Karnal girl chosen for national award

Karnal:City girl Sanjoli Banerjee has once again brought laurels to the city and the state on being selected for a national award, V-Award, given by the Ministry of Youth and Sports Affairs, United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Volunteer. It will be the third award this year for her after the Diana Award from the UK and the Young Global Changemakers award from the Germany Secretariat. She will be conferred with the award on December 3 through a virtual ceremony which will be presided over by Shoko Noda from the UNDP, Kiren Rijju Union Minister for Youth and others. The ceremony is otherwise held on December 5 (International Volunteers Day) at the UN House, New Delhi and Kiren Rijju will hand over the awards to 10 extraordinary young leaders influencing change in India through volunteerism. She has been selected for the award for her activism for over 18 years across India, UK and Australia. She is currently a full-time activist working on access to holistic education, environment conservation, mental health, female foeticide and menstrual hygiene through advocacy, awareness generation and education with a team of 200 volunteers at her organisation, Sarthi, an NGO, that she and her sister, Ananya Banerjee (18) run.

8 hockey players selected in KU team

Yamunanagar: Principal of Guru Nanak Khalsa College, Dr (Major) Harinder Singh Kang said the inter-college hockey championship was organised at Kurukshetra University in which the college hockey team performed brilliantly and brought laurels to the college. He said eight players of the college hockey team have been selected for the Kurukshetra University team. The team in-charges Dr Praveen Kumar and Dr Anurag said the team was given a grand welcome on reaching the college.

Awareness programme on drugs

Karnal: Under the Nasha Mukt Bharat Abhiyan (NMBA) of the Narcotics Control Bureau, an awareness programme was organised by the NSS units, NCC wings and sports committee of Dyal Singh College on the college premises with an aim to educate youth to cooperate in achieving the goal of a sustainable world free of drugs. Ashok Kumar from the Narcotics Bureau was the speaker.

Two students get placements

Hisar: Two students of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, have been selected in the pool campus placement drive of Bangalore-based Happiest Mind Technology held at the MMU, Mulana. Prof Baldev Raj Kamboj, Vice-Chancellor and Prof. Avnesh Verma, registrar of the university, congratulated the selected students. Pratap Singh, director, placement, said 13 students from BTech CSE and IT 2022 passed out batch were part of the drive. After the online technical test followed by technical interviews, two students got selected.

JC Bose team wins Kabaddi tourney

Faridabad: The JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad organised a one-day inter-college kabaddi tournament. As many as 13 teams including University and its affiliated colleges participated in the tournament. Vice-Chancellor Raj Nehru and dean student welfare Prof. Lakhwinder Singh congratulated the winning team. In the tournament, NGF College Palwal secured the second position and Satyug Darshan College Faridabad and BS Anangpuria College Faridabad jointly secured the third position.

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