Lovely Professional University bade adieu to VIRSA

Concluded with a grand finale in the form of one of the biggest youth festivals of Association of Indian Universities-VIRSA was bidden a befitting adieu today at Lovely Professional University. Dr Arun Diwakar Nath Bajpai, Secretary General of AIU & Vice Chancellor of Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla was the Chief Guest of the day. Prof. DN Johar, Vice-Chancellor, Dr BR Ambedkar University, Agra presided over the celebration. On this eve, 24 Judges of eminence declared Guru Nanak Dev University Amritsar as overall winner of AIU’s 27th Inter University Zonal Youth Festival. Host Lovely Professional University lifted the Runners-Up (second position) trophy for the competitions. LPU also got accolade for having mastery in music field in which it won the almost all the competitions. The Deputy Secretary, Youth Affairs (AIU), Mr. Sampson David, Chancellor of LPU Mr Ashok Mittal, Pro-Chancellor Ms Rashmi Mittal, Vice-Chancellor Mr Rameshwar Kanwar, and Director General Er HR Singla were also prominently present on the occasion.

Before awarding the coveted trophy to the Over-all Winner Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, the Chief Guest Dr ADN Bajpai highly appreciated LPU for organizing endeavours put together. Briefing the youth assemblage about the history of youth festivals, he encouraged all the participants to be always young in thoughts and actions: “Youth is not with age; Youth is active state of mind, which thinks of future and better future only. India is always youthful with more and more youth Power and it is indeed going to lead the World through persons like you all.” He also guided all winners as well others, by quoting from Hindi and Urdu poets: “To be in the field is more important than to be only a field-winner. Participation gives each and everyone a chance to self-analysis. One should discuss his/her shortcomings with mentors and friends to succeed next time, if not now.”

Being impressed by the arrangements, he liked to prefer LPU as host for other major academic as well as cultural activities in future and promised that to further host the next national level cultural fest, Vice –Chancellors Meet, Meet of Economists as well as the Indian Science Conference through AIU in the LPU campus. On the other hand, Mr. Sampson David announced LPU as a world class University. Speaking on the occasion, the Chancellor of LPU, Mr Ashok Mittal said: “We are happy to see that VIRSA proved a great platform for the whole of the University. I am, personally, happy to have such a big event being organized for Jalandhar and Punjab. I aspire to have more of such mammoth organizations for all in Punjab to learn and grow more.”

Prior to this, giving the best send off to the 1000 participants , mentors and their associates the artists of LPU presented cultural items of Guitar Harmony, Fusion dance from South and North, Display of Martial Art, Fusion of Blind Dance, B-Boying & Indonesian Dance. Students of participating University MDU presented Dhamal. On this occasion, Singers, composers and directors of ‘VERTO’ Music Album of the University were also specially honoured. The celebration culminated at the SBRM square, which has already seen many celebrations; but never in recent years has it perhaps seen co-ordinating participants of this magnitude. Indeed, It has been one of the most cherishing event in the history of LPU as more colourful as well as vibrant organization.

Rocking along world renowned Euphoria Band, LPU bade Farewell to Tech-Fest GyanManthan-2011

Organized fifth time in continuation; Lovely Professional University bade farewell to its three days' national level Tech-Fest Gyan Manthan-2011, on rocking and rhythmic notes from famous Euphoria Band. More than 20,000 students from LPU, as well from participating 25 engineering colleges, enjoyed the bidding adieu ceremony. The rocking performance by dynamic lead singer and Bollywood actor Dr Palash Sen, of Euphoria, compelled the onlookers to sing, dance, feel and celebrate the great three gala days along with him and his team. The concert kept everyone on their toes as Euphoria Group came out with all their hits right from 'Dhoom Pichuk' to 'Maeri' to 'Kabhi aana tu meri gully' and from their new album ITEM. All the students, teachers, other members of the staff, many relatives and friends of theirs also enjoyed the concert.

Congratulating and addressing all the victorious as well as other participants, their mentors, on the closing ceremony, the Chancellor, Mr Ashok Mittal said : "We always like to opt a way to ensure that our students make lifetime memories with the institution. 'Gyan Manthan' is one of such platforms. I am glad to note that they have the genius to create wonders, as they have proved their techno- oriented minds through displays three days." Giving away the prizes to the winners, he added: "We really feel proud in honouring the students, who have brought out their inner talent and learnt that - in this global competitive atmosphere only bookish knowledge is not sufficient for complete personal growth."

The fest saw many interesting events Aquaholic, Harit Gram, Robo Wars, Dean's Challenge, Auto Stunts, Radio-Cars, Go-Karting etc where students revealed their extra-ordinary wit. Along with these there were also many stalls of attraction concerning games, recreation, eatables etc. In the concluding hours of the day, the enthusiastic audience remained responding with gusto and applauds on the scintillating performances of "Euphoria".

Having competed for more than 20 Technical, 25 Non-Technical Events & participating in 11 non competitive Technical events of the fest, the students enthusiastically awaited for the results, which declared Arvind & group first in competition ‘Ashwamegh’ of Mechanical Engineering; Apoorva Gupta & Group in ‘Saras’ of Civil Engineering; Rajat Pathak & group in ‘Sangram’ of ECE; Sandeep Chauhan & Group in ‘Chakravuh’ of ECE, Rajneesh Jha & group in ‘Sanjeevani’ of Management; Green Events saw Dheeraj kumar first for ‘Urja Janitra’, Abhishek for ‘Paristhak Shahar’, Ankit for ‘Aavedan’. In ‘Aquaholic’ Deepak Dhawalpuri & group got first prize. ‘Vishwakarma’ of CSE saw Avinash & group first; ‘Pragya Pranali’ declared Sandeep Kumar and group first; ‘Prashnotri’ of biotech saw Sevati Sexana & group first and similarly ‘Bizz- Wizz’ had Riya & group first.

Punjab School Education Board's Regional Youth Festival concluded at LPU

Punjab School Education Board's Jalandhar Region Competitions for Cultural & Co-Curricular Events concluded today at Lovely Professional University. Hosted for three days by LPU, these competitions had been stretched for different events scheduled at six vast venues of the University Campus. About 1500 School Students from more than 110 schools had gathered to exhibit their talents in 12 competitive events. Many Judges of prominence had been deputed to adjudge the talents of the participants. On the first day 250 students, on second 600 and on third day 650 students underwent for different competitions. It was the second time that the university had been entrusted by the Education Board of the Govt of Punjab, to fulfill herculean task of such a mammoth conduction. In this regard, the Division of Student Affairs of the university was duly directed to care for this organization through its Department of Cultural Affairs.

On the closing ceremony, praising the design of competitions by Education Board, Mohali, the Pro Chancellor of the University, Ms Rashmi Mittal said: "The Punjab School Education Board really deserves applaud and appreciation, which is strenuously trying to bring revolutionary changes by having the young minds on right humane track. We are immensely pleased on seeing the happy conclusion of competitions under a great note; and, it really remained an advantage for us to serve this great Educative Endeavour. In fact, we always want to share such social works and responsibilities entrusted upon us from Government and allied bodies." Inspiring the winning and other competing students, she added: “Students should note that healthy competitions teach us to be up to the mark to excel others, irrespective of our victory or defeat. Such activities also keep on upholding our traditions, customs, values and culture in abundance."

It is worth noticing that held annually at Block, District, Regional and State Level in chronological order; these co-curricular activities have due Academic Weight-age for the participants. As such, these competitions help the participants in having Reservation of Seats for all Academic and Professional Courses at University as well as School Level, as per their talent potentialities. On contacting a few Judges, all of them approved as versatile artists of repute by All India Radio and Doordarshan, Dr Narender Sharma, Prof Satbir Singh, Prof Gulbir Singh, they were of the opinion: " It is indeed a great thing that students of primary and middle class level performed on a big stage to always aspire and achieve big. Young minds imbibe soon and seeing the great doings at the University, they will certainly grow in a better way." Similarly, a few participating students & teachers Joginder Pal, Mansi, Simran, Sonia Khanna, Raman, Muskan, Jasanpreet, Satnam Singh, were of the view: "We are indeed lucky to perform our skills before the audience and spectators of the largest University of India. The boost through them has certainly inspired us to do much better next with more enthusiasm. We have learnt a lot from the university atmosphere."

In this context, the competitions for Bhashan, Geet Gayan, Kavita were held at Venue-I, Block-3A LIT Conference Hall; Shabad, Solo Dance, Giddha at Venue-II, Block-2A Shri Baldev Raj Mittal Auditorium; Vaar, kavishri at VenueIII-Block-I LIM Basement Hall; Chitrakala, Sunder Likhai at Venue-IV, Block-3A LIT Basement Hall; Venue-V, Campus Cafe Stage witnessed Bhangra.

Punjab School Education Board’s Regional Competitions for Cultural Events inaugurated at Lovely Professional University

Lovely Professional University is currently hosting Punjab School Education Board’s Jalandhar Region Competitions for Cultural & Co-Curricular Events. Inaugurated today by the Pro Chancellor of the University, Ms Rashmi Mittal, the competitions will continue up to 17th November. About 250 school students have gathered to exhibit their talents in 6 competitive events of today. 18 Judges of prominence and repute have been deputed to adjudge the talents of the participants. On the first day students competed for Bhashan, Geet Gayan, Kavita, Shabad, Chitrakala and Sundar Likhai. Illustrative, it is the second time in consecution that LPU is extending its co-ordination towards managing such a mammoth organization of PSEB, Government of Punjab.

On this occasion, the Pro Chancellor Ms Rashmi Mittal said: “Our University is ever-ready to be up to the expectations of all those who have faith in its potentialities and capabilities, particularly the works related to social responsibilities. That is why we have been specially chosen second time by the education board of the Government of Punjab to fulfill herculean task of such a conduction.” Inspiring the young students she further said: “Healthy competitions teach us to excel and channelize the energy in the positive direction. Such activities help us to uphold our traditions, customs, values and culture in abundance. The Punjab School Education Board really deserves applaud and appreciation for bringing so many schools together to compete on such level.”

It is worth noticing that held annually at Block, District, Regional and State Level in chronological order; these co-curricular activities have due Academic Weight-age for the participants. These are held in equivalence to the achievements made at University level Regional Youth Festivals. On contacting a few participating students and teachers, Mansi, Simran, Sonia Khanna, Raman, Muskan, Jasanpreet, satnam singh, they were of the view: “We are lucky to perform before the audience and spectators of the largest University of India. The boost through them is certainly urging us to present with more enthusiasm the talent we have.”

In today’s competition Harmanpreet Kaur, Sameer Sharma and Dapinder Kaur stood first, second and third position at Bhashan competition. Amanpreet Kaur stood first in Shabad Gayan, Riyaz stood first position in lokgeet, Simran Kaur stood first in Sundar likhai, and Vikas stood first in Chitrakala.

600 students will compete on the second day for Aam Gyan, Shabad, Geet, Bhashan, Kavita, Chitrakala, Solo Dance, Bhangra, Giddha, Vaar, kavishri, Sunder Likhai; and, the third Day will see 650 students in competition for Maulik Likhit, Aam Gyan, Shabad, Geet, Bhashan, Kavita, Chitrakala, Solo Dance, Bhangra, Giddha, Vaar, kavishri, Sunder Likhai.

One of India's Largest Retail Groups 'Planet Retail' selected Students of Lovely Professional University at Salary Package of 2.5 Lac

Students of Lovely Professional University have got selected as Asst Sales Manager, and Fashion Consultants by Planet Retail- a company at the forefront of retailing in India. It had invited Graduates, MBA (Retail, Marketing; Fashion Design, Hotel Management) students of 2012 passing Out Batch, who underwent the selection Criteria of Registration, PPT, Group Discussion, under this Placement Drive, conducted at SBRM Auditorium of the University. The Chief Operating Officer, Mr Vikash Purohit and HR Manager of the company, Ms Arvinder Sura were themselves present to streamline the recruiting process. The selected seven students will join their duties in the month of June 2012. The salary package offered is up to 2.5 Lac plus incentives.

Congratulating the successful students, the Pro-Chancellor of the University, Ms Rashmi Mittal said: "The hard working students have suitably availed of the opportunity offered by the famous establishment known for marketing excellence, over the years. Successful students have really grabbed a golden chance to serve and grow with the company which has already won many prestigious local and international awards for brands. It is indeed a very good start, for the students, with such a company. We wish that these students may add more and more luster to their career in future too."

It is worth noticing that Planet Retail is one of India's largest Retail Marketing Organization, being always at the forefront of retailing - setting new industry standards, venturing into uncharted territories. It has over 75 stores of various concepts spread across India with a total retail space of over 2.5 Lac sq. ft. It is working directly with international brands like Accessrozie, Debenhams, Guess, NEXT, Nautica, Osh Kosh, Carters, Maidenform and Samsonite - and through network companies with The Body Shop and Dr Kiehl's.

On contacting, COO of the Company, Mr Purohit said: "We need industry focused students as we are in talks with a slew of other international brands that wish to foray in India. The Planet Retail team is to be consisted of retail experts that not only deliver on the jobs but also cherish their roles. This keeps the working atmosphere upbeat and energy levels high."

On this success, some of the selected students Athar Singh, Jyoti Sharma, Vinay Jamwal, Karan Singh, Dheeraj, Anish, Gaurav Ganguly said jointly: "This selection is going to make us grow and design our future in a novel way. We are lucky to follow the instructions of our teachers at the University that we have got selected even before completion of our programme. Moreover, this placement will certainly further open many other bright career opportunities for us, if we continue working hard under the motivating principles imbibed through our esteemed University."

Academic Dean of Business & Hotel Management School Switzerland visited LPU

Business & Hotel Management School (BHMS), Switzerland is world renowned school for dissemination of knowledge towards Hotel and Tourism related service sector industries. It has been preparing hospitality leaders by maintaining important visits, interactions seminars, lectures, regularly. On these lines, recently, its Academic Dean, Dr Anthony Erb paid a visit to Lovely Professional University to interact with the students of the Department of Hotel Management, Tourism & Hospitality, during a seminar. Dean Dr Erb delivered important information covering the latest topics on 'Hospitality and Global Management'& 'Culinary Management', for the general benefit of the students. He also let them be well abreast of the latest trends, techniques and thoughts in relation to their programmes.

Understanding the general characteristics of students and encouraging them, he said: "Time is the key to success. It should be best utilized during Industry training which is an integral part of any study programme. Students should practice the skills that they learn during learning period at their Department." He further informed that the hospitality industry consists of broad category of fields within the service industry like lodging, restaurants, event planning, and additional fields within the tourism industry. It is a several billion dollar industry; and, as a hospitality unit wants multiple facilities and operations; a good management, marketing, and well trained human resource is indeed equally required."
Informing about his School, Dr Erb told that BHMS has been preparing 'Hospitality Leaders' for years and is a member of the Bénédict Switzerland chain of schools. The chain has grown into a world-renowned learning organization, with specialization in hotel management being offered exclusively. Here, a select group of students prepare themselves for hospitality opportunities available in the world's fastest growing market and career segment.

Prior to this, welcoming the elite guest to the campus and addressing the students, the Director General of the University, Er HR Singla said: "We always strive to make our students well prepared to learn global trends and accept the global challenges, as well, to get well set, as and when they complete their studies." He added: "For this students should learn tips and tactics from such visiting guests of eminence, erudition and scholarship. They should also care for practical aspects of their programmes to enable themselves in accordance to the demand of the relevant industry. In fact there is no dearth of Job opportunities for a practice oriented hardworking student."

LPU Alumni from Oracle (Bengaluru) Interacted with the University Engineering Students

Lovely Professional University has been regularly striving hard to have its alumni well connected to their alma-mater. Under this, its Division of Students Career Services has started a series of sessions wherein the Junior students will be guided by Alumni for the benefit and betterment of the students. Recently an LPU Alumni, Mr Sumeet Singh, Senior Member Technical Staff from ORACLE, Bengaluru delivered an important Guest Lecture to the engineering Students. More than 500 B Tech (CS, IT) students got benefitted by knowing about various phases to enter MNCs. They were guided about Cloud Computing, Technical Skills, Non-Technical Skills, Career in java, Employability & Industry Expectation from the students.

Informing more about the Alumni Association and its works at the University, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Mr Rameshwar S Kanwar said: "Through these lectures our esteemed Alumni will continue educating and guiding the students on the current job market scenario and also help their placements by motivating and inviting high profiled companies for campus recruitment." He further said: "In fact,LPU Alumni Association (LPUAA) aims to keep the Alumni connected to the University through events, guest lectures, reunions and networking opportunities. Keeping the Alumni updated and informed about the University news, it helps them to participate in the proceedings of the Association and promotes and fosters mutually beneficial interaction among them and the present students of LPU."

It is illustrative that Mr. Sumeet Singh is of B Tech 2007 Pass out Batch. Feeling proud to be back at the campus as a worthy student of it’s, he said: "I have learnt a lot during my study- period here. And, now I feel much elated to see its regular progress towards international heights and attainments in education scenario. I do feel earnestly that I have an unflinching strong bond with my alma mater and it is ripe time for me to share my progress, knowledge and experiences with the upcoming engineers at the University." Sharing his Happiness on being a part of world's second largest independent software company, he boldly admitted that "it is only because of my 'alma mater'. Today Oracle is the world's leading supplier of information management software and world's second largest IT Company. It is the gold standard for database technology and applications in enterprises throughout the world."

In fact a large number of well placed Engineers, Entrepreneurs and Executives have visited the Campus to steer well the students. Such Alumni sessions have been designed in a manner that these are interactive for further preparation of Industry Ready students.

Lovely Professional University Launched Ten NSS Units at the campus

To meet the felt needs of the community and supplement the education of the university students by bringing them face to face with the real social situations; the Department of Community Services Cell of LPU inaugurated ten NSS Units at the Campus. About 2000 students have already registered themselves voluntarily for NSS Activities under these units. Ten Programme Officers have been specially chosen from the faculty to co-ordinate well with the students. Under the scheme, each volunteer contributes 240 hours of community work during a period of two years. While undertaking these activities, each NSS unit is also expected to envisage its programmes/activities aimed at instilling discipline, building character, promotion of physical fitness and development of culture.

To commemorate such a huge initiation, an inaugural cultural celebration was held at SBRM Auditorium of the University. The Director General of the University, Er HR Singla was the Chief Guest of the day. On this occasion, volunteers were well informed about NSS, its origin, Motto, various activities and projects to be undertaken during the current academic session. The participating students presented applauding performances in the form of mesmerizing one act play on poverty, patriotic group Song, Skit, beautiful 'Bhangra' by Girls to show equality among the genders towards all doings, and Classical Dance.

Encouraging the young NSS volunteers, Er Singla said: "Human beings are referred as "social animals" as they have the senses to work positively towards the society. We are lucky that we have got ample opportunities for the same in the form of ten NSS units to work devotedly towards the rectifications of the general problems being faced by the society." Informing he said: "We have already taken many projects, and recently we have been encouraged and honoured through State Government for organization of Volunteer Blood Donation camps also." He added: "Youth has a fiery and revolutionary spirit to rise to the occasion for well being of the society. That is why each and every nation wants to see its youth develop in accordance to the aims and objectives of the organizations like NSS. And, volunteers develop their personality through community service and acquire positive social attitudes and values."

It is illustrative that the National Service Scheme (NSS) was launched during the Mahatma Gandhi's Centenary Year (1969) involving 40,000 student volunteers in 37 universities. Today, it has many million student volunteers spread over almost all universities and academic institutions. The aim of National Service Scheme is Development of the Personality of Students through Community Service. In order to fulfill the objective, student volunteers and programme functionaries are engaged in constructive and productive programmes involving students in various awareness drives, "shramdaan", social reforms, communal harmony, creation of community assets, relief work, blood donation, environmental protection, literacy programme, health education campaign. Some of the participating students in the colourful celebration, Madhu Oberoi, Santosh, Gurjeet Rana, Samuel, Abid, Rukhsana, Jatinder and others said in a voice: "We have well understood the operational aim of NSS. It is sure to provide us a variety of learning experiences which will definitely develop a sense of participation, service and achievement among us making education more relevant to the present situation."

Lovely Professional University opens 155 study centres across India for Distance Education

Education beyond the Campus, the Directorate of Open and Distance Learning (DODL) of Lovely Professional University launched its Distance Education Study Programmes across the country. LPU, the largest University of India has opened a total number of 155 study centres for distance learning programmes in India which includes Punjab, New Delhi & NCR, Andhra Pradesh, Chandigarh, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jammu & Kashmir. These centres are aimed to provide both academic as well as administrative support to students. LPU has opened two study centres in Jalandhar also.

Commenting on this development, Chancellor, Mr. Ashok Mittal, LPU said, “Distance Education courses are an efficient way for the students to enhance learning and to expand access to higher education,” He further added that “By opening the LPU Study Centres for Distance Learning, we are ensuring that an innovative pedagogy is developed to help students get education which is flexible, economical, convenient and effective by all means.”

Under LPU DE, students are provided with Study Material, Contact Classes and various Online Resources to facilitate, rather make easy, student learning. With the help of LPU’s online software - Learning Management Solutions (LMS), students will be able to see their assignments, study material, fees deposited, and curriculum and also they can give their mock test online.

LPU DE programmes are recognized by the Distance Education Council (DEC), an apex body for the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system in India, and Joint Committee of UGC-AICTE-DEC for running Distance Education Programmes. The recognized Distance Education programmes are considered equivalent to their corresponding Regular programmes and are valid for Employment and Higher Studies. For admission related queries, students can also call at 1800-3001-1800 or e-mail at odl.admissions@lpu.co.in

Lovely Professional University rocked along rocking live concert by Ranbir Kapoor

It was indeed a reminiscing moment for Bollywood Heart-Throb Ranbir Kapoor's many thousand Student fans at Lovely Professional University, when they were invited by the Star personally to rock along with him, at the University Campus. Other Stars - Nargis Fakhri, Imtiaz Ali of Rock-Star fame were also accompanying him. The students and members of staff remained in a swoon and keel over during his presence in the campus. Students Rock Bands of the University also remained rhythmic during the palpitations enhancing show. The Chairman of Lovely Group Mr Ramesh Mittal, Vice Chaiman Mr Naresh Mittal, Chancellor of Lovely Professional University Mr Ashok Mittal, Pro Chancellor Ms Rashmi Mittal, Vice-Chancellor Dr Rameshwar Kanwar, Director General Er HR Singla welcomed all the stars on their reaching to the campus. On Coming to the native state PUNJAB of his forefathers, Ranbir was seen having a great affinity for all present to see him dance, talk, walk, rock and deliver the talent live. Students kept hovering around the stage, his room of stay and vehicles to just have a glimpse of him.

