Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 16: The Indian Softball Cricket League (ISCL) on Saturday outlined an ambitious roadmap for its next phase of growth as it looks to build a structured and professional national platform for softball and tennis-ball cricketers across India. At a press conference held at the IAS Association in Bengaluru, ISCL Founder and President Dr. Gangadhar Raju, along with the league’s leadership, highlighted the progress made since its inception and unveiled plans to strengthen its franchise, player, brand and commercial ecosystem ahead of Season 2. Former India cricketers Suresh Raina and Harbhajan Singh are associated with ISCL as...
The Hidden Cost of Flu Season: Why Delhi’s H1N1 surge is a Workplace Crisis
Delhi has reported over 3,000+ cases of H1N1 this flu season. That’s a sixfold increase from last year. While headlines frame this strictly as a medical story dominated by symptoms, treatments, and health advisories, they leave out an important side of the story: what happens inside the office building where millions of people spend most of their time. This is not an isolated spike. India sees two seasonal flu peaks every year: one between January and March, and a second during the monsoon and post-monsoon months, roughly July through November. Each time, Indian businesses absorb a loss that never becomes...
Valiance Solutions Launches Audit AI, a New Point Solution Built on Its Multimodal Platform, to Automate End-to-End Audit Verification
Noida (Uttar Pradesh) [India], September 15: Valiance Solutions, a provider of applied AI solutions for enterprise and public-sector clients, today announced the launch of Audit AI, a new AI-led audit automation point solution built on top of its multimodal AI platform. Audit AI is designed to help audit and compliance teams move beyond manual, sample-based reviews toward complete, intelligence-driven verification of every transaction and voucher. Traditional audits remain constrained by manual voucher checks, limited sampling, and fragmented records. As transaction volumes grow, auditors are often forced to trade depth for speed—a gap that leads to missed anomalies, delayed closures, and...
Comprint founder Pankaj Sancheti outlines a practical approach to evaluating AI investments
New Delhi [India], September 15: Comprint founder Pankaj Sancheti has outlined a practical approach to evaluating artificial intelligence (AI) investments, drawing on more than three decades in technology. His advice centres on four decisions: which task to improve, how to test the system, what it will cost to get the work right and who will take responsibility after deployment. A quotation assistant illustrates why these decisions matter. An AI-generated document may look ready to send, but the price must be current, the configuration compatible, availability checked and commercial terms authorised. Producing it faster is not enough if the business cannot...
Built, Not Inherited: Varun Ajay Joshi on Being a First-Generation Entrepreneur
Born and brought up in Mumbai, shaped by sports, multidisciplinary in his expertise and driven by a purpose larger than conventional success, Varun Ajay Joshi’s five-year entrepreneurial journey is a story of choosing the harder road and continuing to build when there was no map. Before the Entrepreneur, There Was the Builder During his college years, Mr. Joshi began collaborating with friends and prominent individuals across different initiatives and capacities. It was during this period that he became a core founding member of a global festival that went on to scale into the Y20 and G20 ecosystem, with recognition from...
Ikris Pharma Network Launches Digital Platform for Named Patient Program
Named Patient Program brings medicine requests, regulatory documentation, and shipment tracking into a single platform for healthcare professionals and eligible patients to simplify global access to specialty medicines NOIDA, India — September 9, 2026 — Ikris Pharma Network today announced the launch of Named Patient Program, a digital platform designed to simplify regulatory-compliant access to specialty medicines that are approved in other regulated markets but not yet locally available. The platform is built to help healthcare professionals and eligible patients navigate the Named Patient Import process more efficiently, bringing documentation, order tracking, and communication into one secure interface. Many innovative...
Chanakya University’s Chanakya Convergence Forum Brings Together Space-Tech Leaders and Academia in Bengaluru
New Delhi [India], September 12: Chanakya University hosted the Chanakya Convergence Forum (CCF), an academia-industry engagement series, on September 10, 2026 at Accel LaunchPad, Koramangala. The inaugural edition brought together leaders and practitioners from India’s space technology ecosystem for an evening of knowledge sharing and networking around the future of India’s space economy. Themed “India’s Space Economy & The Next Decade,” the Forum opened with a keynote address from Dr. S. Somanath, Chancellor, Chanakya University and Former Chairman, ISRO, who spoke on the need for sustained investment in space research and allied sectors for national development. He urged industry partners...
National Centre RUSSIA offers Moscow showcase for Indian products at INNOPROM India
New Delhi [India], September 11: The National Centre RUSSIA has offered to showcase Indian products at its Moscow premises following a visit by India’s Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal and Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Anton Alikhanov to its exhibition at INNOPROM India in New Delhi. The proposal was outlined by Natalia Virtuozova, Director General of the National Centre RUSSIA, during the September 9–11 industrial exhibition at Bharat Mandapam. She said the National Centre wanted to build on its Indian debut by making Russian products available to Indian buyers and giving Indian producers an opportunity to present their goods...
Media Entrepreneur Mohammed Sayeed Shaikh (MS Shaikh) Announces Major Digital Expansion for ‘Fight Against Criminal’ Daily Newspaper
MUMBAI, INDIA — Prominent Indian journalist and media entrepreneur Mohammed Sayeed Shaikh, professionally recognized across national news sectors by his moniker MS Shaikh, has officially announced a targeted digital scale-up phase for his established daily news publication, Fight Against Criminal (FAC News), published by Aspect Multimedia Pvt Ltd. A government-registered daily newspaper (RNI No. MAHHIN/2016/71734) in continuous circulation since 2016, Fight Against Criminal operates both as a widely circulated regional print daily and an expanding online news portal (fightagainstcriminal.com). The network specializes in localized civic affairs, breaking national reporting, and deep crime and social analysis. Under Shaikh’s direct leadership as...
Elite Elevators Advances Hydraulic Lift Technology for Indian Homes
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], September 11: Hydraulic lifts have quietly become the practical answer for most Indian homes. They are mechanically simple, they run quietly, and they need a fraction of the civil work a conventional passenger lift demands. Elite Elevators has set out the specifications of its hydraulic elevators, a range built for compact and mid-sized homes, including houses that were finished long before a lift was considered. Why Do Hydraulic Lifts Suit Indian Homes? Most Indian houses are two to four storeys, occupied by four to six people, and already built by the time a lift is considered. Those...