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• Swiggy is investing as much as ₹250 crore to bring 1,000 cloud kitchens on board.
• In the last two years, Swiggy invested ₹175 crore in one million sqft space across 14 cities.
• Swiggy claims that its cloud kitchen initiative generated 8,000 direct and indirect jobs.

Food aggregator unicorn Swiggy is investing as much as ₹250 crore to bring 1,000 cloud kitchens on board. Swiggy will invest in building the cloud kitchens for its restaurant partners.

“Swiggy has always maintained that cloud kitchens will be the future of food delivery. Very soon, India will have the second-highest number of cloud kitchens in the world, only next to China. With the massive growth in online food ordering over the last 2-3 years, India has leapfrogged the widespread in-restaurant dining culture that was prevalent in many international markets,” said Vishal Bhatia, CEO of new supply at Swiggy.

Swiggy Access, an initiative that was launched two years ago, helps restaurants set up cloud kitchens. In the last two years, Swiggy has invested ₹175 crore in one million sqft space across 14 cities.

With this, Swiggy has the highest number of cloud kitchens in India.

Cloud kitchens help startups as well as restaurants to also reach out to more cities and service more customers.

“The milestone of Swiggy successfully creating over 1000 partner kitchens shows the faith the restaurant partners have in the concept and bolsters our pioneering efforts in enabling more success stories in the restaurant ecosystem,” said Bhatia.

Swiggy also claims that its cloud kitchen initiative generated 8,000 direct and indirect jobs in the country.

Interestingly, Uber founder Travis Kalanick also invested in the same space as the CEO of Cloud Kitchens. Kalanick’s startup is also looking at expanding its business into India as it has been looking to hire India program managers and more.

Ishant Sharma was the first Indian to take five wickets with the pink ball and now Virat Kohli has scored the first century from India in a pink ball Test. Yes, our skipper notched up his 27th Test ton on Day 2 vs Bangladesh at Eden Gardens.

Resuming overnight on 59 not out, Kohli just continued where he left off on Day 1. Ajinkya Rahane supported him till he fell for 51, but Kohli marched on. This is his 27th Test century.

Earlier Kohli became the first Indian skipper to score 5000 Test runs and the sixth overall. Not to mention the fact that he was the quickest to the milestone. He also has the most double centuries for India with 7 to his name. But what makes this hundred special is the fact that it came in the historic Day-Night Test at an iconic venue.

Kohli is the King of Eden and he is reigning supreme. When he reached his hundred the jubilation on his face and the reaction of the crowd said it all, it was a moment to cherish. He reached the landmark in 159 balls with 12 fours to his name.

India are already building a big lead after their pacers cut Bangladesh down to size for a mere total of 106. This hundred forms the base to go even further as we look to seal a 12th straight Test series win on home soil. Also this will be our 7th straight Test win, so another record looks set to be in the wings.

Kohli’s shot selection was so good over the course of his innings that on Day 1 one bowler even applauded the cover drive after he was hit for four. There was no change on Day 2 and Kohli kept at it and eventually reached a well-made hundred.

He loves to score big and consistently and the man seems to be making up after scoring a duck in the previous game. This is his way of balancing the scales as India look to complete a 2-0 whitewash. The fact that he is the captain puts more value in his contribution as the man is leading by example.

He is considered the best player across formats, the only one with a 50-plus average in all versions and also with no apparent weakness. Kohli is the ultimate nightmare for a bowler because one can rarely set a trap for him. So once he is on song, better pray he makes a mistake, for the fielding side more often than not throws in the towel.

When we think of supercomputers, we forget how crucial they are to help us live a better life with their gargantuan processing power.

Top500 is a global institution that keeps a track of such powerful supercomputers across the globe. Last year, it picked two supercomputers — Pratyush and Mihir (ranked at 45 and 73 respectively), however this year they’ve updated their list and looks like they’ve managed to retain their spot in the top 100.

Pratyush ranked at 53 whereas Mihir is now ranked at 100. While they’ve lost their positions from last year, considering tech across the globe is evolving at an exponential pace and better processing hardware comes out every year, they’re still some really fast machines.

Pratyush is installed at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune. The supercomputer is equipped with a 4.0 petaflop array of processors dedicated to weather and climate analysis. In case you didn’t know, a petaflop is a measure of a supercomputer’s processing speed, meaning it can perform one quadrillion floating-point operations per second or FLOPS. For Pratyush, multiply that measure by 4.0. In simpler terms, it’s blazing fast!

Mihir, on the other hand, is installed at the National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting in Noida. It is capable of churning out 2.8 PetaFlops, which might seem like a little underpowered against Pratyush but is still a performer nonetheless.

Costing a massive Rs 450 crore, both these systems are based on the Cray XC40 supercomputer. They’re running on arrays of Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia’s Now you might be wondering what would a supercomputer really do that a normal computer cannot.

Essentially the massive processing power in these two systems allows for lots of data to be analysed simultaneously — whether it is related to rain patterns or earthquakes, air quality and other weather conditions — something that a standard computer would take months or years to figure out.

Pratyush and Mihir are essentially HPCs or High Performance Computing facilities which made India the fourth country in the world to have an HPC facility dedicated for weather and climate research after Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom.