Lawrence Dana Pinkham Memorial Lecture at the Asian College of Journalism by Pro f. C.P.

Chandrasekhar, CESP, SSS It is, for me, an honour and a special privilege to have been invited to deliver this year's Lawrence Dana Pinkham Memorial Lecture at the annual convocation of the Asian College of Journalism. Read more...

Prestigious Malcolm Adiseshaish Award for Professor Gopal Guru Jawaharlal Nehru University Professor Gopal Narayan Guru has been chosen for the Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contribution to Development Studies for 2013-14. Read more...

Prof. S.S. Jodhka received the Amartya Sen Award 2012 Prof. Surinder S.Jodhka, Centre for Studies in Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, JNU received the Amartya Sen Award by ICSSR, New Delhi for exceptional contribution to agrarian studies. Read more...

School kids visit JNU lab for GM plant tour About 120 children from different Delhi schools gathered at School of Life Scien ces, Jawaharlal Nehru University, for a seminar on plants and a tour of the camp us's plant laboratories and glass houses. Fascination of Plants Day - May 18 - i s being celebrated by 54 countries. Read more...

Centre for English Studies, JNU is in Top 100 The Centre for English Studies (CES) at Jawaharlal Nehru University has done it once again. The depasrtment has been adjudged as one of the top 100 English depa rtments in the world by the QS World University Rankings 2013, released recently . Read more...

Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) "Paper of the Week" Attacking drug - resistant strains of Candida albicans Drug - resistant strains of the fungus, Candida albicans , have been on the rise for several decades, striking immunocompromised patients who have undergone org an transplants, chemotherapy or HIV treatments. The drug - resistant fungus expl oits a number of membrane - embedded transporters to eject drugs from its cells. The efflux pump Cdr1 is one of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of transporters, which is one of the main ways C. albicans rejects azole antifungal agents. In this Paper of the Week, a team led by Rajendra Prasad at the Jawahar lal Nehru University in India. Read more...

Microsoft releases English Urdu Machine Translation system in partnership with Dr Girish Nath Jha, Special Center for Sanskrit Studies On International Mother , in collaboration with m as part of its online ing.com/translator with Read more... Language Day 2013, Microsoft Corporation at Redmond, USA JNU, released its English-Urdu Machine Translation Syste translator portal, Bing. The system can be used at www.b English as source language and Urdu as target language.

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