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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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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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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Dr. SSBUICET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, in collaboration with DUIET, Assam organized a 6day Faculty Development Program under TEQIP-III (MHRD, Govt. of India) on an online platform which commenced today.. The title of the program is Effective Online Teaching and Learning and will have a panel discussion on New Education policy 2020 on the concluding day. This program is being organized in accordance with the UGC guidelines. The FDP has more than 450 registered participants from all over India. The objective of the program is to equip the faculty members with maximum skills to help them conduct the online classes without any issues. This will surely make the online teaching highly effective and interactive. Many resource persons who possess expertise in the field of teaching resources have been invited. Some of the sessions include lectures on using Google suite, Google Classroon,Online Assessment, Open Source Learning through SWAYAM etc. The coordinator of this program is Prof. Ritu Gupta and Dr. Sanjeev Gautam.
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The Department of Library and Information Science, Panjab University, Chandigarh organised a webinar on Academic Writing and Qualitative Research: Steps and Strategies. Dr Bhaskar Mukherjee, Professor, DLIS, Banaras Hindu University (U.P.) was the resource person.
Professor Preeti Mahajan, Chairperson of the department welcomed the speaker and the participants. She also introduced the theme of the webinar.
Prof. Mukherjee emphasised on steps of writing a research paper. He also talked about the impact factor, peer review process, plagiarism and visibility of academic publications to enhance the citations. At the end, he discussed the predatory journals and suggested some key points for selecting high quality journals for academic publications.
The session was followed by a question and answer session and vote of thanks.
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Women Hostel No. 6 (Mother Teresa Hall), Panjab University organized an online Creative Writing Competition to celebrate the ‘Hindi Diwas’. A number of hostel residents participated in the competition and submitted their creative work through online mode.
In this competition, Ms. Shilpa got the 1st position, 2nd position is bagged by Ms. Garima Batra and 3rd Position is achieved by Ms. Sonali. Consolation prizes were given to Ms. Deepika and Manpreet Kaur Bhullar.
Dr. Manisha Sharma, Warden of the hostel distributed e-certificates to the winners of the competition. She congratulated the winners and motivated them to participate more in this kind of activities and informed that the best poem will be published in the reputed newspaper.
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As India Embarks on a new journey of “Atmanirbhar Bharat” Entrepreneurs and Corporate Relations Cell of University Institute of Applied Management Sciences, Panjab University, Chandigarh under the advice and guidance of Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, took this peculiar initiative of organizing the webinar “Agenda @ Atmanirbhar Bharat”. The webinar was organized to enable students understand the whole narrative of it by roping in eminent and distinguished personalities who are at zenith of their careers including Mr. Rahul Narvekar, serial entrepreneur, Mr. KS Bhatia, CEO and Founder Pumpkart and Figgital and Mr. Ravi Kumar, SP (HQ) Jalandhar.
Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, Panjab University in his inaugural address highlighted that the global pandemic has shown us the benefits of ‘Be Indian and Buy Indian’. We have now become critically aware of our own supply chain. We know that relying on other countries for critical items will ultimately put you at their mercy. To avoid such adversity for ourselves, it is more important than ever that we become self-reliant and reduce our dependence on other countries. The pandemic has taught the importance of local manufacturing, local market and local supply chain. Emphasis of ‘vocal for local’ asserts that it is all about ‘made in India’ and is to increase to push Indian products to become large enough to become international brands.The NEP 2020 has gone in for a significant overhaul of the education system—from terminologies and institutional framework to functionality—when it comes to transforming the governance, delivery, and financing of education. NEP will be the harbinger of movement towards Atmanirbhar and Swabhiman Bharat. Further he talked about promoting multidisciplinary approach, scouting for partners from numerous fields like industry, academicians, researchers and focus on technology and promote collaboration with national and international institutions and these tie ups should be in the right direction to create synergies. This will help India become ATMANIRBHAR and students becoming job providers not job seekers only.
Mr. Ravi Kumar an IPS officer and currently serving as SP (Superintendent of Police) Cyber Cell Jalandhar provided valuable insights in the field of data security and its vulnerabilities. He began by explaining how pivotal data is in the functioning of any enterprise and startups where 68% of business leaders feel their cyber security risks are increasing and only 5 % of company’s folders are properly protected. With help of various live examples, he talked about various vulnerabilities like unsecured websites, improper cookie policy, SQL injection attacks, Brute force attacks and others and also suggested remedies like stronger IT Act, IPR protection for startup, Data Protection Law, increasing manpower training and more security experts. In the time of Covid 19, these cyber attacks have been increased 3 times. So, we all must be very aware of Data Security.
