Gurugram (Haryana) [India], August 14: Ask a room full of parents in India what they want their child to become, and you’ll hear ‘doctor’, ‘engineer’, or ‘maybe a civil servant’. Somewhere down the list, if it comes up at all, someone will mention pilot – usually followed by a comment about how expensive it is or how it’s “an uncertain path” or “whether it is a practical career at all”. Nobody says that about medicine, even though medicine is expensive too. Nobody says it about engineering.

That gap is worth sitting with, because it isn’t really about money. It’s about how we talk about the professions themselves.

Three professions, one kind of training; treated very differently

Medicine and engineering share a public image built on years of visible rigour: entrance exams, licensing boards, residencies, apprenticeships, and continuing certification. Most of us know the shape of the journey even if we’ve never lived it. Aviation has an equivalent structure – arguably a stricter one – and few outside the industry can describe it.

Nor is aviation training simply about learning to control an aircraft. A cadet must develop a working understanding of navigation, meteorology, aircraft systems, aerodynamics, regulations, human performance and operational decision-making. The knowledge is technical, the practical training is closely supervised, and progress depends on demonstrating competence at every stage. Aviation may follow a different educational route from medicine or engineering, but it is no less serious as a field of professional study.

A commercial pilot doesn’t finish training once and fly for forty years on the strength of a single certificate. Every six months, pilots undergo simulator checks and are tested again – not as a formality, but as a condition keeping their licence valid. Medical checks are recurring, not one-time. In a modern commercial jet, over 80 parameters are logged every second, which are reviewed and can be scrutinised. Almost no other job has so many aspects of their work being constantly recorded. Very few professions build recertification this deeply into the job itself, and yet the public conversation around aviation rarely mentions it. We talk about turbulence and delays. We don’t talk about the discipline that keeps both from becoming something worse.

At Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA), this is the part of the profession we prepare cadets for and the part that gets talked about the least. Cadets don’t just learn to fly an aircraft; they learn to be tested on flying it, over and over, for the rest of their working lives. That’s closer to how a surgeon or a structural engineer is trained than most people realize. Medicine got centuries to build its public mythology. Aviation, as a mass profession, has had decades.

What the job actually looks like

Talk to a first officer the morning of a flight, and the picture that emerges has little to do with the uniform. The day starts hours before boarding, with a briefing on weather, fuel, and route that the crew has to absorb and question, not just receive. A walk-around of the aircraft follows – a physical, methodical check of the machine they’re about to fly, done in person every time, regardless of how many times it’s been done before. In the cockpit, checklists run before the engines even start, a call-and-response between two pilots designed so neither one ever relies purely on memory.

Then there’s the actual flying, most of which is calm, exact, and almost invisible to passengers who assume the aircraft is largely flying itself. It isn’t. Every phase of the flight has a decision point behind it – when to climb, when to hold, what to do if something in the cockpit doesn’t look right – made by two people trained to think under pressure and to catch each other’s mistakes before they matter. Landing safely at the end of a routine flight is itself the product of hundreds of small correct decisions nobody outside the cockpit ever sees.

For a young cadet, this is the part worth aspiring to – not the layovers or the uniform, but the fact that by the time they’re a few years into the job, their judgement is trusted with hundreds of lives at a time and trusted enough that they’ll be tested on that judgement again and again for the rest of their career. Few professions hand a twenty-five-year-old that much responsibility this early, with this much structure built around making sure they’re ready for it.

A profession is judged by its worst day, not its best one

Part of why medicine and engineering command instant respect is that failure in those fields is visible, personal, and immediate – we understand exactly what’s at stake when something goes wrong. Aviation carries the same weight, but the industry has spent so much energy engineering failure out of the system that the public rarely sees what that effort looks like from the inside. Redundancy, checklists, standard operating procedures, and a culture that rewards reporting mistakes instead of hiding them – this is aviation’s version of medical protocol. Yet a profession that has quietly built some of the safest systems in industrial history gets less public credit for rigour than professions with far more visible failure rates.

That’s a communication problem as much as anything else. Doctors and engineers have decades of television, literature, and family folklore built around the training itself. Pilots have plenty of folklore too – it just tends to stop at the uniform and the travel, without going any further into what the job actually demands of a person’s judgement under pressure.

What changes the story

The fix isn’t a marketing campaign. It’s making the training itself visible, the way medical colleges and engineering institutes have made theirs visible for generations. Academies that publish what a cadet actually goes through – the hours, the failure rates in checkrides, the recurring exams that never really end – do more for the profession’s standing than any slogan could.

