Stories from Patna · India

Nishant Kumar, son of Nitish Kumar, is among 32 individuals set to take the oath as ministers in Bihar.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu welcomed the Gazette notification establishing the South Coast Railway Zone. The new zone will be headquartered in Vishakhapatnam.

India has increased its crude oil procurement sources from 27 to 41 countries. LPG procurement has expanded to include the United States, Norway, and Algeria, in addition to the Middle East. Domestic oil production has seen a 60 percent increase.

The first phase of the 2027 census in Bihar began today with house-listening and housing enumeration. The second phase of the census is scheduled for February of next year. Field operations for the first phase of the 2027 census began yesterday across Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh. This phase involves listing and counting houses and will continue until April 30. Self-enumeration facilities for the 2027 census have also started in Delhi Municipal Corporation areas, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Bihar, and Jharkhand. The process involves creating lists of all households within the region. This enumeration process is part of the upcoming census efforts in the Indian state of Bihar.

Google has broken ground on a large AI hub in India designed to meet the computational demands of the AI era. The hub will power services such as Gemini at Google Search. The project includes the America-India Connect initiative to provide high-capacity, low-latency connectivity.

Google aims to establish Visakhapatnam as an international subsea gateway to support a gigawatt-scale data center campus. The hub is designed to meet high computational demands for AI services including Gemini and Google Search. This project includes the America India Connect Initiative to provide high-capacity, low-latency connectivity for India. The initiative seeks to support India's position in the global AI economy. Google has partnered with India's Adani Connex and Nexra by Airtel to establish an international subsea gateway in Visakhapatnam. The project aims to strengthen India's digital infrastructure and connect the country with the rest of the world through new fibre-optic routes. Completion of the center is expected by 2028. The development occurs amid rapid growth in the global data center market driven by demand for digital storage and AI tools.