CMA conducts webinar on Stress Management

Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) organised a webinar on "The Role & Importance of Spirituality in managing Stress". The talk was delivered by Gurpreet Singh, an ex-ace banker former Vice President HDFC Bank and presently Director L&D with Institute of Professional Banking. 

Gurpreet, shared reasons of stress, as non-alignment with nature. He also touched on the conceptual difference between religion and spirituality. As a CMA Member himself, Gurpreet shared the mantra to Cope up with Stress and Anxiety under the prevalent pressures of life, money, health and relationships. Gurpreet drew the attention of the close to 60 attendees on Media Overload and Poor Nutrition & Sleep also being the unknown devils causing stress.Guilt, according to Gurpreet Singh, is the leading impression which is an obstacle in true spirituality. The session moderated by Dr. Navjot Kaur, Joint Secretary, CMA, and attended also by the President CMA, Gursimran Singh Oberoi and General Secretary, Abhishek Gupta, Treasurer, Sukhwinder S Bhatia,  EC members GS Thukral and Sukhwinder Singh Uppal, ended with tips about 'Heartfulness Meditation' which was shared as a time-tested mantra for stress management.

United Sikhs rush in with relief to help flash flooded Peshawar in Pakistan

Sikhs rise to the occasion once again 

Nowshera, UN-affiliated NGO United Sikhs has rushed in relief supplies immediately in Charsadda District affecting the lives of thousands of people and the livestock, besides unprecedented damage to the property. 

Right from day one the local Sikh volunteers of United Sikhs immediately setup camp to move the flood affected families to safe areas and provide them with food, water, and other immediate supplies under the leadership of United Sikhs representative in Pakistan Herdyal Singh

So far the floods have injured 1,634, 7,35,375 livestock animals have been lost, damaging nearly 10,000 homes, n149 bridges, 170 shops, and 3,451kms of road stretch as per the latest report of National Disaster Management Authority.

Ravi Kuma, member of the Provincial Assembly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa visited Nowshera and met Hindu, Christian and other local families and appreciating the efforts of United Sikhs appealed to the world community to support the relief efforts. 

Another United Sikhs volunteer, Sagarjeet Singh who is a member of Pakistan Sikh Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee informed that incessant floods collapsed the roof of Gurudwara at Shikarpur Singh killing two on the spot, and destroying the entire building. 

The Saroop of Guru Granth Sahib was retrieved safely and moved to the home nearby of a Gursikh family, he said. 

United Sikhs has issued a global appeal for relief and medical supplies for the medical camps it is arranging for the people. 

UNITED SIKHS is an international humanitarian service organisation, affiliated to UN, engaged in relief and rehabilitation in the times of disaster, combating poverty and hunger, empowering the disadvantaged through literacy, and providing legal aide to the miniority communities around the world.  Founded in 1999 in New York, where it is headquartered, United Sikhs has chapters in North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe.

United Sikhs to build bomb shelters in Ukraine

United Sikhs to build bomb shelters in Ukraine

United Sikhs chief in Ukraine to assess relief efforts

Founder Director of United Sikhs is touring the war zone in Ukraine to assess the needs of the local residents who have been rendered homeless and step up its relief efforts. He is meeting with local leaders and humanitarian organizations to optimize humanitarian assistance for the people of Ukraine.

United Sikhs which had been one of the first responders to organize relief with volunteers from Germany, the US, Denmark and the UK flying in, risking their lives to set up medical relief camp, heated shelter, a community kitchen for daily supply of food for the refugees and the victims in multiple cities including Kyiv.

Hardayal Singh accompanied by another senior Director from Seattle, Balwant Singh, and Newark-based lawyer and activist Victor Herlinsky, went around various towns around Kharkiv and interacted with the families who lost their homes in the bombing.

The immediate need is for safe bombing shelters to save children, women, the old and the sick which United Sikhs shall be setting up soon for more than 300 children, women and men, in the grey zone in the heart of Ukraine, Hardayal Singh informed.

