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TO REACH THE PINNACLE OF GLORY AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN THE FIELD OF PHARMACEUTICAL AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BY KNOWLEDGE

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Contents • Message from PRINCIPAL• Editorial board• Historical article• News Update• Knowledge based Article• Disease Related Breaking

News• Upcoming Events• Drugs Update• Campus News• Student’s Section• Editor’s Note• Archive

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GURU NANAK INSTITUTE OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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MESSAGE FROM PRINCIPAL

"It can happen. It does happen. But it can't happen if you quit." Lauren Dane. ‘We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.’ Aristotle It gives me immense pleasure to pen a few words for our e-bulletin. At the onset I would like to thank the last year’s editors and congratulate the newly selected editors for the current year. Our first consideration is always in the best interest of the students. Our goal is to promote academic excellence and continuous improvement. I believe that excellence in education is aided by creating a learning environment in which all learners are supported in maximizing their potential and talents. Education needs to focus on personalized learning and instruction, while promoting an education system that is impartial, universally accessible, and meeting the needs of all students. It is of paramount importance that our learners have sufficient motivation and encouragement in order to achieve their aims. We are all very proud of you, our students, and your accomplishments and look forward to watching as you put your mark on the profession in the years ahead. The call of the time is to progress, not merely to move ahead. Our progressive Management is looking forward and wants our Institute to flourish as a Post Graduate Institute of Excellence. Steps are taken in this direction and fruits of these efforts will be received by our students in the near future. Our Teachers are committed and dedicated for the development of the institution by imparting their knowledge and play the role of facilitator as well as role model to our students. The Pharmacy profession is thriving with a multitude of possibilities, opportunities and positive challenges. At Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, our focus is on holistic needs of our students. I am confident that the students of GNIPST will recognize all the possibilities, take full advantage of the opportunities and meet the challenges with purpose and determination. Excellence in Education is not a final destination, it is a continuous walk. I welcome you to join us on this path. My best wishes to all. Dr. A. Sengupta

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EDITORIAL BOARD

CHIEF EDITOR DR. ABHIJIT SENGUPTA EDITOR MS. JEENATARA BEGUM ASSOCIATE EDITOR MR. DIPANJAN MANDAL

HISTORICAL ARTICLE

James Hutton (1726 – 1797)

James Hutton transformed our concepts of the earth and the universe by deciphering the message carried by common rocks.

He discovered that our planet is enormously older than people believed. He gathered evidence with his own eyes rather than relying on what ‘everyone knows’ or the written word. Prior to his work it was generally accepted in the West that the earth was about 6000 years old, based on a literal interpretation of the Bible’s timescale.

Hutton devised one of geology’s fundamental principles – uniformitarianism – which says that the same natural processes we see operating today are the ones that have always operated, and that these everyday natural processes have shaped our world.

Other theories that require an immense amount of time – such as evolution by natural selection and continental drift – would not have been credible without Hutton’s work.

Beginnings

James Hutton was born into a prosperous family in 1726 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. His birthday was June 3 (old calendar) or June 14 (modern calendar).

His father, William Hutton, was a merchant and the city’s treasurer; he died when James was just three years old.

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James’s mother, Sarah Balfour, a merchant’s daughter, was a housewife. Following the death of her husband she managed the family home, taking a keen interest in the education of James and his three sisters. (James had an older brother who died at a young age.)

At the age of 10 James started classes at Edinburgh High School.

University

In November 1740, aged 14, he enrolled to study humanities (Greek and Latin) with philosophy and mathematics at the University of Edinburgh.

In one lecture the professor of logic, attempting to illustrate a philosophical theory, described how gold can be dissolved by an acid called aqua regia. This acid is made by mixing nitric acid and hydrochloric acid. Neither of these acids alone can dissolve gold; only the mixture can.

Hutton was fascinated by the chemistry more than he was impressed by the professor’s logic.