The shining star, too, got mesmerized to feel the excitement and the pray-full heat, about the his success, in the eyes of multitude of his fans hailing from 28 states of India and 26 countries. Passing on a great message to them, he conveyed: "Bring to your actions in studies as well as allied activities a whole lot of earnestness and heart. Nothing is unachievable in this world. Your University, itself, is a supreme example of this." Quoting the hard endeavours of his famous family members, he shared with all: "They all toiled and worked day and night to reach the legendary heights starting from nowhere. You, too, can achieve your goals in an easy- way; only the things required are devotion, determination and discipline. When I started I had nothing except the hard earned name of my kiths and kin with me. Of course that helped me, but the competition which I had to face was from the star-stalwarts. Here, my dedication and love of you worked to lead me to the present day." Appealing to all, he wanted a promise and the students, apparently, did make a promise that they won't watch any other film before "Rock-star" releases.

Prior to this, welcoming the presence of the super-hit stars at the University and addressing the exhilarating students, the Chancellor Mr Mittal said: "Our University always strives to have great chances and conductions for students' regular progress, betterment and all round personality development. In this context, the present organization is also a great message conveying. The great young actor Ranbir Kapoor is not only glamorous but he is also an ideal-idol for new generation. He is of that clay who has proved his mettle in a very short span to be a great connoisseur of all eyes." Further adding, he said: "His dedication and diligence to his duties must attract you, all along his mesmerizing rocking movements and performance. His hard-work is an example to be followed for coveted achievements."

It is illustrative that Ranbir's natural, effortlessly and applauding exuberance, on so much display in his films, has made him extremely popular. Son to much popular actors of their times, Rishi Kapoor - Neetu Singh and the grandson of yester-years actor and filmmaker Raj Kapoor, great grandson of Prithviraj Kapoor; Ranbir made his acting debut in 2007, for which he won the Filmfare Award. Before starting off his career as an actor, he worked as an assistant with reputed director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for awards winning film 'Black'. He has also earned several nominations for Best Actor at various award ceremonies. Film Critics usually write a lot positive about his versatility and potentialities. At present, he is featured, opposite new-comer Nargis Fakhri in Imtiaz Ali's 'Rock-star' going to be released on historic date 11/11/2011.

Rocking & Radiant Annual Youth Festival of Lovely Professional University Culminated into Novel Promises for the Next

Folk as well as Western Dances stole the show on the last day of the annual youth festival of Lovely Professional University. Rocking performances by multi-talented students of the University compelled the onlookers to sing, dance, feel and celebrate the great two gala days along with them. The enthusiastic audience remained responding with gusto and applauds on the scintillating performances of the students. The second day witnessed Geet, Gazals, Qwaalliz, Collage Making, Vocal, Giddha, Bhangra, famous Folk & Western Dances of different states and countries and many more show stealing performances by hundreds of students. Last Day's events also included competitions in mimicry, mime, debate, on the spot-painting, Clay-Modelling & Rangoli. The Lovely School of Arts and Animation of the University has been declared winner unanimously by nine renowned judges.

Handing over the coveted glittering trophy to the leaders of the winning School, the Chief-Guest of the day, Mr Ashok Mittal, the Chancellor of the University congratulated all on the magnanimous outcome of the mammoth youth festival: "Such organizations keep all of us full of youth, vitality and vigour in deeds, actions as well as in thoughts and planning too." Continuing he held: "The massive participation from international students has given a global outlook to the festival, this year. The opportunity shared by other students to work together with them under a great feeling of oneness, equality and determination will certainly make them more humane and global citizens. All of them are going to have proper understanding towards culture, customs, traditions related to performers hailing from different Indian states and other countries."

It is worth noticing that during the day, many stalls at different blocks of the university had competitions in poster making, Tattoos Ikebana, Dance, Robotics, LAN Games, Sports, Quiz Show, Band Performances, Fashion Parade, Mehndi, Face Painting etc worth cash Prizes, Gifts and other attractions. Many special food stalls of tongue tasting stuffs kept attracting the gluttons like anything. Prior to this, the inaugural day has already seen the colourful, classical, cultural display of different forms of art. Seven Popular Students Bands of the University also remained performing round the clock on both days and made more than 20,000 students dance to their rhythms and melodies. All the students, teachers, other members of the staff, many relatives and friends of theirs enjoyed fun and frolic got through different types of celebrative organizations.

In the end, the Chancellor, Mr Ashok Mittal, distributed the prizes to the winning students of different competitions. He was accompanied by the Pro Chancellor, Ms Rashmi Mittal, of the University.

The Website'www.lpu.in' of Lovely Professional University ranked among Top 10 Educational Website Designs in the World

Renowned website analyst 'www.webdesignersblog.net.' has rated the website of Lovely Professional University 'www.lpu.in' as the 10th Best Educational Website Design in the world. It has excelled among world's 35 Outstanding Educational Website Designs. It has conducted the survey and rated it among the top ten Educational Website Design in the world. It is highlighting that it has excelled even Educational Website Designs of world's top and outstanding Universities like University of Oxford, University of Melbourne, University of Glasgow, University of Chicago, University of Washington, National University of Singapore and so many others, of years of repute and establishments. In India, it has been placed second only to the University of Madras.

Congratulating all students and members of the staff on this world class achievement, the Chancellor of the University, Mr Ashok Mittal said: "It is a matter of immense pleasure and pride for all of our students, their parents, members of staff and well-wishers that our University website 'www.lpu.in' has been rated 10th Best Educational Website Design in the world." Continuing he said: "In fact, in order to fulfill this herculean task of catering to the immediate requirements of the students, their parents and the new admission seekers, an effective website with all transparency is ever required as a ready- reckoning design. It is, of course, a challenging job for designers to come out with an all time interesting and informative website for a user. They have to provide current and updated information about 'Achievements, Programmes, Hostels, Admissions, Syllabus, Results, Students, Alumni, Activities, Sports and above all, special attractions'. In this regard, we are very happy to note that the university designers have toiled to showcase in such a way that the renowned website analyst 'www.webdesignersblog.net' has rated our University website as such, in their most competitive survey conducted."

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Six Students of LPU have joined LPU's Partner Foreign Universities in UK & Australia to complete other half of Twinning-Programme

In order to fulfill internationalization strategy, Lovely Professional University has collaborated with various universities and institutes across the globe for students favouring collaborative research and education programmes. Under this, after completing first half of relevant Twinning Programmes of MBA and B Sc Hospitality at LPU, its six students joined partner foreign universities- Central Queensland University, Australia; University of Sunderland, UK and University of West London, UK, in the month of September 2011, to complete their other half from there. On successful completion of their programmes, they will get qualifying Degrees from these Partner Foreign Universities.

Informing more, the Pro Chancellor of the University, Ms Rashmi Mittal said: "Our University has, both academic and non-academic, partnerships and tie- ups with world class foreign universities and institutes across the globe, including USA, UK, Australia, Canada, Singapore, Brazil, Poland and Ghana. We desire to cultivate collaborative relationships, particularly, in regard to student exchange, articulation of particular programmes, faculty exchange, specific joint research areas etc." Continuing she said: "As such, University has 'Twinning Programmes' which allow a student to complete part of studies at LPU and the remaining with its partner foreign university. And, after successful completion of the programme or as defined in the agreement, such a student gets entitled to receive degree from the concerned foreign partner University. We have more than 25 Partners across the globe with similar arrangements."

It is illustrative that these Twinning Programmes are of much importance and value for a foreign aspiring student. A student chooses the right path through these to study in the country of his/her dreams, instead of getting ruined in wrong hands. He /She gets globally mature enough to exist prominently in the current scenario learning latest trends and techniques from the top Universities of the world. Moreover, the fee structure for such a programme is far less in comparison to getting direct admission in a foreign university. As such, LPU is providing the students an opportunity to get exposed to learning methods and cultures across the globe to emerge as professionals with ability to cross cultural situations. These enable students to have qualitative education for bright settlement in life. The best benefit of a twinning programme is the potential of foreign placement for a student aiming career in MNC or global organization.