In the wake of this humanitarian crisis and the suffering that every family is going through the resilient Ukrainians are keeping a brave face, Hardayal Singh said, which calls for concerted efforts of the people around the globe to join in this campaign to save the children, women, and men shattered by war.

The UN-affiliated United Sikhs had been looking after refugees with medical aid, life-saving relief supplies, sanitation and dental kits, clothing, and food every day.

Earlier this month at a fund-raiser hosted by Friends of Ukraine, at Newark, NJ, Senator Cory Booker, joined in the spirit of solidarity with United Sikhs and said, that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere and injustice is happening, people are dying right now and appreciated the United Sikhs' initiatives from not letting the evil triumph through their good work.

 

 

About United Sikhs:

UNITED SIKHS is an international humanitarian service organisation, affiliated to UN, engaged in relief and rehabilitation in the times of disaster, combating poverty and hunger, empowering the disadvantaged through literacy, and providing legal aide to the miniority communities around the world.  Founded in 1999 in New York, where it is headquartered, United Sikhs has chapters in North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Europe.

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CAPTIONS:
1. United Sikhs founder Hardayal Singh (centre) with another director Balbir Singh in Ukraine

2. United Sikhs talking to locals whose homes have been raged to ground by indiscriminate bombing.

3.  Devastation in Kharkiv

CMA explores furure of artificial intelligence in education with experts

Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) organized an expert panel discussion on "Future of Artificial Intelligence in Education" at Plaksha University in Mohali today.

AI is skill that must be incorporated in the school curricula to prepare them in understanding its potential impact as well as learning about the technology and technique, said Dr Shashank Tamaskar, PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics and one of the founding faculty at Plaksha, who has been instrumental in preparing students in cutting-edge robotics and AI. 

Dr Tamaskar did his MS and doctorate in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Purdue University and has several patents and awards to his credit including Boeing Excellence Award for outstanding research. He also founded and led the development of the first student satellite of IIT Bombay, Pratham, which was launched by ISRO in September 2016.

Akshay Ahuja, co-founder of Robochamps who has to his credit setting up Robotics, Coding and Artificial Intelligence lab in over 10,000 schools in India, said that

Rajnish Mittal, Vice President, CMA, associated with Lovely Professional University for providing hands on experience to students in in robotics and AI, moderated the session.

CAPTION: 1. (L-R) Dr Shashank Tamaskar, Akshay Ahuja, and Rajneesh Mittal 
2. View of the audience 
3. Visit to the Robotics Lab of Plaksha University 
 

For further information: Abhishek Gupta, General Secretary, CMA, M: 99886 66777

CMA President and Secretary calls on Governor of Punjab

Gursimran Singh Oberoi, President and Abhishek Gupta, General Secretary of Chandigarh Management Association (CMA), called upon the Governor of Punjab and Administrator of UT Chandigarh, Shri Banwari Lal Purohit at Punjab Raj Bhawan today. 

Gursimran Singh Oberoi informed that the purpose of the meeting with the Governor of Punjab had been to join hands with the Administration in handlings various societal problems and work together. 

A possible charter of collaboration with the Chandigarh Administration was presented to the UT Administrator, Abhishek Gupta, General Secretary CMA informed.  

 CMA is one of the oldest professional bodies helping management students and professionals to adopt the best practices to solve human problems, since 1966. 

Agribusiness can revitalize agriculture for socio-economic development of India, says agri-expert

Chandigarh, August 17: Chandigarh Management Association (CMA) organized an online lecture on Opportunities and Issues for Agriculture-based Startups under its Better Management Series here today.

Dinesh Kumar Kapila, retired Chief General Manager and State Head HP from NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) said that the way forward to revitalize Indian agriculture and make it profitable lies in agri-business, he said.

Agri-preneurship has the potential for employment generation, income generation, poverty alleviation, and better food security for our country, Dinesh Kumar Kapila informed. 