He began reading about chemistry and performing his own experiments. He and his friend James Davie tried to find the best way to extract ammonium chloride – a rare and valuable chemical compound used in metalworking, dyeing, and medicines – from Edinburgh’s plentiful supplies of soot. These experiments laid the foundations of what would later become a profitable business.

Law, Chemistry, and Medicine

In 1743, after graduating, Hutton was apprenticed to a lawyer, but devoted more time to chemistry than legal matters.

Deciding that a career in medicine would be more interesting than law, he enrolled again at the university. In the years 1744 – 1747 he studied science and medicine. He also worked as a physician’s assistant. Edinburgh did not offer medical degrees, so to complete his education he spent two years studying in Paris, France before

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qualifying as a doctor of medicine at Leiden University in Holland in 1749.

Hutton, now aged 23, moved to the United Kingdom’s capital city, London, where he hoped to establish a medical practice. However, business failed to boom for the young doctor.

James Hutton’s Contributions to Science

From his Edinburgh home Hutton embarked on expeditions to catalogue the rocks around Scotland’s coasts, islands and mountains. He also undertook a painstaking survey of many of the rocks of England and Wales, with the result that his knowledge of Great Britain’s rock formations was unparalleled.

In March and April 1785 the 58-year-old Hutton gathered together his evidence and presented the story he believed rocks tell us about our planet to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His two papers were entitled Theory of the Earth. These papers later would become a two volume book.

Prior to Hutton’s work it had been generally accepted in Western cultures that the earth was about 6000 years old and would continue for only about 1000 more years. People explained layers in rocks by referring to the biblical flood a few thousand years earlier.

Hutton now said that the world was enormously older than 6000 years. In fact, rather than a short past and and even shorter future, he put forward the view that the world was unimaginably old and there was no reason to predict its end:

Hutton’s Rock Cycle

Hutton pictured a cycle in which rocks were eroded into small particles and carried eventually to the sea. There they would gradually be buried ever more deeply under more eroded material. The heat of the earth would then fuse the small particles back into solid rock and later lift the rock back to the surface.

Hutton concluded that:

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• Earth’s interior has a very high temperature.

• Earth’s heat provides the energy to create new rocks.

• Erosion of land by water and air creates materials such as silt, soil and small rock particles which are carried into the sea, where layers of these materials are deposited over long time scales.

• As the layers gather, the earliest layers become buried ever more deeply in the earth, where they are turned into stone by the earth’s heat.

• Stone is eventually uplifted to form new land.

• The new land is eroded over a long period of time, beginning the cycle again.

The cycle Hutton envisaged could only take place over an immense number of years. This is, he pointed out, because the processes of erosion, sedimentation and uplift take place exceedingly slowly.

Some Personal Details and the End

Hutton never married. In 1747, aged 21, he fathered a son, James Smeaton Hutton. Although Hutton financially supported his son and his son’s mother, whose surname was Edington, they saw very little of one another. In fact, when Hutton left Edinburgh in 1747 to study in Paris and Leiden and then work in London, it is possible he did this as a way of putting some distance between himself, Miss Edington and his son.

James Hutton died in Edinburgh on March 26, 1797, aged 70, after suffering poor health and pain for a number of years caused by bladder stones. He was buried in Edinburgh’s Greyfriars Churchyard. He had made no will and his estate passed to his surviving sister. On her death she left a large farm Hutton had owned to his grandchildren.

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NEWS UPDATE Omega-3 lowers childhood aggression in short

term: (13th May, 2016) Consuming omega-3 initially improves a child's aggressive behavior, according to researchers but the effects eventually vanish.

Prenatal stress could enhance protective mechanisms of babies: (13th May, 2016) Maternal stress and depression during pregnancy may activate certain protective mechanisms in babies. Psychologists report that certain epigenetic adaptations in newborns suggest this conclusion.

Noninvasive monitor assesses patients' response to painful stimulation during surgery: (13th May, 2016) A novel measure for assessing the body's response to surgery may allow for better anesthesia management in the O.R., less pain when regaining consciousness from anesthesia and better postoperative outcomes.

Genetic biomarker may predict nerve pain side effects associated with prostate cancer treatment: (13th May, 2016) Taxanes are a group of drugs commonly used to treat cancers of the breast, lung, ovary, or prostate, but its use can be limited by significant side effects. Researchers report prostate cancer patients who have a variation in the VAC14 gene are more susceptible to a side effect called peripheral neuropathy when treated with the taxane docetaxel.

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Confirmation that the Ebola virus persists in the semen of survivors of the epidemic: (13th May, 2016) An international study confirms that Ebola virus persists in the semen of survivors of the epidemic in Guinea, for up to 9 months after their recovery. These results recall the importance of monitoring survivors in order to prevent the risks of new epidemic outbreaks.

American Cancer Society report assesses progress against goals set for nation: (13th May, 2016) A new report assesses how the nation fared against the ambitious challenge goal set by the American Cancer Society to reduce the cancer death rates by 50 percent over 25 years ending in 2015.

Brain images reveal first physical evidence that AA prayers reduce cravings: (12th May, 2016) Members Alcoholics Anonymous who recited AA prayers after viewing drinking-related images reported less craving for alcohol after praying, according to a new study.

Gene regulatory mutation linked to rare childhood cancer: (12th May, 2016) A single defect in a gene that codes for a histone -- a 'spool' that wraps idle DNA -- is linked to pediatric cancers, a new study indicates. Histones derive their pattern from the same genome that they help to pack up and organize.

Repetitive, subconcussive head impacts from football associated with short-term changes in eye function: (12th May, 2016) In a study that included 29 NCAA football players, repetitive subconcussive impacts were associated with changes in near

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point of convergence (NPC) ocular-motor function among players in the higher-impact group, although NPC was normalized after a 3-week rest period, according to a new study. The NPC measures the closest point to which one can maintain convergence (simultaneous inward movement of eyes toward each other) while focusing on an object before diplopia (double vision) occurs.

Early walking in toddlers linked to stronger bones: (11th May, 2016) Children who start to walk and jump earlier are more likely to have stronger bones later on in life, research shows.

Algorithms can predict epileptic seizures: (11th May, 2016) Computer scientists and mathematicians have developed a prediction model that can warn epileptic sufferers of an upcoming seizure with 20 minutes notice. For detail mail to editor

KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE Xenotransplantation

Xenotransplantation is any procedure that involves the transplantation, implantation or infusion into a human recipient of either (a) live cells, tissues, or organs from a nonhuman animal source, or (b) human body fluids, cells, tissues or organs that have had ex vivo contact with live nonhuman animal cells, tissues or organs. The development of xenotransplantation is, in part, driven by the fact that the demand for human organs for clinical transplantation far exceeds the supply.

Currently ten patients die each day in the United States while on the waiting list to receive lifesaving vital organ transplants. Moreover, recent evidence has suggested that transplantation of cells and tissues may be therapeutic for certain diseases such as

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neurodegenerative disorders and diabetes, where, again human materials are not usually available.

Although the potential benefits are considerable, the use of xenotransplantation raises concerns regarding the potential infection of recipients with both recognized and unrecognized infectious agents and the possible subsequent transmission to their close contacts and into the general human population. Of public health concern is the potential for cross-species infection by retroviruses, which may be latent and lead to disease years after infection. Moreover, new infectious agents may not be readily identifiable with current techniques.

Jeenatara Begum Assistant Professor GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS Human infection with avian influenza A(H5N6)

virus – China: (06th May, 2016) Between 21 and 26 April 2016, the National Health and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) of China notified WHO of 2 additional laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N6) virus.

Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS Analytical Instrument Training Programme cum Workshop will

be held on 21st to 23rd June, 2016 at ADINA Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Sagar M.P.

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World Congress on Drug discovery-2016 will be held on 18th to 20th July 2016 at Bangalore, Karnataka, India.

