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5 foreign militants killed in gunfight near LoC in J&K’s Kupwara

 an earlier tweet, the police had said that a gunfight had started between militants and the joint team of forces in the Jumagund area near the Line of Control in Kupwara. (Representational) Listen to this article 5 foreign militants killed in gunfight near LoC in J&K’s Kupwara Five foreign militants were killed in a gunfight near the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s frontier Kupwara district, the police said on Friday. The militants were killed in a joint operation by the Army and the police. “KupwaraEncounterUpdate: Five (05) foreign terrorists killed in #encounter. Search in the area is going on: ADGP Kashmir,” the Kashmir Zone Police said in a tweet. In an earlier tweet, the police had said that a gunfight had started between militants and the joint team of forces in the Jumagund area near the Line of Control in Kupwara. Police said the gunfight started when the joint Army and police team launched an anti-militancy operation following intelligence inputs from th...

CoWIN data ‘breach’: Probe looks at likely leaks from 11 states

 The alleged CoWIN data leak could impact more than 100 core individuals who have secured vaccinations after signing up through the CoWIN portal (Express Photo) As part of its investigation into the alleged CoWIN data breach, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) — the nodal cyber security agency — is in discussions with at least 11 state governments that had developed their own databases during the Covid-19 pandemic and seeded citizens’ personal data including their Aadhaar details, The Indian Express has learnt. The agency is looking into any potential leaks that could have happened from the databases of these states. While Karnataka and Kerala are learnt to be among the 11 states, there is no information yet on the remaining states. “Some states had created their full-fledged databases during the pandemic to track things like containment zones and vaccination status of residents. Some health workers in the states may also have had access to that data, which in so...