At Chimes, we’ve leaned into that visibility on purpose: standardized fleets, in-house maintenance, structured cadet pathways and training systems designed around consistency.

The principle is not very different from the one that governs a respected teaching hospital: training quality must be demonstrated through standards, systems and outcomes, not merely claimed. When an academy’s graduates are hired on the strength of their knowledge, discipline, and professional readiness that airlines expect, confidence begins to build not only in the institution but also in the profession itself. Aviation has that signal available. It just hasn’t been telling that story out loud.

The bigger opportunity

There’s a reason this matters beyond professional pride. A country that talks about aviation with the same seriousness it brings to medicine and engineering builds a deeper, steadier pipeline into it. People choose professions partly based on how those professions are spoken about at home, and aviation deserves to be spoken about for what it demands, not just what it offers. That’s the same shift medicine and engineering went through decades ago, and it’s overdue in aviation.

India is in an unusually good position to lead that shift. The country already has the scale, the training capacity, and – as its aviation talent increasingly finds its way into cockpits abroad – the growing proof that the training holds up against any standard in the world. What’s missing isn’t capability. It’s the public conversation catching up to what the profession has already become.

The day aviation gets spoken of in the same breath as medicine and engineering won’t be the day it becomes as rigorous. It already is. It’ll be the day enough people finally recognise it.

Dev Punj is the Vice President at Chimes Aviation Academy (CAA)

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], August 7: TRUtest Diagnostics, incubated by the Manipal Group, is set to launch its first integrated pathology, radiology and cardiology centre — and with it, a nationwide mission to make world-class, coordinated diagnostics accessible and affordable well beyond India’s metros. The company will build 50 such centres over the next five years, with the sharpest focus on the fringe and Tier 2/3 cities where 68% of India’s urban population lives and 40-45% of India’s GDP is already generated — yet fewer than 30% of diagnostic centres nationally offer truly integrated care. TRUtest is entering this gap with zero compromise on quality: the same NABL/NABH-accredited, scale-proven standards that have already served over 1.30 crore patients across 100+ centres and 18 states.

• India’s fastest-growing comprehensive diagnostics powerhouse is set to open its first integrated pathology, radiology & cardiology centre in Gurugram — with a 50-centre, ₹250 crore mission to make world-class, coordinated diagnostics accessible and affordable in the country’s fringe and Tier 2/3 cities.

It is a declaration of intent: India’s next chapter in healthcare will not be written only in its metros, but in every pin code the country has to offer — and it starts with honest, affordable pricing, a family-first membership model, doctor-explained reports, and a promise that quality diagnostics should never be a metro-only privilege.

Stepping into the upcoming centre in Gurugram fringes, will feel less like a clinical errand and more like stepping into a calm, considered space engineered to put people at ease long before the scan begins. It is diagnostics reimagined as an experience of care, not a transaction — and it is designed to travel to exactly the cities that have never had access to it.

Affordability and Accessibility, Engineered 

Years spent running high-volume public-private partnership and institutional diagnostic operations across entire districts and states have taught the company how to deliver uncompromising quality at radically lower cost. That scale advantage is now being passed directly to the consumer — honest, transparent pricing with zero compromise on quality or turnaround time, built for markets that have long been priced out of branded, integrated diagnostics.

Every new TRUtest centre also becomes a local growth engine — creating jobs for technicians, phlebotomists, radiologists and support staff on the ground, while lifting local vendors, transport and allied services in the neighbourhoods it serves. This is not diagnostics arriving from outside a city; it is diagnostics built into the local economy.

Not Just a New Brand — A New Category of Care

TRUtest is entering the market with a suite of concrete, live innovations designed to move diagnostics beyond a one-time report and into a lifelong health relationship:

• Honest & Transparent Pricing — high-quality diagnostics at substantially lower rates than the market, with zero compromise on quality or turnaround time, as we have acquired the knowledge & expertise of economies of scale in the ongoing PPP & B2B businesses serving the masses.
• TRU-Mitra Family Plan — one family, one membership, one relationship manager — a loyalty programme built around continuous care, not a one-off visit.
• Smart Reporting & Report Counselling — every report interpreted and explained by a doctor, with a complimentary consultation, turning results into actionable health insight.
• Genomic & Metabolic Integrated Panels — predisposition testing and metabolic deep-dives, combined with radiology, extending well beyond routine testing.
• Elderly & Chronic Care Reminders — a predictive Annual Health Calendar with proactive concierge check-ins, so a good report is never followed by silence.
• ABHA-Integrated Reporting & Low-Dose CT Screening — reports woven into India’s national digital health record, alongside advanced early-detection scanning for lung and cardiac risk.

Leadership Commentary

“We are India’s fastest-growing comprehensive diagnostics company — and that growth is built on the ethos and legacy of the Manipal Group, a heritage that has always put trust, accuracy and hygiene first.”

“But we believe trust today needs a new lens. India’s healthcare story for the last two decades has been about building capacity — more hospitals, more beds, more labs. The next two decades will be about building trust at the individual level. And for us, that trust isn’t only a promise — it’s tangible innovation: transforming what it actually feels like to get tested and turning every result into a step in someone’s journey toward longevity and wellness, not just a report filed away.”

— Dr. (Capt.) Sandeep Sharma, CEO, Healthmap Diagnostics Pvt. Ltd.

The Road Ahead: 50 Centres, ₹250 Crore, Five Years

With its first integrated centre soon to go live in Gurugram, TRUtest Diagnostics will roll out four more centres across the Delhi-NCR region in FY26-27, before expanding into the fringe and Tier 2/3 cities that sit at the heart of its mission. Over the next five years, the company plans to build 50 such centres nationally, targeting an overall revenue of ₹250 crore by Year 5 — the same proven PPP and institutional economics that built its scale, now aimed squarely at the cities growing fastest.

TRUtest Diagnostics is not setting out merely to deliver accurate results. It is setting out to build India’s most trusted, most accessible, end-to-end diagnostics experience — one that gives every individual, in every pin code, timely insight, a simplified path to care, and greater confidence in managing their health, for life.

Built Different, From Day One

India’s diagnostics industry remains strikingly unorganised — listed players together account for barely 10-12% of the market — and even among organised players, most operate lopsided, heavy in either pathology or radiology, rarely both. TRUtest was conceived to break that mould: built from day one on an equal, 50:50 foundation of pathology and radiology, because accurate diagnosis cannot be delivered in isolated fragments.

Built Through Scale and Consolidation

HealthMap Diagnostics began its journey through public-private partnership (PPP) initiatives across Haryana and Jharkhand before expanding organically into pathology and radiology as distinct business verticals. The company’s growth accelerated through the strategic acquisitions of Medcis Pathlabs, strengthening its routine pathology capabilities, and iGenetic, enhancing its specialty diagnostics portfolio. These milestones culminated in an NCLT-approved merger in 2023, alongside a significant expansion of its PPP footprint in Maharashtra. Today, HealthMap Diagnostics has established a strong presence across Haryana, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Odisha. 

Scale, Trust and Recognition

The company has been recognised as the Most Renowned Diagnostic Chain in India (2024) and the Most Trusted Diagnostic Chain in India (2023), alongside FICCI and India Today Excellence in Healthcare honours (2018) and Express Healthcare’s Best Radiology Chain award (2018 and 2019).

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That was the idea behind a specially curated creator staycation in Goa, where The Passport Hotel, India’s first cocktail-forward hotel, partnered with Nasher Miles and RIPPL to celebrate the launch of The Passport Hotel’s Mini Bar while creating space for a conversation that today’s internet rarely makes time for.

As part of the staycation, RIPPL hosted its first-ever Sharing Circle, led by Malini Agarwal, luxury content creator Rij Eappen, and RIPPL co-founders Smriti Dubey and Shikhar Vaidya.

Instead of asking creators about their follower count or niche, Malini began with a simple question: “Tell us one thing about yourself that Instagram doesn’t tell the world.”

The conversation instantly became personal. Creators spoke about passions they rarely post online—dancing, music, books, travel, and hobbies that algorithms don’t necessarily reward. It was a reminder that while social media often knows what people create, it doesn’t always know who they truly are.

Malini also shared a thought that became the theme of the evening: “Not every influencer is an impactor. An impactor is someone who has an opinion—someone who recommends things because they genuinely believe in them.”

That naturally led to a discussion around one of the internet’s biggest challenges: Can authentic recommendations still exist in a world dominated by paid collaborations?

Creators admitted that while partnerships pay the bills, many of the cafés, restaurants, books, products, music, travel destinations, and experiences they genuinely love often never make it online.

That conversation perfectly reflected the philosophy behind RIPPL.

Instead of asking creators to produce more content, RIPPL allows them to build a personal recommendation profile—a place where they can showcase everything they genuinely love, from favourite cafés and books to travel destinations, products, and hidden local gems. These recommendations become part of their digital identity and can be discovered by like-minded people.

Sharing the inspiration behind the platform, Smriti Dubey recalled searching for dog training pads for her pets. Despite countless online reviews and advertisements, she couldn’t decide what to buy. The answer came only after she asked fellow pet parents in a local community group, where one recommendation kept appearing. The product worked exactly as promised.

“Reviews tell you what strangers think,” she shared. “Recommendations tell you what people you trust actually use.” Adding another perspective, Shikhar Vaidya spoke about how millions of people rely on anonymous reviews every day before making decisions. He believes the future lies in discovering products and experiences through trusted individuals rather than anonymous ratings.

Rij Eappen also highlighted another important shift—creators deserve ways to earn without constantly producing new content. Through Rippl360, creators can tag products, places and experiences they genuinely recommend across their existing Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, allowing older content to continue creating value.

The evening concluded with a lively Recommendation Rapid Fire, where creators answered fun questions about their favourite music, films, comfort food, travel destinations and the best recommendation they had ever received.

As the conversation unfolded, Shikhar simultaneously created a live Tribe RIPPL for the entire group, adding every recommendation in real time. By the end of the session, every creator had built their own RIPPL profile, while brands like The Passport Hotel and Nasher Miles became part of those recommendation journeys through QR-enabled discovery.

The experience continued with visits to Kesar Bagh, Bastian Riviera, Stoned Pig, Drop Dead Sexy, Iris by Rait, and The Passport Hotel’s Mini Bar launch, along with a breakfast hosted by Clovia. Every memorable experience naturally found its way onto creators’ RIPPL profiles.

By the end of the staycation, the group hadn’t just created content—they had documented experiences they genuinely believed were worth recommending.

The event reinforced a simple belief: in a world overflowing with reviews, authentic recommendations are becoming the internet’s strongest form of trust.

RIPPL is now live on Android, iOS, and the web, allowing anyone to create a free recommendation profile, discover like-minded people, and share the products, places, and experiences they genuinely love.

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The reading draws on the Akashic Records, described in spiritual traditions as an energetic record of a soul’s past experiences and life patterns, to identify blocks that may be affecting a person’s career growth or financial stability. Sessions require no prior background information or written questions from the client, a format Daksh has maintained since he began practicing.

Daksh, a two-time TEDx speaker, has worked with professionals, business owners, and senior executives across India who approach career transitions, business decisions, or financial uncertainty from a spiritual rather than purely analytical lens. His practice does not use tarot or Kundli-based methods.

According to Daksh, clients who book the career and finance track often arrive already holding a decision they have not yet acted on, rather than a completely open question. He said the session is typically less about producing a new option and more about clarifying which of the paths a client is already weighing carries the fewer unresolved blocks.

Daksh has said the reading is structured as a single sitting conducted in person or remotely, without follow-up worksheets or written reports, in keeping with the verbal, session-based format he uses across his Akashic Records offerings. He has said this keeps the format consistent regardless of which of the four tracks a client selects.

The career and finance reading is one of four Akashic Records offerings on his practice, alongside sessions focused on love and relationships, spiritual growth, and energetic clearance. Daksh has said clients occasionally combine two of these focus areas within a single Life Soul Path session when their concerns overlap.

Daksh has said the distinction he draws for clients is between a block that originates in current circumstances, such as a difficult employer or market conditions, and one he attributes to older, unresolved patterns the client may be carrying. He has said the reading is intended to help a client tell the two apart, rather than to predict a specific financial outcome.

Daksh has said career and finance clients frequently mention that they have already consulted a mentor, a financial advisor, or a career coach before booking, and are approaching the Akashic reading as an additional angle rather than a replacement for that advice. He has said he is generally comfortable with clients treating the session as one input among several rather than a final word on a decision. According to Daksh, the reading does not involve numerology, astrology charts, or Kundli-based timing calculations, which he has said sets it apart from other spiritual approaches to career and financial questions that some clients have tried previously. He has said clients occasionally ask whether the session can be repeated at set intervals, such as once a year, to track how a particular block has shifted, and has said this is possible but not something he actively recommends unless a client’s circumstances specifically call for it.

“People often come to me at a crossroads in their career, not knowing whether the block is external or something they’re carrying from further back,” Daksh said. “An Akashic reading helps separate the two.”

“I’m not telling someone which job offer to take,” Daksh said. “I’m telling them what I see sitting underneath the decision they’re already leaning toward.”