DRUGS UPDATES Biofrontera Announces U.S. FDA Approval of

Ameluz and Activating BF-RhodoLED Device for Treatment of Actinic Keratosis: (11th May, 2016)

Biofrontera AG (FSE: B8F), the specialist for the treatment of sun-induced skin cancer, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of its combination topical prescription drug Ameluz (BF-200 ALA) and medical device BF-RhodoLED® for photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment of mild to moderate actinic keratosis (AK) on the face and scalp. The approval covers lesion-directed as well as field-directed treatment and follows thorough review of the Company’s New Drug Application (NDA), which was submitted in July 2015. Read more

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CAMPUS NEWS

Placement Record 2016: SL NO

COMPANY NAME NUMBER OF STUDENT

APPEARED/APPLIED

NUMBER OF STUDENT

SELECTED

JOB PROFILE

1 DR. LAL PATH LAB 64 7 (3 of them already joined)

Sales, Marketing and office assistant

2 APOLLO PHARMACY

36 25 Hospital and retail chain pharmacist

3 ABBOTT INDIA 74 03 Sales and Marketing

4 HETERO DRUGS 18 18 (Waiting for final

interview)

Production, QC and QA

5 ERIS LIFE SCIENCES 01 01 (Joined) Sales and Marketing

6 JUPITER PHARMACEUTICALS

05 01 (Joined) Production, QC and QA

7 GOVT PHARMACIST 4 4 (Joined) Hospital Pharmacist

8 ALCHEMIST EYE HOSPITAL

2 2 (Waiting for final

interview)

Hospital Pharmacist

9 MEDPLUS 21 21 Community Pharmacist

10 NESTLE INDIA LTD 08 02 Nutrition Officer Trainee

IPA Bengal Pharma & Healthcare trust scholarship 2016:

Congratulations to Rudradip Das, student of B.Pharm 3rd year has been awarded IPA Bengal Pharma & Healthcare trust scholarship 2016.

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Accreditation by NAAC: SL. NO.

NAME OF THE INSTITUTE

STATE CGPA(out of scale 4)

GRADE

01 Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science And Technology, Kolkata-700114

West Bengal

2.70 B

GPAT 2016 Result:

The following B.Pharm. final year students have qualified, GPAT-2016. We congratulate them all. Aishika Datta Mainak Chatterjee Indira Saha Priyanka De Aheli Mukherjee Soumya Guha Debanjana Das Debalina Datta Evana Patra Himadrija Chatterjee IRIS 2016:

GNIPST organized colllege fest ‘IRIS 2016’ from 11th to 13th March, 2016. Result of different events: Intracollege Quiz competition: 1st: Arani Roy and Dipayan Nath 2nd: Bhaskar Singha and Pratik Nandi Intracollege Painting competition: 1st: Swagata Paul 2nd: Aviraj Pathak

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3rd: Dippyoman Guha Group Dance Competition: Karma Group Intercollege Solo Dance Competition: 1st : Monodipa Ghosh 2nd: Aditya Paul (NIT) Antaksari Competition: 1st: Sunanda and Aparupa 2nd: Meghna and Joyita 3rd: Arpita and Pami Intercollege Solo Singing Competition: 1st: Arpita Sarkar 2nd: Arvind Raj (Sudhir Chandra College) 3rd: Priyam Mondal (Supreme College) Intercollege Band Competition: 1st: D Errors 2nd: Mukti 3rd: GNIPST band Fashion: Best Male: Md. Nadeem Shah Best Female: Sweta Best Couple: Md. Nadeem Shah and Susmita Kar

Blood donation Camp 2016: On 4th March 2016 Social Service club and Alumni Association of GNIPST organized a Blood donation camp in association with Association of voluntary Blood Donars, West Bengal.

Reminiscence & 1st Alumni meet 2016: On 28th February 2016 GNIPST organized the Reunion programme “Reminiscence & 1st Alumni meet 2016”.

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC):

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A NAAC peer team completed a three-day inspection (17th February to 19th February, 2016) of GNIPST to evaluate its academic credibility and infrastructure on Friday.

Saraswati Puja 2016: On 13th February 2016 the students of GNIPST celebrated Saraswati Puja at GNIPST campus.

GNIPST Cricket 2016 result: Winner: B.Pharm 4th year Runners: B.Pharm 2nd year Man of the match, best wicket taker, best batsman: B.Pharm 4th year student Gourab Dey

GNIPST Sports 2016 result: Relay Race for Boys: 1st: Maruf Billa, Somenath Dian, Subhajit Majumdar, Abu Sufia 100 meter Flat Race for Girls: 1st: Nirmita Gupta 2nd: Joyati Ghosh 3rd: Moutan Roy Long Jump for Girls: 1st: Aindrila Bhoumik 2nd: Manpreet Ghai 3rd: Anjali Mondal Shotput for Girls: 1st: Koyal Ghosh 2nd: Nirmita Gupta 3rd: Sneha Pal Discuss for Girls: 1st: Manpreet Ghai 2nd: Nirmita Gupta 3rd: Sneha Pal

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Sack race for Girls: 1st: Nirmita Gupta 2nd: Aindrila Bhoumik 3rd: Moutan Roy Balance race for Girls: 1st: Indira Saha 2nd: Nirmita Gupta 3rd: Aindrila Bhoumik Relay Race for Girls: Aindrila Bhoumik Manpreet Ghai Anjali Mondal Joyati Ghosh Skipping for Girls: 1st: Aindrila Bhoumik 2nd: Anjali Mondal 3rd: Manpreet Ghai 200 meter Flat Race for Girls: 1st: Anjali Mondal 2nd: Moutan Roy 3rd: Nirmita Gupta Sack race for Boys: 1st: Maruf Billa Akunjee 2nd: Abu Sufian 3rd: Sufian Sk. 100 meter Race for Boys: 1st: Abu Sufian 2nd: Maruf Billa Akunjee 3rd: Arijit Mitra Thakur 200 meter Flat Race for Boys: 1st: Maruf Billa Akunjee

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2nd: Subrajit Mazumder 3rd: Arijit Mitra Thakur Long Jump for Boys: 1st: Abu Sufian 2nd: Maruf Billa Akunjee 3rd: Dipankar Kamila Go for Goal for Boys: 1st: Rohan Dutta 2nd: Souvik Ganguly 3rd: Ankit Chowdhury Discuss throw for Boys: 1st: Bishal Kr. Singh 2nd: Raj Kumar 3rd: Arijit Mitra Thakur Shotput for Boys: 1st: Arijit Mitra Thakur 2nd: Bishal Kr. Singh Tug of War for Boys: Dipu Roy, Doyal Hui, Ankit Dey, Rohan Dutta, Bishal Kumar Singh. Tug of War for Girls: Indira Saha, Joyati Ghosh, Sneha Pal, Manpreet Ghai, Debolina Roy.

On 29th January to 30th January 2016 GNIPST organized the cricket match.

On 27th January and 28th January 2016 GNIPST organized the Annual Sports programme.

From 19th January, 2016 to 28th January, 2016 B.Pharm final year students had their Industrial Tour in Gangtok, Sikkim and Pelling. They visited Alkem Laboratories Ltd. Sikkim under the

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supervision of Ms. Jeenatara Begum, Mr. Samrat Bose and Mr. Dipanjan Mondal.

On 12th January, 2016 the students and teachers of GNIPST celebrated youth day on the occasion of 153rd birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.

A competition on Innovative and Scientific Modelling will be held in Tech-Fest 2016. Only B.Pharm students are eligible for participation. Last date for topic submission is 11th January, 2016 and last date for Model submission is 20th January, 2016. Posters are also invited on different subjects. Last date for soft copy of the posters submission is 11th January, 2016.

