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Surender Sharma

Surender Sharma is a principal correspondent at Chandigarh. He covers Punjab and Haryana high court.

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Panjab University is No. 1 in India

Panjab University (PU) has been reaffirmed as number one in the country in the Times Higher Education ranking for Asia announced on Wednesday. In the Times Higher Education Asia University Ranking-2014.

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Updated on Jun 19, 2014 09:45 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

‘Innovative’ courses at Panjab University find few takers

A number of courses started by Panjab University (PU) are yet to gain traction. Though they have been around for five years now, the number of students applying for these “innovative” courses has been going down. To make matters worse for colleges as well as aspirants, the varsity has been offering admission to these programmes through entrance tests.

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Updated on Jun 18, 2014 11:59 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Now, PU students can submit anti-ragging affidavits online

The Panjab University (PU) students will not have to stand in queues to submit anti-ragging oath affidavits during admissions. The mandatory oath affidavits can now be filled up on the two websites set up at the national level to deal with ragging in the country.The University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) has already put up a notice for prospective students, while other departments of the university are likely to do so in the next few days before the start of academic session.

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Updated on Jun 16, 2014 10:30 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

UGC nod compulsory for new degree programmes now

In order to rein in private universities, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked all institutions not to offer degree programmes without its approval.A letter sent to all universities said if a university wanted to start a degree programme, it would have to get it approved from UGC, six months before it starts admissions into the programme.

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Updated on Jun 15, 2014 10:32 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Now, ways to fight corruption to be taught at universities

Universities across the country will now have a new subject ‘anti-corruption’ in their curriculum.The University Grants Commission (UGC), has written to all universities, including Panjab University, for inclusion of anti corruption subject in the syllabus of relevant subjects of law, public administration and human rights.

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Updated on Jun 14, 2014 11:20 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU’s grievance cells lie defunct

The Panjab University appears not to have learnt much from its past experience. Six months after a dental sciences student ended her life, the university is neither established grievance cells nor appointed a counselor as planned.

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Updated on Jun 12, 2014 10:54 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Spike in demand for PU law courses; applications for seats at UILS up 31%

The fight for seats in University Institute of Legal Studies’ integrated law courses is becoming fiercer with each passing year--applications for the course has gone up by a whopping 31% this year.

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Updated on Jun 10, 2014 10:40 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Marks count, but entrance tests are still important

Higher percentages in board exams are no longer a guarantee for entry into professional courses. With even 95% marks losing the awe they once inspired, competition is indeed intense for 2,250 seats in engineering and other courses at institutes in Chandigarh.

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Updated on Jun 12, 2014 03:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

‘First-year students cannot keep vehicles on PU campus’

The Panjab University has decided not to allow its first-year students to keep vehicles on the campus.

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Updated on Jun 09, 2014 09:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Industry-friendly course can help students gain entry into job world: PU prof

In today’s competitive age, it is imperative that you know what you will study. HT brings you advice from experts and professors.

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Updated on Jun 06, 2014 01:27 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Roadmap to target one of 15,000 Chandigarh seats

Chandigarh offers around 15,000 undergraduate seats in courses ranging from the ubiquitous BA to aerospace engineering in 20-odd colleges and other institutes across two universities. Lovely Professional University | Government College of Commerce and business administration

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Updated on Jun 06, 2014 02:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Applications for PG courses at varsity see 22% increase

Call it the effect of being ranked the top institute in the country in the Times Higher Education ranking 2013-14 or just a general trend seen in most educational institutions: the number of aspirants for Panjab University’s 40-odd post graduate courses has gone up by a whopping 22% this year.

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Updated on Jun 05, 2014 10:56 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

BJP asks district presidents to submit performance report

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit has sought details about par ty’s perfor mance from its district presidents about performance in their respective booths in the Lok Sabha elections 2014 in their respective areas.

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Updated on Jun 02, 2014 02:51 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

‘Unlike Rahul, Modi’s leadership style was appreciated by people’

Professor emeritus, department of political science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Paul Wallace, is an expert on South Asia. HT reporter Surender Sharma talked to him on wide range of issues.