About Psychic Medium Daksh

 Daksh Kakkar, known professionally as Psychic Medium Daksh, is a Delhi-based evidential spirit medium and Akashic Records reader with over ten years of practice. He is a two-time TEDx speaker and has been featured in Times of India and Pinkvilla, among other publications. He can be reached through psychicmediumdaksh.com.

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Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], May 28: He helped launch one of the most complex healthcare IT systems in British history. Today, he is solving the problem that broke every software team he has ever worked with.

There is a moment in every engineer’s career that defines everything that comes after it.

For Vadeesh Budramane, that moment came somewhere inside the NHS Lorenzo project – the United Kingdom’s flagship electronic health record platform and one of the largest, most complex healthcare IT deployments in British history. As the delivery lead for the India team, Budramane sat at the intersection of everything that can go wrong when software quality is treated as a downstream concern rather than a foundational one.

Delays. Defects discovered too late. Test cycles that could not keep pace with a system of staggering complexity. The cost – in time, in resources, in risk to patient outcomes – was not abstract. It was immediate.

“That project taught me something that I have never been able to unlearn,” Budramane says. “When software fails in a healthcare environment, the consequences are not just technical. They are human. And the root cause, almost every time, is the same: testing that started too late, ran too slowly, and broke the moment the system changed.”

He carried that lesson with him through subsequent senior leadership roles at CSC India and other corporates, managing enterprise technology at a scale few Indian engineering leaders have experienced. But in January 2018, he stepped into something that three decades of corporate leadership had never quite prepared him for.

He started from scratch.

The Problem That Would Not Go Away

AlgoShack was founded on a single, stubborn conviction: that software testing was not merely underperforming – it was architecturally broken.

The tools that most enterprise engineering teams relied on had been designed for a world of quarterly releases, manual scripting, and stable application environments. By 2018, that world no longer existed. Agile sprints compressed delivery to two-week cycles. DevOps pipelines demanded continuous integration. Applications were updated not annually but daily. And yet, the testing model – scripted, manual, resource-intensive – had not fundamentally changed in fifteen years.

“We were applying 2005 thinking to 2018 problems,” Budramane says. “The gap was not going to close with more engineers. It was going to close with a different architecture entirely.”

That architecture became algoQA – AlgoShack’s flagship AI Augmented Autonomous Testing platform. Not AI-assisted. Not AI-enhanced. Autonomous. The distinction is one Budramane draws deliberately and repeatedly.

Where conventional automation tools require engineers to write scripts, maintain locators, and manually update test suites when applications change, algoQA generates test cases from a simple application profile and self-heals when the system it is testing evolves. The result: up to 80 percent reduction in testing costs, up to 80 percent reduction in testing cycle time, and more than 90 percent test coverage – without a single line of manual scripting.

Building Without a Safety Net

What makes AlgoShack’s story unusual in the Indian SaaS ecosystem is not the technology. It is the discipline.

In a funding environment where valuation milestones and venture capital rounds define the startup narrative, AlgoShack has grown entirely on the strength of its delivery outcomes. Fifty-five percent compound annual growth rate. Four consecutive years. Zero external funding. Three hundred plus professionals. A workforce where more than 37 percent are women in engineering roles.

“I was not interested in building a company that needed a fundraiser to prove its value,” Budramane says. “I was interested in building a company whose clients would prove its value for us.”

That client-outcome obsession is reflected in AlgoShack’s enterprise Net Promoter Score of 94 – a figure that places it in the company of the world’s most trusted B2B technology platforms – and a SaaS NPS of 81. Both figures are independently tracked and consistently maintained.

The company is also building its intellectual property foundation with unusual seriousness for an Indian product startup. Two patents were published as on  May 2026, covering core innovations in autonomous test generation and auto-healing architecture. Four additional patents are in progress.

The Frontier

Today, AlgoShack is ranked 27th globally among more than 900 test automation companies. The company holds ISO 9001:2015 certification alongside IEC 62304 and ISO 14971 attestations – credentials that make algoQA one of the few autonomous testing platforms in India cleared for deployment in regulated medical device software environments.

Enterprise clients across MedTech, Banking and FinTech, Retail and Digital Commerce, and Enterprise Software verticals have deployed algoQA at scale. The platform is rated 4.9 out of 5 on G2 and 5 out of 5 on SoftwareSuggest – independently, by the engineers who use it daily.

Vadeesh Budramane is 35 years into a career defined by the belief that software quality is not a phase in the development lifecycle. It is the lifecycle.

