Hisar: Diwali was celebrated by faculty members and employees of Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agriculture University, Hisar, at the faculty club of the university. The club’s chairman and Vice-Chancellor professor BR Kamboj attended the function as the chief guest. He said “We should inculcate the values and ideals of Lord Ram in our lives. His ideals teach us that no matter how hard times we face in life, truth always wins. So we should face the problems firmly.”
National-level online mock test
Fatehabad: The department of English of the Manohar Memorial Post-Graduate College, Fatehabad organised a national-level online mock test in collaboration with Pearson India for the aspirants of National Eligibility Test (NET) and Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). The test was based on the latest trend, pattern and syllabus of NTA UGC NET/JRF. More than 100 aspirants from various institutions, including University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Ambedkar University (Delhi), Ettumanoorappan College (Kerala); Tezpur University (Central University in Tezpur, Assam), Ravenshaw University (State University in Odisha); University of Madras (Public University in Chennai, Tamil Nadu); Nar Bahadur Bhandari Degree College (NBBDC), Gangtok (Sikkim); Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), NMKRV PU College (Bengaluru, Karnataka); Chaudhary Devi Lal University (Sirsa), Maharshi Dayanand University (Rohtak), Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and the affiliated colleges of these universities took part in this test by submitting their “Google forms” during the scheduled time-period.
Farmers, scientists interact
Karnal: The Livestock Production Management Division of ICAR-NDRI, Karnal, organised a farmers-scientists interaction programme in Pinjauri, Mustafabad, Yamunagar under the guidance of Dr Manmohan Singh Chauhan, Director in the SCSP project entitled livestock-crop based technological interventions for the empowerment of scheduled caste farmers in selected districts of Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana. Dr Arun Kumar Misra, head and project investigator explained the advancement in scientific dairying and its role in enhancing the socio-economic status of scheduled caste farmers. Dr K Ponnusomy highlighted the importance of integrated farming and entrepreneurship development activities taken under the project for enhancing the livelihood of the poor people. Dr Jitender Rand, ACTO, explained about the importance of improved varieties of wheat, oat and berseem and their package of practices to the participating farmers. Improved seed of wheat (30 quintal) varieties: DW 187 and HD 3226, Oat: Kent (3 quintal) and Berseem BL 42 (30 kg) and vegetable kits (50) were distributed to 105 scheduled caste farmers/farm women for sowing during the rabi season.
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