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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Bijapur, Dec 10: An eight-year-old girl died and 34 other children fell ill due to suspected food poisoning at a government-aided residential school in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, officials said on Tuesday.

Some students of Mata Rukhmani residential school in Dhanora village complained of uneasiness and vomiting on Sunday (December 8) night following which they were taken to a local hospital on Monday, Bijapur Collector Sambit Mishra said.

Later, 35 ill students were shifted to Bijapur district hospital. All the students had symptoms of vomiting and dysentery, he said.

The condition of two of them deteriorated, following which they were referred to Jagdalpur, headquarters of Bastar district, for further treatment, he said.

Of the two children, a girl identified as Shivani Telam, a student of Class 3, died while being shifted to Jagdalpur on Monday night, he said.

The exact cause of the illness was yet to be ascertained and a probe has been ordered into the matter, Mishra added.

District Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO), Dr B R Pujari, said food poisoning appears to be the cause behind the illness. However, further investigation is underway to ascertain the exact reason behind it.

The condition of other ill children was stated to be out of danger, he added.

As per preliminary information, around 88 children study in the government-aided institute and they had consumed paneer for dinner on Sunday and earlier in the day they had kheer and puri, another official said.

Meanwhile, family members of the deceased girl have blamed the superintendent of the residential school for the incident and demanded action against those found guilty.