A Bulletin committee will be formed and all the committee members are requested to attend the Bulletin Committee Meeting on 4th January, 2016.

On 23rd December 2015, a meeting was held in GNIPST for Bulletin committee formation and Tech-Fest 2016.

Dr. Asis Bala got 1st prize in the Oral presentation conducted by SFE in Jadavpur.

Recived a Grant in aid from Department of Science & Technology, Govt of WestBengal under the Scheme of Scientific Project Research & Science Popularization Programme during the financial year 2015-16 to GNIPST as per details below Grantee Institution: Guru Nanak institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Principal Investigator: Dr Swati Chakraborty Title of the Project: Identification of heavy metal chromium Cr (VI) & Nickel (Ni) tollerence bacteria to develop microbial biosensors and role on secondary metabolite of medicinal plant Bacopa monnieri(L) in metal contaminated soil of East Kolkata Wetland.

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Grant in Aid: Eighteen lakh Ninety Eight Thousand & One Junior Research fellow for three years of duration

Some teachers and students of GNIPST attended the seminar SFE 2015.

Report of National Seminar on “Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare”: 1. Name of the Institute: Guru Nanak institute of Pharmceutical Science & Technology 2. Sanctioning Authority: West Bengal State Council of Science & Technology, Department of Science & Technology, Government of West Bengal for conducting Seminar for National Science Day. 3. Seminar Topic : “Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare”. 4.Amount Sanctioned: 30,000/- 5. Purpose of Utilisation: Celebration of National Science Day (7th November 2015) One day National Seminar on “Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare”.

Eminent Speakers from Indian Stastical Institute, Viswa-Bharati University, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vidyalaya, National Institute of Occupational Health ,Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Directorate of Drug Control(WB) etc. were invited for the presentation in scientific lecture sessions.

There was scientific poster presentation competition among the students of different colleges of WestBengal. Total number of sixty three posters were selected for presentation and best three posters were awarded .

I. First prize winners Poulami Majumdaer, Indrajit Karmakar, Suchandra Majumder, Pallab kanti halder from Jadavpur University, Department of Pharmaceutical Science on “ Evaluation of invitro antidiabetic activity of methanol extract of Curcuma caesia rhizome,

II. Second Prize winners Susmita Dutta, Swati Chakraborty , Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, “

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Optimization of biofilm poduction from Pseudomonas sp. and application in antimicrobial and bacteriocin producing activity” ,

III. Third prize winners are jointly from Arindam Ganguly, Aparupa Bhattacharya, Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, “Microbial fuel cell” and Apurba Mukherjee , Sutapa Mukherjee, Madhumita Roy, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute , “The common Indian spice curcumin act as an enhancer of antitumor agent in Leukemia”.

Around 580 delegates from different academic and reserch institutes attended the day long seminar Swarangam:

On 9th November, 2015 GNIPST organized the post puja and pre Kalipuja celebration programme ‘Swarangam’. National Science Day 2015:

On 7th November 2015, GNIPST organized a National Seminar on “Current Innovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare”, on the occasion of Science day 2015 on the theme of “Science for Nation Building”. Sponsored by West Bengal State Council of Science & Technology, Catalysed & Supported by National Council for Science, Technology & communication, DST, New Delhi.

Winners of Intracollege Football Tournament: Congratulations to B.Pharm final year for their victory in Intracollege Football Tournament.

Intracollege Football Tournament: On 9th October and 10th October, 2015 GNIPST has organized the Intracollege Football Tournament.

EN BIOLET: On 5th and 6th October, 2015 seminar was held on EN-BIOLET by Stone India Ltd. INDOOR BATTLE 2015

On 24th September, 2015 GNIPST organised the Indoor games (Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess for both Boys and Girls) Indoor Battle 2015.

