India's digital currency push targets its leaky welfare systemWhile India's early efforts are modest compared with those of China, where more than 200 million people use the e-yuan, the world's most po...
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Today, this IITian is one of USA’s richest, with a net worth over Rs 1.4 lakh crore. Once he lived in village without electricity, studied under treeJay Chaudhry, CEO of Zscaler, has risen from humble beginnings in rural India to become a leading figure in cybersecurity. His journey incl...
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AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm handsOblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused with artificial intelligence carefully combs a cotto...
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AI robots fill in for weed killers and farm handsAigen's solar-powered, AI-driven robot "Element" autonomously weeds fields without chemicals, offering a sustainable solution to labour sho...
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Indian techie leaves Google job to help urban families with 'grow what you eat' farming businessMantaj Sidhu and his cousin Baljit Singh co-founded Gill Organics to provide chemical-free vegetables, allowing families in Punjab to enjoy...
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Zuari FarmHub signs MoU with ICRISAT for agri solutionsZuari Farm Hub, one of the leading agritech players in India announced a collaboration with ICRISAT. Under this collaboration, ICRISAT will...
21 Mar, 2023, 05.17 PM IST
Aeronautical Society of India and Altair to collaborate for mentoring startupsBoth organisations join hands for a start-up challenge with a focus on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the aerospace and defence industry.
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Amazon, Microsoft swoop in on India's $24 billion farming data troveWith the project, Modi is seeking to usher in long-due reforms to make over a farm sector that employs almost half of the nation’s 1.3 bill...
17 Sep, 2021, 10.02 AM IST
CoE for IoT based agri solutions generated significant benefits: Hewlett Packard EnterpriseThe CoE is focused on upskilling students in areas of Internet of Things (IoT) and programming to improve their employment prospects and al...
08 Jun, 2020, 05.00 PM IST
Microsoft is teaching drones, robots and drills how to think like humans via softwareMicrosoft last year acquired a company called Bonsai that makes this kind of software, merged it with some work from its research arm — a g...
05 Nov, 2019, 10.05 AM IST
UPL Global CIO A Balaji leverages AI to improve farmer’s crop yield and provide pest prediction serviceA Balaji, Global CIO at UPL is neck deep in work, trying to manage the wide-ranging IT operations of the multinational company. But with a ...
05 Nov, 2018, 12.56 PM IST
Smart Farming: This startup has a new irrigation method - one that uses just an appAvanijal has developed an automated system that leverages IoT and wireless technology to control and monitor irrigation activities on the f...
28 Dec, 2017, 12.48 PM IST
IBM to train 25 million Africans for free to build workforceThe US tech giant plans to make an initial investment of 945 million rand ($70 million) to roll out the training initiative in South Africa.
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Groundnut yield jumps 30% on use of digital farming practicesThe pilot was initiated by the state government and jointly executed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropic...
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The 10 best things that Satya Nadella experienced this yearUnder Nadella, Microsoft's mission is "to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential."
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Choose the right Nobel winnerForget tweaking NREGS, morph it into an apprenticeship programme to transform our labour market.
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