Punjab Newspaper

Punjab Infotech in line with its initiative to promote IT/ ITES industry in the state, hosted an investor’s meet under the chairmanship of Mr. R.K Verma, Managing Director, Punjab Infotech inviting entrepreneurs from Mohali and Chandigarh region for investing in the IT Park at Railmajra, here today.
Situated on NH 21 near Ropar, the IT [...]

Australia has altered its skilled migration policy, but its student visa policy remains the same. The Australian High Commission has stated that no students are being sent home in July. All students who complete their courses can apply for an additional 18 months stay during which they can work and solicit employer sponsorship to remain [...]

The Department of Life Long Learning & Extension, PU, organized a panel discussion ‘Ethics of Environment” at Govt. Senior Secondary School Khuda Lahora today as a part of the celebration of Environment Day on 5th June 2010. About 60 students and 20 community members attended the programme.
Dr. Avinish Jolly expressed that there is a [...]

Led by Professor R.C. Sobti, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh, the faculty members, students and university administrative staff celebrated the Environment Day by cleaning the Campus and planting about 700 trees (Ashoka, Palm, Jalebi, Chandani, Cacti etc.,) at such locations as the Children’s Park near the Faculty House, the Rose, the Palm and the Herbal Gardens [...]

The Panjab University contingent comprising of five research scholars namely Sajeela Awasthi and Prerna Aggarwal from Chemistry Department, Ankur Gautam from Department of Biotechnology, Gaganpreet from Physics Department and Mandeep Singh from Department of Chemical Engineering presented their innovative research ideas in the Zonal Level Student Research Convention organised by Association of Indian Universities [...]

Dr.Kiran Bedi, India’s first and highest ranked woman IPS officer and at the UN, initiates a path breaking initiative for the deserving and financially constrained students who want to pursue higher education.
Christened as “Navjyoti- A Kiran Bedi Initiative”, a replicable project, was today launched from Chandigarh in association with Aryans Group of Colleges (AGC).
A [...]

The fourth Capability Enhancement Training Programme (CETP), a Corporate Social Responsibility initiative of the Vardhman Group, began on 6 May 2010 at the Vardhman Training and Development Center. Training is being imparted to the graduate students who belong to the Scheduled Castes and Other Backward Classes of the society.
The Prime Minister of India had [...]

The GDP estimates for 2009-10 released by the Government today show a better than expected growth of 7.4 % as against the advance estimates of 7.2% for the entire fiscal. This indicates that our economy has once again started ascending the growth trajectory on the back of robust industrial growth, which soared to 10.37% during [...]

The Australian High Commissioner to India, Peter Varghese, has announced the winners of the 2010 Australia-India Council (AIC) Australian Studies Fellowships. A total of five fellowships were awarded, two in the senior category (for university faculty) and three in the junior (for research scholars).
Announcing the awards in New Delhi, Varghese said “these awards will [...]

Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh conferred the “Scientist of the Year Award” on Dr Manjit Singh, Scientist G & Associate Director of Terminal Ballistics Research Laboratory (TBRL), Chandigarh, on 26th May 2010 during Technology Day Award ceremony at New Delhi. The award carried a citation and Rs 1 lakh. An alumni of Department of [...]

The Annual Convocation of the SCD Government College Ludhiana held today and around 900 students were awarded the degrees of B.Com/BA/BSc/M.A and M.Com. The Convocation was started with arrival of the “Academic Procession” which was lead by D.P.I college Punjab Mrs Jasmeet Kaur Nayyar along with the Principal of the College Mrs Jasbir Kaur Makkar. [...]

The dream of the hundreds of research aspirants of Ludhiana district comes true when Panjab University Chandigarh declares SCD Government College Ludhiana as Research Centre to undertake doctorate research in Hindi. Recently Panjab University invited the colleges to get the approval as research centre to under take Ph.D research and a high powered research team [...]