Lovely Professional University Ranked among Top Four MCA Institutes of Northern India by NASSCOM

Lovely Professional University has been ranked among Top Four MCA Institutes of Northern India published by India's largest professional news and media company, 'Siliconindia'. LPU has also been counted among first 20 such Institutes country wide. Based on a recent survey conducted by NASSCOM-an apex IT body with Booz Allen Hamilton-a consultancy firm; 'Siliconindia' has published about this in details, on its pages of September 2011 issue. It has declared Top 50 MCA Institutes in India and Top 10 Institutes Zone Wise- North, East, West & South. The sole parameter of judging an Institutes' quality is the performance of its students in the industry- measured by their pay package. Thus, this list is entirely based on a single parameter- CTC (Cost to Company) of a graduate after five years of work experience.

For this, a perceptual study was conducted among HR managers, recruitment firms and job boards. The companies/institutes were chosen carefully to ensure that the HR managers/professionals interviewed were involved with recruitment and had a fair idea about the market. Over 3000 MCA graduates who graduated in the year 2006 were interviewed across the six metros - Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Chennai. And, after an exhaustive research and analysis, the lists of top Govt. /private institutes, across India and in each zone, were made out.

On this coveted ranking, the Chancellor of the University, Mr Ashok Mittal said: "We are very happy to note that fore-front IT bodies have identified the potentiality of the University by keeping it in first top 20 Institutes of the country. In fact, the credit of this ranking goes to our hardworking students who have placed themselves in the top companies like Infosys, HCL, TCS, Wipro & others, under the guidance of their teachers." Continuing he said: "Such rankings are helpful to both IT Organizations and students as from these they may go ahead easily for the Institute of their liking, preference and value." It is worth noticing that there is a great need of nearly 1.5 million MCA graduates in the Indian IT industry by next decade.

Illustrative, National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) is the premier trade body and the chamber of commerce of the IT industries in India. It is with more than 1200 members, which include both Indian and multinational companies that have a presence in India. NASSCOM's member and associate member companies are broadly in the business of software development, software services, software products, consulting services, e-commerce & web services, engineering services off shoring, animation and gaming; whereas, Booz Allen Hamilton is a professional consulting firm with a focus on high quality not quantity delivery to clients.

CENTRAL QUEENSLAND (CQ) UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA SIGNS MOU WITH LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY (LPU)

In a breakthrough step towards facilitating education to the underprivileged children, Central Queensland (CQ) University, Australia has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Lovely Professional University (LPU) and an NGO- The Salaam Baalak Trust (SBT). The MoU was exchanged between Mr. Rennie Fritschy, Chancellor, CQUniversity Australia, Dr. Lachlan Strahan, Australia’s Deputy High Commissioner to India, Mr. Ashok Mittal, Chancellor, LPU and Ms. Praveen Nair, Founder Trustee & Chairperson, SBT in New Delhi.

The collaboration signifies the establishment of valuable collaborative relationships between the three parties to provide enhanced educational opportunities for Indian students and provide assistance to street and working children.

Under the partnership with LPU, CQUniversity will subsidize students to undertake university studies in India by paying their tuition fees, accommodation fees and living expenses for the duration of their degree. A total number of 15 students selected by SBT will study at LPU and this activity will continue for five consecutive years. LPU will provide the learning platform to the students and would support them in the best possible manner.

Speaking on the occasion, Chancellor, Mr. Ashok Mittal, LPU remarked, “We are delighted to enter into partnership with CQUniversity, one of the leading universities of Australia. Lack of adequate funding for higher education to the deprived children has always been a serious constraint in India. Through this step, together we would be able to address this issue and ensure to provide enhanced educational opportunities to some of our most needy students in the country.”
Talking about the noteworthy association, Mr. Rennie Fritschy, Chancellor, CQUniversity said, “It gives us extreme pleasure to be associated with a leading university- LPU in India. Our partnership is unique and special because it is aimed towards supporting and providing opportunities to the Indian children who are in need.”

“CQUniversity’s agreement with LPU will also witness both universities work together to create a meaningful academic and cultural exchange program between Australia and India,” said Mr. Fritschy.

“This association will moreover ensure the development of a suitable employable pool of children who will be able to get quality education, functional knowledge to earn a living. It’s all part of our aim towards becoming Australia’s most engaged university and helping to facilitate access to higher education for all individuals,” he further added.

With the signing of its agreement with SBT, CQUniversity is now the official sponsor of the charity- ‘WALK into the street life of Delhi’ program with support of 1.5 million rupee over the next three years.

Soma Enterprises selected students of Lovely Professional University at a package of Rs 2.5 lac

Nine students of Lovely Professional University got selected during a Campus Drive made by Soma Enterprise Ltd, one of the largest construction company of India. It had invited Students of B Tech (Civil) and B. Tech (Honours)(Civil) with 6.5 CGPA of 2012 passing out batch, for placement drive. After undergoing a stringent selection criteria based on PPT, Written Test, Technical and Personal Interview, the selected students are offered a Package of Rs. 2.5 lac per annum. Added to this HRA will be another benefit. The students will join their duties in June 2012.

Felicitating the selected students, the Director General, Er HR Singla, of the University, said: "We are laying stress on the success of Infrastructure related studies, which are the most futuristic branches in world, especially India as India is bound for heavy infrastructure growth and real estate construction in future. It has huge scope, in private as well as government sector. In this regard, we are very happy to note that the companies like Soma Enterprises have come forward in recruiting the students in infrastructure development projects pertaining real estate sector." He added: "Previously Civil Engineering was less opted by the students; but, with the growth of population and industries new projects are coming up and existing ones are growing."Continuing, he said, "Our students are lucky that they have availed of the opportunity to work in a world class organization. Now, they are expected to create Impact of infrastructural development on the economy of the country, to bring good name to their alma mater."

It is worth noticing that Soma Enterprise Ltd, an ISO 9001-2000 Company, is one of the Fast- growing infrastructure developers in India. It is mainly and primarily focused on construction and development of core infrastructure projects in the transportation, Hydel-Power and water resource sectors. It has recently diversified into urban infrastructure projects including commercial and residential real estate. In addition to construction contracts, Soma also takes up projects on EPC / Turnkey and Build Operate Transfer (BOT) basis.

Selected students, Ajay Bhatia, Ameer Ganai, Kumar Bhuria, Sidhant, Nikhil, Amit, Parveen, Ravi Pandey, Shubham said: “This selection has enthused much confidence within us. We are very eager to join and to work with such a reputed company. Our new assignments would enable us to grow differently and design our destiny. Of course, we will have to continue following the techniques taught to us at the University by our teachers."

LPU honored with State Award for Recommendable Contribution towards Volunteer Blood Donation

Lovely Professional University honored with State Award for Recommendable Contribution towards Volunteer Blood Donation on 'National Volunteer Blood Donation Day'. Govt. Body 'State Blood Transfusion Council, Punjab' had organized the Award Ceremony. The Health Minister Punjab Government, Mr Satpal Gosain has himself awarded the University with the citation of acclamation under the signatures of Principal Secretary Health cum President SBTC, Punjab, Mr Satish Chandra, IAS. This Award has been accorded for contribution made of 415 Blood Units this year.

On this achievement, the Pro-Chancellor of the University Ms Rashmi Mittal said: "We are very happy to receive this Award as it is further motivating us to be more energetic towards such self-less humane pursuits. In fact, our University is regularly developing much needed community service into the very being of each and every university student, along with their professional programmes. Many blood donation camps in association with prominent NGOs and Volunteer Organizations have become a constant feature at the University." Appreciating the efforts made by students and members of staff, she added: "Blood Donation by students is always voluntarily as they are themselves boosted up towards this noble and humane cause. So they come forward and set example for others to follow. They know that Blood donation is a kind of bond of love for fellow human beings as well as the gift of life; it is, indeed, a contribution to help other needy ones."

