The Central University of Bihar (CUB) organised a seminar on nanotechnology and the environment on May 3.

Brajesh Dubey, a teacher of environmental engineering at the University of Guelph in Canada said nanotechnology is an emerging field and has wide applications.

“Materials with nano-sized particles (1-100nanometre in diameter) have always existed in nature. As the application of nanotechnology increases, more and more manmade nano-particles could enter our atmosphere, soil and water. Since there is no regulatory body for nanotechnology-based products, many of these could be potentially dangerous to humans,” he said.

Dubey, who has more than a decade of research experience in the area of environmental engineering and has also worked as a consulting environmental engineer for four years, was welcomed by CUB vice-chancellor Janak Pandey.

Award

Chandragupt Institute of Management, Patna, (CIMP) received the International Arch of Europe Award in Frankfurt, Germany, on April 28 for “Total Quality Management”.

The CIMP is the first institute in Bihar and the first educational institute in India to get the award. The NTPC and Indian Oil Limited have got the award earlier.

The CIMP director, V. Mukunda Das, said: “It is a great achievement for us. Apart from good placement records, our institute has always encouraged its faculty members to conduct research.”

Das himself had researched on rural India as the biggest emerging market in the world after China.

Farewell

The juniors gave a smashing farewell to the final-year students of Chanakya National Law University (CNLU) on May 3.

The party started at 6pm and continued till midnight. A number of events like couple dance, paper dance and group dance were organised.

The CNLU students danced away the night to the tune of Bollywood and Hollywood hits played by a local disc jockey.

Shilpi Sinha was chosen as Miss CNLU while Saurav Bhanu was adjudged as Mister CNLU. Swati Chudiwal was felicitated as the Most Punctual Student.

Saurav Singh, a final-year student, said: “We can’t express our feelings as we have spent five years at the institute. It was full of joy and sorrow.” Purushottam Kumar, another student, said: “We have seen the growth of the institute, as we have studied both at the CNLU transit campus and the new one.”

He said the institute has all the qualities of becoming a top national law university.

The juniors had also arranged for dinner and desserts for their seniors.

Gandhian ideology

Bihar Political Science Association organised a seminar on the application of Gandhian technique for moral regeneration and economic reconstruction at AN College on April 30.

The president of the association, L.N. Sharma, said: “It is important to adopt Gandhian ideologies to achieve the ideal state of secularism, social equality and harmony.”

Director of Gandhi Sangrahalaya Razi Ahmad stressed that Gandhian philosophy and socio-economic ideals can only be implemented through the democratic process in India.

“We should not adopt other-constitutional routes, or else we will end up having a disastrous example like Pakistan.” he said.

Sikkim Governor B.P. Singh said: “We are in the middle of change in civilisation and must follow the Gandhian economic and social ideal to compete with rest of the world.”

Hi-tech campus

Sikkim governor B.P. Singh inaugurated an eight-storeyed building at Cybotech Campus on May 2.

Chairman of the college, Anil Kumar Singh, said: “We are trying our best to stop the students from moving to other states to pursue higher education. The new building is equipped with the state-of-the-art features.”