order instructing hotels, roadside eateries, and shops that fall on the yatra route to display the names of their owners to enable the pilgrims to take informed decisions and maintain the sanctity of their faith. However, after the authorities were panned for allegedly trying to target Muslim traders, the order was reviewed on Thursday and it was left it to the ‘free will’ of the eateries owners to display their names. With the latest decision by the state government, the display will be mandatory . Kanwar Yatra will commence on July 22 with the advent of the Hindu month of Shravan and conclude on August 2. The authorities have also made it clear that stringent action would be taken against those selling ‘halal-certified’ products. Heavy rains claim one life in Nidadavolu, batter Godavari districts E xpress N ews S ervice Naidu takes stock of flood situation The incessant rains in Godavari districts has thrown life out of gear, resulting in crops, particularly paddy being dam, aged, submerged roads and floodwater entering a few houses on Friday . One person was washed away in the Yerrakalva stream in Tirugudem village under Nidadavolu Assembly constituency . The deceased, identified as Gantasala Venkateswara Rao (55), was swept by strong currents when he ventured out for fishing. A hut in Tanuku of West Godavari district was completely submerged I Express Vijayawada: Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu directed the officials to take all possible steps to safeguard the lives and property of people. On Friday, he conducted a video conference with the Collectors and SPs of the districts most affected by rains. He instructed them to plan in advance to avoid human loss and property damage Tourism Minister Kandula Durgesh, who visited the submerged villages along with East Godavari district Collec- nearly 13,000 acres of paddy fields were submerged in the rainwater. Each farmer had invested `20,000 per acre to culti- @ Rajamahendravaram/Kakinada Control rooms set up East Godavari 8977935609 tor P Prasanthi, in Nidadavolu said paddy crop was submerged in Kamsalipalem, Singavaram, and Ravimetla villages. He said Rajamahendravaram Municipal Corporation: 9494060060 Rajamahendravaram RDO office: 0883 24423444 Kovvur RDO office 08813231488 Eluru district 18002331077 vate the crop. With inflows to the River Godavari rising, four lakh cusecs water was discharged into the sea from Polavaram spillway and Sir Arthur Cotton Barrage. Dr BR Ambedkar Konaseema District Collector Mahesh Kumar Ravirala said floodwater has been released at the rate of 3.5 lakh cusecs from Cotton Barrage. Flood surge is likely to reach seven lakh cusecs, he added. People of island villages at Burugulanka jetty in P Gannavaram mandal were extremely inconvenienced as the temporary path to cross the River Vashishta was washed away P3 Thursday night.
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