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Thyrocare Technologies shares jumped 16.75% to their fresh all-time highs of Rs 759 on the BSE after the company posted 46% YoY jump in profit after tax to Rs 24.7 crore for the first quarter ended June 2024. The company’s consolidated revenue has increased 16% year-on-year to Rs 157 crore for the first quarter of FY25 while the gross margins stood at Rs 100.7 crore, up from Rs 87.7 crore in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. This is an increase of 15% YoY.

The number of heat-related deaths in Texas is rising among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl

Airlines, banks, hospitals and other risk-averse organizations around the world chose cybersecurity company CrowdStrike to protect their computer systems from hackers and data breaches

Businesses from airlines to hospitals have been grappling with faulty software update that caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says a “significant number” of the millions of computers that crashed on Friday, causing global disruptions, are back in operation as its customers and regulators await a more detailed explanation of what went wrong

At least two people have died and more than two dozen were hospitalized in an outbreak of listeria food poisoning linked to meat sliced at grocery store deli counters

On the BSE, Jetmall Spices(down 11.11 per cent), Remedium Lifecare(down 10.91 per cent), Colorchips New Media(down 9.98 per cent), Keerthi Ind(down 9.12 per cent) and Jaipan Ind(down 8.57 per cent) were among the stocks that plunged over 5 per cent during the session.

Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir, officials said. The incident occurred at 4 a.m. when terrorists opened fire on the post. Troops guarding the post retaliated immediately, resulting in fierce exchanges of gunfire. An Army spokesperson confirmed the retaliation and subsequent actions. «The troops foiled the attack, following which a cordon and search operation was launched by security forces in the area,» the spokesperson stated. «Terrorist fire was returned. The soldier injured in the firing by the terrorists was shifted to hospital,» said an official source.

health insurance coverage for their employees to include extended benefits for household help, parents and parents-in-law, and are encouraging employees to set aside 10% of their annual objectives towards health goals, which in turn will impact their variable pay and bonus. The move is designed to ensure that health benefits are not just a ‘feel-good’ mechanism but are also designed to help curb employee attrition and measure performance.

18-year-old Lexi was down with E.Coli. She was admitted in a ward and Amanda and her husband Chris were looking after her. A few weeks back Lexi was schedule to appear in the A Level examinations but she complained of stomach cramps and bloating. Meanwhile, Amanda was in Spain for the work purpose.

software update that caused technological havoc worldwide on Friday, and its repercussions continued through the weekend. The breadth of the outages highlighted the fragility of a digitized world dependent on a few providers for key computing services. But the problem appeared to divide those affected into haves and have-nots. Major customers of Microsoft and CrowdStrike are getting IT support to resolve the issues, but many smaller businesses whose Windows PCs may have received the problematic update are still struggling. Take Tsvetta Kaleynska, owner and founder of the Manhattan-based consumer insights company RILA Global Consulting, which has Fortune 500 clients. As of Saturday, she resolved the payroll issue and she got an extension until Monday on the research project. But the prospective client will not move forward with the new contract, cutting her annual earnings by nearly 25%, she estimated. The problem: she couldn't sign the contract because Docusign, which runs on Microsoft software affected by the faulty update, was down.

Lancet study, due to high levels of air pollution and tobacco consumption. According to the study published in May, ischaemic heart disease will continue to be the leading cause of death around the world, followed by stroke, diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In ischaemic heart disease, narrowing of vessels in the organ reduces blood flow. The study projected that men and women around the world could live longer by up to five and four years, respectively. «It is going to remain the number one killer and disabling disease with continued bad lifestyle and increasing stress. Yet, there is a lack of understanding of the exact mechanism of formation of these blockages (in the heart's blood vessels). Till we understand the mechanism, the solutions cannot be found,» said Dr Atul Mathur, Executive Director, Interventional Cardiology and Chief of Cath Lab, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi.

UPSC candidate with muscular dystrophy has been denied any service despite having cleared the examination four times, reported TOI. This comes amid the controversy over IAS officer Puja Khedkar allegedly misusing the disability quota. IIT Roorkee graduate Kartik Kansal, who has been using a wheelchair since he was 14 years old, was selected for the civil services four times in 2019 (rank 813), 2021 (271), 2022 (784) and 2023 (829). Kansal is currently a scientist in Isro, a post for which he was selected through all-India central recruitment. In 2021, he ranked 271 even without a disability quota and should have got IAS as ranks 272 and 273 got IAS in that year. However, in 2021, muscular dystrophy was not included in the list of conditions in functional classification eligible for IAS.

listeria outbreak possibly linked to deli meat has killed two and sickened 28 people in several states including New York and New Jersey, as per a report on ABC News. Two deceased individuals are from New Jersey and Illinois. Twenty eight people have been hospitalized, ABC reported quoting the federal health agency. New York has reported the most number of cases. Second on the list is Maryland. Cases have been detected in Wisconsin, Illinois, Virginia, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Minnesota, New Jersey, and Missouri.

Elon Musk took to his own social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to mock Microsoft over the recent IT outage caused on Friday which led to complete chaos around the world with multiple entities including flights, super markets, hospitals and financial services being impacted. The IT outage has now been fixed but it did attract the attention of the Tesla Founder who also owns other companies including Space X and X which is a social networking site. The two posts on X went viral with many social media users commenting and re-sharing these tweets. Crowd Strike which is the cyber-security firm which dealt with the issue witnessed a fall in its stock price in the US.

DHAKA: Soldiers were patrolling Bangladeshi cities on Saturday to quell growing civil unrest sparked by student demonstrations, with riot police firing on protesters who defied a government curfew. This week's violence has killed at least 123 people so far, according to a count of victims reported by police and hospitals, and poses a monumental challenge to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's autocratic government after 15 years in office. A government curfew went into effect at midnight and the premier's office asked the military to deploy troops after police again failed to subdue widespread mayhem.

Microsoft software, prominently used by enterprise networks worldwide. CrowdStrike, a US-based endpoint security provider to several global organisations including Microsoft, first released an update to its product — Falcon Sensor — on July 9 gradually rolling it out to companies globally over the next 10 days. On July 18 and 19, the update — intended to pre-emptively detect cybersecurity breaches — was pushed onto Microsoft devices unwittingly, triggering widespread chaos. It forced several banks, hospitals, airlines, and startups to resort to manual processes to continue operations, industry executives said. «Around 300 flights have been cancelled, including around 200 for market leader Indigo alone till 6 pm (on Friday),» people aware of the details told ET.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft Corp., which have since released patches to address the problem.Here are key points on the issue:Microsoft Chairman and CEO took to X (formerly Twitter) to acknowledge the issue, stating, “CrowdStrike’s recent update has had a global impact on IT systems. We are actively collaborating with CrowdStrike and industry partners to guide our customers through the recovery process and restore their systems securely."CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

A widespread technology outage on Friday, seemingly linked to issues at global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike and Microsoft, disrupted operations at airports, airlines, banks and even hospitals, including several in Canada.

A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air after a faulty software update disrupted companies and services around the world and highlighted their dependence on just a handful of providers