A webinar on “Design for Life” A Creative Kaleidoscopic Process, organised by Dr. Prabhdip Brar, Chairperson, University Institute of Fashion Technology and Vocational Development (UIFT&VD), Panjab University on Friday, Sep 18, 2020, was presented by Siddhartha Bansal, a fashion Designer. It was attended by nearly 70 students, research scholars and faculty members of Fashion Technology.
The inspiration for the designers’ collections has been ” Golden bird” i.e. India, with an aim to present the rich Craft and Culture to the world. His collections provide a traditional experience through clothes with feminine cuts, fusing them with fresh colour combinations and intricate detailed motifs. Kaleidoscopic prints mainly inspired from Indian mythological characters is the label’s USP. His Autumn/Winter 2015, Lakme Fashion Week collection was based on a ‘Kamdhenu Cow’ which is a mythical wish granting cows. Intricate motifs from Persian era on doors and pillars were taken as an inspiration for prints in his Spring Summer LFW’16 collection ‘THE DOOR’. Mughal motifs, desert cacti, peacock, blooming lotuses were seen and celebrated.
The designer keeps playing with innovative intangible themes for his collections. ‘GAMECHANGER’ A/W’16, the collection addressed the dilemma one is being unable to choose between money or his soul. Snakes and eye motifs were incorporated in prints. Similarly, his A/W LFW’17 collection, portrayed a story of a traveller wandering from west to east and is awestruck by India’s beauty. Metamorphosis was the successful theme for his S/S’18 collection. Kaleidoscopic butterfly prints, Pastel colours and 80’s fashion trends were high points of the garments.
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Chandigarh, September 19:- This is for the information of the general public that due to urgent cleaning work of the underground reservoir from Booster No. II at 8448 Flats, Dhanas, Chandigarh will be carried out from 22.09.2020 to 25.09.2020. Due to this shut down, the timings of water supply for 8448 Flats, Dhanas, Chandigarh shall be as under:-
The public is requested to store adequate water in the Morning & Evening from 22.09.2020 to 25.09.2020 as per their requirement as there will be low pressure water supply to bear with the Municipal Corporation for inconvenience.
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The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has extended the last date of submission of online Fresh & RR admission of all Masters, Bachelor, Diplomas & Certificates programmes up to 30th September, 2020 for the July-2020 session. Details of the IGNOU academic programmes for the July, 2020 session can be accessed from the link https://ignouadmission.samarth.edu.in/. The prospective learners can apply for Masters/Bachelor/Diploma/Certificate programmes of the University on the official website, informed The Regional Director of IGNOU Regional centre Chandigarh Dr. A.K.Dimri. Last date of submission of ‘online’ admission form for July session was earlier fixed for September 15.
For all those candidates, who have been planning to get admission in any of the IGNOU courses can apply for the same online. Firstly the candidate has to register themselves (if not registered) on the official website i.e https://ignouadmission.samarth.edu.in/. Whereas those who have already registered can simply login with the id- password and fill up the application form for the admission in the July session at Indira Gandhi National Open University for 2020. Also, before filling up the IGNOU admission form, candidates must go through the general instructions, eligibility criteria, fee details, duration, etc. on the official website. Applicants can also download the complete details of the programmes from the IGNOU website.
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The joint research by Prof. Tapas Mukhopadhyay, Professor& Director (Retd.),National Centre for Human Genome Studies & Research, Panjab University
and his team including Dr. Nilambra Dogra CSIR-Senior Research Associate, Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Panjab University and Dr. Ashok Kumar Chairperson, Centre for Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Panjab University for finding an effective and safe anti-cancer option from the repertoire of available tested drugs was published in the journal Scientific Reports and featured at #11 amongst the top 100 oncology papers. The paper has attracted widespread attention and is in the top 5% of ~15,873,280 research outputs tracked across all sources so far by Altmetric (a measure of attention a scientific paper has received).
The process of developing new cancer treatments from scratch and bringing them to the market is a time consuming and expensive process. An alternative time saving, inexpensive and safe approach is to explore already available approved drugs for ailments other than cancer which may display significant anticancer properties. This approach with the potential to provide economically beneficial, safer and effective options in a short period of time has been termed as ‘drug repurposing’ and through this strategy the team has identified Fenbendazole (FZ) – a veterinary deworming drug – as a safe, inexpensive and effective anti-cancer agent. Thanks to decades of motivated research, more people than ever before are surviving cancer. However, the task is still far from accomplished. The disease continues to claim many lives, and by and large ‘cancer’ still remains a dreaded word.Gaps remain to be traversed and challenges to be overcome before we can lay a final claim on victory over cancer. A vast majority of cancer therapies suffer from the two most common issues encountered in cancer treatment – toxicity and drug resistance. Finding a way to overcome these hurdles remains a challenge for cancer researchers.
