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News18
a day ago
- News18
Indore Couple On Honeymoon Goes Missing In Meghalaya, Bags Found In Bushes; Search On
Last Updated: The Indore couple was on honeymoon when they went missing in Meghalaya six days ago. Searches have been underway in dangerous cliffs and forests near Shillong. An Indore-based newlywed couple – Raja and Sonam Raghuwanshi – disappeared during their honeymoon six days ago in Meghalaya. The search operation for them was held in the dangerous cliffs and forests near Shillong, the officials said. The family has also announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for anyone who comes up with information about their whereabouts. Raja was a 30-year-old transport businessman, who had married Sonam merely weeks ago. The duo embarked on their honeymoon on May 20, where Guwahati was their first stop. After a two-day stay in Guwahati, they left for Shillong on May 23, which was when the family last heard from them. The family members said that the mobile phones of the couple were switched off after their last conversation. The fear turned into panic when the couple's rented scooter was found abandoned near Osara Hills in Sohra Rim — a far-off area known to be dangerous and linked to criminal activity. Two of their bags were later found partly hidden in bushes inside a nearby gorge on Tuesday. Even with bad weather and difficult terrain, more than 50 people — including police, local villagers, and the village defence team — have been working hard to find the missing couple. Trying to trace the couple's last steps has been deeply troubling. They had visited the well-known Double Decker Living Root Bridge in Nongriat village, which takes several hours of trekking. They reportedly spent the night nearby and were last seen having tea at a small roadside stall the next morning. After that, they disappeared. The places where their scooter, bags, and last tea stop were found are far apart, making the situation even more puzzling. The authorities are now narrowing down their search near a gorge close to the Root Bridge, nearly 50 km from the capital city of Meghalaya. Meanwhile, Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad Sangma on Thursday said that he was personally monitoring the case of the missing couple. 'It looks like after leaving the bike there, they have gone off-road to hike. The area that they went to, both sides have hiking treks, they are very steep. Keeping in mind the monsoon season, the area is very slippery. The search area is very, very big. We are working very hard to trace them. We are hopeful that we will be able to find them," he said. First Published:
New Indian Express
2 days ago
- New Indian Express
Indore family announces Rs 5 lakh reward for tracing newly-wed couple who went missing in Meghalaya
BHOPAL: An Indore-based transporter family has announced a Rs 5 lakh cash bounty for tracing its newly-wed couple Raja and Sonam Raghuvanshi, who have been missing in Meghalaya since May 23. The Raghuvanshi family's eldest son and Raja's brother, Sachin Raghuvanshi, told TNIE on Thursday. The couple got married on May 11 and left for a trip to the Northeast ten days later. "After offering prayers at Goddess Kamakhya Devi Temple in Guwahati, they went on a honeymoon trip to Shillong, from where they hired a scooter and set out for Sohra (Cherrapunjee) on May 23," said Sachin. "We last talked to them over the phone at 1.23 pm on May 23, but after that, their phones have been sounding switched off, while the scooter they hired to get there too has been found abandoned,' Sachin added. Raja's brother Vipin and Sonam's brother Govind, subsequently went to Meghalaya on May 25, after which the local police started acting on the matter. "Our Indore MP Shankar Lalwani too is camping in Shillong, coordinating with authorities there for searching Raja and Sonam. Also, our state's CM Dr Mohan Yadav and cabinet minister Kailash Vijayvargiya are coordinating with the Meghalaya government in the matter,' Sachin said.
