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India Creates Over 10.18 Crore Digital Farmer IDs to Streamline Agricultural Benefits

The digital identification system is designed to provide farmers with a unified identity that can be connected with government schemes, agricultural records and support services. States are using Farmer IDs to simplify registrations and benefit delivery under programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi, Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Minimum Support Price-based procurement.

Ati Motors: The Indian Robotics Company Building Heavy-Duty Autonomous Vehicles for the Factory Floor

In April 2026, Ati Motors formally changed its name to Ati Robotics. The rebranding reflected its evolution from a manufacturer of autonomous vehicles into a broader industrial-automation company combining robots, fleet-management software, factory data and artificial-intelligence systems. Existing Sherpa product names, customer contracts and deployments continued under the new identity.

CSIR Transfers Four Indigenous Technologies to Industry

Three industrial diagnostic technologies developed by CSIR–Central Scientific Instruments Organisation—the Induction Motor Stethoscope, Portable Universal Motor-cum-Pump Performance Monitor and i-Power Quality Analyser—were licensed to Pump Academy Private Limited.