पत्रकारिता में करियर के अवसर

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पत्रकारिता के क्षेत्र में एक सफल करियर के रूप में किसी भी व्यक्ति को जिज्ञासु दृढ़ इच्छा शक्ति वाला, सूचना को वास्तविक, संक्षिप्त तथा प्रभावी रूप में प्रस्तुत करने की अभिरुचि रखने वाला, किसी के विचारों को सुव्यवस्थित करने तथा उन्हें भाषा तथा लिखित-दोनों रूपों में स्पष्ट रूप से अभिव्यक्त करने में कुशल होना चाहिए। दबाव में कार्य करने के दौरान भी नम्र एवं शांत चित्त बने रहना एक अतिरिक्त योग्यता होती है। जीवन के सभी क्षेत्रों से व्यक्तियों का साक्षात्कार लेते समय पत्रकार को व्यावहारिक, आत्मविश्वासपूर्ण तथा सुनियोजित रहना चाहिए। उसे प्रासंगिक तथ्यों को अप्रासंगिक तथ्यों से अलग करने में सक्षम होना चाहिए। अनुसंधान तथा सूचना की व्याख्या करने के लिए विश्लेषण कुशलता होनी चाहिए।

जसविंदर पाल शर्मा, डेमोक्रेटिक फ्रंट, श्री मुक्तसर साहिब पंजाब :

एक पेशे के रूप में पत्रकारिता इन दिनों जोर पकड़ रही है। सूचना का विस्फोट होता है। हम सूचना के तेज प्रवाह के साथ तेजी से बदलती दुनिया में रह रहे हैं। बड़ी संख्या में पत्रिकाएँ और पत्रिकाएँ सामने आई हैं। आज, हमारे पास समाचारों में व्यापार करने वाली कई समाचार एजेंसियां ​​हैं और देश में पत्रकारों के दो से अधिक संघ हैं। विभिन्न विश्वविद्यालयों में पत्रकारिता के नियमित पाठ्यक्रम चलाए जाते हैं। कई विश्वविद्यालयों में स्नातकोत्तर स्तर पर मास कम्युनिकेशन को एक विषय के रूप में पेश किया जा चुका है। पत्रकारिता का पेशा अब बहुत सारे सक्षम और प्रतिभाशाली छात्रों को आकर्षित करता है।

                पत्रकारिता के लिए एक विशेष दिमाग की जरूरत होती है। एक पेशे के रूप में पत्रकारिता की पहली आवश्यकता समसामयिक घटनाओं या दिन-प्रतिदिन की घटनाओं में गहरी रुचि है। एक नवोदित पत्रकार को देश और विदेश में चल रहे राजनीतिक, सामाजिक और आर्थिक आंदोलनों को समझना चाहिए। उसे समसामयिक घटनाओं में सक्रिय रुचि लेनी चाहिए और उचित परिप्रेक्ष्य विकसित करने के लिए इतिहास और भूगोल की अच्छी समझ होनी चाहिए। वास्तव में एक पत्रकार को एक पढ़ा-लिखा और पढ़ा-लिखा व्यक्ति होना चाहिए। उसके पास एक अच्छी तरह से भंडारित दिमाग होना चाहिए। उसे जागना, सतर्क और सक्रिय रहना है। उसके पास एक ध्वनि स्मृति होनी चाहिए। उसके पास एक विश्लेषणात्मक दिमाग होना चाहिए।

                एक पत्रकार को समय-समय पर होने वाली घटनाओं के प्रति मौलिक सोच रखनी चाहिए। उसे घटनाओं की व्याख्या, व्याख्या और टिप्पणी करनी होती है। उसे विस्तार से पढ़ना चाहिए और तथ्यों को आत्मसात करना चाहिए। एक पत्रकार के पास करने के लिए एक महान कार्य है। उसे लोगों के सामने तथ्य पेश करने चाहिए। वह एक शिक्षक है। उसे जनमत बनाना और बनाना है। उसके पास सोचने का एक स्वतंत्र तरीका होना चाहिए। उसके पास अपने दृढ़ विश्वास का साहस होना चाहिए। उसे किसी या किसी संगठन के प्रति पक्षपाती या पूर्वाग्रही नहीं होना चाहिए। उसके पास मानव मन में अंतर्दृष्टि होनी चाहिए। उसे लोगों के बीच रहना चाहिए और उनके रहन-सहन का अध्ययन करना चाहिए। एक अच्छा पत्रकार अपने अंदर दिमाग और दिल के इन सभी गुणों को समेट लेता है।

