Technika, the annual techno-management festival at BIT-Patna, came to an end on Sunday. 

Technika is known for transcending the boundaries of science and technology and providing students of various technical 
institutions a platform to showcase their technical and managerial skills, thus exploring practical aspects of the 
education. On Day II of the three-day fest, Fashionista was the cynosure of all eyes for the second half of the day. Fashionista, as the name suggests, is a fashion show organised every year to give students a prestigious platform to showcase their talent and mould the personality of students who aspire to find their niche in the field of modelling. 

At the event, Miss Asia Pacific World India 2014, Anukriti Gusain, judged participants for overall personality, sartorial 
elegance and countenance. The judgement panel include luminaries like Tony (NIFT faculty), Shalini (Former VLCC head, East Zone), Abhishek (marketing partner, Shahnaz). 

BIT-Patna students Karan Prasad and Richa Saurav were judged Mr and Miss Fashionista. 

Day One of Technika kicked off with a guest lecture by CBI Patna DIG Vijay Kumar Singh on organised crime, investigation, surveillance and intelligence gathering. On the final day, rock band Spunk enthralled audiences at BIT-Patna by reviving old Hindi classics with a modern rock-and-roll feel. 

Seminar

The commerce department of St Xavier’s College organised a two-day seminar, beginning Friday, on knowledge society for 
sustainable development at the college premises. Scholars from across the country took part in the seminar. Nalanda University vice-chancellor Gopa Sabharwal was the chief guest and lit the inaugural lamp.

Addressing students, Sabharwal said: “If the Sustainable Knowledge Society is interpreted as depending on an entirely new economic system, we should expect science and technology to provide the products and processes required by this new system, and that there would be a good match between technologies and social and economic developments.”

Patna University professor Shankar Dutt said: “Knowledgeable society must be inclusive and be able to transform information into resources for all sections of society. Any vision of knowledge societies must affirm the core aspirations for peaceful and sustainable knowledge societies in a way that acknowledges the interests of all. It is essential to recall that knowledge societies are concerned with human development, not only with technological innovation and its impacts.” 

St Xavier’s College principal Father T. Nishant and head of commerce department Ashok Kumar welcomed the guests. Over 200 students attended the seminar. 

CUB online mock test

Cimage College, in collaboration with the e-cell of Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi), organised a two-day workshop on android application development on Saturday. At the workshop, experts from IIT-Delhi told Cimage students about the various aspects of android application system. After inaugurating the workshop, Cimage college director Neeraj Agrawal said: “There has been a lot of development in the field of mobile application today. With increasingly sophisticated software, tablet PCs and a variety of software platforms, the landscape for mobile developers is full of opportunities.” With this workshop, we want to make students aware about the opportunities in the field of mobile application. Agrawal said students of his college would develop applications with the help of skills they were imparted during the workshop.

“Students who would develop best applications would get the chance to take part in the Technoziyan competition (an app making national competition) to be organised by IIT-Delhi. The 240 students who took part in the workshop would also be awarded certificates by IIT-Delhi’s e-cell,” he said. 

Human rights meet

Experts highlighted the importance of human rights to save humanity at a University Grants Commission-sponsored national seminar on human rights education organised by Patna Training College on its premises on Saturday. 

Patna High Court judge Birendra Verma, who was the main speaker at the programme, said: “Human rights education should be included in the curriculum of schools and colleges. This will help make students aware about their human rights from the beginning.” Chankya National Law University (CNLU) vice-chancellor A. Laxminath said that all the rights of human beings came under human rights whether it was their constitutional or legal rights. Faculty members from colleges in five different states presented around 100 papers on various topics at the technical session.

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