21 killed in Japan rains
Tokyo, July 7 : At least 21 people have died and 47 were missing Saturday due to heavy rainfall in southern Japan.
The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) has issued the highest possible alert for the prefectures of Hyogo, Okayama, Gifu Fukuoka, Nagasaki, Saga, Hiroshima and Tottori, reports Efe news.
The missing people were mainly from Okayama, Hiroshima and Ehime, where rescue teams have widened their search for trapped or injured people.
Over 650 members of the armed forces have been deployed for rescue operations, while an additional 21,000 were on standby, Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera told reporters.
Authorities have issued evacuation orders affecting over four million people.
In a press conference, the JMA warned that the earth had softened due to the rainfall, increasing the risk of accidents related to landslides.
The Japanese archipelago has been pounded by heavy rain since Thursday.
The JMA has forecast record rainfall until Sunday and warned that in some regions, precipitation could reach up to 8 cm per hour.
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PhonePe system faces outage due to technical glitch
New Delhi, May 12 (PTI): The country's biggest fintech firm PhonePe reported a technical glitch in its system that led to the failure of transactions on its platform.
PhonePe co-founder Rahul Chari said that the company at PhonePe has initiated active DR drills, with heightened cybersecurity measures on its network firewall.
"This evening, 100 per cent of our traffic across all our services was being served through a new data centre. Unfortunately, the Monday evening peak traffic exposed a network capacity shortfall due to which transactions started failing.
"We have now rebalanced our traffic across our other sites and are seeing the recovery. Our apologies for this. We assure to take these learnings and further strengthen our systems," he said.
According to the digital services outage tracker platform Downdetector, the report started coming in at around 6 pm IST and peaked around quarter part seven.
Several users across the country experienced transaction failures in UPI transactions but they confused it as a glitch in UPI system.
UPI system had earlier faced three outages between March 26 to April 12.
