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Chandigarh July 4, 2019 

Professor Manju Jaidka, who superannuated from the English Dept, Panjab 
University, has been invited to deliver a keynote address at the 9th Congress of the International American Studies Association (IASA) to be held at Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain, from 8 to 10 July 2019.  

        The theme of the Conference is New Challenges for American Studies in the 21st Century.ťProf Jaidka’s presentation will be on “American Studies in a World of Flux”.  

        A former Chairperson at PU and the erstwhile head of the Chandigarh Sahitya Akademi, Prof Jaidka has travelled widely on professional assignments and on fellowships. She is an academician and creative writer who has published extensively, lectured at various international forums, been the recipient of prestigious fellowships from reputed institutions like the UGC, the Fulbright association and Rockefeller Foundation, and is on several national and international bodies.  

        IASA is an international association of academicians hailing from forty 
different countries. It meets over an international congress once in two years. 

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Chandigarh July 3, 2019 

 The Department of Defence and National Security Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh organised a special lecture on the topic “Intra State conflict resolution and peace building – Role of the Armed Forces Special Power Act” by BRIG D S SARAO (Retd.) here today. Brig D.S. Sarao is a military and strategic affairs analyst. He has done his bachelor and master degrees in the legal studies. His prowess with the legal studies enabled him to give insight into the legal provision of the Armed Forces 
Special Power Act (AFSPA).
       

He broadly covered all the aspects of the AFSPA including its genesis, meaning and its various legal provisions, requirements and areas currently and in past that fell under this provision. The AFSPA was firstly implemented in the seven sisters of the North-East India including Assam, Manipur, Tripura, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram and Nagaland on September 1, 1958 to quell the secessionist movement in the 
region. Punjab and Chandigarh also fell under the preview of this Act during militancy in Panjab state but was later withdrawn in 1997. AFSPA was applied in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1990 and has been in the force since then.

        He stressed that Armed Forces is the last resort in the hand of the central government to resolve the intra state conflict and build peace. The primary purposes and missions of the Indian Armed Forces are national security, territorial integrity and safeguard our countries from the external threats. They are only deployed in intra state conflicts when State police and para military forces are not able to control the situation and the area is declared disturbed by the State or the Central Govt. AFSPA has the special provisions to assist the Armed forces conducting its operations and 
missions. Without the AFSPA, they would be handicapped to perform their duties assigned in the extraordinary situations. 

        He called for the faith in the Indian Armed Forces, who are well trained, disciplined, organised, educated and having robust command and control system in place. They have shown their capacity and capabilities to operate effectively under the ambit of the AFSPA. Any dilution in the act would result into the compromise with their operational capabilities to deal with danger against the national security. This could result into the dangerous consequences to the nation.  

        The lecture was attended by faculty members, serving and retired armed forces officers pursuing various courses in the department, research scholars and students. The lecture was followed by a questions and answers session with the audience.   

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Chandigarh July 3, 2019 

Prof Raj Kumar Vice-Chancellor Panjab University held a meeting with Post-
Doctoral Fellows (PDF) from various departments of PU, here today. He proposed for organizing the technical session-cum-group discussion on the New Economic Policy. 

 
        He suggested the PDFs to get involved in feedback exercise on the draft of National Policies of various domains. Further, he advised the forum to conduct an exercise to compile the opinions on New Economic Policy.

        He also appreciated the work done by Academic Forum of Post-Docs for the Orientation Seminar organised by them for 103 PhD students to guide them and help them apply for Post-Doctoral Fellowships.  

        He urged PDFs to help in the admission process to take application numbers to greater heights and also to get involved in mentorship of hostel students this year to streamline things further for students.

 
        Further, it was suggested by the Dr. Sukhwinder Singh, Director, Computer Centre, that all research work conducted by the PDFs till date shall be soon updated on the Panjab University website (in a fixed format) so that there is global access to the work being done in this University. 

        Panjab University Post-Doctoral Fellows Academic Forum was recently incepted and has been regularly organising research and academic related activities.  

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