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Congratulations to all winners and participants. The Winners are: Table Tennis (for Boys): 1st: Soumen Dhara (M.Pharm, 2nd year [Pharmacology]) 2nd: Ratul Banduri (B.Pharm, 3rd year) 3rd: Sneham Sen (B.Pharm, 3rd year) Table Tennis (for Girls): 1st: Sweta Saha (B.Sc [BT], 3rd year) 2nd: Moutan Roy (B.Pharm, 2nd year) Carrom (for Boys): 1st: Sk. Sajjat Ali (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Sk. Abdul Aslam (B.Pharm, 3rd year) 2nd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Rajib Singha Roy (B.Pharm, 4th year) 3rd: Arnab Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2nd year [Pharmaceutics]) and Achinta Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2nd year [Pharmaceutics]) Carrom (for Girls): 1st: Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year) and Rituparna Das (B.Pharm 4th year) 2nd: Rinita DasBhowmik (B.H.M, 1st year) and Tania Datta (B.H.M, 1st year) 3rd: Sushmita Sen (D.Pharm, 2nd year) and Keya Das (D.Pharm, 2nd year) Chess (for Boys): 1st: Sayantan Dutta (B.Pharm, 3rd year) 2nd: Tanmoy Das Biswas (B.Pharm 4th year) 3rd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm 4th year) Chess (for Girls): 1st: Rituparna Das (B.Pharm 4th year) 2nd: Suchetana Dutta (B.Pharm 4th year) 3rd: Krishnakali Basu (B.Pharm 4th year) SAGAR DUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE FEST-ASTERICA 2015

WINNER: The students of GNIPST stood first in the FASHION SHOW competition of Sagar Dutta Medical College Fest:

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Congratulation to the participants- Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2nd year) Riya Taran (B.Pharm 4th year) Moktar Hossain (B.Pharm 4th year) Chandrika Saha (B.Pharm 4th year) Swaranjeet Banik (B.Pharm 4th year) Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rd year) Ranit Kundu (M.Pharm 1st year) Susmita Kar (B.Pharm 2nd year) Md. Nadeem Shah (B.Pharm 4th year) Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year) Sunanda (M.Pharm 1st year) Best Male Model of ASTERICA 2k15: Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2nd year) Best Female Model of ASTERICA 2k15: Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rd year) Anchor: Sreejita Roy (B.Sc ) Solo Singing competition: Sayantan Goswami (B.Pharm 4th year):winner Arpita (B.Sc) :2nd runner up

CARNIVAL OF CANVASS: On 4th September the Students of GNIPST celebrated the freshers party for Masters degree students. On 4th September the students of GNIPST celebrated Teachers’ Day. ESPERANZA:

On 21st August, 2015 the 1st year students of GNIPST were welcomed in the Freshers Welcome Programme ‘ESPERANZA’.

HOMAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT DR A P J ABDUL KALAM: On 31st July, 2015 all the students and teachers of GNIPST paid their homage for our former president Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

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ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: GNIPST has been certified by the Alumni Association under the West Bengal Societies Registration Act, 1961. FAREWELL PROGRAMME:

On 15th May 2015 GNIPST celebrated the farewell programme ‘Sesh Chithi’ for the final year students of M.Pharm, M.Sc, B.Pharm, B.Sc and BHM. FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME:

The FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME was organized by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Training & Placement Cell, GNIPST in collaboration with Indian Pharmacy Graduates’ Association (IPGA), Bengal Branch from 21st February to 11th April, 2015 at GNIPST Auditorium. On 21

st February, 2015 the Finishing School Training Programme of

GNIPST was inaugurated by Sri Soumen Mukhopadhyay, Deputy Director, Drug Control Office, Goutam Kr. Sen, President, IPGA, Mr. Subroto Saha, Asst. Directorate, Drug Control Office, Mr. Ranendra Chakraborty, Sales Manager and Associate Director Dr. Reddys Laboratory. On 28th February, 2015 Dr. D. Roy, Former Deputy Drug Controller, Mr. Sujoy Chakraborty, divisional Therapy Manager, Cipla and Mr. Vikranjit Biswas, Senior Manager, Learning & Development, Cipla delivered their valuable lectures in the 2nd day FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST. On 14th March, 2015 Mr. Milindra Bhattacharya, Senior Manager, QA & QC, Emami Ltd. and Mr. Joydev Bhoumik, Manager, Operation, Ranbaxy Laboratory Limited delivered their valuable lectures in the 3rd day FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST. On 21st March, 2015 Mr. Tridib Neogi, Associate Vice-President (Quality Assurance), Albert David Ltd. delivered his valuable lectures in the 4th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST.

