Patna University vice-chancellor YC Simahadri meets one of the T20 teams. Picture by Ranjeet Kumar Dey

Bots wired to a game of carom made for a fun Sunday on the National Institute of Technology, Patna, campus. For those scratching their heads about what bots can possibly be, they are robots.

ExE — the institution’s technical society Extreme Engineers Club — organised a manual robotics competition for the first-year BTech students.

Robo Picheno, the event, was based on the popular game of carom. Instead of players striking disks on the carom board, the robots were struck. The students, with training from the club, prepared manually wired bots.

Twenty teams (of four members each) took part in the competition.

A reward of Rs 2,000 was up for grabs for the winning team. OJA team got it. The first and second runners-up Pet Cop and SSNP received Rs 1,000 and Rs 500, respectively.

Transport ties

Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna was the only institution from Bihar invited to a conference on transport connectivity last week.

The two-day event, Third policy dialogue on transport connectivity, was organised by the South and Southwest Asia office of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific in New Delhi from November 19.

Delegates present at the conference were senior government officials, policy-makers, logistics operators and think tanks from 11 member states of the forum. They discussed the potential and challenges of strengthening transport connectivity to deepen regional economic integration in South Asia.

CIMP was represented by dean K. Balakrishnan.

Budget matters

Patna Women’s College advertising, sales promotion and sales management students brushed up on their skills at Bilancio 2015 last Thursday.

Bilancio means budget in Italian. The two-day event came to an end on November 20.

Nusrat Sohel, the head of the department, said the workshop is being organised for the past 20 years.

“The students are taught how to promote business ideas well. In this workshop, we give students the practical exposure. This year, 57 stalls were put up. Food, beverages, cosmetics, stationery and jewellery items were sold. Some of the stalls were also set up by private firms and entrepreneurs, which allowed the students learn new strategies,” she said.

Sharda honour

Folk artiste Sharda Sinha was felicitated by her alma mater, Magadh Mahila College, on November 22.

An emotional Sinha, also known as Bihar’s Kokila, said: “It means a lot to be felicitated by one’s alma mater. Though I have received many awards, this one given by my college holds a special place in my heart.”

Cadets ahoy!

Gunfights to air attacks were in the city on Sunday, as Patna College celebrated National Cadet Corps Day.

Around 500 NCC cadets put up a spectacular performance at the event. Models of army aircraft, ships and weapons were among the attractions of the programme.

Willow’s might

Team India recently won five matches on the trot under stand-in captain Virat Kohli. Coming back from an injury, Rohit Sharma broke the world record in ODIs with his 264-run knock.

Patna University also lapped up the cricket fever.

On November 12, a day before Sharma’s innings, the university inaugurated an inter-college T20 cricket tournament. Vice-chancellor Y.C. Simahadri did the honours. He also faced the first ball of the tourney, from pro-vice-chancellor Ranjeet Kumar Verma.

The first match was supposed to be between Patna Science College and College of Arts and Crafts — the science college received a walkover. On to the second match, BN College defeated Patna Law College by 80 runs. Electing to bat first, BN College ended at 148/4 and Patna Law College were bowled out for 68 runs.

The next day, Vanijya Mahavidyalaya reached the final defeating Patna College. On November 14, Vanijya Mahavidyalaya defeated BN College to win the tournament.

Eco footprint

Rajiv Kumar Sinha spoke to AN College students on sustainable development for survival of mankind, on Children’s Day.

Sinha is a former associate professor of Griffith University, Brisbane (Australia). He was the main speaker at the programme organised by AN College’s environment and water management department.

He said: “Human population is expanding beyond the capacity of earth and so is their ecological footprint. Within 25 years, half of the world’s population can face problems to find enough fresh water for drinking, sanitation and food production.”

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