Laboratory grown cancer cells originating from various tissues (lung, prostate, colon, breast etc.) could be killed by exposing them to different doses of fenbendazole. Importantly, their results showed that FZ was non-toxic to normal cells at doses at which it killed cancer cells. To evaluate the efficacy of the drug better, the results were confirmed in a mouse model bearing tumor of human origin. Mice fed with FZ showed a considerable decrease in tumor size. Through their experiments, the researchers demonstrated that FZ acted by targeting multiple cellular pathways including microtubules, enhancing p53 levels, hampering glucose uptake and glycolysis as well as inhibiting the proteasomal pathway of protein degradation.
Cancer progression involves a number of factors affecting multiple components of the cell.Thus, drugs against single targets often show limited efficacy, and furthermore, they may eventually lead to drug resistance, since cancer cells are clever and resourceful enough to rely on other pathways for growth and survival when one pathway is blocked. Drugs targeting several cellular components simultaneously are expected to be more effective besides being able to evade the likelihood of developing resistance. This work proposes FZ as a multitargeting effective inexpensive repurposed drug for cancer treatment.
Since the publication of this research, the authors have been contacted by people who shared how they had benefitted from this work on FZ. Even though this drug has not been through clinical trials for cancer and cannot yet be prescribed for cancer treatment, some terminally ill patients have self-administered FZ in the absence of other alternatives and shared their success stories with the authors. An American patient with lung cancer metastasized throughout his body who had dismal chances of survival started taking FZ on advice of his veterinarian friend. His oncologist was amazed to find that his subsequent scans came all clear. He’s still alive, healthy and cancer-free more than three years after he was told he’d soon die. He has written a blog about his experience with FZ to spread the word (https://www.mycancerstory.rocks) and has also shared many other success stories of patients suffering from triple negative breast cancer, prostate, colorectal, pancreatic and other types of cancer.
Through their work, the researchers hope that even though FZ is an off-patent drug, it will be taken to clinical trials so that it can be approved for use in cancer and doesn’t remain yet another promising drug which could have saved lives but never reached patients.
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Chandigarh, September 18:-A meeting of Town Vending Committee, Chandigarh was held in MCC today under the chairmanship of Sh. K.K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh.
During the meeting various important issues were discussed in detail and accorded approval for the following:
· The Committee resolved to approve Rs. 500 maximum concession in the monthly Street Vending Fee (total 6000 benefit) for those Street Vendors who will avail the benefit of PM SVANidhi Yojna. The same will be effective from the date of the approval of the loan till the loan period i.e. for total 12 months.
· The committee also discussed the status of progress of PM SVANidhi Atma Nirbhar Yojna.
· The TVC also discussed the consideration of surveyed street vendors but not registered yet by the MCC for availing the benefit under PM SVANidhi under which the work has already been completed for Phase-I as per the bylaws and registration under Phase-2 will be commenced shortly.
Sh. Sorabh Arora, Joint Commissioner, Sh. Vivek Trivedi, Social Development Officer, DAY-NULM, other members of TVC including Sh. V.N. Sharma (attended online), Sh. Sita Ram, Sh. Ram Pal, Smt. Kamlesh, Smt. Gita, representatives from office of traffic police, SSP and other officials of MCC were present during the meeting.
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The Department of Chemistry and Centre of Advanced Studies in Chemistry, Panjab University, Chandigarh organized a webinar on “New Education Policy 2020: A Roadmap to Higher Education”, today.
Dr. (Mrs.) Geeta Bhatt, Director Non Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB), University of Delhi was the keynote speaker and in her address, mentioned that NEP-2020 focusses on promoting value-based education and development of scientific temperament. She briefed everyone on the innovative reforms such as Right to education, Vocational skill development, education in mother tongue, interdisciplinary education system, progress-based evaluation system, multiple entries and exit points in higher education for all age sectors. She opined that the awareness of reforms of NEP-2020 at grass-root level would ensure access of opportunities to everyone. She mentioned the famous examples of Prof. Ruchi Ram Sahni and Prof. Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar and their adaptive and modernized educational policies for better development of intellectual minds. She concluded her lecture by answering the questions from the audience and thanked everyone for such an engrossing and interactive session.
The initiative was hailed by Prof. Raj Kumar as one of the most important and relevant topics in the current trends of the educational infrastructure to work upon Atma-Nirbhar Bharat. He laid emphasis on the successful implementation of the NEP-2020 and its awareness among the masses. New Education Policy-2020 was recently approved by the Govt. of India for the transformation of our education system. It is not only focused on the school and college level teaching but is also designed to educate the professionals and lifelong learners, to uphold the Indian languages and culture at global levels, to extract best of Indian technologies and to expand the horizons of classroom teaching from black-board to e-learning. It will give an autonomous system for education. Our Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji very well said that there are two types of thoughts for acquiring autonomy; one says“freedom for working independently” and other says“lack of Government supervision”. The NEP will construct a road passing through the two perspectives to provide quality education to the Indians. So, irrespective of the people’s perspective, NEP has a broad vision to improve the standard of education and to educate every learner.