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Updated on May 28, 2014 11:13 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Semester system awaits new Panjab varsity college students

Panjab University senate, the highest decisionmaking body in the varsity, has finally given its approval to the introduction of semester system in varsity-affiliated colleges from the 2014-15 academic session for undergraduate courses.

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Updated on May 26, 2014 06:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Semester exams await PU students

Panjab University senate, the highest decisionmaking body in the varsity, has finally given its approval to the introduction of semester system in varsity-affiliated colleges from the 2014-15 academic session for undergraduate courses. The University School of Open Learning (USOL) will also be introducing the system from this session as its request for more time was not entertained.

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Updated on May 26, 2014 01:56 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU V-C faces flak as senators say incomplete agenda was circulated

The PU senate may have cleared the introduction of the semester system in PU and affiliated colleges on Monday, but not before heavily criticising vice-chancellor AK Grover for not listing the topic in the agenda sent to senators.

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Updated on May 26, 2014 01:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Kirron stormed Cong bastions also in her win

Though minute details of elections are yet to come, be it villages, colonies or urban sectors, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Kirron Kher maintained her upper hand throughout the City Beautiful.

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Updated on May 18, 2014 04:00 PM IST

None | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

How Bansal was put off track

When her name was announced from the City Beautiful, leaving three established leaders of the party sulking, few expected her to trump four-time Congress MP and former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.

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Updated on May 17, 2014 12:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Opting for outsider turns out to be BJP's trump card

On hindsight, opting for a candidate who was viewed as an outsider over entrenched local leaders proved to be a strategically wise move by the BJP, which won the Chandigarh seat after three consecutive defeats in all the general elections after 1999. The party not only won the seat but did so by a hefty margin.

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Updated on May 16, 2014 11:11 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU left behind by other institutes in QS rankings

Panjab University (PU) may have figured in the list of top 200 institutes in Asia, but domestically its image has taken a beating with the announcement of rankings of Asian universities announced by British publishing house, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

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Updated on May 14, 2014 04:47 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU sets up panel to look into research scholars’ issues

Panjab University has constituted a five-member panel to address issues of research scholars. A team of five research scholars, one of each stream, including a convener, will act as a go-between the researchers and the university. The forum will work in close coordination with PU vice-chancellor and dean, research.

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Updated on May 13, 2014 09:43 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Answer sheet stolen after PU student caught cheating

Hours after a case of using unfair means (UMC) was registered against a second year student of the department of laws at Panjab University, his answer sheet went missing from the department on Tuesday afternoon. The teachers at the department spent nearly three hours calling up the student.

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Updated on May 07, 2014 12:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU undergraduate results set to be delayed by a week

With Panjab University having to reschedule some undergraduate examinations due to the Lok Sabha polls in Chandigarh, Punjab and neighbouring states, results will be delayed by nearly a week. Nearly three lakh students are appearing for examinations that are being conducted in nearly 188 colleges across Punjab and Chandigarh.

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Updated on May 06, 2014 11:47 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Monkey menace plagues PU depts

Departments lying on the fringes of the Panjab University campus have been terrorised by monkeys. With monkeys hanging around the forest cover of the varsity, departments, including University Institute of Legal Studies (UILS), biophysics, biochemistry, centre for systems biology and bioinformatics departments, as well as some departments in the pharmacy and biomedical sciences block, have to deal with a persistent problem.

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Updated on May 05, 2014 12:12 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Facing problems, UBS seeks to drop MBA biotech course

University Business School (UBS), Panjab University, has asked the varsity to discontinue Master of Business Administration (MBA) in the biotechnology course offered by institute, stating that it was unviable.

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Updated on May 04, 2014 12:25 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Facing problems, UIET seeks to drop integrated engg course

Panjab University’s integrated five-year integrated engineering and management programme appears to run into rough weather with the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) writing to the PU administration to discontinue the course, citing various reasons.

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Updated on Apr 30, 2014 11:26 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Faculty unpaid, PU strips music dept head of powers

In reaction to some teachers in the music department not being paid their salaries on t i me, the Panjab University administration has taken the unusual step of divesting its chairperson, Neelam Paul, of various powers including those relating to financial matters.

