‘Business Today’ (BT) ranked LPU MBA Program ahead of IIMs Indore, Shillong & IIT New Delhi for “Future Orientation”

*In its annual ranking-2013, BT ranked LPU at 9^th rank in “Future Orientation” category among India's top 100 ‘Best B Schools’

* “This ranking proves we are moving in right direction”: LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal

Jalandhar:  Prestigious business magazine ‘Business Today’ (BT) has ranked LPU MBA Program ahead of IIMs Indore & Shillong and IIT New Delhi in “Future Orientation” category. In its annual coveted ranking, the magazine has placed LPU at 9th position among India's top 100 ‘Best Business Schools’ in future orientation.  LPU is pronounced “Future Ready”, and has excelled even IIM Indore placed at 20^th, IIM Shillong at 28^th and Department of Management Studies of IIT New Delhi at 25^th position.  This exclusive survey methodology was an amalgam of objective, perceptual and experiential surveys. In addition to these surveys, LPU amassed 911.2 scores for learning & living experiences, placement, selection process & establishment category surveys.

BT Editor Chaitanya Kalbag has mentioned: “Each year we strive to improve the survey and make it more robust and it just keeps getting better. The number of schools we have ranked has grown this year. Our B School surveys are followed very closely by human resource professionals, recruiters, faculty and students. However, this year survey has gone one step ahead of last year's comprehensive overhaul. A unique "experiential survey" of alumni has been added to validate whether their business school's education actually faced up to market reality.”

Feeling happy over the coveted ranking of the university, LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal said: “This ranking proves we are moving in the right direction. Such an encouragement from the prestigious source like ‘Business Today’ motivates us to further strive and excel in our outputs. Our faculty-members and students keep on working hard to ensure to be ever future ready. I anticipate that our school of Business will further work on strong corporate connections and introduce new teaching style to see university at number one position in future. ” Mr Mittal added: “Now we are aiming to strengthen value through participation in global surveys and gaining strong international accreditation.”

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Vice President of Chinese University visited LPU

• Vice President of Beijing Union University (BUU) led 5 member-delegation to LPU to discuss about wide-ranged collaborative programs

Jalandhar:  Vice President of Beijing Union University (BUU) China, Professor Bao Hong recently led a 5-member delegation to Lovely Professional University. The delegation met senior officials of LPU and discussed about next plan for scholarship & collaborative programs, and also met 16 Chinese students who are already studying at LPU. Professor Bao and LPU Vice-Chancellor Dr Ramesh Kanwar discussed many other potential opportunities than the existing ones between two universities. A ‘Memorandum of Meeting’ (MoM) was also signed between the representatives of both the Chinese and Indian Universities (BUU & LPU). The purpose is to provide a basic framework for an arrangement to carry out various academic, co-curricular and study exchange programs for students and faculty of both universities.  Prof Bao also revealed his great interest in making all possible efforts to establish Confucius Institute-the Chinese Language Center at LPU.  Dr Kanwar expressed happiness on the joint efforts of two largest universities of China and India for the benefit of student community.

The other members of the delegation were Prof Zhou Mingzhu (Chairman of School Council & College of Bio-Chemical Engineering ), Prof Zhao Zhenjiang (Chairman of College Council), Prof Fang Jianjun (Dean, Automation College), and Prof Zhang Dianen (Director of Public Foreign Language Teaching Department) of BUU. The collaborative projects identified by both universities are: Training of undergraduate BUU students at LPU; exploration for sending LPU undergraduate students to BUU for cultural exchange/ studies; exchange of Masters and Ph D students between the two universities; and to develop joint research projects in Robotics and Automation for ageing people.  In addition, BUU faculty in Advanced English and Food, Nutrition & Tourism will teach at LPU, and LPU faculty in IT/Computer science will teach at BUU.

Established in 1985, BUU is one of the largest universities in China under approval of Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. It is a comprehensive municipal university and is originated from over 30 branch campuses attached from other Chinese universities like Peking University and Tsinghua University.  For near 30 years BUU has been reinforced comprehensively under complete talent-cultivating system.  

