WhatsApp clarifies on reason for two-hour service outage in several countries
New Delhi: The cause for the major outage suffered by WhatsApp in India and a couple of other countries on Tuesday has been clarified by the company.
For nearly two hours on Tuesday, the app and web clients were down for the millions of users, who were unable to send messages or make calls using the WhatsApp.
The spokesperson of the Meta-owned company has attributed the outage to a technical error on the part of the company. He has also said that the issue has been resolved, India Today has reported, adding that Meta is yet to explain the cause for the technical error.
The WhatsApp service had been down for millions of users in October last for nearly six years. The issue had been attributed by the company to a domain name system-related problem.
On a blog, Meta had said that its engineering teams had found that the configuration changes on the backbone routers coordinating network traffic between the data centres had led to issues that interrupted the communication. “This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centres communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” the company had explained.
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Delhi Police registers case in connection with doctored videos of Home Minister Amit Shah
New Delhi, Apr 28: The Delhi Police registered a case on Sunday after a complaint by the Ministry of Home Affairs in connection with the doctored videos of Union Home Minister Amit Shah being circulated on social media platforms, officials said.
The Special Cell has registered an FIR under various sections of the IPC and relevant provision of the IT Act, they said. Sources in the Special Cell said that now arrests are likely to follow across the country.
According to the complaint filed by Sinku Sharan Singh, DC, Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre (I4C), some doctored videos are being circulated on social media with "the intent of creating disharmony among communities which is likely to affect public tranquility and public order."
According to the complainant, links from which the videos were shared were also attached for further action.
A copy of the FIR was also sent to the IFSO unit of the Delhi Cyber Police.
