Students shine at GK Olympiad

Karnal: Two students of Class VIII — Vibhor Gupta and Archit Singla — of Pratap Public School, Sector 6 here, have been awarded cash prizes of Rs 1 lakh and Rs 25,000 respectively at national-level GK Olympiad 2020 by Mind Wars hosted by Zee TV. Gupta is among the top nine national champions, while Singla had bagged cash prize of Rs 2,000 at Brain O Brain Wonderkid national-level interschool online competition and second position in national analytical exam. Recently, both Vibhor and Archit had secured fourth rank in Indianica quiz league, i.e. an online national quiz competition. The Principal of the school, Dr Puja Walia Mann, congratulated both the winners and their parents for this achievement.

Seminar on law reforms

Rohtak: Baba Mastnath University here held a national seminar on ‘Criminal law reforms in recent times: Issues and challenges’. Faculty of Law Dean Dr Raj Kumar Yadav at the university said key speaker Central University of Haryana School of Law Dean Prof Rajesh Malik described the essence of law and how the criminal law began and continues to work till date with reforms and amendments. Guest of honour Dr Monika Malik spoke about the issue of homosexuality in the society.

Workshop for sd college faculty

Sonepat: Indira Gandhi National College, Ladwa (Dhanora), organised a one-day workshop for its faculty members on ‘e-content development’ in collaboration with SD College, Ambala Cantt on the college campus. The programme was organised under the UGC Paramarsh scheme. Principal Dr Hari Parkash Sharma welcomed SD College Principal Dr Rajinder Singh and all resource persons. The programme was divided into three technical sessions. Mandeep Kaur was the resource person of the first technical session who acquainted the faculty members with the knowledge of creating an effective PPT. Heena was the resource person of the second and third technical session and instructed the faculty members about uploading PPT/videos on YouTube, concept of licensing and using Google Classroom, Google Docs and Google Sheets for e-content development.

Scholarship for meritorious kids

Faridabad: To extend financial help to meritorious students for their study, JC Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA, here has provided Vishwa Prakash Mission Scholarship to 11 deserving students. The scholarship is sponsored by Vishwa Prakash Mission (VPM), a charitable trust of Faridabad headed by Rakesh Sethi, retired executive director of Union Bank, working to provide financial assistance to deserving and underprivileged students for their education. A total of 11 students of the university enrolled in the current academic session have been selected for the scholarship of up to Rs 50,000 per annum per student for academic fee with total outlay of Rs 18.5 lakh till the completion of their degree. A total of 50 students have, so far availed total financial assistance of over Rs 48 lakh through the scholarship scheme. Rakesh Sethi, Chairman of the VPM trust, said the expenditure of study of all selected students would be borne by the mission under the scholarship scheme. He said more than 60 students had applied for scholarship, out of which 11 had been selected considering the academic record, personal interview and economic status of the students.

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