Book, film review competition

Hisar: In the sixth edition of weekly virtual speakthon, book and film review competition was organised by the Training and Placement Cell of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar. In all 26 students across all classes participated in two groups and gave reviews on books and films of their choice. University Librarian Dr Vinod Kumar was the chief guest of the event. He said reading a book means reading a mind of a writer and similarly watching a movie means reading the mind of its director. He said the scope of art of reviewing was increasing widely these days. "Honest reviews help the readers or viewers to decide on which book to read or which movie to watch," he said. Pratap Singh, Director (placement), greeted all guests and appealed the students to make the best use of these events. He said in the first group, Achint Sardana from BTech Food Technology stood first for reviewing the book 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'. Parkhi Bansal from MBA stood second for reviewing the movie 'The Lion King'. Sugandha stood third for reviewing the movie 'Taare Zameen Par'. In the second group composed of the winners of previous competitions, Ankita Jaglan from MSc Env Science stood first for reviewing the book 'Bhagwat Geeta'. Radhika Singal from MBA stood second for reviewing the movie 'The Pursuit of Happyness'. Nisith Shubhankar from BSc Economics stood third for reviewing the book 'Deep Work'.

Webinar on online resources

Karnal: KVA DAV College for Women organised a webinar on "Open educational resources: Library lead the way" in collaboration with the Haryana Library Association (HLA). Resource persons of the webinar were Dr DV Singh, former librarian, Delhi University, New Delhi and Dr Chetan Sharma, deputy librarian, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Principal Sujata Gupta apprised the achievements of the college and thanked the HLA for their collaboration. She motivated the listeners to use online educational resources to achieve their academic and research goals. She opined that with the help of online education resources students can excel in life and in present scenario it can be used as an opportunity to overcome the fear of the Covid pandemic. Dr Singh spoke on the use of different software and how to use them sensibly, while Dr Sharma's presentation comprised different types of open education resources and their usage.

Dr Arya promoted to Director

Hisar: Dr Virender Singh Arya has been promoted as Director, Haryana Space Applications Centre (HARSAC). Earlier, he was working as acting Director of Haryana Space Applications Centre, Hisar since December 2018. He did his under graduate in BSc (hons) Agriculture, Post-Graduation, Doctorate of Philosophy in Soil Sciences with UNDP fellowship from Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University (CCS HAU), Hisar, and Post Graduate Diploma, Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Soils from Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), Dehradun.

343 additional seats sanctioned

Sonepat: All India Council for Technical Education has sanctioned 343 additional seats in different graduation and post graduation courses at the DCR University of Science and Technology, Murthal, from this academic year to meet the growing demand of the students. According to Vice-Chancellor Rajindra Kumar Anayah, 60 seats each had been increased in three graduation courses of Computer Science Engineering, Electronic and Communication Engineering and Mechanical Engineering taking the total numbers of seats to 120 in each course. Besides, other 163 seats had been increased in different dual degree and post graduation courses. He said the number of courses in the university had now increased to 37, including nine of graduation, six of dual degree and 22 of post graduation.

Virtual placement drive

Hisar: Despite the ongoing pandemic, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology, Hisar, enabled virtual placements for its 20 students. The students have been selected in the virtual campus placement drive of Delhi based AVM Healthcare Pvt Ltd organised by the Training and Placement Cell of the university. Prof Tankeshwar Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, and Prof Harbhajan Bansal, Registrar, congratulated the selected students and appreciated the efforts made by the Training and Placement Cell. Pratap Singh, director placement, said the drive was conducted online on Zoom video conferencing application. In all 43 students participated in the drive. After giving two rounds of online face to face interviews, 20 students were selected.

Interview skills discussed

Hisar: As fifth edition of its "Weekly live webinar series on life skills" programme, Training and Placement Cell organised a live webinar on the topic "Acing virtual interviews". Renowned motivational speaker NLP Coach and soft skill expert having industry experience of three decades Abhijit Bhattacharya from Bangalore interacted with more than 70 students on a meeting held on Zoom video conferencing application and with more than 100 students on YouTube live as key note speaker. Partap Singh, Director Placement, presided over the programme. Speaking on important points to be taken care during interviews, Bhattacharya said interviewee should carefully listen to the questions of interviewer, give answers clearly with confidence, honestly admit if you don't know the answer and in the end thank the interviewer.