THIRUVANANTHAPURAM l saturday l july 20, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 16 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 Ideological elixir, CPM’s remedy for rot within 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 systems instead What is CrowdStrike that caused the chaos K S S R E E J I T H @T’Puram As the CPM gears up for a major course correction, the party’s state leadership is fully aware that any minor, superficial move would only prove futile as the rot within is quite deep. It’s imperative to impart ideological lessons to the party cadre, said a senior leader as the all-important state leadership meet of the CPM started in Thiruvananthapuram on Friday . “This is the first time that the party is facing this kind of challenge in Kerala since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. But, this is different. The party organisation has become politically weak, and the cadres ideologically bankrupt. The cadre must be made ideologically strong before we can go to the masses. We will start the corrective measures soon,” a senior CPM leader told TNIE. The state secretariat reportedly prepared a draft proposal for the rectification process which covered political and orgnaisational matters. The twoday state committee meet will discuss the rectification measures to be taken. Several organisational issues, including those involving senior leaders like E P Jayarajan, whose actions during the Lok Sabha election and the controversies surrounding him had subjected the CPM and its government to much embarrassment, would come up for discussion at the meeting. Even though Jayarajan is a central committee member, the Kerala leadership has the right to take up issues concerning the state. ● More on P4 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 over 200 flights E XP R E S S N E W S S E R V I C E @ 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 error, causing sudden system shutdowns or restarts. Microsoft, which said it was active- ly working to fix the outage, attributed the BSOD issue to a recent update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which admitted that its action affected 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 disruptions 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 Services at Kochi, T’Puram airports hit Flight operations at Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram airports were hit following Microsoft cloud services outage. Seven flights were cancelled and 11 others delayed in Kochi while three late evening flights from Thiruvananthapuram were cancelled. P5 hand-written 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 are actively managing the The reasons for this outage has been identified and updates have been released to resolve the issue Minister for Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw situation. Banking regulator RBI in a statement said 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 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. 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. Meanwhile, in a statement around 7 in the evening, CrowdStrike said the issue has been identified, isolated and a fix P9 has been deployed. Kozhikode man feared trapped in landslide in K’taka, search ops on L esly J o se p h & S u b h a sh C h a n d r a N S @ Kozhikode/Ankola Arjun Mooladikuzhiyil, a truck driver from Kozhikode, is feared to be trapped under a huge mound of soil for the past four days following a landslide at Ankola in Karnataka. Even as efforts continue to trace him and others who went missing in the landslide that occurred on the national highway at Shirur on July 16, Arjun’s family is hopeful of his safe return. Meanwhile, the Uttara Kannada district administration has sought the assistance of the Coast Guard in the search operations. There was not much success on Friday except for clearing the debris in some places. The harsh terrain, heavy rain and landslide possibility in adjoining areas are posing hurdles to the efforts. The search operation that was suspended on Friday night will resume on Saturday morning. Uttara Kannada Deputy Commissioner Lakshmi Priya Restoration of highway in progress at the landslide spot in Shirur | Express ow n e r n a m e s o f h o t e l s u.p., u’khand harden stance on kanwar NA M I TA BA J PA I @ Lucknow SC to examine contours Indian evacuation from protest-hit of guv’s immunity from Bangladesh begins; toll reaches 105 criminal prosecution Yeshi S eli a n d Pr a s a n ta M a z u m d a r @ New Delhi/Guwahati S u chitr a K a lya n M o h a n t 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. EX P RE S S REA D 408 captive elephants in Kerala, says govt Kochi: The government has informed the Kerala High Court that there are 408 captive elephants in the state. Of those, 369 are owned by private individuals while 39 are under the care of the forest department. The details were revealed in a report the government pleader submitted in response to a court directive. P5 16 pages, including 4 pages of THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Express With the situation in Bangladesh continuing to remain volatile and the toll of the student unrest over a contentious quota order reaching 105 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 Protesters pelt stones as they clash with police in Dhaka on Friday | AFP 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 said seven bodies have been found so far. “Three more persons are still missing, and we hope we might find them soon,” she said. “I have written to the Coast Guard to help with their helicopter to search for the bodies in the river and even amid the debris at the areas beyond our reach,” she said. However, the bad weather has made the assistance by helicopter impossible. Meanwhile, ministerial-level interventions and joint efforts by the KeralaKarnataka authorities have raised hopes of Arjun’s family . Arjun, 30, from Kannadikkal, had started his jour ney to Kozhikode from Jagalpet after loading timber in truck. According to eyewitnesses, he had stopped at a hotel in Shirur to have tea when the mishap occurred. He and his truck have gone missing following the landslide. “We want to believe that a miracle will happen,” said Krishnapriya, ● More on P5 Arjun’s wife. NDA allies oppose it Gede-Darshana 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 crossings 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 KolkataDhaka Maitree Express on Saturday and Bandhan Express between Kolkata and Khulna P9 on Sunday . 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 to the ‘free will’ of the eatery owners to display their names. With the latest government decision, displaying the information 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 will be taken against those selling ‘halal-certified’ products. cu lt u ra l e xc h a n g e With sevens, Malayalis to give football in UK a Kerala twist L a kshmi Athir a @Kozhikode Following the excitement of the European Championship and the Copa America, Keralites in the UK have more football action to look forward to. The AllUK Keralites Football Tournament, featuring a distinctive Malappuram-style sevens twist, kicks off on Saturday in Warrington. The tournament will see 16 teams from major UK cities competing for honours. The Malayale association be- hind the event aims to introduce Kerala’s unique version of football to the UK. “After the pandemic, there has been a significant influx of Malayalis to the UK, mostly students from the Malabar region,” said Sheejo Varghese, president of the Warrington Malayali Association. “This tournament is a way to acknowledge and share our cultural heritage in sports. With many Malayali students in UK colleges, British students have shown interest in our culture. The Warrington team during a practice session We are expecting a native crowd for the tournament. This sevens tournament will be a new experience for them, as they are used to traditional football,” he said. The timing of the tournament coincides with the summer holidays there, making it an ideal gathering for Malayalis across the UK. “Schools are closed for the summer. And the weather this week is good as well, so we expect a large turnout of Malayalis. It will be like an annual reunion of friends and families,” Sheejo said. The tournament is being organised as part of the 10th anniversary of the Warrington Malayali Association. It will feature 24 matches in the league ● More on P4 round.
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