Continuing she informed: "Only yesterday, in order to share social responsibility, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences of our University organized a Blood Donation Camp, with the help of Hindustan Welfare Blood Donors Club (Regd), Phagwara, at the University. It was responded well by many hundreds of donor-students and members of the staff, who remained queued up the whole day to donate blood. A contingent of 18 Para Medical Team Members comprising of doctors and technicians, under the guidance of Dr Gagandeep Singh and Dr Sangeeta Goel from the Civil Hospitals of Jalandhar and Phagwara conducted the donation procedure. The camp was organized in a very safe and hygienic environment, with slogan- 'Donate Blood for life'. In all, 195 units of blood were accumulated, which were distributed to the two hospitals as 120 Units and 75 Units to Civil Hospitals Jalandhar and Phagwara respectively.

Lovely Professional University organized a Workshop on Robotics and Hydro-Jet

The ROBOTICS & INTELLIGENT SYSTEM COMMUNITY of Lovely Professional University (RISC-LPU) organized a workshop on basic Robotics and Hydro-Jet, water rocket, for two weeks. More than 400 students attended the workshop. Under this during, hydro-rocket launching competition, 78 teams participated in two days. Each team was consisted of 5 members. More than 500 rockets were launched, which established itself as one of the mega events at LPU. The maximum distance travelled at unlimited pressure by the team, ROCK 8, was 106 metres. The first five winning teams of the competition were ECLLIPSE, the SKY-RIDERS, ROCK-8, IGNITED and DREAM BLAST. Based on Newton's third law, "for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action", the students adopted water jet system in the same way that rockets, jet airplanes do. A jet of water is expelled from the rear which propels the 'hydro-jet' forward in the direction given.

While witnessing the grand competition, the Pro- Chancellor of the University Ms Rashmi Mittal encouraged all the enthusiastic participants and congratulated the winners. She informed that the University is leaving no stone unturned to make the students experience the established postulations through practical and allied practices: "While the theory may exist or have existed, we cannot experience it until the technology and sufficient understanding of the system comes out practically before us."

It is illustrative that under able guidance of faculties, RISC-LPU is a technical community which regularly works to enhance the technical skills of the students by guiding them towards the practical knowledge of engineering. In fact, Robotics is a field which incorporates all the branches of Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology and Biotechnology. Novel-Ideas of individuals are welcomed and tried, too, to implement practically. At present, it is a nursery to nurture technical dreams of young aspirants.

Some of the participant’s students to this endeavour Bikash Kant, Ananya, Sangran Samal, Asheena, Devendu, Tauishi, said: “We are very eager to earn reputation in establishing ourselves as pioneer of some great achievement of immediate need related to humanity. RISC-LPU is indeed a great platform for aspirants like us helping us to scale the ladder of success."

Lovely Professional University celebrated World Tourism Day

Keeping in the view the much appreciation won world over for country's Cultural Diversity in all unison, Incredible India and the theme of the year-'Tourism - Linking Cultures'; the students of the School of Hospitality of Lovely Professional University celebrated World Tourism Day, today. It was great to view that hundreds of students from 26 countries and 28 States of the country contributed the specialty of their culture to share with all other assembled at Shri Baldev Raj Mittal Auditorium of the University for a Colourful Celebration. During this, Presentations, Folk Dances, Rangoli, Melodies, Poetry- Recitation, Painting, Tourism related Quiz Programme, Fashion Show were the attractions. Students from Nigeria, Bhutan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Assam, Manipur, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bangladesh, Punjab and from other states and countries exhibited culture of their areas through dance performances.

Consenting to commence the gala Day by lighting of the lamp, the Pro Chancellor of the University, Ms Rashmi Mittal congratulated the participants and said: "It is nice to see that, with the contribution of all students of the department, the World Tourism Day celebrations have been well planned to implement ethics, values and cultural the best among students, to propagate fast developing tourism industry in India." Expecting much from the youth of the University, she continued: "On this eve, the youth should take a pledge to always be ready to learn, live, experience, exhibit and appreciate men and mannerisms of other cultures, too, to make a peaceful existence for all."

Some of the students, Nasir, Richa, Christophe, Rakshit Dimri, Dixa Bhattarai, Priyanka, Amardeep said: "We have learnt a lot from this celebration. In addition to have a great fun and merry making, we have really imbibed the cultural legacy of other countries and states of India. We are lucky that our University is itself a mini cosmos and we being its students always feel floating on a sea of diversified cultures."

NSS Students of lovely Professional University celebrated NSS Day caring Special Children of 'Prayas' School

NSS Volunteer- Students of lovely Professional University celebrated NSS Day by caring for 'Prayas' School Special children at Maqsudan (Jalandhar). For this, 60 Volunteers, under the guidance of the co-ordinators of the community services Cell of the University, massaged the weak limbs of 42 needy and special children of 'Prayas' School, Maqsudan, Jalandhar. Volunteers also entertained and motivated the children through interesting power point presentations, lectures and colourful cultural get together. They served children and staff working there with Fresh Fruit, Fruit Juice, Sweets, Bakery Products and Snacks. It all was also added with a special cleanliness drive by the NSS students in and around the school. It is worth noticing that the school is being run by Red Cross Hospital Welfare Section, Jalandhar.

Expressing happiness on the efforts and activities of the volunteers towards community responsibility, the Pro-Chancellor of LPU, Ms Rashmi Mittal said: "Observance of such meaningful days, following the true spirit of these, is desired and expected of the youth of today. We are very happy that our students identified the right place to celebrate NSS Day on the lines of living and sharing responsibilities." She continued: "In fact, in addition to volunteers, all other students should also be pro NSS activities, as NSS is meant for development of personality of students through Community Service. It also underlines that the welfare of an individual is ultimately dependent on the welfare of the society as a whole."

It is worth noticing that NSS( National Service Scheme) is a permanent Youth Programme under the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, with objectives for youth to understand the community, identify its needs and problem solutions and to, develop in themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility. The Director of the school Ms Suvira Aggarwal and Principal Sandeep Setia thanked the volunteers for their missionary zeal in providing massage (Champi) with special soothing oil over children's heads and healing massage on their limbs of general weakness and ailment. Children were suggested to go for strength boosting exercises to get relieved of muscular weakness. NSS Volunteers also sensitized the members of the school staff on health, hygiene and safe drinking water so that ignorant students may not suffer unnecessarily. They also cleaned out the surroundings of the school, its hostel, Mess and made a drive for beautification.

Some of the participating students to this drive, Juneed Nabi, Sumit Rao, Harkirat Singh, Kiran Thakur, Heena Goel, Priya, Vimmica Anand said : " We celebrated the great day by really being humane to the core. Seeing the special children, we realized the creative power nature and our moral duty for the same. On this occasion, continuous chanting of NSS theme song-' WE SHALL OVERCOME', in our heart of hearts, kept on encouraging us."

School of Bio-Sciences of Lovely Professional University organised career talk by Training and Research Expert from Pro-biosys

The Department of Biotechnology of the School of Bio-Sciences of Lovely Professional University organized a career talk by Training and Research Expert from Bangalore based 'Pro-biosys'. This valuable session was organized for final year bio-Technology and Life Sciences students of B.Sc, M.Sc, B.Tech. M.Tech programmes. More than 400 students got benefitted through this organization by getting crystal clear idea about the qualities expected from the future biotechnology professionals. The key speaker was Bhanu Prakash, CEO, 'Pro-biosys'- which is known as a premier career advancement company for the pharmaceutical and life sciences professionals, promoting and facilitating perpetual learning. Also pegged as the country's first finishing Life Sciences school, it has proposed to set up a joint Incubation Center at LPU for related students who will be ready employable talent for the Biotech and Pharma industry.

