Tech industry updates from Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and beyond
South India may require a dedicated regional institution on the lines of the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in Delhi-NCR to tackle air pollution that increasingly crosses State boundaries, according to a study by Bengaluru-based Centre for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP).
A new post-harvest treatment developed by the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (ICAR-IIHR), Bengaluru, could help South Indian mango exporters reduce quarantine treatment time while protecting fruit quality during international shipments.
The sixth edition of Technology Senate South 2026, organised by Express Computer, will be held on November 27 and 28 at Trident Hyderabad, bringing together senior technology decision-makers from across South India.
Telangana is expanding its higher-education and medical training landscape with new undergraduate programmes in emerging sectors, while the state government is considering mandatory robotic-surgery training for postgraduate medical students.
Students in Andhra Pradesh will have an opportunity to pursue an international engineering programme under a new collaboration between four state public universities and Sweden’s Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH).