Amritsar: Eyeing the upcoming foreign collaboration and student’s intake from abroad, the 121-year-old Khalsa College Amritsar (KCA) has become first amongst colleges affiliated with Guru Nanak Dev University, to be an ‘Autonomous College’ in the State.
The status has been conferred by University Grants Commission (UGC), following rigorous evaluation process on College’s achievements in academic, sports, cultural arena, recognizing its role in dissemination of knowledge to society at large. Khalsa College Governing Council President Satyajit Singh Majithia said Friday that they would like to collaborate with top educational institutions world over to meet the new academic requirement.
Prof honored for a paper on Peepal Tree
Sirsa: Associate Professor of Biotechnology Department of Ch
Devi lal University, Sirsa Dr Priyanka Siwach has been honoured by Society for Applied Biotechnology in its first international seminar for being the best research paper presenter. A spokesman of the university said that in the international seminar held recently at Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, many scientists and researchers of Biotechnology, Bio Informatic and Bio Engineering participated from around the globe. About 360 scientists presented their research papers in this two day seminar out of which 65 were related to AppliedBiotechnology. He said that Research Paper of Dr Priyanka on “Quality of Peepal Tree” was declared as the best amongst these papers of Applied Biotechnology.
UIET to host short term training program
Chandigarh: University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Panjab University will host one week long TEQIP-II sponsored national Short Term Training Program on Aspects and Applications of Research methodology in Sciences and Engineering.” The course will be held from July 8 to 13. This is an interdisciplinary program and sponsored by TEQIP-II under continuing Education program. UIET has received an overwhelming response from the participants.