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The coordinated drumbeat: Tracing the foreign funding targeting India’s Data Centres

Divyansh Tiwari - 7 August, 2026

Water consumption numbers alone don’t give the full picture if nobody knows what data centre cooling system is behind them

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Why India’s Data Centres must answer to Indian law, not Washington’s

Divyansh Tiwari - 7 August, 2026

The first major attempt to develop a comprehensive federal framework for the industry was the Draft National Data Centre Policy

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Busting the big myth: Why data centres aren’t the water villains they’re made out to be

Divyansh Tiwari - 7 August, 2026

Data centre cooling towers function by evaporating some of their water, which finally returns to Earth as rainfall

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Cool by design: How India’s data centres are learning to run on far less water

Divyansh Tiwari - 7 August, 2026

A data centre cooling tower is a larger version of the desert cooler that millions of Indian homes rely on each summer.

Nagpur: High Court drops spying charges against BrahMos engineer Nishant Agarwal, orders to be released immediately

OpIndia Staff - 2 December, 2025

The High Court has acquitted former BrahMos scientist Nishant Agarwal of serious espionage charges, overturning his 14-year sentence. While his conviction for storing official documents on a personal device stands, he is set for immediate release, as he has already served the three-year term

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Google opens ‘Ananta’ in Bengaluru, one of its largest state-of-the-art campuses globally

ANI - 19 February, 2025

Google has opened its new campus, Ananta (meaning limitless in Sanskrit), in Bengaluru.

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Citizens have no ‘right to truth’, factchecking by govt restricts fundamental right: How Bombay High court verdict in IT Amendment Rules case may embolden...

OpIndia Staff - 21 September, 2024

In its verdict, the Bombay High Court claimed that the government has no responsibility to ensure that citizens are not exposed to 'fake or false information.'

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Karnataka government mulling new plans to make 14 hours workday and 70 hours workweek, faces stiff opposition from employees and IT unions

OpIndia Staff - 21 July, 2024

The IT union, KITU, has warned that this will be an “open challenge” to the 20 lakh employees working in the IT/ITeS sector in Karnataka and called upon them to unite and oppose this move.

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‘Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will protect the rights of all citizens, allow expansion of innovation economy’: MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar

ANI - 3 August, 2023

Rajeev Chandrasekhar explained that "This new Bill after it is passed by Parliament, will protect the rights of ALL citizens, allow the innovation economy to expand and permit Govt's lawful n legitimate access in national security and emergencies like pandemics and earthquakes etc."

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