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Drone-powered farming: How aerial data is enabling hyper-precise crop management
8+ hour, 44+ min ago (455+ words) Traditional crop management often relies on broad actions. Spray the whole field. Add fertilizer across the entire plot. Increase irrigation everywhere. These methods are not always wrong, but they are expensive and inefficient when the problem is local. Drone mapping…...
India's AI value paradox
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (665+ words) India's development story has long been measured in concrete and steel. Highways stretch across States, metro networks cut through urban corridors and airports expand to accommodate a growing economy. Yet alongside these assets, another infrastructure revolution is quietly unfolding, largely…...
Meit Y selects 10 Indian AI startups to spearhead India AI Startups Global Acceleration Programme
18+ hour, 28+ min ago (254+ words) The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meit Y) on Friday said it has selected 10 cutting-edge Indian artificial intelligence startups for the second cohort of the Indian AI Startups Global Acceleration Programme, an international initiative developed in partnership with Station F,…...
Rapid evolution in asset management space signals exciting days ahead
15+ hour, 55+ min ago (256+ words) The asset management landscape is expanding rapidly with many new age, tech-focused entrants joining the market. Lakshya Asset Management Company (AMC) will soon join the growing list of players after receiving approval from the SEBI to enter the lucrative mutual…...
Karnataka Cabinet approves Centre of excellence for AI in Bengaluru
14+ hour, 52+ min ago (188+ words) The Karnataka Cabinet has given approval for the establishment of a Center of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence in Biotechnology (AI-Co E) at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology (IBAB) in Electronic City, Bengaluru. The Centre will be set up over…...
Zen Technologies gets arm manufacturing licence
14+ hour, 40+ min ago (308+ words) Zen Technologies, a defence technology company, has received an arms manufacturing licence from the Government of India, under the Arms Act, 1959. Zen Technologies gets licence to manufacture arms Defence firm to produce rapid-fire systems for air defence, naval operations and…...
Insurers need to make payouts quick and frictionless, says DFS Secretary
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (529+ words) DFS Secretary M Nagaraju, LIC CEO and MD R Doraiswamy and MDs Dinesh Pant, Ratnakar Patnaik and R Chander at the launch of the apps in Mumbai on Wednesday Insurers needed to make quick and frictionless payouts during claims and…...
IT offer shopping halves as job market cools amid layoffs
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (258+ words) The rate of offer shopping among IT candidates has nearly halved, from 30-35 per cent in 202223 to 13-15 per cent in 2026, according to data from AMS. Industry experts attribute this trend to rising job security concerns amid global layoffs and economic uncertainty....
Entry-level smartphones get costlier as memory shortage persists
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (358+ words) Entry-level 5 G devices that were once available for around "9, 000 are now closer to "12, 000 India's smartphone market is seeing a sharp rise in prices with rising memory costs squeezing the entry-level segment and pushing consumers and devices into higher price bands....
Comfortingly familiar?
2+ day, 14+ hour ago (439+ words) Discover the Samsung Galaxy S26: a compact powerhouse with AI features, a stunning display, and a dependable camera....