Defence Ministry website ‘hacked’, ‘Chinese’ characters appear
New Delhi: The website of Ministry of Defence official website has been hacked leading to an error on the page.
Chinese characters are seen appearing on the website home page.
National Informatics Centre (NIC) will investigate the matter.
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted that "appropriate action" had been initiated in the matter.
This comes on a day when the Indian Air Force announced that it was starting its largest ever wargames focusing on the dual threat of China and Pakistan.
This is not the first time that the official websites of the Indian Government have been hacked by hackers.
Authorities had temporarily taken down the Ministry of Home Affairs website last year after a cyber-attack was reported.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases. Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
