Breaking News LIVE: Kerala Reports First Case Of Omicron As UK Returnee Detected With Covid Variant
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Twitter handle was “very briefly compromised”, Prime Minister's Office (PMO) informed on Sunday.
The account was secured later after the matter was escalated to the micro-blogging site.
“The Twitter handle of PM @narendramodi was very briefly compromised. The matter was escalated to Twitter and the account has been immediately secured. In the brief period that the account was compromised, any Tweet shared must be ignored,” PMO India wrote.
As the account was restored, the malicious tweets were also deleted.
PM Modi has more than 73.4 million followers on the micro-blogging site.
After PM Modi’s account was compromised, #Hacked was seen trending on Twitter India.
Screenshots shared on Twitter by several users show that tweets were put out from PM Modi's account claiming “India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender”.
“India has officially adopted bitcoin as legal tender. The government has officially bought 500 BTC and is distributing them to all residents of the country,” read the now-deleted tweet.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to address the event on ‘Depositors First: Guaranteed Time-bound Deposit Insurance Payment up to Rs 5 Lakh’ on Sunday at noon in Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi.
An official statement by the Prime Minister's Office informed that Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, MoS Finance, and RBI Governor will also be present on the occasion.
In another important development, the CBI on Saturday said it recorded statements of 7 Mumbai police personnel in Rs 100-crore extortion case.
These police personnel were deployed for the security of Anil Deshmukh when he was the Home Minister of Maharashtra. The case also involves former Mumbai Police Commissioner Param Bir Singh who had accused Anil Deshmukh of asking dismissed assistant inspector Sachin Vaze to collect Rs 100 crore from hotels and bars in Mumbai every month.
Kerala Reports First Case Of Omicron
First case of Omicron reported in Kochi, Kerala. The concerned person had returned from UK to Kochi on December 6. He had tested Covid positive on December 8: Kerala Health Minister Veena George
Nagpur reports its first case of Omicron
Nagpur reports its first case of Omicron in a 40-year-old man, Municipal Commissioner Radhakrishnan B informed, as reported by ANI.
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