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General11 Nov 2026 · 3 minIIT Madras Maps Where India's Ambulances Should Wait for Road AccidentsIIT Madras researchers propose 4,237 ambulances placed to cover 4,403 road accident super-hotspots, with Tamil Nadu considering the locations for its 108 service.
General10 Nov 2026 · 2 minL&T's Coimbatore Plant Delivers Crew Escape Hardware for Gaganyaan-2L&T has handed ISRO the fourth Crew Escape Ogive Shroud for Gaganyaan-2, built in Coimbatore ahead of schedule, as the city's MSMEs move deeper into space hardware.
General8 Nov 2026 · 2 minTamil Nadu Orders the Rollout of Its Rs 2,000 Crore Vetri Laptop SchemeTamil Nadu has sanctioned Rs 2,000 crore for free laptops to college, polytechnic and ITI students, with ELCOT procuring and Core i5 machines for engineering students.
General6 Nov 2026 · 2 minTamil Nadu Tops NITI Aayog's New Science and Technology ScoreboardNITI Aayog's India S&T Scoreboard puts Tamil Nadu first for research publications (44,611) and patent applications (16,048), well ahead of every other state.
General5 Nov 2026 · 2 minIIT Madras Start-up AstraYAN Emerges L1 for Navy Corvette Propulsion IntegrationChennai's AstraYAN finished ahead of Fincantieri, RENK and Navantia to emerge lowest bidder for propulsion integration on five GRSE-built Next Generation Corvettes.
General4 Nov 2026 · 2 minOmron Starts Full-Scale Production at Its First India Plant, Near ChennaiOmron Healthcare's Chennai facility now runs five lines of blood pressure monitors, with a 3 million unit annual target by 2028 and plans to export later.
General2 Nov 2026 · 2 minKulasekarapattinam Spaceport Targets First Launch in March–April 2027ISRO Chairman V Narayanan says Tamil Nadu's new launch complex in Thoothukudi is expected to fly its first rocket in March or April 2027.
General1 Nov 2026 · 2 minTamil Nadu's Battery Storage Policy: 2.5 GW in Three Years and a Full Charge WaiverTamil Nadu's new BESS policy targets 2.5 GW / 10 GWh of storage in three years, waives transmission and wheeling charges, and makes storage mandatory for new solar plants of 1 MW and above.
General19 Oct 2026 · 3 minTamil Nadu's $1.5 Trillion Target Needs a Second ScoreboardTamil Nadu ships 41.63% of India's electronics exports. A DT Next piece argues the $1.5 trillion goal needs public measures of capability, not just output.
General18 Oct 2026 · 3 minTamil Nadu's New Semiconductor Scheme Offers Up to 25% on Top of the CentreTamil Nadu's Semiconductor Ecosystem Scheme 2026 offers state subsidies of up to 25% across fabs, packaging, testing and materials, with local hiring conditions attached.
General15 Oct 2026 · 2 minChennai's ThinkMetal Raises Rs 27 Crore to Take Metal 3D Printing Into IndustryChennai startup ThinkMetal has raised Rs 27 crore, led by IAN Alpha Fund, to move its SistemT1 metal additive manufacturing system from pilots to wider deployment.
General14 Oct 2026 · 2 minVikram Solar Picks Oragadam for a 7.5 GWh Battery Storage PlantVSL PowerHive, a Vikram Solar subsidiary, will open a 7.5 GWh LFP battery storage assembly plant near Chennai in January 2027, with cell manufacturing planned from 2028.
General12 Oct 2026 · 2 minIIT Madras Sets Out to Map 100 Human Brains at Cellular ResolutionPM Modi dedicated IIT Madras's Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre to the nation and launched a global mission to map more than 100 human brains, alongside C-STROKE, a new ischaemic stroke atlas.
General11 Oct 2026 · 2 minTwin Hybrid Rockets Launch Near Chennai to Test Restart TechnologyMission RHUMI Twin 2026 launched two indigenous hybrid rockets from Tiruvidanthai on Chennai's East Coast Road to test restart and reignition, carrying student-built instruments.
