Mangaluru: Niveus Solutions Pvt. Ltd., an award-winning Google Cloud partner on Thursday inaugurated its largest office in the country here in Mangaluru.

Sprawling across 16,000 sq. ft, with a seating capacity of 210 staff, it is the largest office of the company in India. The company has around 300 employees working from various locations in India and Singapore.

Speaking after the inauguration of the new office, actor Rakshith Shetty said he was surprised to see Mangaluru and Udupi becoming base for a global cloud engineering organization such as Niveus. He said there was lot of untapped potential in the region, be it in technology, medicine, or even arts. When the talent gets access to the right infrastructure, there was no limit to what they could achieve, he said.

Niveus CEO Suyog Shetty said the organization has seen tremendous growth in business and operations in recent times, registering an over 300% growth year on year. The Mangaluru office offers opportunities to software professionals in the region where the immense pool of talent is available from the education hub. The setup is another key step to attracting and retaining the best of talents in the region, he said.

Niveus has been empowering industry leaders, including top private banks and leading asset management companies, and customers to leverage cloud technologies and harness the power of cloud services to build resilient infrastructures that scale. It recently expanded to the ASEAN region, setting up a hub in Singapore and onboarding new customers.

Niveus was funded in 2013 by Suyog Shetty, Rashmi George, Roshan Bava, and Mohsin Khan.

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Seoul (AP/PTI): South Korean prosecutors on Sunday detained a former defence minister who allegedly recommended last week's brief but stunning martial law imposition to President Yoon Suk Yeol, making him the first figure detained over the case, news reports said.

The reported development came a day after Yoon avoided an opposition-led bid to impeach him in parliament, with most ruling party lawmakers boycotting a floor vote to prevent the two-thirds majority needed to suspend his presidential powers.

The main liberal opposition Democratic Party said it will prepare a new impeachment motion against Yoon.

On Sunday, ex-Defence Minister Kim Yong Hyun voluntarily appeared at a Seoul prosecutors' office, where he had his mobile phone confiscated and was detained, Yonhap news agency reported.

Other South Korean media carried similar reports, saying Kim was moved to a Seoul detention centre. The reports said police were searching Kim's former office and residence on Sunday.

Repeated calls to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office were unanswered. An official at the detention facility in eastern Seoul hung up the phone when The Associated Press called.

Yoon accepted Kim's resignation offer on Thursday after opposition parties submitted a separate impeachment motion against him.

Kim is a central figure in Yoon's martial law enforcement, which led to special forces troops encircling the National Assembly building and army helicopters hovering over it. The military withdrew after the parliament unanimously voted to overturn Yoon's decree, forcing his Cabinet to lift it before daybreak Wednesday.

In Kim's impeachment motion document, the Democratic Party and other opposition parties accused him of proposing martial law to Yoon. Ruling party leader Han Dong-hun made a similar comment on Kim's role. Vice Defence Minister Kim Seon Ho told parliament that Kim Yong Hyun ordered the deployment of troops to the National Assembly.

The Democratic Party called Yoon's martial law imposition “unconstitutional, illegal rebellion or a coup”. It has filed complaints with police against at least nine people, including Yoon and Kim, over the alleged rebellion.

In a statement distributed by the Defence Ministry on Wednesday, Kim said that “all troops who performed duties related to martial law were acting on my instructions, and all responsibility lies with me”.

Prosecutor General Shim Woo Jung told reporters on Thursday the prosecution plans to investigate the rebellion charges against Yoon following complaints filed by the opposition.

While the president mostly has immunity from prosecution while in office, that does not extend to allegations of rebellion or treason. It wasn't immediately clear how the prosecution plans to proceed with an investigation into Yoon.

The Defence Ministry said it has suspended three top military commanders over their alleged involvement in the martial law imposition. They were among those facing the opposition-raised rebellion allegations.

On Saturday, Yoon issued an apology over the martial law decree, saying he won't shirk legal or political responsibility for the declaration and promising not to make another attempt to impose it. He said would leave it to his party to chart a course through the country's political turmoil, “including matters related to my term in office”.

Since taking office in 2022, Yoon has struggled to push his agenda through an opposition-controlled parliament and grappled with low approval ratings amid scandals involving himself and his wife.

In his martial law announcement on Tuesday night, Yoon called parliament a “den of criminals” bogging down state affairs and vowed to eliminate “shameless North Korea followers and anti-state forces”.

The declaration of martial law was the first of its kind in more than 40 years in South Korea. The turmoil has paralysed South Korean politics and sparked alarm among key diplomatic partners like the US and Japan.

The scrapping of Yoon's impeachment motion is expected to intensify protests calling for his ouster and deepen political chaos in South Korea, with a survey suggesting a majority of South Koreans support the president's impeachment.

Yoon's martial law declaration drew criticism from his own ruling conservative People Power Party, but it is determined to oppose Yoon's impeachment apparently because it fears losing the presidency to liberals.