एक पत्रकार को इस तथ्य को नहीं भूलना चाहिए कि उसे एक महत्वपूर्ण सामाजिक कर्तव्य निभाना है। जनता को उनके अधिकारों और कर्तव्यों के संबंध में उचित रूप से शिक्षित करना उनका परम कर्तव्य है। साथ ही, उसे एक और सभी के सामने, दैनिक जीवन के तथ्यों को बिना पूर्वाग्रह या रुचि के प्रस्तुत करना होगा। वह जो लिख रहा है उससे अपने निजी पूर्वाग्रहों को दूर रखना होगा। उसे सत्ता में बैठे लोगों द्वारा शोषण किए जाने से बचना चाहिए। राजनीतिक दबदबे या धन की ताकत को किसी पत्रकार को किसी गुप्त मकसद से लिखने के लिए डराना या मजबूर नहीं करना चाहिए। इसके लिए बहुत साहस, दृढ़ विश्वास और देशभक्ति और मानवतावाद की सच्ची भावना की आवश्यकता होती है।

                पत्रकारिता आज युवा पुरुषों और महिलाओं के लिए व्यापक अवसर प्रदान करती है। यह एक विकासशील और विस्तारित पेशा है। भारत में पत्रकारिता के पेशे का भविष्य बहुत अच्छा है। मल्टी-चैनल टीवी कार्यक्रमों के मद्देनजर, पत्रकारिता कई युवाओं के लिए एक बड़ा वादा रखती है और महिला बेईमान व्यक्तियों के लिए नहीं है। कुछ पत्रिकाएं तथ्यों को विकृत करती हैं और चीजों को बढ़ा-चढ़ाकर पेश करती हैं। वे निराधार अफवाहें फैलाते हैं। कुछ ऐसे भी हैं जो बदनामी या गाली-गलौज पर पनपते हैं और वे अश्लीलता और अश्लीलता में आनंद लेते हैं। इसे “पीली पत्रकारिता” के रूप में जाना जाता है। अनुचित व्यवहार में लिप्त ऐसे पत्रकारों के खिलाफ कार्रवाई होनी चाहिए। वास्तव में एक पेशे के रूप में पत्रकारिता नए आधारों को तोड़ सकती है और इस क्षेत्र में कई युवा पुरुषों और महिलाओं को आकर्षित कर सकती है।

                पत्रकारिता एक नेक और चुनौतीपूर्ण पेशा है। लेकिन कुछ पत्रकार अपना कर्तव्य निभाने में विफल रहते हैं। रचनात्मक लेखन में अच्छे उद्यमी युवा लड़के-लड़कियों को पत्रकारिता को पेशे या शौक के रूप में अपनाना चाहिए।

KARYASHALA on CRISPR Genome Engineering started on 22th July 2022

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Demokretic Front, Correspondent, Chandigarh July 22, 2022 :

KARYASHALA on CRISPR Genome Engineering: Hands-on Training State-of-Art Technology kick started on 22th July 2022 at Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Around 50 delegates from different parts of the country attended the event. Professor Kashmir Singh, Chairperson of the Department welcomed the distinguish guests, speakers and participants and introduced the theme of workshop. The workshop was inaugurated by Chief Guest, Professor Raj Kumar, Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Dr. Prabodh Kumar Trivedi, Director, CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow was the Guest of Honour and Keynote Speaker.

Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor Professor Raj Kumar talked about the importance of implementing scientific technologies for the betterment of society in general. He focused on the concept of ‘lab-to-land’. He emphasized on the use of research endeavours in such a way that these translational research techniques can benefit mankind at a local level.   

Dr. Prabodh Kumar Trivedi presented his work on “Plant genome-editing: tool for functional genomics and crop improvement”, where he demonstrated his work primarily in the field of secondary plant metabolites and environmental biotechnology. He talked about how his group carried out silencing of various genes involved in flavonoid biosynthesis. In addition, he also demonstrated his excellent work featuring generation of nicotine-less Nicotiana plants. He demonstrated involvement of miR858 and associated miPEP in regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis and plant development. He also talked about genes and miRNAs for development of heavy metal tolerant plants.

Dr. Santosh Kumar Upadhyay talked about the basics of genome editing tools i.e., ZFNs, TALENs and CRISPR. He also talked about the limitations of ZFNs and TALENs and why the need for CRISPR/Cas systems arose. Further, the details of CRISPR components, designing of targets and its applications were also discussed. 

The highlights of the second half of the event were hands on training of basics of genome editing and applications, multiplexing and other advancement in CRISPR/Cas systems with participants. 

In all it was knowledge enriching experience for the students, informed Professor Kashmir Singh, organizing secretary of the symposium.

