New Delhi [India], July 16: Here’s a question most people never think to ask until something goes wrong: how do you actually know your lab report is accurate?
You walk in, give a blood sample, wait a day or two, and get a report full of numbers and reference ranges. You trust it because… well, what else would you do? But here’s the uncomfortable truth about India’s diagnostics industry: it’s massively fragmented, only loosely regulated in many pockets, and the difference in quality between labs can be significant. That’s exactly why one four-letter term matters more than most people realize: NABL.
What NABL Actually Means
NABL stands for the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories. It’s India’s official accreditation body that evaluates labs against strict, internationally aligned quality standards, covering everything from equipment calibration and staff qualification to sample handling and result verification.
A lab doesn’t get NABL-accredited by simply applying for it. It goes through rigorous audits, proficiency testing, and continuous quality checks. In simple terms: an NABL-accredited lab has proven, on record, that its testing processes meet a benchmark of accuracy and consistency that unaccredited labs haven’t demonstrated.
Why This Is Suddenly a Bigger Deal Than Before
For years, NABL accreditation was something labs mentioned quietly on their websites. That’s changing fast.
Health insurance companies are now making NABL accreditation increasingly non-negotiable for empanelment — meaning if your lab isn’t accredited, your reports may not even be accepted for certain insurance claims or reimbursements. Corporate employers offering health packages to staff are following the same logic, increasingly mandating NABL-accredited reports as standard.
And consumers are catching on too. What used to be a niche concern is now a genuine decision factor — even in smaller cities, people are starting to ask for accreditation certificates before trusting a lab with something as important as their health data.
What Happens If Your Lab Isn’t Accredited
This isn’t about scaremongering; it’s about understanding the real, practical risks:
Inconsistent results. Without standardised quality checks, the same sample tested twice could return different values, leading to confusion or a missed diagnosis.
Rejected insurance claims. Many insurers now specifically require NABL-accredited reports, meaning a non-accredited report could complicate or delay a claim.
Delayed or incorrect treatment. A doctor makes clinical decisions based on your report — if the underlying testing process isn’t reliable, the treatment plan built on it won’t be either.
How This Plays Out in Practice
Dr. B. Lal Clinical Laboratory has built its entire reputation around this exact principle — that a diagnostic report is only as good as the process behind it. As a NABL-accredited pathology and diagnostics lab, every test — from a routine CBC to a comprehensive full body checkup — goes through standardized, audited processes designed to eliminate the guesswork.
This matters just as much for a simple thyroid test as it does for something more complex like a cardiac risk panel or genetic screening. Accuracy isn’t a feature you notice when everything goes right — it’s the thing you desperately need when a decision about your health, or a loved one’s, depends on it.
What You Should Actually Do
Before your next blood test, take thirty seconds to check:
Does the lab display its NABL accreditation certificate, physically or online?
Is the certificate current (accreditations are renewed periodically, not permanent)?
Does the lab’s website or reception staff readily share this information without hesitation?
If the answer to any of these is unclear, that’s worth pausing on. Your health decisions are only as good as the data behind them — and that data starts with a lab you can actually verify.
Explore NABL-accredited testing and health checkup packages at https://blallab.com
DR. KARAN MAURYA –
LAB DIRECTOR AND HEAD OF CENTER OF EXCELLENCE – LABORATORY MEDICINE
DR B LAL CLINICAL LABORATORY
An experienced pathologist and laboratory director specialising in laboratory quality, diagnostic excellence, and operational leadership. Focused on implementing advanced technologies and best practices to improve precision, efficiency, and patient outcomes.
New Delhi [India], July 16: Suchitra Academy proudly announces the continued success and impact of its Makerspaces Innovation Lab, a dynamic learning ecosystem that is transforming education through experiential learning, innovation, and hands-on exploration.
Designed to bridge the gap between classroom concepts and real-world applications, the Makerspaces Innovation Lab empowers students to become creators, innovators, and problem-solvers. Equipped with advanced technologies including Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), 3D Printing, CNC Milling, Precision Manufacturing tools, and Engineering Design Systems, the lab provides students with opportunities to learn by doing, experiment with ideas, and develop practical solutions to real-world challenges.
The Innovation Lab serves as a collaborative space where students engage in interdisciplinary projects that foster critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, and technical proficiency. Through project-based learning, students gain exposure to emerging technologies while developing essential future-ready skills such as design thinking, computational thinking, engineering design, and innovation management.
Over the years, students from the Makerspaces Innovation Lab have showcased remarkable achievements at national and international platforms. Their innovative projects addressing sustainability, environmental conservation, accessibility, automation, and smart technologies have received recognition at prestigious events including IEEE YESIST12, Maker Faire, Junior Make-a-Thon at IIT Madras, and various innovation challenges and hackathons.
