The appointments committee of the cabinet (ACC) on Friday approved the appointment of Debasish Panda, former secretary at the department of financial services, to the post of chairperson for an initial period of three years.

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Hyderabad-based oil palm player, 3F Oil Palm, on Wednesday said it is set to invest Rs 1,750 crore in oil palm cultivation in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh under the National Mission on Edible Oils - Oil Palm (NPEO-OP) rolled out by the Centre to boost oil palm production in India.

Global engineering, manufacturing, and digital technology solutions company, Cyient Ltd, on Wednesday said it has appointed Rajaneesh Kini as senior vice-president and CTO. Prior to joining Cyient, Rajneesh headed the Global ER&D Solutions Delivery business for Wipro.

The new solution incorporates a unique payload-release mechanism which automatically detaches the entire payload from the drone after it lands, with zero human intervention. Once detached, the drone immediately takes off to return to its home base.

Until now, the staff at primary healthcare centres had to manually take out boxes after the drone landed but this posed the risk of drone damage as well as injury to the medical staff as they would otherwise have to be in close proximity to the drone and its propellers.

This tech was demonstrated during the drone trial run between the Vikarabad Area Hospital to Madgulchittampalle primary healthcare centre as part of the Telangana government’s `Medicine from the Sky’ project.

Hyderabad-based makers lab, T-Works, on Wednesday said it has designed and developed a cold-storage medical supplies payload with an autonomous release mechanism in collaboration with Hyderabad-based drone company Airserve Initiatives.

The government of Telangana on Sunday announced that it will be organising a virtual blockchain symposium, Un-Block 4.0, on October 21 followed by a two-week blockchain hackathon named HackDLT.

State-owned iron ore miner NMDC on Thursday said the company aims to achieve production of 47 MT this fiscal and it has lined up a capital expenditure of Rs 3,720 crore.

i2e Lab (innovation to entrepreneurship) run by Telangana State Innovation Cell (TSIC) and Make Room India on Tuesday invited application for its 14-week pre-incubation programme designed to nurture early stage ideas. The last date for applying is October 12, 2021.

US based startup byteXL, that has its India headquarters in Hyderabad, on Tuesday said it has raised a seed fund of $200,000 in angel round.

Using the tool, physicians will be able to deliver proactive and preventive care for at-risk individuals.

Apollo Hospitals has launched an AI tool that will help healthcare providers predict the risk of cardiac disease in their patients and initiate intervention at an early stage.

Karnataka industries minister Murugesh R Nirani, Kerala finance minister KN Balagopal, Tamil Nadu finance minister P Thiagarajan and Telangana finance minister T Harish Rao will be attending it.

Industry body FICCI on Monday said it will be organising ‘South India GST Conclave’, an online interaction with the ministers of four southern states on September 29, 2021.