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IKS Health, a global leader in care enablement solutions, is honored to be named the 2025 Black Book Research leader in the newly established category of AI-driven Revenue Cycle Management (RCM). This recognition highlights IKS Health’s expertise in harnessing AI’s rapid advancements to develop and enhance its powerful RCM workflow solutions for more than 700 U.S. healthcare organizations. The win also strengthens IKS Health’s position as the leading partner in the industry’s most comprehensive care enablement platform across the patient journey.

Ranked as the No. 1 vendor out of 20 vendors in AI-driven RCM services, the distinction demonstrates IKS Health’s excellence in claims processing optimization, denial prevention, and revenue integrity solutions, as rated by RCM professionals in hospitals, health systems, physician practices, and medical groups. Black Book Research, a highly regarded independent healthcare research firm, conducted its comprehensive annual survey with responses from 1,037 validated RCM professionals.

Vantage Markets participated as a Titanium Sponsor at Money Expo Mexico 2025, held on February 26-27. The event, known as one of the most significant gatherings for traders, investors, and financial experts globally, provided an excellent platform for Vantage to engage with industry professionals and showcase its innovative offerings.

A major highlight of the event was Vantage being honored with the 'Best Global Broker 2025' award. This recognition reaffirms Vantage's commitment to providing cutting-edge trading solutions, transparency, and client-centric services. As a trusted multi-asset CFD broker, Vantage continues to set new industry standards with its advanced trading platforms, deep liquidity, and innovative copy trading solutions.

Ministry of Culture implements “Global Engagement Scheme" to promote India's rich cultural heritage internationally and enhance India's global image.

The key Scheme objectives include strengthening cultural ties with foreign nations, promoting bilateral cultural contacts, projecting India’s cultural identity on the world stage and encouraging inbound tourism. The Global Engagement Scheme is administered through Indian Missions abroad to achieve its objective through following components:

Festival of India:

The artists practicing Indian art forms, are given opportunity to perform abroad under the banner of ‘Festival of India’. The artists from diverse cultural fields such as Folk Art including Folk Music, Folk Dance, Folk Theatre & Puppetry, Classical and Traditional Dance, Experimental/Contemporary Dance, Classical/Semi Classical Music, Theatre etc. perform in the ‘Festivals of India’ abroad.

Grant in aid to Indo Foreign Friendship Cultural Societies:

Grant in aid is released to Indo Foreign Friendship Cultural Societies actively functioning in foreign counties through our Indian Missions with the object of fostering closer friendship and cultural contacts between India and foreign country concerned.

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), an autonomous organisation under Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), promotes Indian culture (including folk arts & culture) worldwide through its Cultural Centres and Missions/Posts abroad. Activities conducted by them include inter-alia, teaching of Yoga, Dance, Music (vocal and instrumental), Sanskrit and Hindi; organising/supporting Conferences/ Seminars/ Workshops in different fields of Indian culture; supporting Chairs of Indian Studies in foreign universities; gifting of busts/statues of Mahatma Gandhi and other national icons, exchanging visual arts exhibitions, celebrating International Day of Yoga and Indian festivals, hosting visitors under various Visitors Programmes (Academic / Distinguished /Important /Gen. Next Democracy Network); and sponsoring scholarships to foreign students under different scholarship schemes.

Sharjah’s Faya Palaeolandscape, recently nominated for UNESCO World Heritage status, presents compelling evidence of human resilience and adaptation spanning over 210,000 years, while also serving as a crucial link in ancient trade networks connecting Arabia with India.

The 29,085-hectare site, located approximately 55 kilometers from both the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, features the distinctive Faya Range, a 20-kilometer stretch of limestone formations. This natural ridge acts as a barrier between the vast Rub’ al-Khali sand desert and the Dhaid-Madam Plain, forming what UNESCO describes as “an outstanding example of a Stone Age desert landscape.”

“The Faya excavations are significant because we have early evidence for the Out of Africa movement along the southern route,” explains Dr. Knut Bretzke, Head of the German Archaeological Mission in Sharjah. “People reached here about 120,000 years ago, maybe earlier, and they adapted to the desert environment.”

