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CtrlS to set up world's largest tier-4 datacenter footprint in India with an investment of Rs. 2,000 crore : CtrlS has plans to set up the world's largest tier-4 datacenter footprint in India by 2020 with an investment of Rs 2,000 crore. CtrlS Datacenters, founder and CEO, Sridhar Pinnapureddy said that the company plans to set up a 150 megawatt hyper-scale datacenter in Hyderabad that will be spread across two million square feet, a 100 MW similar facility in Mumbai and a 70 MW set-up in Chennai - spread over around a million square feet each. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

Vishal Dhupar, MD, South Asia- NVIDIA at 9th SIITF 2018 : 'There is nothing we human cannot understand what is happening in technology': Vishal Dhupar, MD, South Asia- NVIDIA at 9th SIITF 2018 VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

GST (31st) Revision - Complete List of Goods and Services Tax Slabs : The GST Council on Saturday reviewed the tax slabs slashing rates on several items. Among the things set to get cheaper are and movie tickets. Announcing the slab rehab, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said that the government wanted to keep the GST rates close to the original rates. But there were differences in case of some items because of the changes in the economy as well as customer preferences. Some commodities were kept in the high tax bracket (18-28%) but on scrutinizing the list, they found that these commodities should be considered as necessities and not luxuries. This is why the GST rates were revised for commodities such as notebooks, exercise books, spectacles and lenses and some other items and the new GST rates will be effective from January 1, 2019. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

UiPath partners, along with Evolution AI, to develop Document Analysis solutions : UiPath has partnered with Evolution AI, a leading company in the field of document analysis, to jointly develop solutions that will automate business workflows requiring advanced text and document analysis. VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

A major English daily on Monday reported that the Modi government have proposed to bring changes in IT rules and is hoping to amend the Section 79 of the IT Act, the one that deals with liabilities of intermediaries places of social media platforms like WhatsApp, so that it can force them to monitor "unlawful" content while following stricter due-diligence practices. Just before two days Ministry Home Affairs issued the controversial memo that authorized 10 agencies in the country to look into any computer or computing resources such as phones, there is a report that the NDA government is now working on modifying several IT Act rules that may again raise fear of mass surveillance. In other words, what the government is seeking is a way to get past the end-to-end encryption that is used in WhatsApp as well as in services like iPhone FaceTime or the Android phone backup. If enforced, the new proposed rules may require WhatsApp and others to break the privacy protection