Dr. Shruti Bedi, invited as visiting faculty by the Universitas Airlangga, Faculty of Law

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Chandigarh July 21, 2022

            Prof. Dr. Shruti Bedi, Professor of Law, at the University Institute of Legal Studies, Panjab University has been invited as visiting faculty by the Universitas Airlangga, Faculty of Law, a premier institution in Surabaya, Indonesia to deliver lectures at the AOSS International Summer School 2022 on Law, Multiculturalism and Rights in August 2022. She will also be delivering lectures to the LLM and PhD students of the university on Constitution Building, Comparative Law, Women’s Rights etc.

“Innate immunity in host-pathogen interactions in grapevine” by Ms. Naina Garewal

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Chandigarh Correspondent, Demokretic Front, Chandigarh – July 20, 2022 :

Ms. Naina Garewal of Panjab University, Chandigarh went to present her research work at European Molecular biology labs (EMBL) conference on “Innate immunity in host-pathogen interactions in grapevine” held from 17-20th July 2022 at Heidelberg,Germany. She is doing her Ph.D. under Dr. Kashmir Singh, Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Biotechnology and Coordinator at DST Centre for Policy Research, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Her Ph.D. research is on analysing the interplay between resistance genes as well as their  pseudogenes in plant-fungus interactions of grapevine fungus powdery mildew.  She presented a part of her research work through the poster titled “Investigating the modulatory roles of pseudogenes of resistance genes in plant-pathogen interactions in grapevine”. This research work primarily focuses on how pseudogenes which are considered as junk or inactive and were previously discarded as irrelevant could have antimicrobial and antifungal potential in them and might be impacting activation and inactivation of plant resistance genes especially in grapes which are extremely prone to fungal pathogen attacks. They are currently working on the prospect on bringing these dead gene elements to life through artificial gene resurrection techniques of synthetic biology. They believe these pseudogenes might be important in giving rise to new genes which impart resistance in plants against fungal infection. This research study is the first ever study on pseudogenes of resistance genes in plants which are considered to be key in driving the plant defense response against the pathogens.

PU Hostels, Sector 25 hosted a play ‘Kalpana Karo

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Chandigarh Correspondent, Demokretic Front, Chandigarh July 20, 2022

Panjab University Hostels, Sector 25 hosted a play ‘Kalpana Karo’ with the efforts of Ms Alka, Ms Anisha, Ms. Sonali, Ms. Manisha and Ms Parul, residents of GH10. The students associated with Prashth NGO performed in the play written and directed by Mr Surender Narula. The students judiciously fulfilled the aim of spreading the message of water conservation. The play catered to the audience’s imagination of imagining life without water. The slogan ‘you never know the worth of water until the well runs dry’ was explained very well with humour and sensitivity. This event provided a stage for these budding artists and encouraged them for future endeavours. The wardens were present at the occasion and thanked the whole team for beautiful performance.

National Symposium cum Workshop on Genome Informatics organised

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Chandigarh Correspondent, Demokretic Front, Chandigarh July 19, 2022

Two day National Symposium cum Workshop on Genome Informatics kick started on 19th July, 2022 at Department of Biotechnology, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Around 50 delegates from Universities and various colleges are attending the event. Professor Kashmir Singh, Chairperson of the Department welcomes the distinguish guests, speakers and participants and introduce the theme of workshop. The symposium was inaugurated by Chief Guest, Professor Y.P. Verma, Registrar, Panjab University, Chandigarh and Professor Ashwani Pareek, Executive Director, NABI, Mohali was guest of honour. The event was presided over by Professor Sudhir Kumar, Director, Research and Development Cell, Panjab University, Chandigarh who emphasized that such an event provided a platform to discuss new ideas. 

Professor Ashwani Pareek exploits the use of omics approaches to tap at the broad genetic base of rice for identifying genes and creating physical, chemical and genetic mutants attributing abiotic stress tolerance and enhancing crop yield. Professor Balvinder Singh, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR IMTECH explained the use of computational tools to study structure and function of potential target proteins such as –GTP-Cyclohydrolase II (CH II) and aldolase reductase.  

The highlights of the second half of the event were hands on training of various bioinformatics tools with Participants. 

In all it was knowledge enriching experience for the students, informed Dr. Kashmir Singh, organizing secretary of the symposium.

P U Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital organised a Dental Check Up and Awareness Camp

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Chandigarh Correspondent, Demokretic Front, Chandigarh July 19, 2022

of Dr Harvansh Singh Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital along with Rotaract Club of the College in collaboration with IDA Mohali Branch, organised a Dental Check Up and Awareness Camp at Institute for the Blind, Sector 26 on 19th July, 2022. 

