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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Bengaluru: The Karnataka Lokayukta has launched a suo motu investigation into six maternal deaths at the Ballari Institute of Medical Sciences (BIMS) Hospital, allegedly caused by substandard intravenous (IV) fluids. Justice B.S. Patil, the Lokayukta, has directed the registration of a case under the Karnataka Lokayukta Act, targeting senior officials from the Health and Family Welfare and Medical Education departments, the Karnataka Medical Supplies Corporation, and BIMS.

Police have been instructed to inspect the hospital and its drug store, with a detailed report to be submitted. District health officers and deputy commissioners across Karnataka have been asked to provide updates on measures to prevent similar incidents and to report on compensation for victims’ families and the accountability of officials involved.

The tragedy has drawn widespread criticism of the Congress-led Karnataka government. The latest victim, Sumaya (25), succumbed to multiple organ failure on December 5 at the Vijayanagara Institute of Medical Sciences (VIMS). Five other new mothers—Rojamma, Nandini, Muskaan, Mahalaxmi, and Lalitamma—died after undergoing caesarean surgeries at the hospital in November.

Preliminary investigations attribute the deaths to complications arising from the use of substandard IV fluids. Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao termed the deaths “unacceptable” and assured swift corrective measures. "If a healthy woman dies due to negligence or faulty medicines, it is unacceptable. The public must not tolerate such failures and should protest," he stated while announcing compensation for the victims’ families.

The IV fluids, supplied by a West Bengal-based pharmaceutical company, were flagged as "Not of Standard Quality" (NSQ) by the Karnataka State Drug Testing Laboratory in March 2023. However, the Central Drugs Laboratory (CDL) in Kolkata later cleared them, raising questions about regulatory discrepancies. The Karnataka government has urged the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) to address these contradictions and take legal action against the manufacturer.

In response, the Karnataka Drug Controller has been suspended, legal proceedings against the pharmaceutical company have been initiated, and the use of its products has been halted. Inspections of the company’s manufacturing facilities are underway to determine any lapses.

Meanwhile, the opposition BJP has demanded a judicial probe and accused the Congress government of gross negligence and collusion. "This tragedy reflects a catastrophic failure of the Congress-led government in Karnataka. The gross negligence is coupled with active collusion to hide the truth," the BJP alleged.