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Reliance Jio to Build Rs 1,000 Crore Data Centre in West Bengal

14Aug By Gauri SinghNo Comments

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Reliance Jio to Build Rs 1,000 Crore Data Centre in West Bengal

Indian mobile network operator Reliance Jio Infocomm will be investing Rs 1,000 crore in a state-of-the-art greenfield data centre in Kolkata where a 100-acre IT hub will be launched. This will be the biggest tech hub in the state as stated by Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal. She mentioned about this matter while speaking at the foundation stone-laying ceremony of the upcoming Bengal Silicon Valley technology hub. According to the sources, Reliance Jio has already put in the application to the state government regarding 40 acres of prime land on long-term lease. This has been done for setting up the proposed data centre at the upcoming tech hub in the city’s eastern fringes. Tarun Jhunjhunwala, Jio’s eastern India head said, “The data centre project is a reaffirmatio...

Gang Posing As Sellers Robbed Flipkart Off Rs 17 Lakhs

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] group of nine people posing as online sellers exploited Flipkart's Seller Protection Fund (SPF) and cheated the billion dollar e-commerce giant. The fraud was being committed since the early 2017 where a group of posers, registered as Flipkart's online seller found a work-around to cheat the company. As per the police report, they studied the SPF scheme that guarantees an automatic refund to the seller if the sold product goes missing or is damaged in transit in case of a return from the customer and plotted to take the company for a ride. Possibly operating out of West Bengal, the gang had registered as different sellers and started shipping their products via Flipkart's logistics services. Every time the customers returned the product stating that the product i...

Sourav Ganguly will host Bengal’s first entrepreneurship based reality show

The former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly is well known for his television show Dadagiri and now become the face of an upcoming Bengali business reality show Egiye Bangla - apni jokhon entrepreneur. The request came from none other than Chief minister of Bengal Ms. Mamata Banerjee. The show is being sponsored by Bengal government, as Mamata Banerjee wants to promote - Shilpo Karun, Bangla Gorun and for that small entrepreneurs are now being focused to create jobs. (more…)