PU VC added that the NEP-2020 will prune the unwanted branches of the plant of the higher education system and will fertilize it for its re-growth in a healthy and fruitful plant. It will cover the lacunae of the 34-years old system by developing multidisciplinary universities and colleges across India, by developing student-friendly approaches, by re-establishing the integrity of the faculty, and by skill enhancement to make the independent individuals. He opined that NEP-2020 has come with special benefits to the women who have a special role in shaping society. The New education policy will provide ‘Gender-Inclusion Fund’ to educate the girls and assisting the females
Earlier,Prof. K.N. Singh, Convenor and Chairperson, gave a welcome address to 175 attendees from different backgrounds. He introduced and welcomed the speaker of the event. Further, Dr. Bhatt was formally introduced by Prof. S.K. Mehta from the Department of Chemistry. Prof. Mehta accentuated the importance of NEP-2020 in revisiting and amending the educational policies for better development of the students and the faculty members.
The webinar ended with a vote of thanks from Dr. Ramesh Kataria, Coordinator.
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A team comprising of 3 students namely Rajat Jain, Namanpreet Singh and Sarthak Gupta of B.E. Information Technology Final Year of University Institute of Engineering and Technology(UIET), Panjab University, Chandigarh won the 1st prize of Rs. 3 lakh in National Level Collegiate Cyber Threat Competition (CCTC) 2020 conducted at Deloitte TechnoUtsav. The results were declared on 15th September in a virtual event. The students also secured Pre-Placement Offers from Deloitte USI (Offices of the US).
The competition started in February 2020 with a basic aptitude test in which around 20,000 students from more than 100 different prestigious Indian colleges participated. After clearing initial round, the students formed a team UIET Chandigarh_Cybersec since they all had keen interest in cyber security. There were around 550 shortlisted teams in CCTC 2020. The next round tested the subjective knowledge of students in cybersecurity. 145 teams cleared this round. The next round was a 16 day long challenge in which everyday 5-6 problems were given to be solved in 24 hours. The challenge was to capture the flag based on cyber security which required knowledge of technology and tools. Due to lockdown, all rounds were online. UIET Chandigarh_Cybersec reached the finale round. UIET Chandigarh_Cybersec was part of 13 teams in the finale. Final challenge was to solve multiple problems with strict time constraints and difficulty level within duration of 9 hours.
The department of Information Technology at UIET has several students, research scholars and faculty members working in the area of cybersecurity under the mentorship of Prof. Krishan Kumar, Co-ordinator (IT), and leadership of Prof. Savita Gupta, Director, UIET.
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The SAIF/CIL Panjab University Chandigarh organised a webinar on National Education Policy-2020 with special reference to Student Centric Teaching Learning. The session began with the introductory remarks of Prof GR Chaudhary, Director SAIF/CIL.
The Vice chancellor Panjab University Prof. Raj Kumar, the chief patron of the webinar appreciated and acknowledged the topic Student Centrcongratulated the panelist & speaker for selecting the right time for dispensing the knowledge on a very important topic National Education Policy 2020. The VC talked about providing access to the resources and focusing on the participation of students in implementing NEP 2020.
The speaker of the day was a very versatile and renowned personality in the field of higher education – Prof RL Raina, VC, JKLU Jaipur. His exemplary talk on this visionary document kept the virtual audience curious and completely engrossed throughout, as is the aim of this multidisciplinary policy. Prof Raina explicitly discussed the principles and various elements on which NEP 2020 rests. He beautifully cited the thin line between the terms use, misuse, overuse and underuse and discussed how this holistic and integrated policy aims at producing a complete human being and not just a professional. He highlighted the importance of teaching the students the art of “learning to learn” and rise above rote learning that just aims at securing marks. He addressed that our youth are our ambassadors and education needs to prepare them for life, for facing the world out there. Prof Raina shared an interesting and unique course named SEE (Social, Emotional and Ethical Learning) that he introduced in his JKL University, Jaipur last year. He not only highlighted the pros of NEP 2020, but critically analyzed it and brought into light the recognition to library resources that the policy failed to include.
He concluded his talk by reciting a short prayer from the book ‘Power of Positive Thinking’ by Norman Vincent Peale and appealed everyone to start acting on this visionary document with an enthusiastic approach, since it is your attitude that makes it look positive and doable.
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Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh attended the 45th Governing Body Meeting of Consortium for Educational Communication(CEC) in the capacity of Member of this body. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Jagat Bhushan Nadda, Director, CEC. PU VC in his participation, gave suggestions related to expansion, diversification of activities, short term and long term strategy and overseas centre of CEC.
Chandigarh, September 16:- Sh. K. K. Yadav, IAS, Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Chandigarh today visited the newly allotted Petrol pump sites to the MCC at Industrial area Phase-II and at sector 51-A, Chandigarh. He was accompanied by Sh. S.K. Jain, Additional Commissioner, Sh. Shailender Singh, Chief Engineer, Sh. Sanjay Arora, SE B&R and concerned officers of IOC.
During the visit, the Commissioner reviewed the ground level status of the construction activities for early opening and starting of these petrol pumps. The IOC officers and engineers of MCC assures for commissioning and opening of the petrol pump site at sector 51 A by 2nd October, 2020.
