Advisory for APS School Students
Pretext
The Army Welfare Education Society has informed the Parents and students that a Scam is targeting the Army schools Students. The Scamster approaches the students by faking the voice of a female and a male. The scamster asks for the personal information and photos of the students by telling them they are taking details for the event, which is being organised by the Army welfare education society for the celebration of independence day. The Army welfare education society intimated that Parents to beware of these calls from scammers.
The students of Army Schools of Jammu & Kashmir, Noida, are getting calls from the scamster. The students were asked to share sensitive information. Students across the country are getting calls and WhatsApp messages from two numbers, which end with 1715 and 2167. The Scamster are posing to be teachers and asking for the students’ names on the pretext of adding them to the WhatsApp Groups. The scamster then sends forms links to the WhatsApp groups and asking students to fill out the form to seek more sensitive information.
Do’s
- Do Make sure to verify the caller.
- Do block the caller while finding it suspicious.
- Do be careful while sharing personal Information.
- Do inform the School Authorities while receiving these types of calls and messages posing to be teachers.
- Do Check the legitimacy of any agency and organisation while telling the details
- Do Record Calls asking for personal information.
- Do inform parents about scam calling.
- Do cross-check the caller and ask for crucial information.
- Do make others aware of the scam.
Don’ts
- Don’t answer anonymous calls or unknown calls from anyone.
- Don’t share personal information with anyone.
- Don’t Share OTP with anyone.
- Don’t open suspicious links.
- Don’t fill any forms, asking for personal information
- Don’t confirm your identity until you know the caller.
- Don’t Reply to messages asking for financial information.
- Don’t go to a fake website by following a prompt call.
- Don’t share bank Details and passwords.
- Don’t Make payment over a prompt fake call.
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Executive Summary:
Recently, a viral post on social media claiming that actor Allu Arjun visited a Shiva temple to pray in celebration after the success of his film, PUSHPA 2. The post features an image of him visiting the temple. However, an investigation has determined that this photo is from 2017 and does not relate to the film's release.
Claims:
The claim states that Allu Arjun recently visited a Shiva temple to express his thanks for the success of Pushpa 2, featuring a photograph that allegedly captures this moment.
Fact Check:
The image circulating on social media, that Allu Arjun visited a Shiva temple to celebrate the success of Pushpa 2, is misleading.
After conducting a reverse image search, we confirmed that this photograph is from 2017, taken during the actor's visit to the Tirumala Temple for a personal event, well before Pushpa 2 was ever announced. The context has been altered to falsely connect it to the film's success. Additionally, there is no credible evidence or recent reports to support the claim that Allu Arjun visited a temple for this specific reason, making the assertion entirely baseless.
Before sharing viral posts, take a brief moment to verify the facts. Misinformation spreads quickly and it’s far better to rely on trusted fact-checking sources.
Conclusion:
The claim that Allu Arjun visited a Shiva temple to celebrate the success of Pushpa 2 is false. The image circulating is actually from an earlier time. This situation illustrates how misinformation can spread when an old photo is used to construct a misleading story. Before sharing viral posts, take a moment to verify the facts. Misinformation spreads quickly, and it is far better to rely on trusted fact-checking sources.
- Claim: The image claims Allu Arjun visited Shiva temple after Pushpa 2’s success.
- Claimed On: Facebook
- Fact Check: False and Misleading
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Introduction
As AI becomes more deeply integrated into everyday life and industries, Google Cloud is increasing its investment in AI-ready data centres worldwide, with India emerging as a key part of its expansion plans. Thomas Kurian’s latest India visit highlighted Google Cloud’s expanding ambitions in the country. Beyond the $15 billion, 1GW Visakhapatnam data centre announced in October 2025, Google is planning a larger multi-year AI infrastructure push, backed by partnerships with major enterprises across banking, healthcare, and digital services. This reflects a shift where countries are not only competing to create advanced AI technologies but also to build the infrastructure needed to support and lead the future AI economy. But it's worth being precise about what "building infrastructure" actually means here because it is private, foreign-headquartered capital constructing facilities on Indian soil, under terms that remain largely opaque to the public that will depend on them. That distinction matters more than the investment headline suggests.
The Promise and Pressure of Google’s Full-Stack AI Strategy
For decades, data centres were mainly built to store information, host websites, and support cloud applications. The rise of generative AI has completely changed that role. Today's systems need massive computing power both to train models on huge datasets and to run them every time someone generates content or automates a task. It is distinguished from traditional workloads mainly due to relying on proprietary technologies like GPU or TPU, alongside advanced networking and dynamic storage systems that complement each other and work in unison. The efforts of Google to create its own TPUs are understandable as they played a vital role in a number of achievements made by Google DeepMind. Today, the companies, government entities, and people turning to AI solutions put enormous pressure on the processing of data.
The companies that are building this infrastructure are shaping ecosystems on which others will depend on. Google’s “full stack” approach that infers controlling everything from chips and AI models to cloud platforms and applications which may improve efficiency and reduce costs, but it also creates deeper dependence on a single provider. Like a hospital adopting an AI platform is not just purchasing software; over time, its data systems, workflows, and operations can become closely tied to the underlying cloud ecosystem.
This concern when viewed against the concentration of the global cloud market: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud together control roughly two-thirds of global cloud infrastructure, making them the dominant gatekeepers of enterprise computing. As these same companies move upward into AI models and applications while controlling the compute layer beneath them, the debate is no longer only about market share, it is about control over the entire AI value chain.