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On 28th March, 2015 Dr. Gautam Chaterjee, an Alumni of Jadavpur University and presently associated with NIPER delivered his valuable lectures in the 5th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST. On 11th April, 2015 the closing ceremony of the FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME was held in GNIPST Auditorium.

STUDENTS’ SECTION WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST????

Not me but you is the tagline of which organisation?

Answer of Previous Issue’s Image:

John McConnell

Send your thoughts/ Quiz/Puzzles/games/write-ups or any other contributions for Students’ Section& answers of this Section at gnipstbulletin@gmail.com

EDITOR’S NOTE It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 3rd issue of 55th Volume of GNIPST BULLETIN. All the followers of GNIPST BULLETIN are able to avail the bulletin through facebook account ‘GNIPST bulletin’ I am very much thankful to all the GNIPST members and readers who are giving their valuable comments, encouragements and supports. I am also thankful to Dr. Abhijit Sengupta, Director of GNIPST for his valuable advice and encouragement. Special thanks to Dr. Prerona Saha, Mr. Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar

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and Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya for their kind co-operation and technical supports. Thank you Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya for the questionnaires of the student section. An important part of the improvement of the bulletin is the contribution of the readers. You are invited to send in your write ups, notes, critiques or any kind of contribution for the forthcoming special and regular issue. ARCHIVE

ACHIEVEMENT: Congratulations to Anurag Chanda, student of B.Pharm final year

who have got the 1st prize in poster presentation event in Prakriti 2015 at Department of Agricultural and Food engineering, IIT, Kharagpur.

OTHERS: On 24th and 25th February, 2015 Swamiji of Gourio Math was delivered some motivational lectuers in GNIPST. The students of GNIPST participated in the 4th Sardar Jodh SinghTrophy organised by NIT on 20th February, 2015. On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the Reunion programme“Reminiscence Reloaded 2015”.

The general body meeting of APTI, Bengal Branch has been conducted at GNIPST on 15th June, 2012. The program started with a nice presentation by Dr. Pulok Kr. Mukherjee, School of Natural Products, JU on the skill to write a good manuscript for publication in impact journals. It was followed by nearly two hour long discussion among more than thirty participants on different aspects of pharmacy education. Five nonmember participants applied for membership on that very day.

AICTE has sanctioned a release of grant under Research Promotion Scheme (RPS) during the financial year 2012-13to GNIPST as per the details below:

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a. Beneficiary Institution: Guru Nanak Institution of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology. b. Principal Investigator: Dr. LopamudraDutta.

c. Grant-in-aid sanctioned:Rs. 16,25000/- only d. Approved duration: 3 years

e. Title of the project: Screening and identification of potential medicinal plant of Purulia & Bankura districts of West Bengal with respect to diseases such as diabetes, rheumatism, Jaundice, hypertension and developing biotechnological tools for enhancing bioactive molecules in these plants.

Activity Clubs of GNIPST: Name of Club Member Faculty CULTURAL Ms. Priyanka Ray DEBATE AND EXTEMPORE Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya ECO Ms. Sumana Roy LITERARY AND PAINTING Ms. Jeenatara Begum PHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Sanchari Bhattacharya and

Mr. Abir Koley SCIENCE AND INNOVATIVE MODELLING

Mr. Samrat Bose

SOCIAL SERVICES Dr. Asis Bala SPORTS Mr. Debabrata GhoshDastidar

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