Bhanu Prakash said "With the increasing demand for qualified life sciences professionals in India, the availability of quality talent is decreasing. To minimize and eventually eliminate this gap, at Probiosys our endeavor is to impart training in emerging bio- technology, high end automation and international quality procedures for meeting real time industrial and research environment requirements." In fact, study of bio-technology is very important as it is based on biology. So, this technology harnesses cellular and bio-molecular processes to develop technologies and products that help improve our lives and, in turn, the health of our planet.

For this conduction, the Director General of LPU, Er HR Singla said: "We are regularly developing our students to be very much focused about their career goal by choosing the specialization area, related to their programme, for building expertise." He also emphasized that students must shape themselves keeping in mind the existing gap between the academics and the demand of skills in bio-technology related industry.

It is illustrative that 'Probiosys' is a unique center designed for international standards and compliant with the best practices across industries. It also has a technology incubation center with a focus on industrial and workforce interface. A few of the participating students consider that such type of beneficial career talks and workshops are frequently conducted at the University: "We are happy to know that, in near future too, there will be winter workshop on animal cell culture, food microbiology in coordination of this very internationally renowned company, for our benefit."

Lovely Professional University organized Inter School Open Basket Ball Championship

Lovely Professional University has been witnessing Inter School Competitions in more than 20 Sports Events in the campus. Thousands of would be Engineers, Educationists, Pharmacists, Research- Scholars are showcasing their inborn talent in the related field of the sports activity. Under this, Inter School Open Basket Ball Championship was held at the Campus. In all, 14 teams participated on knock-out basis. Starting from the first week of September, the championship saw its final match played, as a neck to neck competition in which the School of Computer Applications defeated School of Management by 45-42. The sports loving students enjoyed all the matches with much fan-fare. The Director General, Er HR Singla, of LPU awarded trophy to the winning Team and prizes to the chosen best players.

Congratulating the winners and motivating all other participants to different competitions, Er Singla said: “The huge participation of Professional Programmes' students in sports is clearly indicating that individual talents play major role in the overall development of a student. That is why our university is propagating on these lines so that a student must not waste his inborn talents in any way. We have even offered many scholarships to the deserving sportsmen-women so that they may progress on both the lines of talent development- Individual as well as Professional." Continuing he added: "Even the Flexi Credit System, adopted towards the selected programmes by the University, is based on the same tones where an Engineering, Bio-Technology or some other student is free to choose a few courses from other department including sports.”

Most recently, LPU has undergone an extensive restoration and rehabilitation process transforming itself into a state-of-the-art special events arena. In addition to, Basketball Championship, LPU is, also organising competitions in the fields like Judo, Lawn Tennis, Table Tennis, Wrestling, Boxing, Badminton, Chess, Football, Hockey, Cricket etc. Eyeing Olympics, the management is trying hard to prepare the students in such a way that at least they may aspire to join Indian Olympic team. In fact, LPU has proven to be a great setting for sports men/women, athletes and fans of the events.

A few of the participating students Hamid, Roger, Manav, Rohit, Kulwinder and Raphael said: "We are, of course, thrilled to participate in the different sports activities. These all activities are providing us much fun, relaxation, encouragement and team spirit along with our studies.”

ICMR-MYOD Survey Ranked Lovely Professional University one among top Management Institutions of India

Lovely Professional University has been recently ranked as one of the foremost Management Institutions of India. It has been featured as one of the top 50 B-Schools, in the esteemed pages of the popular youth magazine for career and competitions, MYOD, out of 650 colleges and Institutions. LPU is adjudged as such in an exclusive two phased survey conducted by Indian Council for Market Research. For the perspective research survey, in the first phase, they scrutinized more than 650 listed B-Schools. Whereas, Global Exposure, Faculty, Infrastructure, Student Profile, Personality Development, Course Content, Research, Industry Interface, Placement& Package, Alumni were the parameters ascertained and adjudged during second phase of the meticulously conducted survey to categorize the Individual Institution.

Talking about the achievement, the Chancellor of the University, Mr Ashok Mittal, said: "Going through the editorial of the 'MYOD'; I do agree with the executive editor, Ms Priyanka Rai, of this most read youth magazine that "the top reveals itself only after one starts climbing; and,.a pyramid cannot be built from the top down". Continuing he said: "Harbouring hopes and dreams for the future, our University has always been trying hard through its students and staff members, on role, to scale regularly towards novel attainments. However, instead of being pampered, we should become more prepared to transcend ahead as we hold unending responsibilities towards students and parents in the presently fast changing education scenario."

The thing to be noted is that the respondents for the parameters adopted were students, Faculty-Members, Parents and Corporations from top arena, in relevance to the parameters divided among them: Students covered were current management students, Faculty members were from esteemed organizations like IIM-Bangalore, IIT-Delhi, the Industry/HR professionals and CMOs involved from well-reputed organizations in the industries of Banking & Financial Services, Automobiles, Telecom, Retail, Information Technology, Consulting and others. The final ranking is based on the cumulative mean score on each of the parameters.

It is beyond doubt that Top Magazines, Newspapers and TV Channels like Dalal Street Journal, EFY, 4Ps, Business Digest, Business Baron, The Week, CSR, Bhaskar Lakshya, Business India, Star News, Zee TV, Indian Express Group, The Times of India and many others have already considered LPU as one of the leading Universities in providing quality education and have also accorded good rankings to the University in areas like placements, industry interface, infrastructure, international relations etc.

LPU conducted a Two-day workshop on Cyber Forensics and Ethical Hacking

A two day workshop on Cyber Forensics and Ethical Hacking was held at Lovely Professional University for its students and aspiring faculty. It was held on 10th and 11th September in collaboration with Net Nobles Technologies, IT Compliance & Security, from Karnataka state. The training covered modules of Ethics; Google Hacking; Information Gathering, Scanning; Sniffing Networks; Web Application Security; Virus, worms, Trojans and Malwares; Meta-spoilt Unleashed; Social Engineering Toolkit; Practical approach to cryptography etc. Three experts Mr. Hari krishnan, Chief Technical Officer, Mr. Karthik Ranganath- A member of the NULL community, CEO and Mr. Raghavendra Karthik D, Chief Technical Analyst also addressed the training seekers. More than 300 students got benefitted through this workshop.

On this conduction, the Director General of the University, Er. H R Singla said: "We want that our students should always be up to the Mark. They should be well abreast with latest technologies emerging regularly, affecting our lives, directly or indirectly. The present conduction through the very expert hands in the field is an effort for the general benefit of the students." He added: "The practical approach made available to the students, through experts, has really made the course contents of the workshop very easily understandable to them." He also laid stress that such workshops are very essential in present scenario where spreading wings of 'hacking' are direly needed to be nipped for the benefit of the society.

It is worth noticing that 'Net Nobles' is a network security audit and security consulting firm in the field of Information security and Ethical Hacking. It has been catering to the needs of IT infrastructure security and also system security, along with the needs of students by training them and making their foundation strong in this field. Its IT audit services include network security audit, compliance audit, website security audit, penetration testing, risk assessment, and forensic investigation. Explaining more, Mr. Hari Krishnan, Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), informed: "Our team has over 200 web application advisories to its name, along with few journals being published in different portals. Our team represents Def Con in India in two places. We also have members with international certifications in the field of network security and Ethical hacking."

A few of the participant-students, Puneet, Archit, Srishti, Jo Anne, Paras, Milind, Rebecca said: "During training, 'HaXoR' immersed us into a hands-on environment by showing how to conduct ethical hacking. We were exposed to an entirely different way of achieving optimal information security posture by knowing fully how to scan, test, hack and also to secure our own systems. In fact, it was a very fast paced course, of sixteen hours, with live demos of hacking tools. We have come to know Hacking history, Why is security needed, What is ethical hacking, Google tricks, Basic hacks and allied issues in a very easy manner."