Time of India
4 days ago
- Business
- Time of India
India's data centre push inland is a template for Global South
Photo/Agencies Narendra Sen has a humble origin story. His family comes from a village near Indore. They moved to the city in 1997 and everyone had to work, so Sen started a cyber-cafe. He slowly expanded into hosting servers. Today, the founder of Indore-based data centre company RackBank presides over a 10-megawatt facility on the outskirts of Madhya Pradesh's capital, with two more data centres under construction – one of them in Raipur. He's also secured land for a fourth site. Sen did not chase Mumbai's eastern seaboard or Chennai's coastlines – both popular because they are landing sites for submarine cables that are the backbone of our global internet. Instead he chased land prices. 'In Indore we paid roughly 30 lakh an acre,' Sen notes. 'A similar plot in Mumbai is nudging 30 crore. If you buy expensive, you have to sell expensive. India's startups cannot afford that.' Cheap land is only the first link in Sen's affordability crusade. Because power is the single largest operating cost for a data centre provider, RackBank negotiated a state subsidy that cuts its tariff to around 6 per kilowatt-hour – less than half the prevailing rate in Mumbai. 'We reckon we can run 40% cheaper than a tier-one data centre yet meet the same Uptime Tier IV standards (the highest level of data centre reliability),' he insists. 'That is what will democratise compute for colleges, fintechs and AI developers who simply cannot pay Western hyperscale prices.' The economics matter because India is racing into an era in which every AI chatbot, logistics algorithm and streaming platform is underpinned by specialised silicon – and that silicon is ravenous. While a conventional rack might draw 10 kW, Sen's next Indore data centre is being designed for 80-200 kW per rack, cooled by direct-tochip liquid loops and full-immersion baths built in-house. 'General-purpose centres are yesterday's technology,' he says. 'Accelerated computing needs different architecture, and it can be done just as safely in central India as on the coast. AI can live anywhere if the power and cooling are right.' A NATIONAL RETHINK Sen's philosophy – put capacity where land and electrons are plentiful rather than where submarine cables land – is rapidly becoming industry orthodoxy. Vipul Kumar , vice-president for edge and network at CtrlS Datacentres, says the momentum is unmistakable. 'We have already established edge data-centre facilities in Patna and Lucknow and are expanding into Ahmedabad, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Bhopal, Jaipur and Nagpur,' he says. For Kumar, the logic is strategic as well as economic. Decentralising data-centres, he says, is vital for India's digital future. 'Our facilities in these emerging cities are purpose-built to deliver low latency, comply with data-localisation requirements and offer cost-effective solutions,' he says. Ashish Arora, chief executive of Airtel-owned Nxtra, says that with the growing demand from OTT platforms and content delivery network providers for low-latency and high-performance content delivery, edge data-centre networks have become crucial. The company today has over 120 edge facilities across over 65 cities, complemented by 14 hyperscale data centres, to ensure seamless streaming experiences even in smaller towns. Fintech platform Infibeam Avenues is staking its future on a constellation of small facilities. Chairman Vishal Mehta says they are planning a network of 1to 2-megawatt data centres in at least ten cities, each costing 20-50 crore. The decentralised model, he says, spreads risk, supports low-latency AI workloads and can break even within 24 months. Mehta adds that the shift inland is already reshaping corporate real estate. 'Global capability centres (GCCs), once concentrated in major metros, are increasingly looking at tier-2 and tier-3 cities. The availability of advanced digital infrastructure, combined with cost savings and talent pools, is turning places such as Gandhinagar, Kochi and Jaipur into innovation hubs,' he says. ECONOMICS OF THE HEARTLAND As we said earlier, the economics of the heartland is compelling. Land in Vidarbha or Bundelkhand costs a fraction of Mumbai's asking price; power is cheaper and, crucially, more abundant. Latency is another driver. A widely used rule of thumb equates one millisecond of round-trip delay to roughly 100 miles of fibre. A server farm in Indore sits almost equidistant from Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad – meaning half the population can be reached in under 10 ms. 'For a streaming service or a payment gateway that is good enough,' Sen says. The final catalyst is AI. Training a large language model can devour more electricity than a thousand Indian homes use in a year and demands carefully choreographed GPUs. 'AI is already a different war,' Sen says. 'America leads, China follows, and India must create its own sovereign compute layer if we want to stay in the game.' RackBank plans to deploy Nvidia's forthcoming Blackwell chips within six months and market a sovereign 'supercloud' to Indian developers. CtrlS is integrating renewableenergy hybrids; Nxtra is piloting fuel-cells; Infibeam's pods are designed for phased GPU upgrades as demand grows. Collectively these experiments could become templates for fastgrowing regions from Africa to Latin America. 'If compute stays expensive, only big corporates innovate,' Sen argues. 'Put affordable GPUs in tier-two cities and a college kid can fine-tune a healthcare model on local data. That is how you discover the UPI or Aadhaar of the AI era.' And this, he argues, applies to many countries around the world. DEALING WITH POWER RELIABILITY None of the pioneers underestimate the obstacles. Reliable grid power, fibre backhaul and skilled technicians are perennial headaches. 'Power infrastructure reliability remains a primary concern in many locations,' Kumar admits, noting the need for hefty investments in redundancy. Mehta flags the same issue: 'Many tier-2 regions still lack the grid stability and renewable integration needed to support large-scale data-centre operations.' Yet, technical ingenuity is helping to close the credibility gap. RackBank's pre-engineered, single-storey sheds can be assembled in six months – onethird the time a vertical citycentre tower might take – and its patented immersion tanks can slash cooling power by 60%. CtrlS and Nxtra are pursuing similar modular playbooks; Infibeam distributes its IT load across multiple micro-grids to avoid single points of failure. AI Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
