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US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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The craze for VIP number gets crazier, as potato trader buys a VIP BSNL number for Rs 2.4 lakh

BSNL has been in news for all the wrong reasons in the last few months or so, but not this time. In a recent incident, a Rajasthan Kota-based potato trader bought a VIP number from BSNL at a whopping Rs 2.4 lakh. No, we didn’t make a mistake at writing that, you read that right. This is a real story.

Over the years, there has been a massive craze over getting a VIP number. And looks like the craze now gets crazier than ever before.

BSNL VIP number bought at Rs 2.4 lakh

As per a report coming from the Navbharat Times, a BSNL VIP number with digits XXX7000000 was up for sale on the telco’s online portal where users could bid in auctions for such numbers.

The report suggests that the VIP number was available for a week with various auction bids coming for it. The bid started at Rs 20,000 and was closed at Rs 2.4 lakh. The winner of the auction Tanuj Dudeja is a potato trader from Kota.

Dudeja reportedly had to first submit the winning bid in the BSNL office in Farrukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, and then collect the special phone number from the same office.

The report further suggests that a BSNL employee revealed that Dudeja always likes to keep VIP mobile numbers. The Rs 2.4 lakh VIP number is said to be his second purchase. Dudeja reportedly purchased his first VIP number for a price of Rs 1 lakh.

How to buy a VIP number?

If you are interested to buy a VIP number, there are many options available on the BSNL official website. To buy a VIP number, you will need to first put in a bid and the highest bidder will the number. You can get VIP numbers from other telecom operators as well including Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone-Idea, among others.

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