The lab also hosts regular innovation showcases and Tinker Zone exhibitions, where students present prototypes, robotics solutions, IoT applications, renewable energy models, and engineering projects that demonstrate their ability to apply knowledge in meaningful ways. These experiences nurture an entrepreneurial mindset and encourage students to develop solutions that create a positive impact on society.
By fostering a culture of curiosity, experimentation, and continuous learning, the Makerspaces Innovation Lab is redefining education beyond traditional classroom boundaries. It enables learners to explore their passions, transform ideas into tangible innovations, and build confidence as future leaders in science, technology, engineering, and design.
As education continues to evolve, Suchitra Academy remains committed to providing an environment where innovation thrives, creativity flourishes, and every student is empowered to imagine, create, and inspire. The Makerspaces Innovation Lab stands as a testament to this vision–preparing young minds not just for the future, but to shape it.
The Madhya Pradesh Football Association today announced the 7th season of the Madhya Pradesh Premier League, the state’s top-tier football competition, alongside a partnership with India Khelo Football to build a talent pathway from Madhya Pradesh’s 55 districts into the league.
MPFA has appointed India Khelo Football as its Official Grassroots Development Partner for the state.
Madhya Pradesh has over 11,000 registered footballers and more than 500 affiliated clubs across 54 district associations. The gap has never been talent. It has been the route from a district ground to a professional trial.
That route is what the partnership will build. India Khelo Football will run grassroots programmes and talent identification across the state, feeding players toward MPPL clubs and beyond. The organisation will also bring Project Naari Shakti, its girls-exclusive football programme, to Madhya Pradesh, and extend IKF Pathway 360 — a career pathway for the ninety-nine percent of young footballers who will not turn professional, but who can still build a life inside the game as coaches, referees, physios, and administrators.
India Khelo Football has worked with over 50,000 players across 135 cities and villages in five years, reaching border towns, tribal belts, Naxal-affected regions, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Seven programmes have already run in Madhya Pradesh.
Mr. Amit Ranjan Deb, Hony Secretary, Madhya Pradesh Football Association, said: “The Madhya Pradesh Premier League has given our state a competitive stage for six seasons. What we have needed is a stronger pipeline into it. India Khelo Football brings a proven grassroots record and a philosophy that matches ours — every district, not just the big cities. MPFA welcomes them as our Official Grassroots Development Partner and asks all our district associations and clubs to work with them.”
Phani Bhushan, Founder, India Khelo Football, said: “Madhya Pradesh has eleven thousand registered players and eight approved grounds. That arithmetic tells you everything — the problem was never the player, it was the pathway. MPFA has built the stage. Our work is to make sure the boy in Chhindwara and the girl in Rewa can find their way onto it. Football is our entry point. What we are really building is a career, and a life, inside the game.”
The 7th Madhya Pradesh Premier League season begins 26-September 2026.
India Khelo Football is a pan-India grassroots football development organisation working across 135+ cities and villages since 2020. Fully Schedule VII CSR compliant across education, health, gender equity, livelihood, and sports development.
HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA — July 16, 2026 — Wreltik today announced full availability across India at [https://app.wreltik.com], giving individual creators, D2C startups, growing brands, and agencies neuroscience-grounded predictions on how audiences are likely to respond to video and image content.
Upload a video or image and receive scores across six cognitive dimensions plus 74-region cortical predictions in minutes — delivering the same class of insight once limited to organizations with large research budgets. No panels. No labs. No weeks of waiting.
“Traditional ad testing and surveys have always been out of reach for most Indian creators and small brands. Wreltik was built to change that,” said Rakesh Bharadwaj Anupindi, Founder of Wreltik and Adhishtanam Research. “At the same time, we are extending the underlying brain-prediction models into high-stakes environments where cognitive performance and human endurance directly determine safety, productivity, and outcomes on a global scale.”
Why Indian Creators and Brands Can No Longer Afford Uncertainty
In India’s fast-moving digital economy, where attention is won or lost in seconds and every media rupee matters, launching content without understanding its likely neural impact leaves results to chance. Wreltik replaces post-launch guesswork with pre-launch foresight, giving every creator and brand — from solo Reels creators to scaling D2C companies — the ability to optimize for attention, memory, emotional resonance, and cognitive load before committing spend.
Current Product: Video & Image Brain-Response Prediction
Wreltik’s live platform uses advanced deep learning models (VideoMAE backbone with LoRA fine-tuning and distillation techniques) trained to predict neural activation patterns aligned with the Destrieux cortical atlas. It delivers repeatable metrics on Visual Engagement, Emotional Arousal, Reward Valuation, Attention Capture, Memory Potential, and Cognitive Load. This is predictive modeling grounded in neuroanatomy, built for the speed of modern content creation.