Mr. K. S. Bhatia founder and C.E.O of B2C platform Pumpkart.com is also launching another startup Figgital (non essential hyper local platform) at the end of this month appreciated Prime Minister for launching initiatives like Atmanirbhar Bharat, Startup India, Digital India, Skill India, Made in India and told how Startups are the key to success of Atmanirbhar Bharat. He advised students to work on innovation and also laid emphasis on the importance of parents encouraging students to go for startups. He is also starting IAS (Indian Association of Startups) with the aim to encourage more startups’ and build more unicorns in India. He also appealed to everyone to celebrate PM Narendra Modi 70th birthday on 17th September as World Startup Day.
Mr. Rahul Narvedkar, Social Entrepreneur, Speaker, Investor and Mentor, and founder and CEO of various ventures including Startup Studio India, Sun and Sands Advisors, Japan, The India Network, NDTV Indian Roots and FashionandYou.com told us about his own story. How at one time, he did not have money to pay salaries and later sold Indian Roots ecommerce platform for such a high valuation. He achieved it by not following the rules of book and he went on to say that if you have the right approach and idea money is not a constraint.After that he started India Networks to provide mentorship for kids in small town so that language and geography do not remain a constraint intertwined with the aim of 1 Million startups from rural India in next 3 tears. He also had Indian Angel Fund which has so far done 3 investments all in women led startups. He in his speech laid emphasis on creating an ecosystem which can lead to innovation. He motivated the students by saying that we need to understand and celebrate our failures like an event and not label people as failures. We have to invest in people and create role models. By doing this, we can create an Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Prof. Upasna Joshi Sethi extended a formal welcome to the guests and said that a self-reliant India will develop with focus on five pillars viz economy, which brings in quantum jump and not incremental change; infrastructure, which should become the identity of India; technology-driven system; vibrant demography; and nascent demand, especially in the rural hinterland.
All the queries of the students were successfully taken up by the eminent guests and concomitantly they were answered too which made this event an eye opener for the students. Dr. Monika Aggarwal. Associate Professor, UIAMS moderated questions and answers session and proposed vote of thanks. Efforts of ECRC Cell of UIAMS including BarkhaRawat, KartikayNikhanj and Deeksha were also appreciated.
Office of the Controller of Examination(COE), Panjab University Chandigarh, successfully tested the technical run by the upload of question papers for the forthcoming exit semester exams to be starting from 17th Sept, 2020 , informed Prof Parvinder Singh, COE. He informed that an advisory will be sent to the Colleges for the downloading of the question papers by different modes. In addition, broadcast list will be connected with the Web Whatsapp so that there is no hitch in the transmission. It was also decided that sufficient time will be given as the uploading procedure will be completed half an hour before schedule time of paper.
The COE informed that special technical team has been deployed to run the conduct of online exam smoothly since, this is the first ever online examinations to be conducted by Panjab University. He further added that various inputs/feedback from the Principals of Colleges have been considered to improve the conduct of online examination. The supporting staff have also been appointed in all the Exam Centres.
He informed that his office has issued instructions to the students for downloading admit card from PU website:
All Colleges/Departments/Regional Centre shall be able to download the Admit Card/s in PDF format Course wise from College Admin Portal of UG exam and PG exam website after successful login i.e.http://ugexam.puchd.ac.in/ and http://pgexam.puchd.ac.in.
Colleges/Departments/Regional Centres are advised to upload the same file on the website of their respective Colleges/Departments/Regional Centres.
3. Select Class and Semester and click on Go button.
4. A combined file will be generated containing Admit Card/s of all eligible students of that course.
5. Same file may be uploaded on the website of their respective Colleges/Departments/Regional Centres.
The CoE further informed that new emails with Terabyte space have been activated for smooth operation of transmission for around 20000 private/USOL candidates to submit their answer sheets in the University Secrecy Branch:
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The Vice Chancellor of Panjab University Prof. Raj Kumar inaugurated the faculty development programme (FDP) on ‘Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in the Perspective of New India’ today via online mode organized by UGC-HRDC, Panjab University. He emphasized on the role of nanoscience and nanotechnology in the emerging scenario of new education policy NEP-2020 and the role it plays in developing ‘AtmaNirbhar Bharat’ and future smart cities.