General9 Oct 2026 · 2 minChennai's ePlane Signs Noida Airport MoU to Take eVTOL Air Taxis to AirportsIIT Madras-based ePlane will trial vertiports, charging and eVTOL operations at Noida International Airport, as it targets 80 aircraft by 2028 from its Thaiyur plant near Chennai.
General8 Oct 2026 · 3 minIIT Madras's Portable Robot Brings Stroke Hand Therapy to the BedsidePLUTO-H, built by IIT Madras's R2D2 lab with CMC Vellore, is a portable, gamified hand-rehab robot now certified and on sale through Thryv Rehab.
General5 Oct 2026 · 2 minChennai Port Goes Digital on Container Movement With 'Port Setu'Chennai Port has launched Port Setu, which tracks export containers between freight stations and the port gate using ANPR, OCR and RFID linked to Chennai Customs' ICEGATE.
General3 Oct 2026 · 2 minKuehne+Nagel Opens a Chennai Tech Centre to Build Its Own Logistics PlatformsThe Swiss logistics group plans around 250 people in Chennai by early 2027, working on platforms like SALOG, with Accenture helping build the team.
General1 Oct 2026 · 3 minChennai's GCC Boom Is Going Big. Is There Room Left for Smaller Entrants?Eight in ten Chennai GCC deals now happen in million-square-foot campuses. The city's next test is whether a company wanting 200 seats can still get in.
General21 Sept 2026 · 2 minStarbucks Is Reportedly Setting Up an 800-Job GCC in Tamil NaduStarbucks is set to open a Global Capability Centre in Tamil Nadu with about 800 roles, according to a Moneycontrol report citing sources. It follows Walgreens, Sigma and EY in the same month.
General21 Sept 2026 · 2 minIIT Madras Licenses Its 'Kadam' Prosthetic Knee to Spark Minda FoundationIIT Madras has signed a non-exclusive technology licence with Spark Minda Foundation to take its indigenous 'Kadam' prosthetic knee from the lab to wider use, as the foundation targets 50,000 limb fitments by 2030.
General19 Sept 2026 · 2 minWalgreens picks Chennai: the GCC map is becoming India's honest tech mapWalgreens signed an MoU for a Chennai global capability centre, 250 jobs in year one, at DLF Downtown Taramani. It's a marker of how far the city has moved up the value chain.
General18 Sept 2026 · 2 minWalgreens Picks Chennai for a New Global Capability CentreWalgreens is opening a Global Capability Centre in Chennai, expected to create 250+ jobs in year one, adding to Tamil Nadu's growing run of GCC wins.
General17 Sept 2026 · 2 minMindgrove, IIT Madras's Chip Startup, Eyes Its First Revenue This Fiscal YearIIT Madras-incubated Mindgrove Technologies expects first revenue from its own chips this fiscal year, with about six customers close and a 500-board pilot order.
General15 Sept 2026 · 3 minTamil Nadu's London MoUs Buy a GCC CorridorFour MoUs worth about Rs 12,300 crore were signed in London on 14 September. Two of them are GCC deals anchored to a newly named corridor on Mount-Poonamallee Road in Chennai.
General14 Sept 2026 · 5 minTamil Nadu's Next Industrial Policy Has to Climb the Value ChainTwo to three GCC enquiries a day, electronics exports up from $5.37B to $14.65B, and industry veterans arguing that attracting capital is no longer the same as building capability.
General13 Sept 2026 · 4 minIndustry as the First Customer: How Tamil Nadu Builds Deep TechTamil Nadu went from 2,032 registered startups in 2021 to more than 12,050. The number is not the interesting part, the structure that produced it is.
General12 Sept 2026 · 3 minEighteen Years From a Chennai Bench to a Marketed DrugAt Biotech Conclave 2026 in Chennai, panellists put a real number on India's biopharma ambition and named the gap between academic research and manufacturing that neither side currently owns.
General11 Sept 2026 · 3 minChennai's Raana Semiconductors Is Building the Machine Before the FabRaana Semiconductors will launch a commercial 12-inch CZ single-crystal machine within a year, aimed first at solar module makers, with a 40,000 sq ft plant coming up in Hosur.
