Amritsar: Apeejay College of Fine Arts, Jalandhar, and PCM SD College for Women, Jalandhar, won the ‘A’ & ‘B’ division overall trophies of ‘C’ Zone Youth Festival of Guru Nanak Dev University, respectively. In the ‘A’ division, Lyallpur Khalsa College, Jalandhar, was declared the runners-up and Kanya Maha Vidyalaya, Jalandhar, and DAV College, Jalandhar, bagged the third position. In the ‘B’ Division, Lyallpur Khalsa College for Women, Jalandhar, remained the runners-up and St Soldier Law College, Jalandhar, got the third position. Student-artists of C Zone of the university participated in 35 items including that of music, theatre, dance, literary and fine arts. Prof Anish Dua said the youth festival of Amritsar district colleges ‘A’ Zone will be held from November 26 to 29. The final Inter-Zonal Youth Festival of Guru Nanak Dev University will be organised from December 3 to 6, in which the winning teams of all zones will participate.

HMCT clinches GPL-2021 trophy

The second and the concluding day of the GPL-2021 being played at the Global Group of Institutes had four teams that qualified for the semi-finals playing on the knock-out basis. The first semi-final was played between the teams of CSE/IT and diploma in engineering, which turned out to be a one-sided affair with the diploma team succumbing to a fine bowling attack and were bundled out for 42 runs in 10 overs. The CSE/IT team overhauled the total with the loss of just one wicket and won the match by a convincing margin of nine wickets to seal their place in the finals. The second semi-final played between pharmacy and HMCT teams was won by HMCT. HMCT team defeated the CSE/IT team in this nail-biting match to lift the trophy. Jatinder Kumar, the captain of the HMCT team, was declared the man of the tournament.

Reunion at DAV College

The DAV College Amritsar Alumni Association organised a reunion meet “Andaz 2021” for old students of the college on November 14. As many as 250 alumni of the college attended the meet. Currently, most of them are doing well in government and private sectors and some are running their own business establishments. The event was organised under the guidance of Principal Dr Rajesh Kumar and Prof Sunil Sachdeva, general secretary, Alumni Association, and Dr Narottam Bhalla, president, Alumni Association. The event witnessed screening of movie relaying college highlights and achievements during the past years. Principal Dr Rajesh Kumar said the motive was to develop an instant multiple and multi-level bridge between a large number of alumni of different batches and present college students.

KCW lifts 6th Youth Fest trophy

Khalsa College for Women lifted the overall champion trophy in two-day long 6th Inter-Khalsa College Youth Festival-2021 which concluded on Sunday. Khalsa College came second and Khalsa College of Education, Ranjit Avenue, third in the festival that witnessed colourful presentations by hundreds of students, competing in various events. Gidda, Bhangra, Jhoomer were the main attractions, while the folk regional dances, fine arts, poetry, debates, singing, skit, mono acting, poster-making, extempore and paintings sought huge participation. Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) honourary secretary, who was the chief guest at the valedictory function, said every child was born with a potential that needs to be tapped. TNS