Director of UGC-HRDC Prof. S. K. Tomar welcomed the guests, resource persons and participants. Four eminent scientists in the field of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology delivered lectures in the event. Prof. Amitava Patra, Director of Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (INST), Mohali talked about ‘Challenges and opportunities for nanomaterials based energy harvesting systems’. Another renowned scientist Prof. Vijayamohanan K. Pillai, former director CECRI-Tamil Nadu, former acting director CSIR-NCL, Pune and currently the Chair Professor at IISER-Tirupati and the dean R&D delivered a scintillating talk on Nanoscience and nanotechnology using two-dimensional (2D) materials’. Dr. NiranjanS. Ramgir from Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC) -Mumbai gave some input on ‘Nano-sensors-technology development challenges’. Dr. Shunmugavel Saravanamuruganfrom CIAB-Mohali delivered the concluding talkon ‘Nanoporouszeolites and nano zirconia as catalysts for the production of sustainable chemicals’.
There were participants from all across India in the online event. The event was coordinated by Dr. Jadab Sharma from Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Panjab University. A panel discussion was also held on integration of industry and research institutes with academic institutes like Panjab University in view of the NEP-2020.
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The Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu and Chancellor of Panjab University, Chandigarh called for an urgent revival of sporting culture in India. He said that games and Sports or Yoga or any physical activity must become integral to people’s daily routine for good health and a stress-free life.
Delivering a congratulatory address to Panjab University for winning the coveted Maulana Abul Kalam Azad trophy for the top performing University in sports for a second time in a row for the year 2020, he stressed the need for schools and other educational institutions to actively promote sports and games.
Observing that excellence in sporting comes by relentless hard work coupled with planning and determination, he lauded the coaches, management, staff and students of the Panjab University for achieving sporting excellence along with academic brilliance. It also requires iron clad willpower to become an exceptional sports person with strong body and strong mind. He added that sports and games are crucial parts of our lives; they not only improve physical abilities but also enhance social skills. Participation in sports increases concentration level and develops teamwork. The sports improve the general quality of life and the sports persons can become exceptional human beings with leadership qualities.
Shri Naidu said that sports and games form a crucial part of our lives and they improve our physical fitness, improve our cognitive abilities and in the case of team games, enhance our social skills. Asserting that sports and games help in developing an attitude of equanimity, he said that this balance is essential to accept failures and setbacks without any sense of bitterness, ill-will or grudge.
Expressing concern over the rising incidence of lifestyle diseases in our country, especially among the youth, the Vice President said that it is of paramount importance to make our youngsters aware of the dangers of unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle.
He lauded the “Fit India campaign” initiated by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and said that it would definitely encourage people to stay fit and healthy.
Stressing the need to identify sporting talent from a young age, he called for the creation of an effective and comprehensive talent monitoring and scouting systems to achieve this objective.
Highlighting the need to upgrade sporting infrastructure in the country, especially in rural areas, Shri Naidu also called for creating a large pool of home grown, highly skilled Indian coaches. Coaches play an important role, he added.
Urging more colleges and universities to offer degrees and diplomas in sports management, he also wanted the creation of a pool of highly skilled sports medicine experts and practitioners to improve the performance of our sportspersons.
He underscored the importance of investing more resources in areas in which India has competitive advantage. Terming sports persons as our national pride, he expressed confidence that with diligent hard work, India will go on to win many more accolades in international sporting events. “We have no dearth of talent in this country. What we need is stronger support systems”, he observed.
Earlier, Prof. Raj Kumar, Vice Chancellor, PU extended his warm welcome to the Hon’ble Vice President of India. He added that PU has a long tradition of achieving excellence in all spheres of education apart from brining laurels in sports. He informed that PU is delighted to have received prestigious MAKA trophy second time in a row and the credit goes to the hardwork of coaches and players. PU also created history by emerging Champions in Ist-Ever Khelo India University Games held in March 2020.
PU senior officials, Director Sports along with the officials of Sports Departments, the Coaches and the Awardees were present at the occasion.
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