National Herald case: Siddaramaiah, Shivakumar attack BJP over FIR against Sonia, Rahul
Bengaluru (PTI): Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday accused the BJP of "political revenge", after the Delhi police registered an FIR against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and others in the National Herald case.
Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar termed the Delhi police's move as "unfair" and said, "There is a limit to harassment."
The Delhi Police has filed an FIR against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi and other accused in the National Herald case on a complaint by the ED as part of the agency's money laundering probe into the high-profile case that alleges that the first family of the party "abused" their position for personal gains.
"It is being done politically. BJP is trying to take political revenge," Siddaramaiah told reporters in response to a question.
Shivakumar accused the Centre of "engaging in vindictive politics".
"There was no need to harass. It (National Herald) is not Sonia Gandhi or Rahul Gandhi's property. They were just the custodians of the shares as party presidents... from the days of Jawaharlal Nehru it has been there. It is not their personal property, they have already declared. Young India or National Herald belongs to a political party," he said.
Noting that the Gandhi family are the custodians of the Congress party, Shivakumar, who is also the state Congress chief said, there are other members also.
"During the time of Vohra ji (Motilal Vora) and Ahmed Patel ji, decisions have been taken to protect the interests of the Congress party. When the party was dying at the time of Kesri ji (Sitaram Kesri), we all went and begged Madam (Sonia Gandhi) to take up the responsibility (of Congress). Under her leadership, we have ruled this country for ten years, with an economist (Manmohan Singh) as the PM, and the Congress party is going ahead," he said.
Alleging "political torture" by the government at the Centre in connection with the case, the Deputy CM said, "It is jealousy, Rahul Gandhi never cares for such things. Even if you put him in jail, he won't care."
"It is not good. I appeal to the central government. This vindictive attitude will not give you fruits, it will only show your ethical values. Let's face politically on the streets, in public and elections. Not by harassing, by misusing various institutions," he added.
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Ambani, Adani pledge USD 210 bn for India's AI push
New Delhi (PTI): Conglomerates run by billionaires Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani committed USD 210 billion investment to creating infrastructure that will help India emerge as an AI development hub.
At the India AI Impact Summit, Ambani announced a Rs 10 lakh crore (about USD 110 billion) investment in artificial intelligence over the next seven years in gigawatt-scale AI-ready data centres in Jamnagar, leveraging up to 10 GW of green power surplus, and a nationwide edge-compute layer integrated with telecom and digital operator Jio's networks to deliver low-latency AI across India.
"Our resolve is clear: make intelligence as ubiquitous as connectivity," he said. "When compute becomes infrastructure, innovation will become inevitable."
Adani, on the other hand, unveiled a USD 100-billion investment to develop renewable-energy-powered, hyperscale AI-ready data centres by 2035 -- one of the world's largest integrated energy-compute commitments.
The initiative is expected to catalyse an additional USD 150 billion across server manufacturing, cloud platforms, and supporting industries, creating a projected USD 250 billion AI infrastructure ecosystem in India.
India must architect its own artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure rather than rely on imports, Adani Group executive director Jeet Adani said on Thursday, warning that AI will redefine national sovereignty.
Other major investments announced at the Summit included USD 50 billion commitment by Microsoft by the end of the decade to expand artificial intelligence access across the Global South. "India, not surprisingly, is one of the largest," its vice chair and president, Brad Smith, said.
The firm had unveiled USD 17.5 billion investment in AI investments in India last year.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced a new subsea cable initiative to boost AI connectivity between India, the US and other locations, alongside partnerships for cloud infrastructure platform support to over 20 million public servants across 800 districts.
Yotta Data Services, backed by a real estate group headed by Niranjan Hiranandani, announced over USD 2 billion spend on Nvidia's latest chips in an artificial intelligence computing hub it is setting up just outside the national capital.
While Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) signed up ChatGPT parent OpenAI as its first customer for its data centre unit under the global AI infrastructure initiative Stargate, infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro announced a proposed venture with Nvidia to build AI-ready data centre infrastructure, advanced computing platforms, and ecosystem enablement required to support large-scale AI workloads.
