In order to maintain and improve the cloud services provided by the government’s National Informatics Centre (NIC), Jio Platforms has won a contract worth Rs 350 crore, sources informed ET.

The company from the Reliance Industries Group has been chosen to improve the NIC’s national cloud services and will be installed at the National Data Centres in Delhi, Pune, and Bhubaneswar. The technological backbone of the government is NIC. Five years of onsite maintenance are covered per Jio’s contract.

A source from Jio informed ET that “Jio has won the tender and has begun working on it.” “We are starting with overseeing their cloud services in Hyderabad and Bhubaneswar. For the management of NIC cloud solutions under Meghraj 2.0, NIC Services Inc. (NICSI) had requested proposals…

TV presenter Mini Mathur is one of the most loved anchors in the television industry. She was hosting the singing reality show Indian Idol for six seasons; however, Mini then decided to quit hosting as she thought that there was nothing real about reality shows. In an appearance on Cyrus Broacha’s podcast, Mini Mathur went all and about while talking about Indian Idol.

Mini Mathur on quitting Indian Idol:

Mini said, “I called it quits only when I realised that now, there is no longer real reality. I did six seasons. After that, it was just a question of making money, but by then, the husband had started making money… But I really didn’t appreciate that reality had become constructed.” She even recalled the anecdotes…

Tesla employees shared sensitive videos and images recorded by customers’ car cameras, a Reuters investigation(Opens in a new window) finds. 

Content recorded by built-in cameras used to assist driving was routinely shared between employees via an internal messaging system between 2019 and 2022, the reports says.

As Reuters notes, some of the shared content shows people in compromising situations: one video, for example, shows a man approaching a Tesla completely naked. Others include footage from car crashes and road rage incidents. 

According to an ex-Tesla worker, the videos and images were shared between two employees or in private group chats that included “scores” of other employees. Some of the content, specifically pictures of dogs and funny road signs, were turned into…