India Today
23-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Case against Indore cartoonist over obscene posts aimed at maligning RSS's image
The Madhya Pradesh Police has filed a case against Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya for posting objectionable material online on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Lord complaint, lodged by RSS member and lawyer Vinay Joshi, accused Malviya of deliberately sharing "offensive," "indecent" and "obscene" content that allegedly targets Hindu religious who identifies as an artist, cartoonist and wedding decorator on social media, often uses satire to comment on political and social issues. His Facebook account is filled with cartoons, videos and photos that often target the For example, in one of his recent Facebook posts, a cartoon, purportedly featuring an RSS worker and PM Modi, shows the worker asking the Prime Minister, "You've started the Retreat Ceremony, now please release the water. Pakistanis have not washed themselves, it's stinking."In another post, Malviya commented on US President Donald Trump and PM Narendra Modi's friendship. In the cartoon, the caricature of Trump is saying to PM Modi, "I swear on American soil, I won't let your mangoes sell and not even let you taste the Apple."Lasudiya police station in-charge Tareesh Soni confirmed that Malviya has been booked under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita - including 196 (acts detrimental to communal harmony), 299 (deliberate act intended to hurt religious sentiments), and 352 (intentional insult to provoke breach of peace) - along with section 67A of the IT Act, which pertains to the transmission of sexually explicit material an investigation is underway, Malviya has not yet been taken into to the FIR, Malviya took to Facebook and wrote that the news is not a joke. Referring to a recent post he had shared in humour, he said, "Yesterday, when the Congress filed an FIR against BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya, a friend mistakenly replaced his name with mine. I found it amusing and shared the post jokingly. But today, it's no longer a joke - it's real."He acknowledged that an FIR had been registered against him for allegedly posting objectionable cartoons and remarks about RSS volunteers, Prime Minister Modi and Lord the controversy, his Facebook profile still carries a disclaimer that all characters depicted in his cartoons are fictional and that any resemblance to real people is coincidental and left to the viewer's imagination. Malviya currently has around 40,000 followers on the platform.
Hindustan Times
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Who is Hemant Malviya? Indore cartoonist booked over ‘offensive' content on RSS, PM Modi
The Madhya Pradesh Police has booked Indore-based cartoonist Hemant Malviya after a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) member lodged a complaint accusing him of sharing objectionable content online, reported news agency PTI. The complaint, filed by lawyer and RSS activist Vinay Joshi at Lasudiya police station on Wednesday night, claims that Hemant Malviya's cartoons are 'offensive", 'obscene", and 'indecent". Joshi alleges the posts are meant to hurt Hindu religious sentiments and damage the RSS's image. According to police, Hemant Malviya posted cartoons, comments, photos, and videos on his Facebook page referencing Lord Shiva, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and the RSS. He has been charged under sections 196, 299, and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for actions allegedly harming communal harmony and hurting religious feelings. He also faces charges under Section 67A of the Information Technology Act for sharing content depicting sexually explicit acts electronically. Lasudiya police station in-charge Tareesh Soni said Malviya has not been arrested yet and that the investigation is ongoing. Hemant Malviya is a cartoonist based in Indore. According to his social media profiles, he is an artist, cartoonist, and wedding decorator. His online posts often include political satire and commentary on current affairs. His Facebook profile, which has around 40,000 followers, includes a disclaimer stating that all characters in his cartoons are fictional and any resemblance to real people is coincidental. Malviya denied the allegations and told The Indian Express, 'I am targeted for my cartoons that question the administration.' He added, 'Closure reports were filed in both criminal cases. I never spoke against the PM's mother. I have been a target of the right wing in the state ever since I gained infamy with the Ramdev case.' This is not the first time Malviya has faced legal trouble. According to a report by The Indian Express, the Uttarakhand Police booked him in 2022 for allegedly creating obscene posters of yoga guru Ramdev. Later that year, the Indore Police booked him again over supposed defamatory remarks after the death of Prime Minister Modi's mother.