Lovely Professional University organized National Nutrition Week

The School of Hospitality of Lovely Professional University held the first week of September as National Nutrition Week at the University. The objective of this week was to educate general public, students and other members of the staff against various factors leading to malnutrition. It was also to encourage them adopt healthy eating habits. Students and the faculty of the school organized various messages related to healthy nutrition through Exhibition of Models, Posters and charts on Nutrition, Guest Lectures by reputed Dieticians, Community Awareness Programme, Nutritional Counselling and Recipe contest etc.

On this organizational series, a valuable Guest Lecture on Dietary Management of Diabetes was delivered by Chief Dietician of eminent reputation Ms Madhu Arora, from Govt Medical College & Hospital Chandigarh. The faculty and students of Nutrition & Dietetics visited Mitthu Basti at Jalandhar, in association with NARCHI (National Association for Reproductive and Child Health India), where School going girls, pregnant & lactating women and elderly ladies were given messages to reduce anemia. As to all, they were, too, informed about balanced diet, deficiency disorder and food sources of various nutrients, hygiene and sanitation, consumption of green leafy vegetables and to take care of their nutritional needs. On this occasion, Dr Rajeshwari, Dr Deepali Luthra, Dr Sushma Chawla appreciated the efforts of the university and emphasized the need to continue create such community awareness programmes. The last step of this celebration was observed as a Recipe (Low Fat Recipe) Contest.

On the conclusive day of the organization, congratulating all the organizers, the Director General of the University, Er HR Singla said: "The need of good nutrition is of utmost importance for all. Scores of people are seen, in and around, under the worst effect of Mal-nutrition. Mainly and primarily, the young and developing ones are suffering a lot, due to ill-awareness in regard to it." Continuing, he said: "That is why our University has started certain programmes like Nutrition and Dietetics, which are of dire necessity in present scenario. As the culture of profit making eating-joints establishment is on regular increase day by day; students can go for such programmes for their better settlement in life with adoption of latest know-how on these lines."

The participating students of MSc Nutrition and Dietetics of the school, Simranjit, Richa, Loveneet Kaur, Neha Sewani , Shivangi, Reshma, Akanksha, Simrandeep, Anureet presented nutrition awareness messages through poems, speech, slide show and riddles initially; followed by competitions like Poster Making, Slogan Writing etc. Healthy nutritious snacks, prepared by them and other contestants remained centre of attraction. They said jointly: "We tried our levels best to guide all towards current scenario of malnutrition in the country, particularly through fast-food, and key issues and challenges of food habits of adolescents. This celebration is very meaningful for all students like us. It has indeed given us a right platform to propagate our career in a right direction." As part of corporate social responsibility Dabur Foods had given the sponsorship for different programmes.

Two Top Technology Institutions of New Zealand & LPU signed MOUs

Lovely Professional University has signed two important MOUs with top Institutions of New Zealand, Unitec Institute of Technology (UIT), Auckland & Waikato Institute of Technology (WIT), Hamilton. These MOUs are Inter-Institutional Agreement of Co-operation for Programmes of Staff Student Exchange, Collaborative Research, Conferences and seminars, Co-operative learning, Development and Application of Educational Methods and Technologies, Visiting scholar programmes, Short-term training Programmes and projects etc. In this regard, detailed and separate MOUs have been duly signed by Dr. Rick Ede, President and Chief Executive, UIT & Dr. Monica Gulati, Registrar, LPU, on one hand and between Mr Stewart Brougham, Director Inter-nationalization, WIT, & Er. Aman Mittal, Deputy Director, Division of International Affairs, LPU on the other, on strategic level. Under this, the Institutions will also work towards developing jointly accredited programmes and in establishing academic programmes by means of open and distance education.

It is worth telling that these MOUs are in continuation to an active delegation participation from eight universities of New Zealand at the University, in the month of April, 2011, which kept streamlining the collaborative purposes, since then. However, the coveted MOUs have only been signed with these two most promising and students favouring Universities.

In this context, the Chancellor, Mr Mittal said: "We always want to accord maximum global exposure to our students as well as the members of staff focusing, mainly and primarily, on real world education. This all is under a strong motive to provide global-oriented work-ready human resource to the Industry world around." He added: "Such MOUs with world-class Institutes are indeed on these lines. Now, the students are expected to utilize this effort of ours fully for the betterment of themselves as well as the society."

On contacting Dr. Rick Ede of UIT, he said: "India is a market with huge growth potential, especially, in the education sector. Indian engineering and management institutions have doubled from 2005-06 to 2010-11. This rapid growth represents the demand for professional, job-oriented degrees, as these programmes have a relatively higher employability. Understanding the same, we have come to LPU in India intending to work-around such requirements. Similarly, Mr. Stewart Brougham from 'Wintec' said: "We are looking forward to start working in India to bring and build forth a stronger work-force community through education, research and career development."
It is worth illustration that 'Unitec' is a member of the International Association of Universities; whereas, 'Wintec' is one of New Zealand's largest Institutes of Technology/Polytechnics (ITPs). Both of these are leading provider of high quality, vocational and professional education across a wide range of skills that are highly sought after around the world.

Division of R&D of LPU conducted Workshop for Research Procedures to motivate Faculty & Students

An elaborated Work shop for Research Procedures to motivate Faculty & Students was conducted by the Division of Research and Development of Lovely Professional University at Shri Baldev Raj Mittal Auditorium of the University. First of its kind, this workshop attracted more than 200 PhD aspiring faculty and students from different Departments of the University. Dean Research, LPU, elaborated in details HOW TO WRITE A DOCTORAL THESIS/ a Conceptual Research Paper. All participated actively in regard to learn and interact basically needed research procedures and out puts. Many students showcased and discussed their projects also with the experts.

The Chancellor, Mr Ashok Mittal informed: "Only a few days back, a mentor group led by Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has recommended 'the creation of faculty capable of cutting-edge research and high quality teaching to make the institution a centre of excellence'. We are lucky that our University has already been working on the desires of Hon'ble Amartya Sen." Continuing, he said: "We are regularly aiming at providing world class research services to the students in Punjab, the entire nation and the students across the globe. In this regard, we have already announced that a dedicated Research Block would soon come up in the campus. Through it will be provided the best and latest facilities for faculty and the students, so that they are motivated to explore new areas in the field of research and to put their ideas into real formations."

Guiding the participants to the workshop, Dr Sorab Sadri, Dean (Research), LPU explained them in details "HOW TO WRITE A DOCTORAL THESIS". He interacted with them on the necessary more than 40 topics like 'Four things to do/ not to do; what a thesis is; how it should be written; style, presentation; copyright waiver; acknowledgments; references; materials and methods etc'. It offered an opportunity to learn and discuss the techniques of research write-up and publication, thereof. It also helped participants to understand how to structure research papers effectively, enhance their ability to critique, edit and review their own work for proper academic publication process. As such the different modules of workshop included suggested structures of research papers based on all these indications. Further inspiring Dr Sadri emboldened the participants that writing a thesis seems initially a long, difficult task; however, after completion of a couple of chapters it seems as a pleasure towards the improvement in 'technical writing'.

It is worth illustration that 'Seed grant' is being given to the departments and the co-ordinators, who take initiative in hosting of conferences with national and internationally recognized associations. Here, Seed Grant is providing needed money to project ideas and programmes that are just getting started, or to jump-start to put ideas into action. It can also be used towards expanding projects that are already developed and sustainable. On these lines, as an encouragement to the research scholars, the University is providing financial assistance to its staff and students on an annual basis. This is to provide them an opportunity to learn and exchange ideas with experienced people from the Academia and the Industry. As such, Innovations from the research scholars, in concurrence with the vision of the University, will take LPU to glorious heights in the field of research. In this context, the upcoming of the Research and Development Block, in the premises of the University, is being eagerly anticipated by the aspiring Ph D students.