Kurukshetra University sets up Covid help desk

Kurukshetra: A Covid helpdesk has been set up for the counselling of the staff of Kurukshetra University. Any KU employee and their family members can contact the members of the help desk on time to resolve Covid-related doubts. All KU employees should be free from Covid and defend themselves with positivity, for this purpose, the help desk has been set, said Prof Som Nath Sachdeva, Vice-Chancellor. Members of this help desk, Dr Ashish Aneja (9813458645), Dr Meenu Gupta (7015343018), Dr Ankit Gaur (9694726656) can be contacted everyday by calling the university health centre and their given phone numbers from 9 am to 5.30 pm. KU Director Public Relations, Prof Brajesh Sawhney said the KU had also started free food service for Corona- infected employees and families residing on the KU campus.

Online mentor-mentee meet

Rohtak: University teaching departments of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) has begun organising online interactive mentor-mentee meetings to facilitate mental well-being of students in Covid times. MDU Vice-Chancellor Prof Rajbir Singh had appealed to all head of departments to conduct such meetings. Prof Navratan Sharma, Professor, department of psychology and dean, social sciences has been assigned the task of university co-ordinator, mentor-mentee.

Three-day online conference

Kurukshetra: Three-day online international conference titled “Paradigms of communication and data sciences (PCCDS-2021)” started at the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. The conference is being organised by the department of computer engineering supported by the Soft Computing Research Society, New Delhi, in the online mode due to the Covid-19 pandemic. While inaugurating the conference, Dr Satish Kumar, director, expressed hope that the human civilisation would come out successfully from the biological disaster of unprecedented magnitude. He also hoped that the papers presented in the conference would furnish as a platform to stimulate further study and research in all focused areas.

Birth anniversary celebrated

Yamunanagar: The 298th birth anniversary of Maharaja Jassa Singh Ramgarhia, the Sikh warrior and founder of Ramgarhia Missal, was celebrated through online medium at Guru Nanak Khalsa College. Principal Dr (Major) Harinder Singh Kang said Sardar Ramgarhia was born in 1723 and died in 1803 while leading a glorious life and serving the humanity. Bhupinder Singh Jauhar and Randeep Singh Jauhar, president of the college management committee said they were proud of their ancestors.

Virtual placement drives

Kurukshetra: As many as nine students of TERii, Kurukshetra, have been placed in virtual placement drives. Dr Sagar Gulati, director TERii, said the institution collaborated with Verzeo, a Bangalore based ed-tech company for virtual campus drive for BTech students, and six students secured the job, as an outcome. The selection process was a zoom interview, wherein the students were assessed on their technical and inter-personal skills to qualify for the job. After a successful paid internship while working from home on stipend basis, students would be confirmed at an annual package Selected students are Nicolas, Papul Kumar, Wajid Ansari, Amandeep Singh Johal, Dheeman Gupta and Banshika Kumari.