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Cognizant a leading AI builder and technology services provider, today unveiled a new report focused on India titled “Smarter IT spend: From cost control to cost intelligence.” The report reveals that while technology investments are rising across industries, most enterprises lack an enterprise-wide unified view of IT spend, limiting their ability to translate technology investments into measurable business outcomes. Technology spends are becoming increasingly distributed across platforms, tools and business units making it harder for enterprises to track, manage, and optimize IT spend effectively, noted the report based on a survey of 105 senior business and technology leaders across India.   Disconnected data across systems, tools, and vendors prevents organizations from building a consolidated, enterprise-wide view of IT spend, slowing decision-making and limiting the ability to reallocate budgets as priorities evolve. The research reveals significant disparities in IT spe...

Swiggy Ltd, India’s pioneering on-demand convenience platform, today announced a strategic partnership with FITPASS, India's leading fitness and preventive health ecosystem serving over 11 million Fitsters, to encourage consumers to have a healthier lifestyle, beyond only healthy eating. Building on the success of its EatRight initiative, the collaboration rewards users who consistently choose better-for-you meals on Swiggy and rank high in the EatRight Streaks Challenge and also offers the eligible winners access to FITPASS 360, India’s first integrated wellness super membership spanning fitness, nutrition, and holistic health solutions. With FITPASS, Swiggy is taking healthy living a step further by connecting healthy food choices with the next step in everyday wellness. Food is often the first decision people make for their wellbeing, and FITPASS 360 helps extend that intent into a more active lifestyle. The partnership comes at a time when healthy eating is becoming a more re...

  The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has recorded a voluntary compliance rate of 99.7% in the first quarter of FY2026-27, with marketers across size and footprint complying with ASCI’s recommendations on ad modifications. This is a notable outcome given the fragmented and fast-moving nature of India’s digital advertising ecosystem. This is the highest ever voluntary compliance rate recorded by ASCI. The voluntary compliance rate across FY2025-26 was 86%, as reported in ASCI’s annual complaints report earlier this year. In FY2024-25, it was 83%. During Q1 FY2026-27, ASCI processed 1,616 cases related to 1,089 advertisements   across sectors. Of the 1,089 ads, 179 involved influencer advertising, reflecting ASCI’s continued oversight of the rapidly evolving digital advertising ecosystem. This scale of voluntary compliance is particularly significant given the nature of the digital advertising ecosystem itself. Across platforms, formats and players, it is dis...

             -  By Capt. (Dr.) A.Y. Rajendra, CEO – Animal Nutrition Business, Godrej Agrovet Limited   India’s dairy sector must urgently strengthen its resilience to climate change as predicted El Niño conditions threaten a deficient monsoon, prolonged heatwaves and rising heat stress on cattle. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has projected monsoon rainfall at around 90% of the long-period average, with a 60% probability of a deficient season. This raises concerns for milk production, as delayed or weak monsoons offer little relief from extreme summer temperatures. While India is the world’s largest milk producer, its productivity remains low. Average milk yield is only 4.87 kg per cow per day, compared to the global average of 7.18 kg. Heat stress further widens this gap. Studies show drought conditions can reduce milk yields by over 25%, while global evidence from El Niño-affected dairy systems indicates production losses of...

Wyzr, one of India's leading nonfiction publishers,  announced the launch of  The Millionaire Employee: An Insider's Guide to Creating ESOP Wealth  by Sandeep Jethwani, co-founder of Dezerv. The book is now available on Amazon, airport stores and at leading bookstores across India. ESOPs have become one of India's largest wealth creation engines. Employee stock option wealth in the country now totals ₹ 14.2 lakh crore, roughly 2.5 times the size of the entire PMS industry. In 2024, HDFC Bank employees alone exercised over ₹ 5,200 crore in stock options, more than all Series B+ startups combined liquidated that year. The Flipkart acquisition minted over three thousand crorepatis, many of whom went on to build companies now worth a combined $25 billion.   Despite the growing adoption of ESOPs in India, there is no definitive playbook on creating life-changing wealth through them. Employees piece together answers from blog posts, LinkedIn threads and Reddit forums...

Apollo Spectra Hospital, Alwarpet, has strengthened its women's healthcare services with the introduction of the Hologic Selenia 3D AI Genius Mammography System and Comprehensive Breast Ultrasound Services. The latest addition to the hospital's breast care programme combines advanced breast imaging with dedicated ultrasound services to support earlier detection, more accurate diagnosis and personalised care for women. B reast cancer continues to be the leading cancer among women in India, making timely screening and early diagnosis more important than ever. Tamil Nadu reports one of the highest breast cancer burdens in the country and is among the top three states nationally, with more than 700 disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) per 1,00,000 women, behind only Telangana. This high burden is due to socioeconomic development, including delayed first childbirth, lower parity, higher rates of obesity, shorter breastfeeding duration, and physical inactivity. Within the state, ...