Research & Development Roadmap: Extending Neural Prediction to Critical Global Verticals
Adhishtanam Research is currently developing and alpha-testing extensions of the brain-prediction models beyond advertising content. The strategic objective is to apply the same neuroanatomical grounding to high-stakes operational and environmental challenges worldwide. Key verticals in active research include:
Heavy Industry & Extractive Operations
Focus on deep-shaft mining, offshore platforms, heavy manufacturing, and nuclear facilities. Research is extending the models to predict cognitive load, spatial anxiety, and fatigue in extreme confined environments. The aim is to inform the redesign of ambient lighting, acoustics, and visual systems to reduce stress responses while supporting clearer cognitive function — with the goal of helping minimize human-error incidents and optimize endurance in safety-critical roles.
Space & Extreme Environments
Targeting orbital stations, long-duration spaceflight, lunar bases, and deep-sea operations. Research explores sensory and communication design principles that help preserve psychological stability during prolonged isolation by mitigating chronic stress and sensory deprivation effects.
Climate, Environment & Disaster Response
Applying neuro-prediction to emergency shelter design and crisis communications. The work focuses on spatial and linguistic configurations that reduce mass panic responses while increasing the likelihood of actionable behavior across diverse populations.
IT, Cybersecurity, Finance & High-Stakes Services
Developing principles for neuro-adaptive interfaces and high-stakes communication design. Applications under exploration include systems that help maintain cognitive clarity under pressure and linguistic framing that supports clearer decision-making.
Additional verticals in the broader research program include Agriculture & Sustainable Food Systems, Healthcare & Education, and longer-term exploration of macro-scale applications. All extensions build on the core strength of predicting cognitive and emotional brain responses, with the aim of supporting excellent outcomes in fields where human performance under pressure has outsized consequences. These initiatives are designed to be globally relevant.
Accessible Today, Visionary for Tomorrow
Wreltik’s current platform is live and immediately useful for creators and brands optimizing video and image content. The research roadmap demonstrates a deliberate path toward broader impact in sectors that shape safety, sustainability, and human performance worldwide.
Transparent Pricing Designed for Creators and Scale
Credit-based plans with low-friction entry points: Quick top-ups for occasional use or testing, monthly plans for regular creators and small teams, and higher-volume options for agencies and enterprises. All plans include full access to the six cognitive dimensions and 74-region predictions.
Wreltik is available now at [https://app.wreltik.com] and [https://wreltik.com]. Free sign-up includes visible credit balance. Content is processed server-side with strong privacy controls.
About Wreltik & Adhishtanam Research
Wreltik is a neuroscience-grounded AI platform developed by Adhishtanam Research that predicts how human brains are likely to respond to video and image content. The models map content to 74 cortical regions across six cognitive dimensions. Adhishtanam Research is actively extending these predictive capabilities into additional high-impact verticals while maintaining a commitment to rigorous, evidence-aligned development.
New Delhi [India], July 15: Acexm7 Events Private Limited, one of India’s leading organizers of B2B trade exhibitions and conferences, has announced the postponement of the 18th IPCA Electronics Expo and select co-located and associated events, originally scheduled for 2026, to January 2027.
The decision follows extensive consultations with key stakeholders, including the Indian Printed Circuit Association (IPCA), Bharat Smart Factory & Automation Expo, Bharat Chemical Tech Expo, India Surface Treatment & Finishing Expo (ISTF), India Adhesives & Bonding Show, FabTech, industry partners, exhibitors, and venue authorities. The revised schedule is intended to ensure a stronger, larger, and more impactful edition that better serves the rapidly evolving electronics manufacturing ecosystem.
Key Reasons for the Postponement
Continued increases in raw material costs and ongoing supply chain challenges impacting industry participation and investment plans.
Global geopolitical uncertainties and economic volatility affecting market sentiment and business confidence.
Delays in exhibitor confirmations and visitor commitments, with many stakeholders requesting additional preparation time to maximize participation and return on investment.
Alignment with an improved industry outlook and major government initiatives such as Make in India, the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme, and the vision of Viksit Bharat @2047.
Mr. Anupreet Singh Jaggi, Managing Director & CEO of Acexm7 Events Private Limited, said:
“The decision to postpone the 18th IPCA Electronics Expo to January 2027 has been made after careful deliberation and in the best interests of the industry. While we remain fully committed and prepared to deliver an outstanding event, current market conditions call for additional time for stakeholders to plan and participate effectively.
This postponement will enable us to present a larger and more impactful edition featuring stronger international participation, advanced technology showcases, enhanced buyer-seller engagement, and greater business opportunities. We remain committed to supporting the continued growth and global competitiveness of India’s electronics manufacturing sector.”
