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** Two Kerala start-ups bag top prizes in Convergence India Expo

Recognition in pitching competition

Two enterprises supported by the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) have emerged winners in the pitching competition at Convergence India Expo 2022 held in New Delhi on Friday.

Troncart Solutions Pvt Ltd and Riod Logic bagged the first and second prize respectively in the IIT Patna Incubation Centre pitch competition organised at the 29th edition of the three-day expo organised at Pragati Maidan.

Founded in 2018 by Aneez Ahamed, Pratheesh V. Nair and Aneesh Chandran, city-based Troncart offers FLOW metering system, a unique solution to calculate utility readings automatically.

Angamaly-based Riod, founded in 2017, is headed by Akhil Joy and Aneesh P.K. The start-up manufactures and develops IoT sensors along with RIOD Live platform that help sense, monitor, control and aggregate real-time data from fields.

** Qualcomm 2nd largest office outside US coming up in Hyderabad, likely by October

Firm investing ₹3,904.55 crore to expand its Hyderabad operations

Qualcomm is setting up its second largest campus outside the U.S. in Hyderabad, a 1.572-million sqft facility that is expected to be ready for inauguration by this October.

The California-headquartered tech giant will be investing ₹3,904.55 crore to expand its Hyderabad operations. The investment, to be made over the next five years, will also create employment for about 8,700 software professionals, Industries and IT Minister K.T.Rama Rao’s office said on Tuesday.

** IIT Madras, TCS to launch M. Tech course in Industrial AI

It will be offered online; first cohort of students will be from TCS

The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) are jointly launching an M. Tech programme in Industrial Artificial Intelligence.

The 18-month course will be offered online and focus on industrial analytics. It aims at upskilling employees in corporates in the application of AI to industrial problems. The TCS will provide the first cohort of students.

** Wipro GE Healthcare forms Intercontinental, a new business region worth $3 billion

The Intercontinental region is nearly a $3 billion business unit with 10,000 employees, covering over 60 countries across Latin America, India & South Asia, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, said the company in a statement on March 23.

The company also inducted Elie Chaillot, President and CEO, GE Healthcare Intercontinental, to its Board of Directors. Azim Premji, Chairman, Wipro GE Healthcare and Chairman, Wipro Enterprises said, “There is a growing need to improve access to medical technology and precision medicine across India. Elie brings with him deep commercial and global leadership experience and we are delighted to have him on the board of directors.’‘

** How Subhajit Banerjee went from Netaji Nagar to 10 Downing Street

This digital expert at the UK Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet Office is a Bengali boy.

He holds a high-profile digital communications job in the UK Government and was the Guardian’s first ever mobile editor. But Kolkata is where the 42-year-old grew up and spent the early years of his career. Meet Subhajit Banerjee, a Londonder for years but a Kolkatan to the core.

** Alaska Air selects IBS for air cargo IT solution

BS Software, an IT solutions company headquartered in the capital city, has signed a long-term agreement with Alaska Air Cargo to transform and modernise its air cargo IT ecosystem.

IBS Software will implement its full suite cargo management solution across the air cargo business of Alaska Airlines.

iCargo will digitally transform Alaska Air Cargo’s sales and inventory, cargo terminal operations, air mail handling and revenue accounting, and mobile applications. It will also enable the airline to have an end-to-end view of its air cargo value chain activities and provide important operational insights across the entire network.

** IIT-Madras and Walmart Global Tech to work on research, skilling of students

The association is expected to help further empower the teams, collaborate on digital innovation and strengthen the education ecosystem in the country, says Walmart’s global chief technology officer

The Indian Institute of Technology – Madras and Walmart Global Tech have tied up to improve research in new areas of technology. The collaboration will be in the areas of continuing education and projects for corporate social responsibility for the chain stores’ India operations.

** Indian-origin expert helming first 4G network on Moon for NASA

Indian-origin Nishant Batra working as Chief Strategy and Technology Officer (CSTO) at smartphone maker Nokia is helping NASA to build the first ever cellular network on the Moon.

Batra joined Nokia as CSTO and a member of the Nokia Group Leadership Team in January 2021.

He holds an MBA from INSEAD, a master’s degree in telecommunications and a master’s degree in computer science from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and a bachelor’s degree in computer applications from Devi Ahilya University in India.

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** First of its kind State Cyber Crime Investigation Centre set up in Tamil Nadu

It will deal with cases pertaining to organised cyber crimes, ransomware attacks and cryptocurrency frauds, among others

The Cyber Crime Wing of Tamil Nadu Police is setting up a first of its kind State Cyber Crime Investigation Centre at its headquarters, to deal exclusively with cases like organised cyber crimes that have international ramifications and require intra-country investigation, ransomware attacks, cryptocurrency frauds.

“We already have cyber crime police stations in districts and cities, which handle investigation into routine cyber offences including phishing, vishing, morphing, extortion and cyber stalking from individual complainants,” Additional Director General of Police, Cyber Crime, Amresh Poojari told The Hindu.

** Home-grown train collision prevention system ‘Kavach’ to be exported: Vaishnaw

Terming the indigenously developed Automatic Train Protection (ATP) system–‘Kavach’ as a phenomenal improvement in safety and a great contribution to accident prevention, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Friday said the technology will be implemented over entire rail network in the country and will also be exported to the world in the next coming years, even as he had a first hand experience of the collision aversion mechanism by being part of a live demo here.