SGPC wins Diwali Hockey Tourney

Amritsar: Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee hockey team lifted the overall trophy in the prestigious Khalsa Colleges Diwali Tournament on Friday by beating the runner up Maharaja Ranjit Singh Hockey Academy. The former beat the later with 1-0. Jammu remained at the third position. Khalsa College Governing Council honourary secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina who gave away the trophy and awards announced that the tournament would be organised at the larger scale in the coming times. “This is prestigious tournament which dates back to pre-partition era when team from Pakistan used to play here. We want to organise this tournament at larger scale with more teams to participate,” he announced.

Seminar on gender disparity

The Post Graduate Department of Economics, DAV College, Amritsar, organised a one-day seminar on “Gender disparity in labour market in India”. The guest speaker was a renowned human rights lawyer and journalists Kamyani Bali Mahabal. Prinicipal, Dr Rajesh Kumar highlighted the importance of major issues related to gender inequality in India. He gave deep insights of wage disparities in various professions in India. Kamyani in her presentation highlighted the importance of uplifting the status of women through all means to make them economically independent, as economic conditions and violence against women are getting strongly correlated day by day. She further stressed on the fact that third world countries like Bangladesh have made impressive efforts to reduce gender equalities and are ranked far ahead India. TNS