The rescheduled events will be hosted at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, leveraging the venue’s world-class infrastructure and facilities. Detailed event dates, floor plans, participation packages, and enhanced exhibitor benefits will be announced shortly.
Acexm7 Events extends its sincere appreciation to all partners, exhibitors, industry associations, and stakeholders for their understanding, cooperation, and continued support. The team is actively working towards delivering an even stronger edition that reflects the resilience, innovation, and growth potential of the Indian electronics industry.
Acexm7 Events (Ace Exhibitions) is a premier organizer of specialized B2B trade exhibitions and conferences in India, serving sectors including electronics manufacturing, lighting and home technology, industrial automation, surface treatment, medical devices, and emerging technologies.
Committed to creating high-quality business platforms that drive industry growth and innovation, Acexm7 collaborates with leading industry associations, including IPCA and ELCOMA, to deliver meaningful networking opportunities and business outcomes for exhibitors and visitors alike.
The Pune agency built its name on traditional SEO. Now it’s betting that AI search, Google Business Profiles and paid media all need to work as one system, not four separate contracts.
Pune, India — Wednesday, 15 July 2026 — Brainmine Web Solutions has been writing meta descriptions and chasing backlinks since 2012. This month, the Pune-based agency is formalizing something its team has been building toward for a while: a combined AI SEO, performance marketing, social media and local SEO offering, aimed at businesses tired of hiring a different vendor for every channel. The announcement comes as search itself keeps splitting into pieces, part traditional Google results, part AI-generated answers, part Google Maps and reviews, part whatever shows up in someone’s Instagram feed.
“A few years ago, our clients cared about one thing: where do I rank on Google,” said Ashwani Fotedar, Founder and CEO of Brainmine Web Solutions. “Now they’re asking whether ChatGPT even knows their business exists, whether their Google reviews are quietly costing them customers, and whether their last five Instagram posts did anything at all. Those aren’t separate problems anymore. Treating them like separate problems is exactly how a brand ends up fragmented, with a marketing budget nobody can fully explain. We built this suite so one team is accountable for all of it.”
That shift isn’t just anecdotal. A Princeton University study, widely cited across the SEO industry over the past year, found that some of the tactics that work best for ranking in classic Google search can actually hurt a brand’s visibility inside AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity, since those systems don’t reward pages the same way a search algorithm does. Brainmine has operated as a digital marketing company in Pune for over a decade, and says this is the first stretch in that decade where the fundamentals of the discipline had to change, not just the tactics. Meanwhile, local visibility now lives almost entirely inside a business’s Google Business Profile, and social platforms keep rewarding accounts that post consistently over ones that run the occasional campaign. None of these shifts happened in isolation, which is largely why Brainmine stopped selling them separately.
AI SEO: Getting Cited by the Tools Replacing Ten Blue Links
Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity a question today and you’ll often get a direct answer, not a list of sites to click through. That’s the problem Brainmine’s AI SEO agency team was built to solve: helping a brand become the source an AI system actually cites, instead of one of a hundred pages it skimmed and ignored. Officially, the discipline goes by two names, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), and both come down to the same basic idea: make a brand’s information structured and trustworthy enough that tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews and Microsoft Copilot choose to repeat it.
In practice, that starts with an audit of how a brand currently shows up inside AI systems and knowledge graphs, then moves into rebuilding the technical backbone, schema markup, site architecture, the kind of code most customers never see, so machines can parse it correctly. From there, Brainmine’s writers focus on what the team calls information gain: content that adds something competitors haven’t already said, rather than repeating it in slightly different words. The rest of the work is less glamorous but just as important, mapping the long, conversational questions people now type into AI chatbots, earning citations on domains that actually carry weight with these systems, and tracking how often a brand’s name comes up compared with its competitors.
There’s also a newer problem Brainmine has had to build a response to: AI hallucination. When ChatGPT or a similar tool confidently states something false about a business, outdated pricing, a discontinued product, a claim that was never true, that error can spread faster than any human could correct it by hand. Brainmine’s team tracks these mentions and works to fix them through updated structured data and digital PR placed on sites AI systems tend to trust.
The agency says clients on its AI SEO program have seen AI citations climb by an average of 93% within six months, with work spanning enterprise clients in cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare and logistics, alongside SaaS, e-commerce, legal, education, real estate and travel brands, industries where trust plays an outsized role in the buying decision.
Performance Marketing: A Decade-Old Service, Finally Named Properly
Performance marketing isn’t new for Brainmine. The agency has quietly run paid campaigns for over a decade, but it’s being folded formally into the new suite as its own growth engine rather than an add-on. A team of more than 80 people, split across media buying, data and creative, now runs campaigns on Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn and Amazon as a full-service performance marketing agency, with a stated emphasis on what happens after the click, not just the click itself. Brainmine puts the number at over ₹1 billion in cumulative ad spend managed, across more than 500 businesses in India, the US and the UK.