The Government e-Marketplace (GeM) has achieved a significant milestone by surpassing Rs 5 lakh crore in Gross Merchandise Value (GMV) on its portal before the close of the financial year 2024-25. This achievement highlights GeM’s rapid expansion as a primary tool for public procurement, serving a buyer base of over 1.6 lakh government entities. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, in a statement, said that the leap from four lakh crore rupees to five lakh crore rupees was accomplished in less than 50 days since crossing the previous benchmark on the 23rd of January this year. The Ministry added that GeM has undertaken major policy reforms in recent months to enhance market accessibility and streamline participation for sellers. Key initiatives, such as the reduction in transaction charges, vendor assessment fees, and caution money requirements, have made the platform more accessible, particularly benefiting micro and small enterprises, startups, and women-led enterprises. Over 22 lakh sellers and service providers are registered on GeM, contributing to a diverse and competitive procurement ecosystem.

India’s wholesale price index (WPI)-based inflation in February 2025 rose to 2.38 per cent, primarily due to an increase in fuel and power prices along with higher costs in the manufacturing sector, according to data released by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Monday. This is higher than the WPI rate in January which stood at 2.31 per cent.

The fuel and power index increased by 2.12 per cent to 153.8 (provisional) in February from 150.6 (provisional) for the month of January. This was driven by a 4.28 per cent increase in electricity prices and a 1.87 per cent rise in mineral oil prices.

The index for manufactured products increased by 0.42 per cent, with notable price hikes in the manufacture of food products, basic metals, non-metallic mineral products, and chemicals.

In his capacity as acting CEO of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), Secretary of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Professor Abhay Karandikar transferred responsibility to newly appointed CEO Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman.

With this, Dr Shivkumar assumes charge of the CEO of ANRF, which aims to seed, grow, and promote research and development (R&D) and foster a culture of research and innovation throughout India’s universities, colleges, research institutions, and R&D laboratories.

Dr Shivkumar, who earlier held the post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Energy Industry, Asia at Microsoft, is a Distinguished Alumnus Awardee of IIT Madras & Ohio State University (2021).

He is also a Fellow of the IEEE (2010), Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (2015), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2010), Microsoft Gold Club (2024), and Technology Review TR100 young innovator (1999).

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Anupriya Singh Patel inaugurated the QUAD Workshop on Pandemic Preparedness for the Indo-Pacific Region in New Delhi today.

Under India’s presidency, the three-day workshop is being jointly organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

The workshop aims to strengthen global health emergency frameworks, enhance preparedness and resilience to health threats, and ensure coordinated responses to evolving pandemics.

The workshop also focuses on the implementation of One Health approach, addressing human, animal, and environmental health through a multisectoral lens.

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini presented a budget of Rs 2,05,017 crore for the financial year 2025-26. While presenting the budget, the Chief Minister said that in the last 10 years, the state’s GDP has grown at an average rate of 10.8% and per capita income at an average rate of 9.1%. He said that in 2014-15, the per capita income of Haryana was Rs 1,47,382, while in 2024-25, the estimated per capita income of Haryana is Rs 3,53,182.

Scripting a monumental journey, historian V. Sriram and Lashman document the 60 years of Blue Cross in their book "Memories and Milestones", which was released by Justice P.N. Prakash, Former judge of Madras High Court and former Special Public Prosecutor, National Investigation Agency, in the presence of Maneka Sanjay Gandhi, Animal rights activist, and Environmentalist and A. L. Somayaji, Former Advocate General, Government of Tamil Nadu, who also received the first copy of the book, at a function held here in Chennai on 15th March 2025.

Celebrating Blue Cross and its 60th anniversary, one cannot stop but applaud the achievements of the Sundaram family and all the others who have volunteered and worked for the Blue Cross of India, since its first registration in 1964. The most active animal welfare group in the country that has many firsts to its credit. The first of a new genre of animal protection groups that were concerned with all animals, the one that pioneered some path breaking initiatives like the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme, the first time in the world, where the sterilization of street dogs was put forward as a humane approach to control growing dog population, first in the world to begin interactive computer programmes as an alternative to dissection of animals in schools, and the first animal welfare group in India to get the Platinum Level certification for transparency from GuideStar India in 2013.