India, Sept. 1 -- Panic spread among students and faculty of Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) on Saturday after Google search results began showing portions of the university website in an unfamiliar language. This immediately sparked rumours that the official university portal www.unipune.ac.in had been hacked.

However, university officials have clarified that there has been no such breach. "The content on the official website has not been altered in any way. The website is functioning normally and has not been hacked. The issue arises only when the website is searched via Google, where a different language appears in the search preview," an official explained.

University authorities attributed this anomaly to a Google Search en...