The agency’s process runs through roughly seven stages, though in practice it rarely feels that linear: auditing where a client’s funnel is actually leaking money, studying what competitors are doing well, building audience segments from first- and third-party data, producing creative for each platform instead of reusing one asset everywhere, launching campaigns, adjusting bids and placements in real time with the help of AI tools, and scaling whatever’s working while protecting return on ad spend. Brainmine keeps its creative work in-house, on the theory that a well-targeted ad with mediocre creative still underperforms a slightly less targeted ad that actually stops someone mid-scroll.
Some of the outcomes the agency points to: a fashion D2C brand scaled to roughly ₹10 crore in monthly revenue within a year at a 4.5x return on ad spend, a 62% drop in customer acquisition cost for a global enterprise CRM platform, around 80,000 monthly app installs for a neo-bank client, and a 35% lift in trial-to-paid conversions for an EdTech brand. Across its full performance marketing book, Brainmine reports an average 42% increase in ROAS and 3.2x traffic growth, and holds both Google Premier Partner and Meta Business Partner status.
Local SEO: Making Sure the Business Down the Street Actually Shows Up
Not every Brainmine client is trying to rank nationally. A large part of the new suite is built for brick-and-mortar and multi-location businesses whose growth depends on being the listing someone taps while standing two streets away. That work centers on Google Business Profile management: the unglamorous, ongoing job of keeping a business’s Google presence accurate, active and trustworthy enough to outrank the shop next door.
In practice, that covers a handful of things most business owners never have time for themselves: keeping the Google Business Profile itself in good shape, responding to reviews quickly and personally instead of with a copy-pasted line, and reading through review sentiment on a monthly basis to catch a bad pattern before it becomes a lost-customer pattern. Brainmine also tracks performance analytics, which is really just a plain-English answer to the question every owner eventually asks: how many people are actually finding me on Google, and what are they doing once they do?
The rest of the offering includes scheduled, SEO-optimized posts so a profile doesn’t look abandoned, footfall analysis that shows when customers actually walk in the door, a competitor summary report that benchmarks a business against the other listings sitting next to it in search results, and a local ranking report that tracks exactly where a business stands for the keywords that matter to it. Most engagements start with three to five days of setup and optimization, followed by about a week of geo-tagging and media work, with reviews, posting and reporting continuing on an ongoing basis after that.
“Most small business owners have no idea why they’re losing customers to the shop next door,” said Fotedar. “Someone searches, sees three listings, picks one, usually in under ten seconds, based on a star rating or how recently a profile was updated. That decision happens before anyone ever walks through the door. Local SEO exists to make sure it’s your door they walk through, whether you’re running one location or three hundred.”
Social Media: The Layer That Has to Agree With Everything Else
The suite’s social media piece covers organic strategy, paid social, content production and community management across Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. It’s arguably the least technical of Brainmine’s services, and, in the team’s view, one of the easiest to get wrong by treating it as separate from everything else a brand is doing.
The logic is straightforward: a brand’s AI SEO work shapes what ChatGPT says about it, its local SEO work shapes what shows up when someone searches nearby, and its social media presence is usually the last place a customer checks before deciding whether any of that was actually true. If the tone doesn’t match, or the last post is three months old, all the other work stops mattering as much. Keeping the three in sync is a big part of why Brainmine decided to sell them as one service instead of three separate ones.
Who This Is Actually For
Across its services, Brainmine now counts clients in SaaS and technology, finance, healthcare, e-commerce, B2B enterprise, legal, education, real estate, travel, manufacturing, food and beverage, gaming, automotive and entertainment, plus plenty of local, single-location retail businesses that will never call themselves an enterprise but still need to show up on Google Maps. The underlying work, building authority, measuring what’s working, adjusting what isn’t, looks the same whether the client is a multinational software company or a single restaurant a few streets from Brainmine’s own Pune office. Only the tactics change.
One Agency, Every Channel
Put together, Brainmine’s complete service offering now includes:
AI SEO (GEO/AEO) — helping brands get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google’s AI Overviews and Copilot, run by Brainmine’s dedicated AI SEO agency team
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — technical, on-page and content-driven organic growth strategies from Brainmine, a well-established digital marketing company in Pune
Performance Marketing — full-funnel campaigns across Google, Meta, LinkedIn and Amazon, run by a full-service performance marketing agency
Local SEO — Google Business Profile management, review management, footfall analysis and local ranking reports for brick-and-mortar and multi-location businesses
Social Media Marketing — organic and paid social strategy, content and community management
Website Design & Development — custom websites and e-commerce builds meant to convert, not just look good
Brainmine has grown from a small SEO shop founded in 2012 into a team of more than 85 people that has worked with over 850 clients, in India and abroad, across retail, hospitality, healthcare, real estate, fashion, food and beverage and B2B. None of that growth happened because the agency picked one channel and stuck with it. It happened because the definition of search kept changing, and Brainmine kept rebuilding around it.