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Minister Mr Phillaur distributed LPU Training Certificates on Bakery Skills to Ludhiana Central Jail Inmates

• Minister launched bakery products under brand name “Anand”
• Hotel Management faculty of the University imparted month-long training to 39 inmates

Jalandhar: Punjab Government Jail Minister Mr Sarwan Singh Phillaur recently distributed certificates to Ludhiana central jail inmates who got training on bakery skills from LPU faculty. Minister Phillaur launched bakery products under brand name “Anand” which were produced by inmates themselves. Hotel Management faculty of the University visited Ludhiana central jail and imparted month-long training to 39 inmates. Congratulating the successful inmate-trainees and university trainers, Mr Phillaur informed that more such collaborative efforts are going to be made in other jails also. To bring about radical changes in the mindset of all inmates, he recommended LPU to impart training to Kapurthala & Hoshiarpur inmates as well.

Feeling happy on the successful outcome of the inmates’ training, LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal said: “We are thankful to Chief Minister S Parkash Singh Ji Badal for making us a part of this social responsibility. It is indeed a noble cause and I am happy that the assigned task has been completed to the satisfaction of inmates, jail authorities and the society.” Mr Mittal added: “We are also ready to again be a part of such projects in other Jails of Punjab. I personally feel that the major role of education is to transform the person into being great social and good human being. We anticipate that the trained inmates will become entrepreneurs after going back to the society.”

Illustrative, Minister Phillaur had earlier visited Tihar Jail factory in New Delhi. There, he was impressed by the quality of the eatables being produced and distributed at so many outlets across the city. In consonance, Punjab Government established a bakery unit at Central Jail in Ludhiana as pet project of CM Punjab for reformation and rehabilitation of inmates. LPU was entrusted to impart training and inmates got turned into skillful bakers.  Now inmates have started producing biscuits, breads, buns, rusk & ‘namkeen’ products of more than 30 varieties, under common brand name “Anand”.

One of the trained inmates, Ramesh is very happy on receiving University training certificate. He said: “I am soon going to release from the jail. I was worried about my future. But, this training has made me confident.  Now I will be able to start my own bakery. I can also get a job.” 

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LPU organised one-day National English Seminar

· Near 50 Scholars from Indian Universities like BHU Varanasi, IIT Roorkee, Allahabad University, Aligarh Muslim University participated

·  Seminar meant to seek solution for varied violence in globalized world order.

Jalandhar: Department of English of Lovely Professional University organized one-day national English seminar to seek solution for varied violence in globalized world order. The topic of discussion was ‘Contextualizing and Reorienting Violence and its Spaces in a Postmodern, Globalized World Order’.  This multi-disciplinary seminar brought together scholars and researchers from different disciplines to enter into a dialogue for subject related issues. Near 50 Scholars from Indian Universities like BHU Varanasi, IIT Roorkee, Allahabad University, Aligarh Muslim University and many others participated. The seminar was composed of inaugural & eight other business sessions, and saw evoking open lectures.  The inaugural session was presided over by LPU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Ramesh Kanwar, and the key note address was made by Prof J S Jha from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.

Prof Jha emphasized that the acts of oppression operate through different outlets. Inherent prejudices, hostilities and suspicions affect daily life in such a manner that the world seems frightening. He suggested that tolerance, compassion and developing bonds of understanding can make world a better place to live in. Prof Sonjoy Dutta Roy from University of Allahabad took literary narratives from famous writers WB Yeats, TS Eliot and others and questioned “Is violence intrinsic to human nature”. In answer he embarked into probing Mahatma Gandhi’s concept of “Ahimsa”. Eminent Researcher Dr Amitranjan Basu from Shimla talked about complex nature and multiplication of violence. He stressed to explore the culture that makes to disentangle the omnipotence of violence. Prof Banibrata Mahanta from BHU Varanasi outlined violence faced by people with disabilities. Similarly, Prof Elham Fatma from Aligarh Muslim University pointed out that there has been violence throughout human history, and can be controlled with mutual love.

In the evening, the success of the seminar was self relevant when all participants got together and pondered to bring peace to the world.  Congregation of scholars was determined to bring solution to all those who are becoming victims to routine violence. It may be due to gender inequality, aggressive foreign policy and insensitive state legislation etc. 

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LPU Faculty & Student presented Research Papers in JAPAN

• More than 600  international & national scholars contributed greatly to the field of language and education during the conference
• LPU representatives were only two Indians who were invited to attend academic conference
• Topics were ‘A Study of Pragmatic Failures in English Committed by Native Speakers of Punjabi’ and ‘Media: Pros & Cons’

Jalandhar: LPU faculty & student presented research papers at a linguistic conference at Osaka in Japan. Ms Jyoti Sharma, a faculty in Social Sciences and Languages, and a B. Tech CSE student Batish Sama of Lovely Professional University were the only two Indians who were invited to attend academic conference held at Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU), Japan.  Organiser of the conference, Asia Pacific Education & Research Association (AERA) honoured these two researchers with coveted certificates for their valuable research inputs. More than 600 scholars from international and local regions contributed greatly to the field of language and education during the conference. Other scholars were from the universities of the USA, UK, France, Germany, Australia, Hong kong,

China, Indonesia, UAE, Saudi Arabia and many other countries. LPU Pro Chancellor Mrs Rashmi Mittal congratulated the young researchers and encouraged them to continue their research-work for goodness of humanity.

Ms Jyoti Sharma presented paper on “Media: Pros & Cons”. She has clearly pointed out that media has always been able to save the dignity of several unarmed common people. She says if media had been since ancient times, most of the disputes- cum- wars would not have happened.

Batish Sama presented his research paper “A Study of Pragmatic Failures in English Committed by Native Speakers of Punjabi”. It aimed to investigate the pragmatic perception of politeness in request strategies used by ESL (English Spoken Language) learners whose native language is Punjabi.  He has related it with technology such as Google voice systems. Politeness in verbal behaviour varies, and is difficult to express in a second language because learners may not know appropriate idiomatic expressions/cultural norms. This often leads to misunderstandings and “awkward” situations which result in pragmatic failures, which are inabilities to understand what is meant by what is said.

Illustrative, ISLLLE Conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and educators with interests in language, linguistics, literature, and education at all levels from around the world. The theme of the International Symposium on Language, Linguistics, Literature and Education is designed to attract the research communities to promote connections between theory and practice. It also explores different perspectives on the application of research findings into practice.

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LPU lifted Overall Literary Trophy at AIU Fest

*Got 19 positions in literary, dance, theater & fine arts competitions

*Qualified to further participate in 11 competitions at Inter University National Youth Festival to be held in Feb 2014

* Also lifted Overall Runners-Up Trophy of the fest

Jalandhar:  Talented students of Lovely Professional University have once again brought laurels to the university and the Punjab by becoming ‘Literary Champion’ of Association of Indian Universities’ (AIU’s) 29th North Zone Inter University Youth Festival. Students also created history by making LPU the youngest university ever to be among top-two position holders in any zonal festival of AIU. LPU lifted ‘Overall Runners-Up Trophy’ of the fest- “TARUNULLAHS 2013”, which was held at Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow.  The fest was supported by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India. A contingent of 40 LPU Students participated in 25 events under the categories of music, dance & theatre and won 8 first positions, 3 second and 8 third. LPU excelled all other 27 participating universities of the zone like Guru Nanak Dev University (17 positions), Punjab University Chandigarh (11), Kurukshetra University (9), and Panjabi University Patiala (with 7). LPU teams have been qualified to further participate in 11 competitions at AIU’s inter- university National Youth Festival to be held at Kurukshetra University (Haryana) from 18^th to 24^thFebruary, 2014.

LPU students got 22 gold medals in Classical Instrumental Percussion, Western Group Song, Classical Dance, Mimicry, Skit, Elocution, Debate & Installation; 5 silver medals in Quiz, Spot-Painting & Cartooning; and 24 bronze medals in Classical Vocal Solo, Classical Instrumental (Non- Percussion), Light Vocal Indian, Western Vocal Solo, Indian Group Song, Folk Orchestra, Poster Making and Spot Photography competitions.

Congratulating participating students and accompanists, LPU Chancellor Mr Ashok Mittal encouraged them to further prove their metal at AIU’s National Unifest-2014. Mr Mittal said: “I am happy to find that in spite of being in experienced our students competed in excellence for zonal competitions. This victory is on the conception that our students always take competitors in true spirit and perform to the core irrespective of victory or defeat.”

Kathak-sovereign of LPU, an M Tech student Shwetima Jamwal, who hails from Jammu, is very happy on her many consecutive wins and holds that she and all other members of LPU contingent have now vowed to lift national trophy. She said: “This time we participated in 25 categories and got winning positions in maximum of these, now we are determined to excel in all competitions at next level.”

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