From the corridors of NHS Lorenzo to the engineering floors of a Bengaluru product company rewriting how the world tests software – the conviction has not changed.

The platform built to carry it has.

Vadeesh Budramane is the Founder and CEO of AlgoShack Technologies, a Bengaluru-based AI product company and developer of algoQA – India’s leading AI Augmented Autonomous Testing platform. AlgoShack Technologies is headquartered in Bengaluru, India.

Website: www.algoshack.com

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The program commenced with a welcome address by Dr. N. M. Sharafudeen, Chairman, INMECC, who welcomed the distinguished guests, speakers, and delegates, and highlighted the growing significance of artificial intelligence in shaping the future of businesses across industries.

The Business Conclave featured a panel discussion on “How AI is Transforming Everyday Business Decisions,” moderated by Shri Rajesh Nair, Partner, Ernst & Young LLP.

The distinguished panel included:

• Shri Gokulam Gopalan, Chairman & Managing Director, Sree Gokulam Group
• Dr. A. V. Anoop, Managing Director, AVA Group
• Shri Dinesh P. Thampi, Vice President & Head, TCS Kerala
• Shri Deepak L. Aswani, Chairman & Managing Director, Aswani Lachmandas Group
• Dr. Jolly Antony, Chairman, Vibe Munnar Resort & Spa, Managing Director, The Fog Resort & Spa, Munnar, Chairman, Alsafina Travel Group (UAE & India), and Growvia.biz
• CA Vivek Krishna Govind, Senior Partner, Varma & Varma

The panelists shared valuable insights into how artificial intelligence is revolutionising business operations, customer engagement, strategic planning, and decision-making across industries.

Adding a powerful social dimension to the occasion, FICF She Walks for Cause brought together accomplished women leaders and beauty queens for a charitable initiative dedicated to community welfare.

The participants included:

• Jyothi Aswani (Managing Partner, Aswani Lachmandas Group)
• Sheela Kochouseph (Founder & CMD, V-Star Creations Pvt. Ltd.)
• Preethi Parakkat (Managing Director – Public Relations, Parakkat Jewels)
• Aishwarya Nandilath (Director, Nandilath G-Mart)
• Priya Fazil (Founder & Managing Director, Dream Flower Builders)
• Lekha Balachandran (Managing Partner, Resitech Electricals)
• Divyaa Prashanuth (Marketing Manager, Malayala Manorama)
• Deepthi Vijayakumar (Managing Director, Aiswaria Advertising)
• Euphie K. Paul (Founder & Chairperson, Little Britain Preschool and Managing Director, Welmont Hospital)
• Dr. N.R. Mini Varma BAMS (Managing Partner, Varma Ayurvedics)
• Laila Sudheesh (Managing Partner, Care4u Facility Management Services)
• Jayani Bennheim (Executive Director & Chairperson, Bennheims Group)
• Preena Anuraj (Managing Director, Anaswara Jewellers & Rithu Diamonds)

Joining them were renowned pageant titleholders:

• Cinda Padamadan (Miss Queen Kerala 2024 & Miss South India 2024)
• Lakshmi Menon (Miss South India 2018 & Miss Queen of India 2018)
• Pournami Murali (Miss India Glam World 2026)
• Nikita Thomas (Miss South India 2019)
• Soumya S. Thomas (2nd Runner-Up, Miss Queen Kerala 2025 & 1st Runner-Up, Miss India Glam World 2026)

A highlight of the initiative was its philanthropic mission, with 100% of the revenue generated being dedicated to charitable causes.

Together, the conclave and charity walk demonstrated how innovation, leadership, and collective action can drive both business excellence and meaningful social impact.

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NUCSER is also one of the five centres in the world, recognized by FAO as a Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance and Aquaculture biosecurity, reinforcing its global research capabilities and houses NABL-certified laboratories accredited under ISO/IEC 17025:2017 for water potability testing, water chemical testing, and toxicity assessment.

Built on a student-centric approach, the BSc and MSc programs at NUCSER are structured around a choice-based credit system that allows learners to shape their academic journey based on their interests and career goals. This flexibility ensures that students are not confined to traditional learning but can explore interdisciplinary subjects, gaining a broader and more relevant understanding of science in today’s dynamic world.  Anchored in a research-oriented approach, the programs encourage early exposure to scientific inquiry, laboratory-based learning, and innovation. 

