Unable to access news.ycombinator.com from BSNL/KeralaVision ISP

Since around 1:00 AM today, I haven’t been able to access news.ycombinator.com from my BSNL FTTH connection / local ISP fibre (KeralaVision). I get ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT when I try to access the site.

traceroute gives me the following on KeralaVision:

❯ traceroute news.ycombinator.com
traceroute to news.ycombinator.com (209.216.230.240), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
 1  192.168.55.1 (192.168.55.1)  4.181 ms  2.387 ms  2.897 ms
 2  100.73.0.1 (100.73.0.1)  6.533 ms  8.123 ms  6.337 ms
 3  125.23.238.89 (125.23.238.89)  21.569 ms  19.368 ms  19.477 ms
 4  182.79.152.227 (182.79.152.227)  229.102 ms
    182.79.247.92 (182.79.247.92)  221.431 ms
    182.79.243.27 (182.79.243.27)  221.827 ms
 5  * * *
 6  * * *
 7  * * *
 8  * * *
 9  * * *
10  * *^C

—which seems to point to Airtel as the final host after which, traceroute also fails. It’s similar for BSNL as well which also fails at Airtel hosts.

Wonder if anyone else is facing the issue and if there’s something I can do about this?

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Update: it seems to be working fine now, thankfully not another Airtel blocking issue.

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