Why Location Matters and Why It Isn't Enough
In traditional internet services, a delay of a few milliseconds rarely mattered. However, future AI applications like autonomous vehicles, AI-assisted diagnostics, automated factory robotics will demand near-instant decision-making and cannot always depend on servers thousands of kilometres away. Regional data centres reduce that latency, which matters especially for India, where hundreds of millions are expected to interact with AI-powered services in the coming years. There is also the question of data sovereignty, and this is where the infrastructure narrative gets ahead of the regulatory reality. Governments worldwide are increasingly concerned about where citizens' and companies' data is stored and processed and local data centres are presented as the answer, but physical proximity does not automatically translate into legal accountability. Google has acknowledged that it bills cloud revenue through whichever global entity corresponds to the data centre being accessed which means an Indian client's spending on Google Cloud infrastructure inside India may still not be booked, taxed, or contractually governed as an Indian transaction. Google Cloud India Pvt. Ltd reported just ₹2,065.4 crore in FY25 revenue, strikingly disconnected from the scale of a $15 billion facility and its roster of major Indian clients. Servers on Indian soil do not by themselves guarantee that India captures the tax base, the leverage, or the oversight that "data sovereignty" implies.
This gap is widened by where India's own data protection framework stands. The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 leaves retention periods and purpose limitation loosely specified under Sections 8(7) and 12, and its enforcement rules are still being finalised. When hospitals or banks process data through a foundation-model platform like Gemini Enterprise, questions like where processing occurs and what audit trail exists for cross-border flows are not resolved by a local data centre's presence. At present, they rely mostly on vendor assurance rather than independent verification.
Economic Opportunities: More Than Just Servers
AI data centres are often imagined as buildings filled with computers, but their economic impact extends further, into energy systems, construction, engineering, semiconductor supply chains, and skilled technical work. Countries hosting these facilities can benefit from investment and job creation, while local businesses gain access to AI tools without building expensive infrastructure of their own.
For India, expanded AI infrastructure could support ambitions to become a global technology hub, and could narrow the gap in access to high-performance computing that has historically disadvantaged smaller companies and researchers. That potential is real. But it should be weighed against the terms on which it arrives, whether the economic value generated is captured domestically through tax revenue and enforceable local accountability, or whether India functions primarily as a hosting site while value accrues elsewhere. The current revenue-booking structure suggests the latter is, at minimum, a live risk rather than a settled question.
The Environmental Challenge of AI Expansion
However, what remains less discussed is the environmental cost behind this expansion from its impact on the power grid and water required for cooling to clearing use of renewable energy. A 1GW facility, the scale for the Visakhapatnam project is comparable to the output of a mid-sized power plant dedicated entirely to compute demand. As models grow larger and adoption accelerates, this level of energy and water consumption has become one of the central concerns of the global AI infra. As much attention as the investment figures receive, the sustainability issue behind such large-scale infrastructure deserves equal visibility.
The Future: AI Infrastructure as National Infrastructure
The expansion of Google Cloud's AI data centres show a change in how the world views computing. Data centres are no longer invisible facilities operating in the background; they are becoming strategic infrastructure comparable to power grids and telecom networks. That comparison should prompt that infrastructure this consequential is usually made subject to public oversight, licensing conditions, and accountability mechanisms proportionate to its importance which is missing so far. Google Cloud's investment and the compute capacity it brings will lower barriers for Indian enterprises and researchers who have long lacked access to frontier-scale infrastructure. Against this backdrop, India needs to develop the regulatory, tax, and competition frameworks to ensure that the foundation serves the country hosting it, rather than the company that owns it.
Beyond Compute: The Emerging Question of AI Sovereignty
The next phase of the AI race may not be defined only by who builds the most capable models, but by who governs the infrastructure, standards, and decision making systems that those models depend upon. As advances in artificial general intelligence and discussions around superintelligence move from research laboratories into policy circles, control over compute resources is becoming a matter of strategic importance comparable to control over energy reserves or communication networks. Nations that rely entirely on external providers for advanced AI infrastructure may eventually find themselves dependent not merely for technology services, but for economic productivity, public administration, healthcare delivery, and national security capabilities. For India, the challenge is therefore larger than attracting investment. It is about ensuring meaningful domestic participation in ownership, governance, talent development, and oversight so that the intelligence systems shaping the future remain aligned with national priorities and public interest.
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Executive Summary
A video circulating on social media is being linked to the ongoing tensions in West Asia involving the United States, Israel, and Iran. The clip shows an aircraft crashing into a residential area, with users claiming that a Dubai-bound plane carrying Israeli soldiers crashed near Tel Aviv airport, killing everyone on board. However, an research by the CyberPeace has found the claim to be false. The viral video is AI-generated, and no such incident has taken place in Israel.
Claim
An Instagram user “bebakawaaztv” shared the video on April 7, 2026, claiming that a Dubai aircraft carrying Israeli soldiers crashed near Tel Aviv airport in a residential area, allegedly after being hit by debris from an Iranian hypersonic missile.
Fact Check
To verify the claim, we closely examined the viral video. Several visual inconsistencies indicated that it was not real. The aircraft appears to be flying unusually low over a residential area—something that is highly improbable under normal aviation conditions. Its landing gear seems to touch rooftops without causing any visible damage. Additionally, the wings of the aircraft pass through structures like poles without any collision impact, which is physically impossible. These anomalies strongly suggested that the video was artificially created.
We further analyzed the video using the AI detection tool HIVE Moderation, which indicated a 99% probability that the content is AI-generated.
Another analysis using Sightengine also flagged the video as likely AI-generated.
Conclusion
The viral claim is false and misleading. There is no credible evidence or verified report confirming that any Dubai aircraft carrying Israeli soldiers crashed near Tel Aviv airport. No such incident has been reported by any reliable international or local media outlets. The video in question is digitally fabricated using AI technology, and the visual inconsistencies within the clip clearly indicate manipulation. Such content is often designed to exploit ongoing geopolitical tensions and spread misinformation at scale
