Plantation drive at MDU campus

Rohtak: Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) Vice-Chancellor Rajbir Singh initiated a plantation drive in the university by planting saplings on the University Campus School premises. The VC said tree plantation was necessary to boost the cause of environment. He urged the university community to plant trees. He said the green campus of MDU has been lauded at national level. Senior university functionaries and members of the university community took part in the plantation drive. In all 56 saplings were planted on the occasion.

Online essay writing contest

Yamunanagar: A national-level online essay writing contest was organised by Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat Club of Mukand Lal National College,Yamunanagar, on the topic “Battle with COVID-19: Promotion without Examination-Students’ Perspective”. Dr Rahul Khanna, officiating principal of the college, said students from Telangana, West Bengal, Punjab, Uttrakhand and Haryana participated in the contest. He said the purpose behind organising the contest was to understand the perspective of the students regarding the conduct of examinations in the times of pandemic and also to assess their sense of responsibility not only towards themselves but also towards their family, society and nation at large. The contest was organised under the guidance of the convener of the club Dr Anil Dhawan and the organising committee consisted of Dr Sumita Kanwar, Sunita Sikri and Gurmeet Singh.

Group discussion held

Hisar: The Training and Placement Cell of Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology here organised an online group discussion (GD) contest under its fortnightly virtual speakathon programme. In all 27 students from various departments participated in the contest. Dr Dinesh Nagpal, Director, IMS, Hisar, was the chief judge of the event assisted by Dr Deepa Mangla, Prof HSB, and Bijender Kaushik, Assistant Prof, Department of Printing of the university. The programme began with an orientation on “How to participate effectively in GD” by all the three judges. Dr Nagpal through a presentation directed the students that a GD reflects one’s personality and one’s presence of mind. “A good GD expects you to be a good listener along with being a good speaker,” he said. “Weightage of content is 50 per cent, 25 per cent for body language and the rest 25 per cent is for communication skills in a GD,” he said. He also highlighted the importance of dressing sense, postures, timings, understanding of topic and command over the language. He said a GD was meant to check the knowledge, team work ability and confidence of the candidate.

Int’l conference concludes

Kurukshetra: The first international conference on “Mobile Radio Communications and 5G Networks” (MRCN-2020) concluded at the UIET, KU here. During the conference, various keynote address were delivered by experts from various parts of the world. Dr Manak Gupta, Tennessee Technological University, USA, gave a keynote address on secure smart communities, a keynote address on information and communication technologies for “Addressing societal and global challenges: Tools and Application” by Dr Utkarsh Shrivastava, Western Michigan University, USA, a keynote address on automatic modulation recognition for a secure and flexible transceiver for software defined radios by Dr Nikhil Marriwala, UIET, KU, keynote address on role of 5G in next generation internet enabled innovation by Prof Shivakumar Mathapathi adjunct faculty- Santa Clara University and UC San Diego Extension, and address by Dr Vishal from Sultanate of Oman on communication in AI were delivered to the participants during the three-day event. Prof CC Tripathi, Convener-MRCN-2020, Director, UIET, KU, said the publication of the proceedings of the conference in the form of a book titled “Mobile radio communications and 5G networks” would be published by Springer – one of the world renowned and leading publisher. Dr Nikhil Marriwala the organising secretary of MRCN-2020 said all the received papers were being reviewed with a panel of experts and 22.3 per cent were the acceptance rate.