The Department of History, Kurukshetra University (KU) and Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Chair KU will organise a two-day national seminar on ‘Revisiting Baba Banda Singh Bahadur and His Times’ on April 2 and April 3.
Talking to The Pioneer, VC KU lt. Gen. Dr DDS Sandhu said that Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda will attend the inaugural function of the seminar. Baba Jatinder Pal Singh Ji Sodhi, Gaddi-Nashin, 10th descendent of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur will preside over the function and Prof JS Grewal — an eminent historian of International repute and former Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar will be main speaker.
Dr Sandhu said that the seminar aims at enriching the historical research on life and times of Baba Banda Singh Bahadur with the help of emerging trends in historical research and also adopting the modern tools of research in History.
He added further that the eminent scholars and historians from the different Universities of North India have been invited for scholarly debates at the seminar based on life and time of the Banda Singh Bahadur.
Prof Amarjit Singh, organising chairman of seminar said that the sub-themes like Historical Geography of Banda Singh Bahadur, Punjab/ Haryana during the 18th century, emerging trends in historiography on Banda Singh Bahadur, Agrarian Crisis of later Mughal State, Idea of the Sikh State, Martyrdom of Banda Singh Bahadur and his legacy will be explored and debated at length. Nearly 60 college teachers from the different colleges of Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi will participate in this Seminar.
Job Fest to be organized at Aryans
More than 10 companies will participate in the Job Fair being organised by Aryans Group of Colleges. The Job Fest is being organised exclusively for Polytechnic Diploma Holders and ITI’s on April 4 at Aryans campus.
Giving this information, Dr Anshu Kataria, chairman, Aryans Group of Colleges said that various companies like Techclap (venture of ZCC), Mindfire Technologies, Joint venture hiring for Vodafone, Reliance, Spanco & Tata etc will be offering jobs. Students can get registered by applying online on www.aryans.edu.in or by calling on 98787-44888. He added that students need to carry 10 copies of their resumes and passport size photographs with them. Dr Kataria further said that last year also in the month of September, Aryans Group organised mega Job Fair exclusively for diploma holders in which 109 candidates got shortlisted for various positions in more than 15 companies.
National conference at NIT
Dr Pawan Kapur, former Director of the Central Scientific Instruments Organization (CSIO) speaking at the inaugural session of the national conference on “Nano Science and Instrumentation Technology (NCNIT 2013)” said that Nano Science and Instrumentation Technology hold immense potential to find solutions to human problems. He specifically stated how Nano Instrumentation can be suitably used in the medical field to make treatment of diseases more effective.
The national conference was organized by the Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra as a part of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of the Institute.
Kapur further said hat Nano Science and Instrumentation Technology can be combined to meet the challenges in the area of food processing as well. Prof VK Arora officiating Director NIT Kurukshetra, Prof A Swarup, Dean, Research & Consultancy, and Prof JK Quamara, Head, Physics Department also addressed the delegates and the students.
The conference included eight sessions in all, including a poster session, on major thrust areas i.e, Nanotechnology for energy and environment; Synthesis of nanomaterials; Carbon nanotubes and nanocomposites; Nano-electronics and Nano-magnetics; Simulation and modeling; Nanowires and Nanotubes; MEMs; NEMs and Nano sensors; Bio-sensors and Material Characterization Techniques.