National Start-up Fest

Jalandhar: One of the 250 student organisations at Lovely Professional University (LPU), “Tanzanite” is organising sixteen-day long National Start-up Fest (NSF)-2021, virtually, under the aegis of Division of Student Welfare. The fest is a massive gathering of India’s best entrepreneurs, founders, mentors along with numerous participants. It is also featuring national-class content across several keynote addresses, interactive sessions, thought-provoking predictions and more. The fest is also holding a series of events including Ideathon, case study, budget, group discussions, quiz and webinar. Here, once again the great belief in Dhirubhai Ambani’s quote: “Success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India’s transformation in the new millennium,” is being strongly realised. More than 2,000 students from several universities and parts of the country including Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Delhi, Kolkata and more are taking part in the fest.

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Lecture on health psychology

Kanya Maha Vidyalaya is organising an international series where the eminent personalities from around the world concerning various diverse fields are invited to deliver a lecture. The PG Department of Psychology conducted a session of International Series in which Dr. Robert Urban, Professor and Head of the Department, Personality and Health Psychology, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, was invited as the guest speaker. The topic of Dr Urban’s lecture was ‘What do Health Psychologists do?’ commenced his lecture by explaining about the field of health psychology. He enlightened the students about how behaviour influences health and how as health psychologists we can help people to cope up and recover from illness. He elucidated the students on how mental disorders influence the occurrence, treatment and outcome of various health conditions. He also briefed the students about the types of other fields that are related to health psychology.

Webinar on Post-Covid Complications

To make students aware of post-Covid complications, Innocent Hearts Group of Institutions organised a webinar on topic “Post-Covid complications and care”. The resource person for the webinar was Dr Bhaveent Kaur (Assistant Professor, PIMS, Jalandhar). Bhaveet started the session with brief introduction about the pandemic. She stated that people infected with Covid may experience mild symptoms or completely asymptomatic and covid complications can develop due to long term effect of coronavirus. This virus has the potential to directly damage lung cells, leading to lung fibrosis. It can also include the symptoms like high fever, rashes on body, abdominal pain and extreme fatigue. Dr. Bhavneet described that patients tend to have a high concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokines that leads to extensive damage in heart, liver and other body organs.The resource person advised the students to follow healthy life style to avoid Covid complications. She recommended everyone to take nutritious diet, do meditation and breathing exercise to avoid stress and anxiety after disease.

Virtual magic show organised

Ivy World School arranged a virtual magic show for kindergarten children. Students were excited about the show and they wanted to make sure they did not miss the show. Everyone was filled with curiosity as for some of them this was the first experience. All eyes were glued on screens waiting for surprises, excitement and magic tricks. An experienced magician, wearing an odd dress, showed some tricks which were really unbelievable. He first took some coins and suddenly made them disappeared in to the air. After a minute or so he produced those coins from one of the students’ pocket. The magician surprisingly lifted up a person in the air without any support. In the air he was walking like an astronaut in space. Throughout the show, the magician kept the students amazed and spellbound with his tricks. There were more items such as balance show, juggling, tricks with cards, fire, etc. The virtual spectators burst into loud cheers after each item. In this cyber-age, such magic shows can win young hearts. S. Chauhan, Principal, Ivy World School, congratulated and appreciated the educators thoughtful idea for this magic show.

Van Mahotsav celebrated

To make students aware of this issue and taking initiative towards it, Delhi Public School, Jalandhar celebrated Van Mahotsav. To sustain the festive spirit of ‘Van Mahotsava’, the little ones of the Preprimary wing are determined to take care of plants and create a Happy Earth. The entire month is dedicated to this theme. Along with everyday thoughts, gratitude jar activities and discussions; an exclusive ‘My Green Friends and ‘Green Color Day’ will be celebrated to inspire the young DPSites to protect the environment by taking care of plants. Students of classes 1 to XII were encouraged to dedicate a week to Earth from July 1 to 7 and plant a sapling to make the surroundings greener, livelier and happier and pledge to look after it till it grows to a majestic self sustaining tree. Children also clicked beautiful pictures of themselves with their newly planted saplings. Principal Ritu Kaul encouraged students to preserve trees which play a vital role in maintaining the ecological balance.

Apeejay College students excel

Students of B.A semester V of Apeejay College of Fine Arts have generated glory in results of Guru Nanak Dev University by bagging top positions. College Principal Dr Neerja Dhingra congratulated the meritorious students and wished them to work hard in future too. Dr. Neerja appreciated Aashu Jain (B.SC Economics V semester) who got 95/100 in mathematics. She also appreciated teachers of social sciences for guiding these students to a sparkling success. Jahnvi Aggarwal got 330 marks out of 400 and got the sixth position. Aaruhi, Mehak and Jasmine Sian got 327, 323 and 317 marks and came sixth, eighth, 12th and 16th ranks, respectively.

Radhika 1st in B Voc

The students of B Voc Sem V (Journalism and Media) of Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya got university positions. Radhika got 251 out of 400 and scored 1st position, Pallavi got 2nd position with 232 marks, Muskan Bhatia got 3rd position with 231 marks. Principal Prof Ajay Sareen congratulated the students, Head of Department Rama Sharma and Asst. Prof Jyoti Sehgal and Priyanka Jain. TNS