New principal takes charge

Karnal: Col Vijay Rana on Tuesday took over the charge as the new Principal of Sainik School, Kunjpura, by replacing Col VD Chandola, who took over the reins of the school on July 6, 2017 and retired on Tuesday. Col Rana was awarded with GOC-in-C Commendation Card twice in i.e. 2002 and 2008 while serving with 2 Garh Rifles and1 Signal Trg Centre. He was also awarded with signal officer in Chief Commendation Card in 2006. The entire fraternity wished Col Chandola a fulfilling and satisfactory second innings after superannuation.

NCC Day observed

Karnal: Dyal Singh College, Karnal, observed 73rd NCC Day by organising cultural events under the leadership of Commanding Officer Naresh Arya. The day started with NCC cadets of the college cleaning the Mahatma Gandhi statue and then held poetic and slogan recitation, dance, speech contest on the college premises. It was presided by college principal Dr Ashima Gakhar. She addressed the cadets and motivated them to remain disciplined, focused in life. The college NCC Officer Kiran Kumar welcomed all.

10 faculty members nominated

Rohtak: The Vice-Chancellor of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Prof Rajbir Singh, has nominated 10 faculty members as members of the academic council (AC) of the university under the provisions of statute13 of the MDU Act. MDU Registrar ProfGulshan Lal Taneja said that those nominated as members of the AC are -- Dr Jitender Singh Dhull, Dr Seema Mehra, Dr Santosh Kumar Tiwari, Dr Neeru Rathee, Dr Sunita Saini, Dr Himmat Singh Ratnoo, Dr Krishankant Sharma, Dr Anusuya Yadav, Menka, and Dr Ashok Kumar.

Skill varsity signs MoU

Palwal: Shri Vishwakarma Skill University has entered into a MoU with the Rotary Blood Bank with the purpose to promote mutual cooperation between SVSU and Rotary Blood Bank for certificate programme in phlebotomy technician and provide OJT in medical lab technology programmes. The MoU will facilitate and create a pool of qualified job ready skilled resources in the area of phlebotomy technician in the state of Haryana. Vice Chancellor, Raj Nehru and Subhash Verma from the Rotary Club were present.

Harish grabs place in national team

Kaithal: Harish, a trainee pistol shooter at the shooting range of the sports complex of RKSD College, Kaithal, secured a place in the national team trials by securing a score of 570/700 in the 64th national shooting matches held in New Delhi. Apart from this, Geetansh won the gold medal in the under-14 category of the school competition with a score of 154/200 and qualified for the national school shooting championship to be held in Faridabad.

Inter-college yoga competition

Faridabad: JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, Faridabad, organised an inter-college yoga competition in which 40 participants from the university and affiliated colleges took part. The yoga students of university's Community College performed well in the competition. Organised by the university's student welfare office it was conducted by yogacharya Kuldeep Rawat and sports officer DrSunita Koak, in which the participants demonstrated different yogic kriyas. In the male category, Sanjay and Harsh, both from Community College, got first and second position, respectively. Similarly, Ravi Kumar of the university stood third. In the women' category, Anjali of Community College was the winner. Himanshi from the university and Kshama from Community College shared the second position whereas Preeti from the university stood third.

Registrar’s Term extended

Rohtak: Haryana Governor and Chancellor of Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) has extended the term of Prof Gulshan Lal Taneja as the registrar of the MDU for three years on completion of his present term. A notification to this effect has been issued by the Higher Education Department of the Government of Haryana. Notably, Prof. Gulshan Lal Taneja joined as the registrar in the MDU for his first term on November 28, 2018. Prof Taneja expressed his gratitude to the Governor-Chancellor and Chief Minister, Haryana for renewal of his term.

Calf rally organised

Karnal: The National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal, under the technical activities of network project on buffalo improvement (NPBI), is implementing a progeny testing programme on Murrah buffaloes in 20 NDRI adopted villages under 5 centres, such as Kheriman Singh, Rindal, Kamalpur, Darar and Sheikhpura. A calf rally under the NPBI project was organised at Kheriman Singh village in the district. All the calves born following test mating inseminations, and duly identified with project tags and registered under the NPBI participated in the rally. An appreciation certificate and memento was given to buffalo farmer Ronak Sandhu for maintaining a record 23 litre in a day. Speaking on the occasion, Dr Dheer Singh, Joint Director Research, NDRI, emphasised on the importance of dairy education, and spoke about various employment probabilities arising thereof among the rural youth.

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