He expressed the need for more startups to enter this highly unexplored yet profitable field where innovation in required in improving processes, productivity and efficiency, by startups investing their time and energies in understanding the region-specific needs of the farmers, and reducing dependence upon water scarcity and climate change, he remarked.

A life member of CMA, Dinesh Kumar Kapila, is passionate about promoting agribusiness startups and is a mentor to two Agribusiness Incubation Centres, and an Executive Committee member of the Institute for the Blind, touched upon the evolution of a robust ecosystem to promote innovation, including the formation of Agrinnovate India Ltd, promoted by the Government of India's Department of Agriculture Research and Education (DARE), Ministry of Agriculture, to act as an effective interface between ICAR and Agricultural stakeholders, that is enabling innovation in the field.

There is no dearth of finances with many private players now entering the field and even Start Up India, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has created the Startup India Seed Fund Scheme (SISFS) with an outlay of Rs. 945.00 CR, which aims to provide financial assistance to startups for proof of concept, prototype development, product trials, market-entry, and commercialization.

Abhishek Gupta, General Secretary, CMA invited any startup to contact CMA for free mentorship and training in business plan preparations, and investors connect, to help them set up their enterprise in any area.

The meeting was attended by past presidents and members of CMA, startups, management professionals, and corporate trainers, Abhishek informed.

 

For further information: Mr Abhishek Gupta, M: 99886 66777

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Navtej Sarna's Crimson Spring relives the holocast of Jallianwallah Bagh massacre

Writing about Jallianwala Bagh massacre was one of my persistent aspiration and for long I wished to write about it, and all the people during those times, and the revolutionaries who died for India's freedom, said Navtej Sarna, author of highly acclaimed historic nove, Crimson Spring. 

Navej Sarna was in the city on an invitation from Chandigarh Literary Society (CLS) which organized its launch at the UT Guest House here today. 

Former Chief Secretary Punjab Mr RI Singh, ex IAS officer, author and TEDx speaker Mr Vivek Atray, author and moderator Col Avnish Sharma, and several other luminaries from the city, released Navtej Sarna's Crimson Spring. 

In an animate discussion with the moderator Col Avinash Sharma,  took the author on a nostalgic journey of "death and despair that dots the Indian history",  and as Sarna writes in the Prologue to his book "For every event in history is, at heart, made up of the acts of human beings and its telling is inevitably coloured with the differing shades of pride, regret, ambition, love, pain, courage, and longing that human beings carry within themselves."

On the use of fiction, Navtej Sarna explained that one cannot take liberty with history and historic characters in it, but it is the emotional turmoil of that times that can be depicted through the fictional characters in this story, who too have been inspired many real-life players in history.

The massacre was condemned universally by all Indians and even shocked many Britains who considered it one of the worst outrages in all of British history, Navtej Sarna said. 

Crimson Spring brings the horror of the atrocity to life by viewing it through the eyes of nine characters—Indians and Britons, ordinary people and powerful officials, the innocent and the guilty, whose lives are changed forever by the events of that fateful day. 

Set against the epic backdrop of India's freedom struggle, World War I, and the Ghadar movement, Crimson Spring is not just a powerful, unsettling look at a barbarous act, but also a wider meditation on the costs of colonialism and the sacrifices and heroism of ordinary men and women at a time of great cruelty and injustice. 

Navtej Sarna, the Indian diplomat who has served in various diplomatic posts in Mosco, Poland, Bhutan, Iran, Geneva, UK, and USA, and had a longest stint as India's foreign office spokesperson has remained a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction, is now a full-time writer. 

 As an established author of fiction and non-fiction, Sarna's work includes the novels The Exile and We Weren't Lovers Like That, the short story collection Winter Evenings, non-fiction works The Book of Nanak, Second Thoughts and Indians at Herod's Gate, as well as two translations, Zafarnama (Guru Gobind Singh) and Savage Harvest (Mohinder Singh Sarna). 

Crimson Spring 

Published by: Aleph, 

Pp: 312

Price: Rs. 899