“We’ve learned the hard way that growth doesn’t come from one channel, it comes from consistency across all of them,” Fotedar added. “What’s different now is how many places a business has to show up correctly at once. Our job is making sure our clients don’t have to become experts in AI search, Google’s algorithm and social media all in the same week. That’s what we’re here for.”
Brainmine is onboarding clients to its expanded AI SEO and local SEO services immediately, across all of its existing accounts.
About Brainmine Web Solutions
Founded in 2012 and based in Pune, India, Brainmine Web Solutions is a full-service digital marketing agency working across SEO, AI SEO (GEO/AEO), performance marketing, social media and website design and development. The agency’s team of more than 85 people has worked with over 850 clients in India and internationally, helping businesses from single-location stores to large enterprises grow their visibility and revenue across search, social and AI-driven discovery.
Brainmine’s client base spans multiple countries, and its teams are built to handle both the technical depth enterprise SEO and AI visibility work require and the day-to-day speed needed to run local SEO programs for brands with dozens or hundreds of locations. The agency holds Google Premier Partner and Meta Business Partner status and continues to build out specialist teams as search and discovery keep changing.
India Khelo Football (IKF) proudly announces that its Brand Ambassador, Anaya Sehgal (17), has successfully raised ₹1.66 lakh through the “Anaya Goal 2025” initiative, recording a 66% increase over the funds raised during the inaugural campaign in 2024.
Launched in 2024, Anaya Goal is a unique player-led fundraising initiative where Anaya pledges to convert every goal she scores into an opportunity for a young girl to play football. During the 2025 season, Anaya represented Lion City Sailors in the Singapore Women’s Premier League (WPL) while also playing for her High School Varsity team. Across both competitions, she scored 16 goals, inspiring supporters to contribute towards her mission.
The funds raised will be utilised by India Khelo Football to support the journey of girls who dream of playing football but are held back by financial constraints. Through IKF’s grassroots network across India, the support will directly reach aspiring young girls in underserved communities and for them to showcase their talent to professional clubs and academies in India.
Speaking about the initiative, Anaya Sehgal said:
“Football has given me confidence, friendships and opportunities that have shaped who I am. Through Anaya Goal, I want every goal I score to help another girl begin her own football journey. Knowing that my performances on the pitch can create opportunities for someone else makes every goal even more meaningful.”
Since becoming an IKF Brand Ambassador in 2024, Anaya has championed girls’ participation in football and has used her own journey to encourage more young girls to pursue the sport regardless of their background.
Building on the success of the past two editions, Anaya Goal returns for the 2026 season. This year, Anaya will represent Albirex Jurong in the Singapore Women’s Premier League alongside her High School Varsity team, continuing her pledge to transform every goal into an opportunity for another girl to access the game.
As India Khelo Football continues its Project IKF Naari Shakti mission to increase girls’ participation in football across the country, initiatives like Anaya Goal demonstrate how athletes themselves can become catalysts for creating access, opportunity and hope for the next generation.
About India Khelo Football
India Khelo Football (IKF) is one of Asia’s largest grassroots football talent identification platforms, having assessed over 55,000 young footballers across 135+ cities and villages. Through its talent identification programmes, player development initiatives and Project IKF Naari Shakti, IKF is committed to ensuring that every aspiring footballer, regardless of gender or financial background, has an opportunity to be discovered and supported. (www.indiakhelofootball.com/Anaya-Goal)
New Delhi [India], July 14: For much of the past decade, progress in artificial intelligence has been measured by scale. General-purpose models grew larger and more capable, able to answer questions across almost every field. A different phase is now taking shape. In professions such as law, medicine, finance and engineering, the more relevant question is no longer which model knows the most about everything, but which is built to understand one field exceptionally well.
India’s All India Bar Examination has become an unexpectedly clear window onto that shift. In the most recent evaluation, LeXi AI, a platform built specifically for the Indian legal system, recorded the highest score among five AI systems tested on the examination, ahead of GPT 5.5, Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.8 and DeepSeek v3.2. It is the second consecutive evaluation in which the domain-specific model has led the field.
A public benchmark, a repeatable result
The AIBE occupies a distinct position in the Indian legal system. Conducted by the Bar Council of India, it is the qualifying examination that every aspiring advocate must clear before entering practice. Both the paper and the official answer key are published, the benchmark can be independently reproduced by anyone who chooses to run it.
In this evaluation, all five models were given the official AIBE 20 paper under identical conditions, with no specialised prompting, and each answer was scored against the Bar Council’s published key.
