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OneDrive is the cloud storage of Microsoft, built into Windows and into the Microsoft 365 suite; it began life under the name SkyDrive and was renamed OneDrive in 2014 after a trademark dispute.

A hybrid cloud joins a private deployment with a public one so that confidential records stay inside the organisation while ordinary or seasonal workloads run on rented public resources, and data can move between the two.

MeghRaj is the brand name of the Government of India Cloud, under which the National Informatics Centre runs the National Cloud so that ministries and state departments can host applications and data without buying separate servers for every project.

DigiLocker was launched in 2015 as part of the Digital India programme of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and it gives every citizen a cloud account linked to Aadhaar in which boards, universities and transport departments place verified certificates that are accepted on a par with the original…

Google Docs is finished software delivered through a browser; the user installs nothing, manages no server and only works on the document, which is the definition of Software as a Service.

In this model the provider runs finished software on its own servers and the user simply opens it in a browser, as with Gmail, Google Docs, Microsoft 365 or Salesforce, paying by subscription instead of buying a licence and installing it.

Google Drive, launched in 2012, keeps a user files on Google servers, synchronises them to every signed-in device and opens them in Docs, Sheets and Slides for editing in the browser, which is exactly what cloud storage means.

The American architect designed the Ahmedabad campus with massive exposed brick walls, circular openings and shaded courts that suit the climate of Gujarat, and B. V. Doshi worked closely with him on the project.

In that year the Capitol Complex at Chandigarh was inscribed as one of the sites making up the transnational property called the Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, spread across several countries, which recognises his contribution to the modern movement.

Wittet designed the Gateway of India in the Indo-Saracenic style, with a great arch and Gujarati decorative detail, and he also designed the museum in Mumbai now known as the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya.

Baker, born in Britain and later an Indian citizen, settled in Kerala and built houses, hospitals and institutions there using exposed local brick, filler slabs and perforated jaali walls that reduced cost and kept interiors cool without machinery.

Correa built the Jawahar Kala Kendra in Jaipur on a plan drawn from the nine squares of the traditional mandala, and the Kanchanjunga Apartments in Mumbai as a tower of interlocking flats with deep terraces for shade; he also designed Bharat Bhavan in Bhopal and the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya at…

The Iranian-Canadian architect designed the temple, completed in 1986, as a flower of twenty-seven marble petals arranged in groups of three, surrounded by nine pools, and it has become one of the most visited buildings in the country.

Baker designed the circular Council House, later the Sansad Bhavan, which was completed in 1927 and which housed Parliament for almost a century.

Lutyens designed the Viceroy House on Raisina Hill, the building that became the Rashtrapati Bhavan after independence, and he also designed the memorial arch now known as India Gate.

Doshi received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2018, the first Indian to do so, for a career that began as an assistant to Le Corbusier and produced CEPT University and Sangath in Ahmedabad, the campus of IIM Bangalore and the Aranya low-cost housing at Indore; he was given the Royal…

The Swiss-French architect gave Chandigarh its grid of self-contained sectors and designed the Capitol Complex with the Secretariat, the High Court, the Legislative Assembly and the Open Hand monument; the first scheme had been drawn by Albert Mayer with Matthew Nowicki before the work passed to him.

A Constitution Bench struck down the electoral bond scheme in February 2024 in the petitions led by the Association for Democratic Reforms, holding that anonymous corporate funding of parties violates the voter's right to information under Article 19(1)(a) and that the amendments permitting unlimited company donations were arbitrary; the Court…

Section 34 of the Representation of the People Act, 1951 fixes the security deposit for a Lok Sabha candidate at twenty-five thousand rupees, and a candidate belonging to a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe pays half of it; the deposit is forfeited if the candidate does not poll more…

The Election Commission of India was constituted on 25 January 1950, a day before the Constitution came into force, and the day has been observed as National Voters' Day since 2011 to enrol young citizens who turn eighteen and to hand them the elector photo identity card.