The institute offers a 5-year (10-semester) dual degree BS-MS Integrated program, designed for students seeking a career in science. This integrated program is in alignment with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, with multiple entry and exit options at the BS level. It emphasizes interdisciplinary research with a Biomedical Science degree (Honors or Honors with Research) at the BS level and a Specialization (five different options – Biomedical Science, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Cancer Biology, and Bioinformatics) at the MS level.  This integrated program provides two full years of research experience during the fourth year in the BS level and the fifth year at the MS level. 

In addition, the institute also offers 2-year MSc programs in Biotechnology, Cancer Biology, Food Science & Technology, Microbiology, Marine Biotechnology, Biomedical Science, Bioinformatics, and a one-year PG program, providing students with diverse specialization options aligned with evolving industry and research needs. 

A key highlight of these programs is the strong emphasis on practical and skill-based learning. The curriculum integrates theoretical knowledge with practical training, which allows students to apply concepts in real-world scenarios. This approach not only enhances conceptual clarity but also builds essential competencies required in research, industry, and higher education. The programs are NEP 2020 compliant, with a clear focus on nurturing research aptitude and encouraging innovation from an early stage. The institute has also received wide recognition from government funding agencies through extramural research grants, further strengthening its research ecosystem.

NUCSER’s innovative teaching methods further elevate the learning experience. With a blend of traditional classroom instruction and modern technology-enabled learning, students benefit from a well-rounded academic environment. This blended learning model encourages active participation, critical thinking and collaborative learning, ensuring that students remain engaged and future-ready.

The institute’s state-of-the-art infrastructure plays a crucial role in supporting academic excellence. Equipped with advanced laboratories and modern teaching facilities, NUCSER provides students with the resources needed to explore, experiment, and excel. The institute also hosts a Government of India-supported DST Technology Enabling Centre and a Government of Karnataka-supported Centre of Excellence in Aquamarine Innovation, offering students significant exposure to innovation, research, and entrepreneurship opportunities. The campus itself offers a serene and conducive environment for learning, allowing students to focus on their academic and personal growth away from the distractions of urban life.

Another key strength of NUCSER lies in its highly qualified and experienced faculty. With expertise across diverse areas of health sciences and related disciplines, the faculty members bring both academic depth and practical insights into the classroom. Their mentorship helps students navigate complex subjects, engage in meaningful research, and make informed decisions about their academic and professional paths.

The programs also open doors to a wide range of higher education opportunities and career pathways. Graduates of the BS-MS program are well-prepared to pursue advanced studies or enter the workforce in entry-level roles, while MSc graduates gain specialized knowledge that positions them for research, academia and industry roles across sectors such as healthcare, biotechnology, environmental sciences and more. This versatility ensures that students have access to plentiful career options aligned with their interests and aspirations.

What truly distinguishes NUCSER is its focus on creating a motivating and inclusive learning environment. The institution fosters curiosity, innovation, and academic excellence, encouraging students to think beyond textbooks and develop a deeper understanding of science. By combining academic rigor with practical exposure and holistic development, NUCSER prepares its graduates to contribute meaningfully to the scientific community and society at large.

With its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary learning, research-driven education and student-focused approach, NUCSER continues to set new standards in science education. The BSc and MSc programs reflect Nitte University’s commitment to nurturing future scientists, innovators and leaders who are ready to take on global challenges.

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While Aditya aspired to achieve the top rank, he remained grounded in the understanding that such outcomes can never be guaranteed in a highly competitive examination. With his preparation, his result stands as a powerful reminder that unwavering focus, balanced ambition, and consistency often lead to extraordinary outcomes.

A Strong Academic Foundation

Aditya’s academic journey was shaped early on within a close-knit family that placed deep value on discipline and education. Supported consistently by his parents and grandparents, he grew up in an environment that nurtured focus and purpose. He completed his schooling at Maxfort School Rohini, where teachers remember him as focused, curious, and consistent. His academic potential became evident when he excelled in his CBSE Class 10 board examinations—an early indication of the clarity and commitment that would later define his JEE Main preparation.

Two Years of Structured Preparation

Aditya began his focused preparation for JEE Main in Class 11. For two years, his routine remained disciplined and largely unchanged. On most days, he studied for nearly 12 hours, dividing his time between school, coaching, and self-study.

Rather than relying on shortcuts, he focused on strengthening his fundamentals. He made detailed notes, revised regularly, and ensured that every concept was thoroughly understood before moving ahead. Practice tests became a crucial part of his preparation—not just to measure performance, but also to analyse mistakes and improve accuracy.