Trade Minister Simon Crean has welcomed the joint research scientific effort and the projected growth in student numbers at a joint Monash University academy in Mumbai.
Mr Crean today visited the campus of the IITB-Monash Research Academy in Mumbai where he met academics and students working on joint research projects designed to address some of the [...]

“Public Private Partnership (PPP) projects are the need of hour in India. India cannot grow fast without the PPP project in infrastructure sector including Power, road, Airways, Telecom, education, health etc.”
This was said by Dr. Manoj Anand, Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, in a national seminar on “Public-Private partnership (PPP) in Infrastructure sector in [...]

The Minister for Education Julia Gillard today welcomed the Council of Australian Governments’ agreement today to introduce a range of measures to improve the safety and wellbeing of international students.
The measures will be implemented as part of COAG’s International Students Strategy for Australia (ISSA) and will include:
· A [...]

The Punjab State Finance Department today issued instructions simplifying the procedure for release of funds for the Plan Schemes being implemented by the various executing agencies.
Issued after obtaining the approval of the Finance Minister, Manpreet Singh Badal, these instructions vest freedom and flexibility with the respective Administrative Departments to access Plan Funds upto 12.5% of [...]

Punjab Government has recommended a tranche of eight Projects worth Rs 1000 crore to the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural
Development (NABARD) for assistance during the current Financial Year
(2010-2011), after the formal approval of Sardar Parkash Singh Badal,
Chief Minister, Punjab.
Disclosing this here today Mr. Manpreet Singh Badal, Finance
Minister, Punjab said that a [...]

Professor V.C. Srivastava, former Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla delivered the Professor Lakshman Sarup Memorial Lecture on “Buddhism and its interaction with other cultures in Afghanistan” in the Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture & Archaeology, Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Professor Devendra Handa presided over the lecture. Professor Srivastava highlighted the role of various [...]

The ICSSR North-Western Regional Centre, Chandgiarh in collaboration with UGC-SAP, Department of Political Science, Panjab University is organizing Lecture of Dr. Shibashis Chatterjee, Associate Professor, Jadavpur University, Kolkata on Monday, 19th April 2010 on “Global Power Shifts and Indian Foreign Policy” at 3.00 p.m. at ICSSR Seminar Hall, P.U. Campus. This lecture is being organized [...]

University Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism organised its first week long celebrations which concluded on 17th April 2010 to celebrate its Annual day function. The venue of the functions was English auditorium Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Prof. Lalit K. Bansal the Hony. Director of the institute read out annual report highlighting the various in campus and [...]

The Panjab University Non-Teaching Exmployees Federation and Panjab University Students’ Council with the coordination of students, staff and faculty members of University Institute of Applied Management Sciences University Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism, University Institute of Fashion Technology and Vocational Development, University Institute of Educational Technology and Vocational Education, organized XVIII Blood Donation Camp [...]

Sh. M. Hamid Ansari, Hon’ble Vice-President of India and Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh while delivering the late Dr. V.N. Tewari Memorial Lecture on ‘Private Ethics and Public Morality’ stressed the role of Dr. Tewari in strengthening the academic frame-work and improving the administrative structures in the University. Sh. Hamid Ansari focused on the [...]

Optometrists and educators from India and Australia are meeting in New Delhi, April 12-13, 2010 to agree a pathway for further developing optometry as an independent profession in India so as to substantially upgrade and increase optometric human resources. This would assist the one hundred and thirty eight million people in India who are blind [...]

The test flight between Ludhiana and New Delhi will finally be operated on April 13. This was disclosed by the local MP and the national spokesperson of the Congress Mr Manish Tewari here today.
Tewari, who has been lobbying hard for operating the flights from and to Ludhiana, said, he was told by the Director General [...]

Minister for Education, Julia Gillard, and India’s Minister for Human Resource Development, Kapil Sibal, today signed a Joint Ministerial Statement to build on the cooperative ties between the two nations in the education sector.
The Joint Ministerial Statement confirms Australia and India’s commitment to expand the current education exchange program to achieve greater cooperation between the [...]