lecture at iec
School of law, IEC University organised a special guest lecture Relevance of law in Society by District and Session Judge (retired) SS Sen, where he threw light on Right to Information Act (RTI).
It was a great experience for the studentsas got to know about the important of laws in life as well as in society. Geetika Sood, head School of law welcomed the guest.
Speaking at the event Sen said: “Enactment of laws is important in order to regulate the human conduct. A part from laws and Judiciary the civil society also regulates the human behavior. But judicial machinery punishes those who violate it.”
National Conference
The chairman of the Tecnia Group of Institutions and noted social worker, Sri Ram Kailash Gupta highlighted the quality of education under the ongoing era of competition.
Presiding over a one-day national conference on the topic, Indian Managers and Business Success organised by the management department of the Tecnia Institute of Advanced Studies (TIAS), affiliated to Guru Govind Singh Indraprastha university (GGSIPU), in Madhuban Chowk last week, Gupta emphasised that the quality education paves the way of success for a student in his practical life.
Speaking at the function, the chairman, BOG, NSIT, GOD, Dr BN Mishra focused on emerging new dimensions of managerial field in theory and practical.
Two-day training programme
Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), a national education institution in association with Environmental Design Solutions (EDS) held a training programme on passive solar design, daylighting and simulations for green buildings. The programme was held on October 18-19.
The objective of this two-day training programme was to equip participants with the practical know-how to undertake shading and daylighting simulations. The unique teaching methodology of this course introduced the concepts in a step-by-step manner from manual exercises to using physical study models to finally using computer simulations.
Android App Design contest
Global Discovery Academy today announced the winners of its first all-India Android mobile app design competition. at their finale organised at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture in New Delhi.
The competition spanned across schools in 30 cities in India in a period of three months and received a remarkable response from the students in the target age group of 10 – 13 years. The competition was held in three stages wherein the participants were to submit an outline of the proposed app in written for round one.
Environmental sustainability
KPMG in India launched its nationwide initiative aimed at environmental sustainability at lady Sri Ram College. Environmental sustainability is the need of the hour and is one of KPMG’s key focus areas for their citizenship initiatives.
The inauguration of the environment project was done by Richard Rekhy, CEO, KPMG in India. Through the projectd, KPMG has provided lSR with solar power plant of 75 wp each. Miranda House and Shri Ram College of Commerce have also been provided solar street lights by KPMG of 75 wp each.
Fellowship at cse
Centre for Science and Environment invites applications for its 18th media fellowships on Urbanscapes: How sustainable are our citiesIJ in the context of the various elements which constitutes our cities. The applicants need to base their proposals on: Buildings: The architecture, building materials, energy foot print, water during construction, Mobility: Public transport/modes of transport ease of access and Waste: Solid waste, water and waste-water
The duration is three months — December 2013 to February , 2014 — with one month of travel time and the other two for research, writing, publication and submission of stories and features. Selected fellows will each receive a stipend of Rs50,000 (subject to TDS) to support research, travel and writing between the given period. The stipend will be released in two instalments.
last date for submission is November 15, 2013. Applications can be sent to Papia Samajdar, deputy programme manager, Media Resource Centre, Centre for Science and Environment 41, Tughlakabad Institutional Area, New Delhi 110 062. For more information send mail to papia@cseindia.org or log on to www.cseindia.org.
Applications Invited
JD Institute of Fashion Technology, announces admissions for diploma in Visual Merchandising. The programme offers the students an in-depth understanding of how to sell their designs through window display. It also teaches the students the strategies and tactics to attract the customers.
The course is a three-month full time programme. It will cover topics like introduction to the subject, outlining and developing a display strategy, strategic planning, classification of displays, details of pattern, sophistication in visual display, strategies of visual merchandising and its scope. As a visual merchandiser, the student can be a visual arts specialist in fashion, jewellery, interiors, film or retail.
Interested applications should have have passed 10+2 from a recognised board in any discipline. Application forms are available at JD Institute of Fashion Technology, Hauz Khas Village. The forms can also be downloaded from the website www.jdinstitute.com.
last date to apply is October 31, 2013.
Tryst 2013 at manav sthali
Manav Sthali Humanities Association organised Manav Sthali inter-school quiz contest, TRYST 2013, on October 21, 2013. The main objective was to motivate, create and inculcate interest and joy in understanding the scope and utility of the subject.
The quiz was inaugurated by Mamta V Bhatnagar, director and founder principal of Manav Sthali School which brings the talent to the forefront.
The school witnessed participation of 19 prestigious schools of Delhi. There were two teams from each school with two participants each. Participants were from grades XI and XII, of the Humanities stream. The topics covered in the quiz were related to the vertebrate subjects of Humanities. A written preliminary round was conducted followed by a final round of quiz in the auditorium. The winner of the quiz were Twinkle Ahuja and Rakshita Verma of Manav Sthali School, R-Block, New Rajendra Nagar.
Conference on electronic communications
United Group of Institution organised two-day national conference — NCECIS 2013— on electronic eommunication and information system. The conference was supported by AICTE. Prof SK Kkak, VC, Mahamaya Technical University, Noida and Dr DR Bhaskar, Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi were the guest of honour of the conference. Rajit Sikka, academic relationship Manager, TCS was the key speaker.
The main aim of the conference was to bring together the researchers, industrial professionals, academicians and scholars from area of engineering and technology. Topics covered were — advances in circuit and systems, RF & microwaves communication, signal processing and applications and information system and e-commerce.
The theme of the conference was innovation and inspired the researchers to adopt the outcome for implementation. It also gave theoretical as well as practical knowledge.
Hindi workshop at fddi
With a view to encourage more and more employees to do their official work in Hindi a day long Hindi workshop on Hindi Noting, Drafting and Hindi Typing was organised in the auditorium of the Footwear Design & Development Institute (FDDI) recently.
Davki, director, Hindi Department, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, acquainted the staff on Hindi noting, drafting and typing. In the workshop, the staff of School of Footwear Design and Production Management, School of Retail Management, School of leather Goods and Accessories Design , School of Fashion Design and School of Business Management of the Institute took part.
Divulging the details, Raajeev J lakhara, MD, FDDI said, “Since the staff at FDDIis from all over the country, to impart Hindi training to the employees of the institute and to remove their hesitation in the use of Hindi was organised. For capacity-building of the staff, Devnagari Hindi inscript layout and phonetic keyboard layout (Microsoft Indic language Input Tool) have been installed in all the computers.”