The CBI has alerted police forces and central security agencies on an Interpol input about a malicious software, Cerberus, that infects phones to steal financial data by luring the user through SMSes, camouflaged as COVID-19 information, to download links containing the virus, officials said Tuesday.
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Over 300 terrorists are present in launch pads across the LoC in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (Pok), waiting to infiltrate into the Indian side, Jammu and Kashmir’s director general of police (DGP) Dilbag Singh said on Tuesday.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has told Bombay High Court the novel coronavirus is not transmitted via dead bodies and that the authorities were following all guidelines prescribed while disposing of bodies of COVID-19 victims.
India has so far about 0.2 COVID-19 deaths per lakh population as against the global figure of 4.1, the Union Health Ministry said as the number of fatalities due to coronavirus infection in the country rose to 3,163 on Tuesday and the total cases reached 1,01,139.
Tension is gradually building up between Indian and Chinese armies in several areas in Ladakh and northern Sikkim along the un-demarcated Sino-India border with both sides bringing in additional troops, days after they were involved in two violent face-offs, authoritative sources said.
Once dubbed as “historic” by him, US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he now feels “differently” about the trade deal he signed with China earlier this year.
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,303 and the number of cases climbed to 1,06,750 in the country today, registering an increase of 140 deaths and a record spike of 5,611 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Health Ministry.
Providing huge relief to people, specially in the country’s small towns and cities, the railways will run 200 special passenger trains from 1 June, the national transporter said on Tuesday.
An additional 688 cases of Covid-19 in Tamilnadu on Tuesday took the state”s cumulative tally of the virus past 12,000, with the state recording three more deaths, the government said.