School celebrates foundation day

Karnal: The fourth foundation day was celebrated with great pomp and show at Sanjay Gandhi Om Prakash Garg Memorial Public School, Sujra-Baban. The foundation of the school building was laid on September 29, 2017, by late Krishna Goyal and Praveen Gupta. The programme was inaugurated by paying floral tributes to Swami Tulsi Nand Saraswati and late Om Prakash Garg. Path of Sukhmani Sahib was recited on the occasion.

Covid special newsletter released

Panipat: Vice Chancellor Prof Sushma Yadava on Wednesday released the Covid special newsletter titled 'Subhashini' of Bhagat Phool Singh Women's University at Khanpur Kalan. Prof Yadava said the Covid special edition of the newsletter reports various initiatives and steps taken by the university during the lockdown period. Steps like university's contribution to the Prime Minister and Chief Minister Covid care fund, participation of staff in rehabilitation camps, donation of medicines, food and clothes to the needy persons, awareness activities organised by students, preparation and distribution of masks by the staff and conferences and seminars on Covid are some of the salient features of the newsletter.

Faculty development programme

Kurukshetra: The online faculty development programne organised by the department of computer applications of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra, on the subject of 'Semantic intelligence applications and perspectives' concluded on Wednesday. This programme, which lasted for five days, included Dr Raghav Mutharaju from IIIT-Delhi, Dr Sumit Bhatia from IBM Research Lab, Dr Hiranmay Ghosh and Dr C Anantaram from TCS Research Lab, Dr Maya Ramanath from IIT-Delhi, Dr P Sreenivasa Kumar and Dr Gandham Phanikumar from IIT-Madras, Dr Asha Subramaniam from Semantic Web India, Dr Arindam Chatterjee from Wipro Limited, Dr Uma Sankari SS from ISRO-Kerala and Dr PJ Philip, former professor of NIT-Kurukshetra.

Online technical interview contest

Hisar: The coding club of the GJUST, namely “GJUST Coders”, under the mentorship of the training and placement cell conducted an online technical interview contest. Industry expert Pankaj Goyal, working as a software development engineer in a Bangalore-based company, interviewed 42 students of the club having at least 200 score in coding platforms like HackerEarth or HackeRank. The interview was based on programming and coding skills and problem-solving logic. Rashmi Garg and Saurabh from BTech CSE third year got the first and second position, respectively. Nitin Bansal and Kanak from BTech CSE fourth year got the third and fourth positions, respectively.

2-day book exhibition organised

Karnal: A two-day book exhibition was organised by the library committee at the RKSD College. Library committee convener Geeta Goyal said, "About 800 new books related to topics like competitive, motivational and personality development have been exhibited." Principal Sanjay Goyal, who inaugurated the book exhibition, said to promote reading among students, the college library had been updated with the widest range. Thousands of research books and magazines are also available with online digital facilities.