NSS Programme Officer, Dr Vivek coordinated the camp for the specially abled children. Dr Romika, Past Secretary IDA educated them about proper brushing technique and importance of oral hygiene. Dr. Tripta, Secretary IDA, Dr. Ashok Convener CDH were also present. All volunteer interns of Dr HSJ Dental College had a one to one interaction with these special children. Toothbrushes and toothpastes were distributed amongst the children.

The University of Peradeniya delegation from Sri Lanka paid a formal visit to P U

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Koral ‘Purnoor’, Demokretic Front, Chandigarh July 18, 2022

  The University of Peradeniya delegation from Sri Lanka paid a formal visit to Panjab University in Chandigarh to discuss ways to improve their mutual cooperation in the areas of excellence, physical education & sports, education, and the sciences. These areas are to be jointly considered on the basis of reciprocity and mutual benefit. The parties shall work to promote connections and collaboration between and via the organizations that are relevant to the sectors of sports and youth affairs of the respective Without limitation, the Parties should foster and promote the exchange of programmes, experiences, skills, techniques, information, and knowledge in the following areas in order to realize the objectives of cooperation in the domains of physical education & sports and youth affairs:

1. athletes’ and athletic teams’ practice and competition,

2. coaches’ technical support and training

3. exchange programmes and visits for professionals, administrators, technicians, and support staff in sports,

4. programmes for the growth of sports sciences professionals, including training, exchange, and attachment opportunities,

5. programmes for training, exchanging, and attaching in the fields of coach education, curriculum development, sports education, sports management, and the creation and administration of sports infrastructure,

6. training, technology transfer for infrastructure, and initiatives for the growth of knowledge and research in the sphere of sport;

7. programmes for training, interchange, and attachment, as well as technology and research exchanges in the area of physical education and fitness;

Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav

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Koral ‘Purnoor’, Demokretic Front, Chandigarh July – 22

Achievements and Actions of Science @75

Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav, for the glorious 75 years of independence of our country, has been celebrated as by Department of Chemistry Panjab University, Chandigarh from 11th -15th July, 2022, to lighten up the evolutionary journey of the legendary contributors. The science and technology have a key role in the enforcement of this endeavour for ‘Atamnirbhar Bharat’. For this, a scientific workshop was organized by the experienced staff members of the department of chemistry for the post graduate students. Keeping in view, the maximum “Jan Bhagidari’ (participation from India’s citizens), the present workshop involved the participation of the budding youth in the series of scientific events. The event comprised of detailed laboratory experiments on the different scientific topics and “Hands on training” of the scientific instruments where the students were acquainted with different sophisticated instruments including Dynamic light scattering measurements (Zetasizer), Cyclic voltammetry, UV-Visible spectrophotometer, Single crystal X-Ray,  HPLC, etc. Active participation was observed in the event where students had presented posters and murals on different scientific topics. The activity session was concluded by an effective interaction between faculty and the students. Vidhi, Chelsea, Shruti, Priyamdeep, Priya, Akhilesh and Anchal, were the recipients of the best poster awards. The event was concluded by vote of thanks from the organizers.

On the occasion of World Youth Skills Day, Students started their own startup

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On the occasion of World Youth Skills Day, Mr. Akash and Mr. Rohit, students of M.Voc Entrepreneurship Development of Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, started their own startup in the campus, Vice Chancellor Sh. Raj Nehru and staff gave their best wishes.

Gurugram Correspndent, Demokretic Front, July 15, 2022:

On the occasion of World Youth Skills Day, Mr. Akash and Mr. Rohit, students of M.Voc Entrepreneurship Development of Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, started their own startup in the campus. During this, various activities were also organized under the aegis of the Student Welfare Department at the Transit Office Gurugram. In which mainly Panel Discussion with the theme Skills for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Development: Balancing Work and Life and Successful Entrepreneurs sharing their experiences. Shri Puran Chandra Pandey from Climate Scorecard Milton, United States attended the program as the chief guest. He said that in the coming time the world will become skill based, degree or University based hiring will be a thing of the past. The Vice Chancellor of Shri Vishwakarma Skill University, Shri Raj Nehru told that something new should be learned every day. The more you learn, the better you live. Shri Vishwakarma Skill University is teaching all kinds of skills to the students. During the program Shri Bharat Chauhan, Mr. Sudhanshu Pandey from Hero Motorcorp, Electrical Engineer Shri Vinay Singh, Mr. Shrikant Bushi, Registrar Prof. R. S. Rathore, Dean Academics Prof. Jyoti Rana, Dr. Savita Sharma, Dr. Kalpana Maheshwari, Dr. Bhawna Roopray, students and all the staff of the University were present.