The results were as follows.
LeXi AI answered 94 of 95 questions correctly, with one incorrect and none unanswered, for an accuracy of 98.95%.
GPT 5.5 followed with 92 correct answers, three incorrect and none unanswered, for an accuracy of 96.84%. Gemini 3.1 Pro answered 91 questions correctly, with three incorrect and one unanswered, for an accuracy of 95.79%. Claude Opus 4.8 recorded 86 correct answers, with nine incorrect and none unanswered, for an accuracy of 90.53%. Deepseek v3.2 answered 85 questions correctly, with ten incorrect and none unanswered, for an accuracy of 89.47%.
Artificial intelligence is moving quickly from experimentation into everyday professional work. Law firms are testing AI-assisted research and drafting, corporate legal teams are evaluating it for contract review and compliance, and courts in several jurisdictions are examining its role in improving access to justice. As that adoption deepens, one question matters more than any other: which systems can legal professionals rely on when accuracy is not optional.
The AIBE result does not answer every part of that question. What it provides is measurable, publicly verifiable evidence that a system designed specifically around Indian law can outperform leading general-purpose models on a transparent legal benchmark.
The rise of vertical AI
For years, the frontier of AI has been defined by general-purpose systems, and those systems have changed how people search, write and solve everyday problems. Professional work makes different demands. Law rests on statutes, judicial precedent, procedural rules and jurisdiction-specific reasoning that cannot be treated as general knowledge. On the evidence of benchmarks like this one, depth of domain expertise is coming to matter as much as the scale of the underlying model. Purpose-built systems approach the problem differently, training on a single field in depth rather than attempting to serve every profession at once.
More than a benchmark
The AIBE measures one dimension of legal capability. It does not test advocacy, judgment, ethics, negotiation or courtroom strategy, all of which remain human responsibilities. Benchmarks matter for a narrower reason, which is that they offer transparent and measurable evidence of technical capability. The significance here is not simply that one system scored highest. It is that a model built around Indian legal reasoning has now shown a measurable advantage over leading general-purpose systems on the country’s principal legal qualifying examination, across two consecutive evaluations.
Comment from LeXi AI
AI is entering a new phase. The future will not belong only to systems that know a little about everything. It will increasingly belong to those that understand one profession exceptionally well.
Law is among the most demanding of those professions. As a practising advocate myself, I do not believe lawyers need another general chatbot. They need technology that understands the language, structure and responsibilities of Indian law.
This result is encouraging because it supports that approach, and because it was measured on a public benchmark that anyone can check.
New Delhi [India], July 14:NKN Media successfully concluded the International Property Expo in Delhi, bringing together leading luxury global real estate developers and offering Indian investors an unparalleled opportunity to explore premium international property investment options under one roof. The two-day event attracted over 2,000 high-intent prospective buyers, with thousands of visitors attending the Expo to discover investment opportunities across key global markets.
The Expo featured an impressive showcase of residential and commercial developments, including luxury apartments, waterfront residences, premium villas, senior living communities, and high-return investment projects. Buyers also gained direct access to developers, financial experts, and investment consultants, enabling them to make informed decisions on overseas property investments.
Commenting on the overwhelming response, Mr. Abdul Majid Khan, Group CEO & MD of NKN Media, said, “The International Property Expo has once again demonstrated the growing appetite among Indian investors for global real estate. We witnessed thousands of visitors across both days, making this one of our most successful events. Our objective has always been to create a trusted platform where buyers can directly interact with reputed international developers and gain valuable investment insights.”
One of the key highlights of the Expo was an engaging session by Mr.Rizwan Sajan, Founder and Chairman of Danube Properties, who simplified the fundamentals of investing in Dubai’s thriving real estate market. He explained how investors can choose from a wide variety of offerings – from studio apartments to luxury residences; all while benefiting from flexible payment plans, and attractive rental yields. His practical insights received an enthusiastic response from attendees.
Another well-received session was led by Ian Gillespie, Founder & CEO of Westbank, who addressed several queries from prospective buyers regarding finance options and the Canadian real estate market. The interactive discussion provided valuable clarity for Indian investors exploring overseas property ownership and financing solutions.
The expo featured an impressive lineup of leading global developers, including Westbank, Danube Properties, BNW Developments, EMAAR, DAMAC, Sobha Realty, Binghatti, Azizi Developments, Imtiaz Developments, M3M, Omaxe, Omana Estates, New Heights, SPR, Dugasta, AFM Developments, Preview Properties, Navin’s, Meravilla Pool City, HRE Development, Fine Acers, AM Realty, Rustomjee and Sikka, among others. The strong participation from buyers, developers, and industry experts reaffirmed the growing interest of Indian investors in international real estate and reinforced NKN Media’s commitment to making global property investments more accessible and transparent.