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Updated on Apr 26, 2014 11:44 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

PU scientists successfully develop plates for Higgs Boson project

Panjab University scientists have succeeded in developing the first resistive plate chamber to be used in the project to upgrade the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator in Geneva, for experiments on the Higgs boson or ‘God Particle’.

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Updated on Apr 23, 2014 11:39 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

Lack of space at PU leads to scramble for vacant block

Even as scores of newly set up departments at Panjab University continue to function in small rooms allotted within existing ones, a three-storied building at the botany department has remained unutilised for the past four years.

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Updated on Apr 22, 2014 10:52 AM IST

Hindustan Times | BySurender Sharma, Chandigarh

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Surender Sharma

Surender Sharma is a principal correspondent at Chandigarh. He covers Punjab and Haryana high court.

Panjab University (PU) has been reaffirmed as number one in the country in the Times Higher Education ranking for Asia announced on Wednesday. In the Times Higher Education Asia University Ranking-2014.

The Panjab University appears not to have learnt much from its past experience. Six months after a dental sciences student ended her life, the university is neither established grievance cells nor appointed a counselor as planned.

The fight for seats in University Institute of Legal Studies’ integrated law courses is becoming fiercer with each passing year--applications for the course has gone up by a whopping 31% this year.

Higher percentages in board exams are no longer a guarantee for entry into professional courses. With even 95% marks losing the awe they once inspired, competition is indeed intense for 2,250 seats in engineering and other courses at institutes in Chandigarh.

The Panjab University has decided not to allow its first-year students to keep vehicles on the campus.

In today’s competitive age, it is imperative that you know what you will study. HT brings you advice from experts and professors.

Chandigarh offers around 15,000 undergraduate seats in courses ranging from the ubiquitous BA to aerospace engineering in 20-odd colleges and other institutes across two universities. Lovely Professional University | Government College of Commerce and business administration

Call it the effect of being ranked the top institute in the country in the Times Higher Education ranking 2013-14 or just a general trend seen in most educational institutions: the number of aspirants for Panjab University’s 40-odd post graduate courses has gone up by a whopping 22% this year.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state unit has sought details about par ty’s perfor mance from its district presidents about performance in their respective booths in the Lok Sabha elections 2014 in their respective areas.

Professor emeritus, department of political science, University of Missouri, Columbia, Paul Wallace, is an expert on South Asia. HT reporter Surender Sharma talked to him on wide range of issues.

Panjab University senate, the highest decisionmaking body in the varsity, has finally given its approval to the introduction of semester system in varsity-affiliated colleges from the 2014-15 academic session for undergraduate courses.

The PU senate may have cleared the introduction of the semester system in PU and affiliated colleges on Monday, but not before heavily criticising vice-chancellor AK Grover for not listing the topic in the agenda sent to senators.

Though minute details of elections are yet to come, be it villages, colonies or urban sectors, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Kirron Kher maintained her upper hand throughout the City Beautiful.

When her name was announced from the City Beautiful, leaving three established leaders of the party sulking, few expected her to trump four-time Congress MP and former railways minister Pawan Kumar Bansal.

Panjab University (PU) may have figured in the list of top 200 institutes in Asia, but domestically its image has taken a beating with the announcement of rankings of Asian universities announced by British publishing house, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

Hours after a case of using unfair means (UMC) was registered against a second year student of the department of laws at Panjab University, his answer sheet went missing from the department on Tuesday afternoon. The teachers at the department spent nearly three hours calling up the student.

University Business School (UBS), Panjab University, has asked the varsity to discontinue Master of Business Administration (MBA) in the biotechnology course offered by institute, stating that it was unviable.

Panjab University’s integrated five-year integrated engineering and management programme appears to run into rough weather with the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) writing to the PU administration to discontinue the course, citing various reasons.

In reaction to some teachers in the music department not being paid their salaries on t i me, the Panjab University administration has taken the unusual step of divesting its chairperson, Neelam Paul, of various powers including those relating to financial matters.

Even as scores of newly set up departments at Panjab University continue to function in small rooms allotted within existing ones, a three-storied building at the botany department has remained unutilised for the past four years.

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