US based Alexa Internet, Inc. has found Panjab University’s official website as among the fastest uploading websites in the world. Alexa Internet, Inc. (Alexa.com) is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com which provides commercial web traffic data and rates how fast some website loadIJ
According to a recent analysis (Alexa.com), PU website www.puchd.ac.in takes only 0.522 Seconds (very fast) and 92 per cents websites of the world are slower than it. The reported load time for a website is the mean time it takes to load pages from that site in real users' web browsers.
Seminar on Punjabi language at PU
Chandigarh: Sahit Akademi of India, in collaboration with the Department of Guru Nanak Sikh Studies, PU would organise a two day National Seminar on the subject of “Contexts and Concerns; Punjabi language, literature and Culture of 21st Century’s first decade” at PU Campus on February 20 and 21. The two-day seminar would be held on February 20 at the Golden Jubliee Hall and on February 21.
Shooting Championship kicks off at Panjab varsity
Chandigarh: All India Inter University Shooting Championship for Men and Women started here at the Panjab University’s Shooting Range on Tuesday. The five day All India Inter University Air Pistol Shooting and .177 Air Rifle Peep Sight Shooting (Men and Women) Championships are being organized by PU Directorate of Sports from February 11 to 15.
Noted shooter and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awardee Manavjit Singh Sandhu inaugurated the tournament. International Air Pistol Shooter Harveen Sarao and International Air Rifle Shooter Chetan Preet Kaur Nilon were the guest of honour on the occasion. About 400 Shooters from 66 Universities of the country are participating in the tournament.
M.Sc students of lPU placed with top pharma companies
Jalandhar: Several M.Sc students of lovely Professional University have recently been selected by renowned companies from varied fields of sciences and pharmacy. Truly Pest Solution (Truly Nolen International USA) selected 12 students, life Cell International 9 students, Sukhjit Starch and Chemicals 7 students, Ind swift lab 5 and Roots Analysis selected 2 students.
During campus recruitment drives held by these renowned companies, 35 students are selected from the departments of bio-technology, micro-biology, food technology, pharmaceutical sciences and chemistry. Selected on annual salary package up to Rs 3 lakh plus perks per annum, students will join their duties in the month of June 2014.
In the initial stages, these students will work as Relationship Executives, Trainee Chemists and Business Analysts. lPU Pro Chancellor Mrs Rashmi Mittal congratulated the selected students and asked them to be up to the expectations of their selectors.
One-week training programme at KU on Thermochronology
Kurukshetra: low Temperature Thermochronology lab - A national facility under Department of Geophysics, Kurukshetra University, has started one week training programme for imparting skills for Himalayan exhumation studies.
While inaugurating the training programme, Prof Talat Ahmad, vice-chancellor, University of Kashmir, Srinagar emphasised the need of such training programmes in studying the exhumation history of Himalayas by dating techniques.
He congratulated Prof RC Patel and his team for organising such a specialized training programme. He further said Himalayas had been a fascinated spot for researchers, academicians and trekkers for various reasons and to understand the history, genesis and upliftment of Himalayas with the recent techniques and then correlating them with present sequence will help many.