MBA II-year students of the School of Business of lovely Professional University, Praveen Kumar and Anantha Venkatesu have brought laurels to the University. Both have won first prize in National Summer Internship Contest held at Jaipur, where students from B-Schools across the country like Symbiosis Pune, IRMA Gujarat, and Indian School of Business (ISB) etc participated.
The competition was to present the best summer internship project prepared by the participating students from 40 different top B Schools.
lPU students’ unique project for ‘students to buy books on affordable price and re-sale of books’ was not only applauded with first prize but also got high appreciations from the Board of Directors from Industry. The winning students presented their entrepreneurial venture ‘nbooks’, which forwards a simple online process for students to purchase books on heavy discounts. Under this project, which is presently running at lPU Campus, students can select books for semester; get these delivered; study for the whole semester; return the books; and, enjoy good discount.
PU to host baseball championship
Chandigarh: Panjab University (PU) will organise All-India Inter-University Baseball (Men) Inter-University Championship from October 19 to 24 and All India Inter-University Baseball (women) Inter-University Championship from October 26 to 31 respectively at the PU grounds. PU Registrar Prof A K Bhandari will inaugurate the All India Baseball (Men) Inter-University Championship. As many as 39 teams’ of Universities from all over the country would participate in Men Championship and 38 Universities would participate in women championships. The competitions would be conducted as per latest rules of Baseball Federation of India as adopted by AIU.
Adventure the new way of learning
Inme is a pioneering company in outdoor and adventure based learning experiences that facilitates enhancement of life skills through experiential learning. Inme designs customised outdoor programs that are engaging, challenging and meaningful, which facilitate the holistic growth of students between the ages of 7 to 19 years. The programs themselves are designed with a mix of learning and fun to engage and excite young minds and to get each child to realize and build their self-confidence and self-esteem. The programs use the power of the experiential method where participants pick up life skills, gain confidence, become independent, learn to work with others, and have opportunities to dig deeper into their potential. The Inme team has worked with over 25,000 children across the country. Inme is founded by a group of people with diverse backgrounds ranging from outdoor and adventure, behavioral sciences, the armed forces to theatre and arts, education and entrepreneurship. The company’s team members are alumnus of XlRI, INSEAD, IIMs and the armed forces. Two of its co-founders Tarun Chandna and Gaurav Saklani are pioneers of organized, large scale, learning based adventure programs for 9-18 year old children in India.
lecture on democracy and national identity
Chandigarh: The ICSSR North-Western Regional Centre will organise International Conference on “Pluralist Democracy and National Identity” from October 22-23. The International Conference is focusing on the multidimensional themes of Indian Democracy as it has emerged in the last sixty years since Independence.
The vicissitudes of development as impacted by mystification of democracy and globalization indeed require to be addressed anew. The conference has a special significance in the context of Panjab University’s status as evaluated by international academic yardstick.