It worked after a techie friend advised me: 
Change your DNS in your router. Use 1.1.1.1

Some 3-4 others on Twitter were also saying they could not access Wikipedia at the same time.

Now sorted out. FN

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On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 10:32, <pavanaja@vishvakannada.com> wrote:
Working for me in ACT, Jio (mobile) & BSNL (mobile). I am in Bengaluru.

Regards,
Pavanaja


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Some on BSNL in the Bangalore-western Indian, are reporting this on Twitter,
https://twitter.com/shirishag75/status/1332125122929467392

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 10:08, Tito Dutta <trulytito@gmail.com> wrote:

> It works fine for me. Kolkata, Jio internet. Any error message?
>
> Thanks
> Tito Dutta
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> শুক্র, ২৭ নভেম্বর, ২০২০ তারিখে ১০:০২ AM টায় এ Frederick Noronha <
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> > ...is there some problem? FN
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