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Chandigarh November 19, 2019

University School of Open Learning and Department of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh organised a special lecture for students to commemorate the 550th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Devi Ji by Prof. Gurinder Singh Mann, Director Global Institute of Sikh Studies, New York, USA on “Baba Nank: Some Reflections”, here
today. The students had good learning experience from informative and pictorial presentation by Prof. Mann.

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Chandigarh November 18, 2019

 Panjab University Alumni Association (PUAA), Chandigarh is hosting first ever 2 day Annual Global Alumni Meet on 28-29, November, 2019 at PU Law Auditorium informed Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, PU and President, PUAA in the presence of Prof. Deepti Gupta, Dean Alumni Relations and Secretary, PUAA. 

The Guest of Honours of the event would be Mr. Sunl Arora, Chief Election Commissioner of India and Mia Yen, Consul General of Canada in Chandigarh. During the two day event, there will be academic interactions apart from cultural and award ceremonies. PU VC also informed that some Alumni will be taken to their hostels for a nostalgic trip. Even the Chief Guest is PU Alumnus and used to stay in Hostel No. 1. PU is in the process of finalizing around 20-25 distinguished Alumnus for honouring them at the event. PU VC informed that already 200 confirmations with families have been
received from India and 7 countries including US, UK, Canada, Philippines, Singapore, Japan and Afghanistan.
       

The main objective behind organizing this event is to revive all alumni chapters spread all over India and the ones established overseas, he informed.

        Prof. Deepti Gupta, informed that there is a session on brand building for higher education institutes, which will have presence of Mr. Sandeep Goyal, Advertising Veteran,  and Mr. Harit Nagpal, CEO, Tata Sky.  Light, sight and sound play Sat Guru Nanak Pargatya where lanterns and lights will mark 100 years of PU Honours School. She further informed that tree plantation is planned on Day 2 of the event at PU Alumni House. The session on commemoration of 550 years of Guru Nanak Dev Ji is being coordinated by Dr. Prabhdeep Brar, Chairperson, University Institute of Fashion and Technology. A panel discussion on My Vision of PU 2025 will have Professor Emeritus and former VCs of PU. Also, an exhibition is planned to commemorate 150 years of Mahatma Gandhi, which will be inaugurated on 25th November, 2019 and will be on till 29th November, 2019. An Alumni Corridor is planned from Gandhi Bhawan to Law Auditorium for these 2 days.

        Meanwhile, Panjab University Chandigarh Alumni Association,  Toronto, Canada organized Alumni Meet and Annual Family Dinner 2019 in Brampton with the purpose to create better opportunities for the Alumni to come together socially and for the new Alumni to establish in Canada.

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Chandigarh November 14, 2019

The screening   of two documentaries based upon the lost Sikh heritage was organized in a series of ongoing programs devoted to Guru Nanak Patshah’s 550th Prakash Purab at Punjab University Chandigarh,  These documentary films, made by Amardeep Singh, are based on the traces of Sikh Gurdwaras and forts situated in Pakistan which were built by Sikh generals.

        The event was held at the Evening Auditorium of Punjab University and it was attended by a large number of audience.  The program started at 3 pm with a documentary based on the forts built by the Sikh generals during the Khalsa Raaj, followed by a series of questions.  The second documentary carries detailed information about the
Gurdwaras residing in Pakistan. The film left a deep impression on viewers’ minds.

        Amardeep Singh said that today the entire Sikh community talks about or holds information about the main Gurudwaras including Sri Nankana Sahib, Punja Sahib and Kartarpur Sahib, but there are hundreds of such Gurudwaras present in Pakistan.  He said that the region on which the Sikhs established the Khalsa Raaj, naturally, there would be many monuments raised by Sikh community which are part of our heritage.

        The interesting thing in the film was that Amardeep Singh and his associates were fully supported by the residents while shooting in Pakistan.  In addition, this documentary sheds light on Nanakpanthis living in large numbers in Pakistan’s Mirdan and Mangora area.  Amardeep Singh said that 80 per cent of the land on which the Sikh heritage developed today remains in Pakistan, but he hoped that the true owners of the heritage would reunite one day.

        Under this two-day program, Amardeep Singh will shared his experiences with the audience about the shooting of a long documentary related to Guru Nanak Patshah’s Udasis and some highlights from this.

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University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University has organized a one-week (10-17 Nov), 4th IBRO/APRC Chandigarh Neuroscience School funded by International Brain Research Organization, to commemorate its Platinum Jubilee year. Forty-five delegates are attending the event and fourteen renowned national and international neuroscientists are giving scientific deliberations. Today, four of them interacted with the delegates highlighting the
importance of rightful living. They also sensitized the delegates on rising epidemics of neurodegenerative diseases arising due to stressful life, wrong ways of living, nuclear family and ignorance about stress management practicing.

