Articles for author: Govind Tekale

Flooded streets in Chennai during Cyclone Michaung showing submerged vehicles and waterlogged residential areas

Bay of Bengal Cyclone Threatens Tamil Nadu: IMD’s New District Warnings Change Evacuation Calculus for 3.2 Million

Bay of Bengal Cyclone Threatens Tamil Nadu: IMD’s New District Warnings Change Evacuation Calculus for 3.2 Million The depression in the Bay of Bengal does not care about district boundaries. But for the first time, the India Meteorological Department does. As the system races toward severe cyclonic storm status — expected by November 16 with ...

Italy Fines Meta €805m Over Instagram Photo Access Violations

Italy’s data protection authority has fined Meta €805 million for violating privacy rules on Instagram, marking one of the largest GDPR penalties to date. The Italian Garante found that Meta allowed unauthorized access to users’ photos through Instagram’s programming interfaces, affecting millions of accounts across Europe. For anyone who uses Instagram or Facebook, this ruling ...

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NATO Article 4 Activated for Subsea Cable Sabotage — First Collective Response

NATO has invoked Article 4 consultations for the first time over suspected sabotage of a deep-sea internet cable, marking the alliance’s first collective response to hybrid warfare targeting critical digital infrastructure. The move signals that NATO now treats undersea cables — which carry 99% of intercontinental data — as territory subject to collective defence. The ...

Intensive care unit at Al Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis Gaza Strip, medical equipment and beds

Nasser Hospital Strike Kills Six in Khan Younis: What International Law Says About Hospital Protection

A Palestinian-American physician in Michigan wakes to the news that a Nasser Hospital strike has hit the facility their family in Khan Younis depends on for dialysis and trauma care. The operating theatres they counted on are now rubble. Israeli forces struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis overnight, killing six people and wounding roughly 28 ...

NATO headquarters building in Brussels Belgium, glass and steel modern architecture

US Offers Ukraine NATO Membership for Donbas Withdrawal — But Guarantees Stop Short of Article 5

The United States has floated a deal linking Ukraine’s NATO membership to a withdrawal from Donbas, but the security guarantees on offer fall short of the alliance’s collective defence clause. Zelenskyy revealed the proposal at a press conference Thursday, saying American negotiators asked whether Ukraine would cede the eastern region in exchange for a path ...

Microsoft Global Outage Costs Australia $2.1B, Grounds 1,400 India Flights, Shuts 47 US Courts

The EFTPOS terminal at a Sydney cafe froze at 8:47 AM AEST. The owner watched a $40 breakfast sale vanish. By noon, the Australian Signals Directorate confirmed the cause: a CrowdStrike Falcon sensor kernel driver update had triggered Windows kernel panic across 8.5 million devices worldwide. The outage lasted 90 minutes. The economic reverberations will ...