After the humongous success of the Delhi edition, NKN Media has announced that the next International Property Expo will be held in Singapore on 29-30 August 2026, where leading developers from around the world will once again connect with global investors and homebuyers.
About NKN Media
NKN Media is a global media conglomerate headquartered in Dubai, with a strong presence across the UAE, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, Bahrain, India, and Sri Lanka. A 360-degree media powerhouse, it partners with leading broadcast networks including Republic TV, Aaj Tak, India Today, and Times Now, while also publishing SpiceRoute, the in-flight magazine of SpiceJet. With a growing portfolio of proprietary IPs, NKN Media continues to drive innovation and expansion across international markets.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 13: At just 13, Swara Jadhav has emerged as one of the biggest stories in Indian women’s cricket this year. The Mumbai left-arm spinner captured the imagination of the cricketing fraternity by finishing as the joint-highest wicket-taker and winning the Purple Cap in the inaugural T20 Mumbai Women’s League, firmly establishing herself as one of India’s brightest young prospects.
Behind Swara’s remarkable rise is Deepali Rokade, one of Indian cricket’s most accomplished coaches and currently a senior coach with the Rajasthan Royals Academy USA. Over the past two decades, Rokade has quietly built a reputation as a talent developer whose students have progressed to represent national teams, state sides, and elite pathways across India, the United States, and Japan.
A former Maharashtra captain, Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Award winner, and an NIS and ECB-certified coach, Rokade has spent more than 24 years identifying, mentoring, and producing high-performance cricketers. Her unique coaching journey has taken her from Maharashtra to the United States, where she continues to develop the next generation of players through the Rajasthan Royals Academy USA while also leading cricket development programmes in New Jersey.
Swara Jadhav’s breakout season is only the latest chapter in an impressive coaching legacy. Rokade has mentored Aparna Gurumurthy (USA Women’s National Team), Disha Dhingra (USA Women’s National Team), Lassya Bandaru (USA Nationals), Shiv Nikam (Japan National Team), Snehal Jadhav, former Maharashtra Under-19 captain and current Chairperson of the Maharashtra Senior Women’s Cricket Committee, Suraj Shinde, who represented India’s SGFI Under-16 team at the Commonwealth Cricket Series in Australia, national player Kanchan Fajge, Ishaan Unnithan, who played the Under-15 Nationals, along with promising cricketers Amil Shah and Koundinya.
Her coaching credentials extend far beyond producing talented individuals. Rokade served as National Selector for USA Women’s and Under-19 Cricket, helping shape the USA Under-19 programme that qualified for the ICC Under-19 Women’s T20 World Cup. Earlier, she coached Maharashtra’s Under-19 girls to National Championship titles in 2006, 2008, and 2011, guided India’s Under-16 School team to a silver medal at the Commonwealth Cricket Series in Australia, and was appointed as a selector for Maharashtra women’s cricket. She was also chosen by the Rajasthan Royals group to lead the inaugural coaching programme for NEOM in Abu Dhabi, reflecting her growing international stature as a coach.
At the Rajasthan Royals Academy USA, Rokade has played a key role in developing both boys’ and girls’ programmes, helping several players graduate to regional, national, and international cricket. She also established one of New Jersey’s most progressive girls’ cricket programmes and currently serves as Head Coach at West Windsor & Plainsboro High School, where she has built a structured cricket curriculum from the ground up.
“Every player is unique. My philosophy has always been to understand the individual first and then build a programme that brings out the best in them. Watching players like Swara Jadhav fulfil their potential and seeing others go on to represent their state or country is the greatest reward a coach can receive. My journey has always been about creating opportunities and helping young cricketers dream bigger,” said Deepali Rokade.
A decorated cricketer before becoming a coach, Rokade captained Maharashtra to two National Championship titles, won the Best All-Rounder in India award twice, and was conferred the prestigious Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Award, Maharashtra’s highest sporting honour. She is among the select few Indian coaches to hold both the National Institute of Sports (NIS) and England & Wales Cricket Board (ECB) coaching certifications.
With one of India’s brightest teenage cricketers making headlines and several of her former students now representing countries across the world, Deepali Rokade’s influence on the game continues to grow. From Mumbai maidans to the Rajasthan Royals Academy USA and international cricket, her coaching journey is proving that world-class talent can be nurtured with the right guidance, vision, and commitment.
About Deepali Rokade
Deepali Rokade is an NIS and ECB-certified cricket coach with more than 24 years of experience as a player, coach, selector, and high-performance mentor. She has worked with the Maharashtra Cricket Association, School Games Federation of India, USA Cricket, Rajasthan Royals Academy USA, and several elite development programmes, producing players who have gone on to represent India, the USA, Japan, and various state teams.
