Amid ongoing students’ protests in Bangladesh, rioters stormed a jail on Friday in the central district of Narsingdi and freed the prison’s inmates before setting the facility on fire. The largest IT outage in global history was reported today. From aviation to banking to infrastructure, various industries in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas have been affected. The outage was reportedly caused by a disruption in the cloud services of Microsoft. In other news, US President Joe Biden’s campaign chair has insisted that the president is “absolutely” staying in the race and remains capable of defeating the GOP leader.
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Students in Bangladesh protesting the government’s job quota system stormed a prison and freed hundreds of inmates on Friday (July 19) as police struggled to quell unrest.
US President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign chair has now acknowledged that support for the Democratic leader has further dipped over the past few weeks.
A global IT outage is hitting several sectors across the world on Friday (July 19).
Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Evan Gershkovich has been sentenced to 16 years in jail on espionage charges by a Russian court after just over three weeks of closed-door court proceedings.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has called Donald Trump ‘badass’ and inspiring after the former president narrowly escaped an assassination attempt before raising his fist and mouthing ‘Fight, fight, fight’, to the public gathered to witness him during a Republican rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Israel’s decades-long occupation of the Palestinian territories is illegal and needs to end “as rapidly as possible”, the UN’s top court said Friday.
A video of protesters overturning a police vehicle and setting a double-decker bus on fire is making rounds on social media. The video came after major riots broke out in Leeds, United Kingdom.
The Indian Supreme Court on Friday (Jul 19) dismissed the bail plea filed by two of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gangrape case.
According to reports, former vice-captain Hardik Pandya was not considered for the role due to his fitness issues which have seen him get limited to only white-ball format. The report further states that Pandya was asked to participate in the Vijay Hazare Trophy (India’s domestic ODI tournament).
Bad Newz is good news for Vicky Kaushal fans- who are in plenty, especially after his Tauba Tauba glow-up. The film belongs to Kaushal who lights up the screen with his over-the-top, Punjabi mama’s boy act. Akhil Chaddha seems to be written for Kaushal and he alevates the predictable, OTT rom-com with his swagger and performance.
