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The SPARSH Service Centre of the Defence Accounts Department being inaugurated with the lighting of a ceremonial lamp at the NCC Canteen premises in Syamala Nagar, Guntur, on Monday. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A new System for Pension Administration Raksha (SPARSH) Service Centre of the Defence Accounts Department, Government of India, was inaugurated at the NCC Canteen premises in Syamala Nagar on Monday (June 1, 2026).The centre was launched by Lt. Col. S. V. S. Sudarsan, officer-in-charge of the Unit Run Canteen, who lit the ceremonial lamp.The SPARSH Service Centre has been set up under the supervision of the Defence Accounts Department, Secunderabad, to provide pension-related services to retired personnel of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Pensioners can use the services free of charge, with help from trained staff at the centre.In a press release, the Defence Accounts Department said the facility would help defence pensioners resolve pension issues. It said services such as the submission and processing of Digital Life Certificates and the redressal of pension grievances would be available at the centre.The authorities said the centre would give pensioners continued support and help resolve their concerns faster. The initiative is expected to improve access to pension administration services for defence veterans and family pensioners in the region.The SPARSH Service Centre is now operational and open to eligible beneficiaries. Published - June 01, 2026 04:48 pm IST
3 min readBengaluruMay 23, 2026 03:17 AM IST Some areas in southern states like Telangana will also experience heatwave conditions till May 27, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. FOR YET another week, many areas along the northwest India regions will continue to experience “severe” heatwaves, with both day and night temperatures likely to remain significantly above normal. Some areas in southern states like Telangana will also experience heatwave conditions till May 27, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday.“There is no large change expected in the maximum temperatures during the next 7 days over northwest India. ‘Severe’ heatwave conditions will prevail over east Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh till May 28,” said IMD. On Thursday, heatwave conditions prevailed at a few places in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana and at isolated pockets in Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and west Rajasthan. ‘Severe’ heatwave conditions were recorded at isolated places in eastern Uttar Pradesh, where Banda continued to remain the hottest place in the country at 47.6 degrees Celsius. As per the latest forecast, heatwave conditions would sweep across Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh till May 28. The maximum temperature remained 5.1 degrees Celsius above normal at many places along Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Delhi and east Uttar Pradesh and will continue to remain so, the IMD has warned for the next 5 to 7 days. Amid high temperatures, windy conditions prevailed over northwest India. Strong surface winds with speeds 20-30 km/hr gusting to 40 km/hr are likely to prevail over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh for the next one week. Other regions of the country where heatwave will prevail include Bihar till May 24; Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Telangana till 26th; Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during May 26-28.Story continues below this ad ‘Severe’ heatwave will prevail over Vidarbha till May 22 and temperatures will see a marginal fall post May 28. Vidarbha has, this year, seen prolonged heatwave days, where maximum temperatures have persisted around 45 degrees Celsius or above. Down south, the heatwave will affect the coastal belt of Andhra Pradesh and Yanam till May 26, IMD said. Monsoon advance After making an early onset over some parts of the Andaman Sea and neighbouring areas, the IMD said conditions were becoming favourable for the Monsoon to advance into some more parts of southeast Arabian Sea, the Comorin area, southwest and southeast Bay of Bengal, remaining parts of Andaman Sea and some more parts of east-central Bay of Bengal during next two to three days. As per the latest update, the Monsoon is likely to hit Kerala on May 26.
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OpenAI said it found no evidence that user data was accessed after a supply-chain attack involving the TanStack npm library. The incident has renewed concerns about the security of open-source software, as researchers warn that malicious npm packages can expose developer credentialsOpenAI says no evidence of user data access after TanStack npm security issue(AP)OpenAI has said it found no evidence that user data was accessed following a security issue linked to a supply-chain attack involving the open-source TanStack npm library.The company said in a security update published on its official website that the issue was part of a broader software supply-chain attack campaign known as “Mini Shai-Hulud”, which targeted open-source developer ecosystems including npm and PyPI.What happened?According to a postmortem published by TanStack on 11 May, attackers published 84 malicious versions across 42 @tanstack/* npm packages after exploiting weaknesses in GitHub Actions workflows and CI/CD cache systems.Cybersecurity firm Snyk and security researchers cited in Tom's Hardware's reporting said the malicious packages were designed to steal credentials such as GitHub tokens, cloud API keys, npm credentials, and CI/CD secrets from infected systems.The attack was part of a wider campaign affecting several developer ecosystems and software projects, including packages linked to Mistral AI, UiPath, and OpenSearch, according to security researchers and Reddit community discussions.What did OpenAI say?In its official response, OpenAI said two employee devices in its corporate environment were impacted by the attack. The company said it observed “unauthorised access and credential-focused exfiltration activity” involving a limited subset of internal source-code repositories accessible to those employees.OpenAI said in a security update published on its official website that only limited credential material was successfully exfiltrated and that it found no evidence that customer data, production systems, intellectual property or software code were compromised.The company added that it isolated impacted systems, revoked sessions, rotated credentials, and updated security certificates for some products as a precautionary measure.Why does it matter?The incident has renewed scrutiny of security risks in open-source software supply chains, particularly in ecosystems such as npm, which are widely used across the technology industry, following a series of recent attacks targeting popular JavaScript packages and developer tools, according to reports by Ars Technica and CSO Online.Academic and industry studies have repeatedly warned about the growing risks posed by malicious npm packages and compromised maintainer accounts. A 2021 research paper titled “What are Weak Links in the npm Supply Chain?” by researchers from Microsoft, North Carolina State University and other institutions found that attackers could potentially hijack thousands of npm packages through weak maintainer-account protections and other vulnerabilities in the ecosystem.Other academic studies on software supply-chain attacks have also documented increasing abuse of package managers such as npm and PyPI to distribute malware and compromise downstream users and enterprises, including the 2020 paper “Backstabber’s Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks” and later studies examining malicious package detection across npm and PyPI ecosystems.Get Latest real-time updatesStay updated with the latest Trending, India , World and US news. HomeNewsWorldOpenAI says no user data stolen after supply-chain hackers accessed employee devicesMore
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