Call to integrate all tech in food chain 

CII Telangana’s Agri Vision 2025 conference had stakeholders discussing strategies to make agriculture more sustainable, technology-driven and globally competitive. | Photo Credit: Arrangement Agriculture 4.0 requires integration of all technologies in the food chain, Group Director – Agri Sciences and Applications of ISRO’s National Remote Sensing Centre Vemuri Chowdary said on Tuesday. With climate change…

Apollo Diagnostics launches Digi-Smart Lab in Chennai, to cut test turnaround time by 60%

Prathap C Reddy, Founder and Chairman, Apollo Hospitals, with daughters ( from left) Suneeta Reddy, MD, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd (AHEL); Sangita Reddy, JMD, AHEL and Preetha Reddy, Executive Vice Chairperson, AHEL, at the inauguration of Digi-smart Central Reference Laboratory, in Chennai. | Photo Credit: BIJOY GHOSH Apollo Diagnostics has launched what it calls a…

Finance department sanctions ₹1,396.05 crore as first instalment of maintenance fund to local bodies

The Finance department has decided to release ₹1,396.05 crore as first instalment of maintenance fund (road and non-road) to local bodies for the 2025-26 fiscal. This includes ₹536.94 crore in the non-road component and ₹859.10 crore for roads. As the first instalment, grama panchayats will get ₹878.49 crore in all, including ₹640 crore for maintenance…

Here are the big stories from Karnataka today

A view of the waste to energy plant at Bidadi near Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: RAVICHANDRAN N 1. Failure of waste-to-energy plant exposes lack of segregation in Bengaluru  On the one hand, where the civic administration is finding it difficult to manage the waste in Bengaluru, the waste-to-energy (WtE) plant at Bidadi, is unable to…