He also made deliberate lifestyle choices to safeguard his focus. Social media distractions were set aside, platforms like YouTube were consciously disengaged from, and his study hours remained disciplined and non-negotiable. 

“Consistency matters more than sudden bursts of hard work,” he reflected after the JEE Main Session 2 results.

The Philosophy Behind the Perfect Score

At the heart of Aditya’s JEE Main success lies a principle from the Bhagavad Gita that he deeply believes in: focus on your actions, not the results.

This philosophy kept him grounded during moments of self-doubt and mental fatigue—challenges that almost every JEE aspirant inevitably faces.

“There were definitely difficult phases,” Aditya admitted. “But staying focused on the process rather than becoming obsessed with the outcome made all the difference.”

Rather than being the primary objective, securing AIR 1 in JEE Main emerged as a natural outcome of Aditya’s rigorous preparation for JEE Advanced—reinforcing the idea that a process-driven approach often culminates in exceptional results.

The Support System: Teachers and Family

Behind every perfect JEE Main result lies a strong support system, and Aditya is quick to acknowledge his. At home, his parents and grandparents provided emotional support during phases of low motivation. 

“They never pressured me about results; they only encouraged consistency,” he said.

At school, his teachers played a transformative role.

“Divya Ma’am, my Physics teacher, strengthened my confidence for the board exams through her structured practice sessions, while Komal Ma’am, my Chemistry teacher, made complex concepts easier to grasp with her interactive teaching methods,” he recalled. 

He also credited the school principal, Dr. Richa Verma for guiding his parents on creating a distraction-free study routine at home. This combination of family support and academic mentorship created an ecosystem where excellence could thrive.

Key Takeaways for JEE Aspirants

For students preparing for JEE Main in the coming years, Aditya’s journey offers a clear roadmap: start early, build strong conceptual foundations, stay consistent, eliminate distractions, integrate school learning with competitive preparation, seek guidance when needed, and trust the process.

Looking Ahead

As Aditya now shifts his complete focus to JEE Advanced, his perfect score in JEE Main 2026 stands as an inspiration for lakhs of aspirants across the country.

His story proves that success is not built on shortcuts or last-minute efforts—it comes from discipline, consistency, and showing up every single day.

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Dignitaries Present

The book was officially released by the Chief Guest, Mr. Rahul Purwar, IAS, Principal Secretary, Department of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Jharkhand. Distinguished guests present on the occasion included:

• Mr. Prem Shankar Singh, Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India, Jharkhand
• Prof. (Dr.) Rajeev Srivastava, Director, IIIT Ranchi
• Mr. H.N. Mishra, Director, CCL Ranchi
• Prof. Gopal Pathak, Director General, Sarla Birla University
• Prof. C. Jagannathan, Vice-Chancellor, Sarla Birla University
• Prof. S.B. Dandin, Registrar, Sarla Birla University

Key Statements

In his address, the Chief Guest, Mr Rahul Purwar, stated,
“Artificial Intelligence is the biggest revolution of our time. Books like ‘AI-ify Yourself’ will guide youth and professionals in upgrading themselves with AI. This initiative aligns well with the New Education Policy.”

Author Dr Sandeep Kumar mentioned,
“This book is written for everyone—from common individuals to entrepreneurs, students, and policymakers. Its objective is to explain how individuals can adopt AI to future-proof their skills and careers.”

Co-author Dr Arif Habib added,
“AI is no longer an option; it has become a necessity. In this book, we have attempted to simplify complex technical concepts using easy language and practical examples.”

Event Highlights

The event was attended by faculty members, researchers, students, and distinguished citizens of the city in large numbers. Hon’ble Pro-Chancellor Mr Bijay Kumar Dalan and Hon’ble Rajya Sabha MP & Director (Planning & Development) Dr Pradeep Kumar Verma conveyed their best wishes) messages to the authors on this occasion.

Why “AI-ify Yourself” Matters

• Simplifies complex AI concepts for mass understanding
• Provides practical, real-world applications of AI
• Aligns with India’s & Prime Minister Modiji’s AI and education policy vision
• Empowers individuals to become creators—not just consumers—of AI

About the Authors

Dr. Sandeep Kumar – Academic leader and researcher with expertise in emerging technologies and education innovation.

Dr. Arif Habib – AI thought leader, researcher, and educator focused on practical AI adoption and skill transformation.

About Sarla Birla University

Sarla Birla University is a leading higher education institution committed to academic excellence, innovation, and industry-aligned learning. The university continues to play a pivotal role in shaping future-ready talent in India.

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