General10 Sept 2026 · 3 minTamil Nadu Pitches Its Manufacturing Base to a Kazakh Delegation in ChennaiIndustries Minister S. Keerthana met a Kazakh delegation on the sidelines of the India-Kazakhstan Business Forum in Chennai, where about 65 Kazakh companies took part.
General8 Sept 2026 · 2 minZEISS Lands at IIT Madras Research ParkA 180-year-old optics company opens an Innovation Hub in Chennai, on a campus already holding 250+ research-driven companies, labs and startups. Why the address matters more than the announcement.
General6 Sept 2026 · 2 minKLA Tencor Buys 12 Acres on Chennai's Radial Road for Rs 1,020 CroreKLA Tencor Software India has acquired a 12-acre-plus parcel on the Pallavaram-Thoraipakkam Radial Road for more than Rs 1,020 crore - the single-largest land transaction in the zone, with a captive GCC expected on site.
General25 Aug 2026 · 2 minTamil Nadu's Next Electronics Bet Is the Boring Layer Underneath the EVTwo SIPCOT parks approved under EMC 2.0 with about Rs 1,012 crore of investment are aimed at motor controllers, battery systems, PCBs and sensors, the components India still largely imports.
General20 Aug 2026 · 4 minTamil Nadu's Engineering Seats Are Empty in the Wrong PlacesTNEA 2026 closed Round 2 at 41.15% filled, with 1,06,778 seats open. But 167 colleges sit below 10% occupancy while the top institutions fill up, and GenAI branches recorded zero takers.
General18 Aug 2026 · 3 minIIT Madras and CAMS renew their fintech lab, four years in, with AI now at the centreIIT Madras and CAMS have renewed CIFIL, their fintech innovation lab, four years after founding it. The renewal, and the shift toward AI, is the interesting part.
General18 Aug 2026 · 3 minA Chennai startup got its broadband chip right on the first tryChennai-based Aheesa Digital Innovations achieved first-pass silicon success with VIHAAN, an indigenous broadband networking SoC. Why getting it right the first time is the whole story.
General15 Aug 2026 · 3 minTamil Nadu Signed Four Quantum and Chip MoUs in One DayFour deep-tech MoUs at the Vetri Investment Conclave cover superconducting hardware, control electronics, hybrid systems and domestic silicon.
General15 Aug 2026 · 3 minThe Top Trending Repo Today Is a Design Opinion Wearing a Plugin29 editorial diagram types for Claude Code, built on a 4px grid and a one-accent-colour rule. Constraint as prompt engineering.
General14 Aug 2026 · 4 minA ₹400 Crore Deeptech Fund Closed in Chennai. The LP List Is the Story.SIDBI, the Kerala and Uttar Pradesh state governments and a growing pool of family offices backed Bluehill.vc's first fund. What that says about how Indian deeptech actually gets financed.
General13 Aug 2026 · 4 minIndia's Next Engineers Are Sitting in Government SchoolsA fourteen-year-old from a government school in East Godavari was picked for the world's first all-girls lunar CubeSat mission, from 12,000 applicants across 108 countries. How she was found says more about India's talent problem than the selection does.
General9 Aug 2026 · 4 minFrom a Punjab Village to a World Cup Final: How YFC Rurka Kalan Got ThereA grassroots football academy in Punjab sent a team of boys who had faced real hardship at home all the way to the final of the Street Child World Cup 2026.
General10 Dec 2025 · 5 minWhy Modern Lenders Need a Robust Loan Management SystemIn today’s fast-evolving financial landscape, a basic spreadsheet or legacy process is no longer enough for lenders, whether banks, NBFCs, fintechs, or microfinance institutions. A modern Loan Manage…
General10 Dec 2025 · 15 minUnlock Hidden Value: A Leader's Guide to Open-Source OCR in 2025 🚀In today's data-rich environment, vast amounts of valuable information remain trapped within scanned documents and images. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is the key to unlocking this p…
General20 Oct 2025 · 4 minArtificial Intelligence vs. Synthetic Intelligence: Are We Blurring the Lines Between Imitation and True Emergence?In the fast-evolving world of technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a household name, powering everything from chatbots to autonomous vehicles. But lurking on the horizon is a concept th…