Mangaluru: Litterateur Dr Sara Aboobacker passed away in a private hospital in the city on Tuesday afternoon; she was 87.

She is survived by four sons.

A native of Chandragiri in Kasaragod district, Dr Aboobacker moved to Hathill in Mangaluru after marriage.

As a writer, she struck a note with readers with her debut novel, 'Chandragiriya Teeradalli' in Kannada. She earned fame as well as awards for her huge collection of works.

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San Francisco, Mar 10 (AP): Elon Musk's X social media platform suffered multiple outages early Monday.

Complaints about outages spiked Monday at 6 a.m. and again at 10 a.m, with more than 40,000 users reporting no access to the platform, according to the tracking website Downdetector.com.

Outage reports spiked again around noon and the latest appears to be ongoing.

Downdetector.com said that 56% of problems were reported for the X app, while 33% were reported for the website.

In March 2023 the social media platform then known as Twitter experienced a bevy of glitches for over an hour as links stopped working, some users were unable to log in and images were not loading for others.