Dr Pike See Universiti Putra Malaysia delivered a highly interactive talk on autosomal dominant disease, tuberous sclerosis complex which is a tumor suppressor syndrome due to mutations in TSC1 or TSC2, encoding hamartin and tuberin, respectively. She then emphasized on how gene manipulations and its strategy can translated into a novel
gene therapy.

Dr Laxmi T Rao Professor of Neurophysiology, NIMHANS, Bangalore enlightened the gathering about Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a devastating childhood neurodevelopmental disorder with a range of symptoms related to social-communication deficits and restricted stereotypic behavior. She informed that child abuse and insult lead to effective disorders in adulthood giving symptoms of depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. It is very important for the working
parents to train the next generation in a positive atmosphere provide good nutrition, allow them to grow them in normal behaviour and channelize children into focused life.

Dr KP  Mohanakumar, Director Inter University Centre for Biomedical Research & Super Specialty Hospital MG University Kottayam, Kerala cited two successful stories from his laboratory on neurodegenerative disease research, with special attention to Parkinson’s disease. He discussed how white space analysis in 2004 helped to reveal neuroprotective effect of then to be of patented antiulcer drug, irsogladine in Parkinson’s disease. He also highlighted that the problem of the brain which is coming up very fast these days, has to be identified at a young stage, the child grows into an Autistic
child. The social system in India which is now moving towards the nuclear family, leaving the child alone with the made is leading to autism.

Dr. Dr B.S. Shankaranarayana Rao, Professor of Neurophysiology, National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences, Bengaluru, sensitized the young budding neuroscientists with the various aspects, related to ethics in scientific research and publication. He said that with changing technology and society, and the way we live, scientists can no longer claim that science is neutral but must consider the ethical and social aspects of their work and urged the participants to
abide by several core principles of ethics. He informed that they have Centre for Well Being where the counselling is given to the whole family and also, to the Corporate Heads. He cited urbanization and stress as a major reason of all the problems of society. He advised that in order to reduce stress the professional problems should be dissociated from the family. The quality time matters for a stress free family. He shared about national mental health survey which depicted problems in young couple leading to divorce, based on which, policies have been made in consultation with the Government.

Dr Anurag Kuhad, organizing secretary IBRO/APRC Chandigarh Neuroscience School, University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh specifically shared the personal views of Professor Pike See an International IBRO Faculty from Malaysia on “Future of Indian Neuroscience”. He said that Professor See is highly
impressed with the enthusiasm of the young generation of Indian Neuroscientists. Her interaction with the B Pharm, M Pharm, PhD and Post Doc of UIPS was very exciting and appreciated the inquisitiveness of the students. Dr See said that the credit specifically goes to all UIPS faculty members specifically to Professor Kanwaljit Chopra, Chairperson UIPS for shaping their students in an outstanding manner so that they can make their place in International Institutes of very
high repute in the field of Neuroscience Research. Dr See is 100% sure that future of Indian Neuroscience is very secure. She whole heartedly appreciated the Indian hospitality and said that she would love to keep visiting India in future as well. She showed her strong desire to collaborate with Indian neuroscience researchers.

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Chandigarh November 13, 2019

Dr. Gurpreet Singh Bawa who just completed his Ph.D under the supervision of Professor Suresh Kumar Sharma, Department of Statistics, Panjab University, Chandigarh has been invited to conduct a session on unstructured data analysis in the upcoming annual conference on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence (CSCI) to be held at Las Vegas, USA, from 5-7th December, 2019. The conference has been organized by the reputed American Council on
Science and Education (ACSE). The sessions will also involve showcase of his recent innovation on ‘Fine tuning feedback-based recommendation system using deep learning models in word vector space representations’. Prof Suresh Kumar Sharma has been consistently advising him with all his innovation work.

            Dr. Gurpreet has been actively involved in innovation and research work in the domain of unstructured data analysis and has many research papers in this area in international and national Journals of repute. In the past, extensive research has been done by Gurpreet on subjects such as latent topic fine tuning, identification of conversational drivers of textual product reviews, deriving personality traits of consumers from social media posts and object detection retail monitoring using image processing. Recently, he has also written a book “Text as Data”, and it is related to modelling
techniques for unstructured data analysis. Additionally, he has worked on developing in-house assets such as intelligent chatbot for retail ordering and customer intelligence.

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