Sepak Takraw c’ship concludes

Jalandhar: Six-day 31st Senior National Sepak Takraw Championship 2021, commonly known as “Kick-Volleyball”, culminated at the international competitions level Shanti Devi Mittal Indoor Stadium of Lovely Professional University (LPU). Near 600 sports women and men from across all Indian states, UTs and forces participated. During the different matches played on six days, all women teams of Sashastra Seema Bal; Manipur; and, Bihar state were crowned respectively for their glorious wins in Team Event; Regu Event; and, Double Event of the tournament. The men’s team of SSB lifted the championship trophy by defeating Delhi team in the ‘Team event’ of the game. The Delhi team remained at the runner up position. In the Regu event also, the SSB men’s team defeated Delhi 2/0. Manipur men’s team claimed the third place after beating Nagaland. In the double event for men, Bihar team was no less than its women team and defeated Haryana men by 2/1.

Inter-School Kathak Dance Contest

A budding dancer of Mayor World School Drisha Jain of grade VIII -D participated in Jalandhar Sahodaya Inter-School Kathak Dance Competition at DRV DAV Centenary Public School. She won the first prize in the category of Grades VI-VIII and brought laurels to the school. Her graceful dance moves were more complex and influenced by musicality and lyrical relevance to express emotions. Stepping in time to the beats of the music and showing a clear repertoire of dance steps, she left the audience spellbound. Many Schools participated in the event. The participants were full of great zeal and enthusiasm and were thrilled to be a part of this colourful, vibrant and energising event.

Creative Writing Competition

A creative writing competition was held at PCM SD College for Women by Hindi Sahitya Dhara. Students of varied streams participated in the event. The topic of the competition was given on the spot. The event was held for the students to nurture their intrinsic and creative talents. They performed to the best of their abilities through poetry and prose. Members of the managing committee and Principal Dr Pooja Prashar felicitated the students for their avid participation. They also applauded the endeavours of Sunita Sharma and Neena Mittal for organising such activities that serve as outlet to the hidden ingenuity of the students.

Industrial Visit

The Civil Engineering students of Mehr Chand Polytechnic College, Jalandhar, were taken for an industrial visit to Phagwara for briefing them the functioning of an automatic Hot Mix Plant and the materials used therein. The visit was arranged by Department of Civil Engineering in association with M/s RK Aggarwal & Co. Phagwara to make the students aware about the working of Hot Mix Plant and carpeting of flexible pavements. The students saw various operations and controls of automatic Hot Mix Plant and learnt about the materials. The students were accompanied by Kanav Mahajan and Amit Khanna, lecturers in the Department of Civil Engineering.

Exhibition at Apeejay College

On the occasion of 552nd birthday of Guru Nanak Dev, Apeejay College of Fine Arts participated in an exhibition organised at Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. In the exhibition, Dr Gagan Gambhir, Dr Simkee Dev, Dr Harman Deep, Sandeep Singh, Dr Raman Dadra and Anuradha acted as representatives of college. They exhibited the art work related to the culture and inheritance of Punjab. Various paintings representing Punjab and the ancient utensils used in older times of Punjab were exhibited. With this, other homely stuff as Phulkari, Punjabi Jutti, Pakhiyan, Daria, brass utensils etc. were also displayed.

Toppers in BA Journalism

Sanket Goyal of Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar, has bagged 2nd position in the university exams of B.A. Journalism & Mass Communication Semester-II by getting 405 marks out of 450 whereas Ekta Pandey, Pallvi and Rajveer Kaur bagged 4th,6th and 9th position by getting 397, 386, 377 marks respectively in the same class. This information was given in a press release by the Principal of the College Dr Gurpinder Singh Samra. Dr Samra added that the college has a policy of providing all kinds of support to the meritorious students of the college who excel in academics sports and other co-curricular activities. The president of the college governing council Balbir Kaur congratulated the students and wished them success in life.

AWS Cloud Certification

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering student; Raahat Varma of GNA University completed his third AWS Cloud Certification on Sysops Administrator Associate. Raahat commenced his Cloud journey last year in 2020 and learned about Amazon Web Services (AWS) at GNA University. Cloud offers mainly three roles, Cloud Engineer, Cloud Developer, Cloud Architect and all other roles revolve around these domains. Raahat initially cleared AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner in two weeks in August 2020. He cleared his second certification AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, which took him a month to prepare. He also cleared Aviatrix Certified Engineer- Multicloud Network Associate Certification offered by Aviatrix.

Annual Sports Meet

Jalandhar: St Soldier College of Education organised 17th athletic meet in which Dr Shweta Shenoy, Head of Department of Science and Medicine, Guru Nanak Dev University, was present as the chief guest. Chairman of St. Soldier Group Anil Chopra, Vice Chairperson Sangeeta Chopra, Sacred Heart School Chairman Sunil Chopra were specially present. They were welcomed by MD Prof Manhar Arora, College Director Dr Alka Gupta. Various types of games were organised in the meet. TNS

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