Two KU teachers awarded
Kurukshetra: Two teachers of Kurukshetra University have been honoured by the Haryana Sanskrit Academy. Surendra Mohan Mishra, a retired Sanskrit professor at the KU, will receive the Acharya Sthanu Dutt Award for the year 2017, while Lalit Kumar Gaur, Sanskrit professor at the KU, will receive the Maharishi Vedavyasa Samman for the year 2018. Vice Chancellor Prof Som Nath Sachdeva congratulated Prof Mishra and Prof Gaur for this achievement. The VC said it was a matter of great honour and pride for theKU, which was established as a Sanskrit university in 1956 and whose foundation stone was laid by the first President of India in 1957. KU Registrar Sanjeev Sharma also congratulated the duo.
Govt urged to help pvt schools
Yamunanagar: Vijay Kapur, chairman, DAV Schools, Yamunanagar, and social activist said school education had suffered tremendous loss due to Covid thus private schools were unable to pay full salaries to their staff. He said parents were not paying full fees to schools due to online classes as all students don’t have access to laptops. He said the state government could not give education to all people through government schools, thus it should help students of private schools also for supplementing the cause of literacy. He urged the government to give due importance to school education as future of India would be shaped in classrooms.
World Veterinary Day celebrated
Karnal: The National Academy of Agriculture Sciences (NAAS), Haryana chapter, Karnal, in collaboration with the National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), conducted a webinar on “Response to Covid crisis for improving animal and human health among rural households” coincident with World Veterinary Day. In the welcome address, Dr ML Madan, convenor, NAAS Haryana chapter and former DDG (Animal Science), ICAR, conveyed to the participants the theme of the webinar and how the unprecedented Covid crisis had necessitated the role of veterinarians for improving animal and human health. More than 100 participants took part in the webinar. NAAS president Dr T Mohapatra discussed about the impact of Covid on the farming community in the country and how the veterinarians and scientists could play greater role for protecting the lives of rural households. He suggested that with emerging pandemics and 70% of diseases being zoonotic in nature, there was a need for genome sequencing of all viruses and developing big data analytics and predictive modelling to face the future challenges.
Y’nagar toddler sets world record
Yamunanagar: Jasreen Kaur Bamrah, a two-year-old girl of Yamunanagar, has been awarded with the International Book of Records medal and a certificate for identifying 112 cartoon characters in three minutes and 46 seconds. She has also been awarded with the title of “smartest and most inspiring baby” by the Champion Book of World Records. She won this title for answering maximum general knowledge questions. Girl’s father Malkeet Singh Bamrah and mother Harpreet Kaur Bamrah said their daughter had so far been awarded with five trophies, seven medals and 75 certificates, including national and international level. “We started her schooling at home when she was one year old,” Malkeet said.
