The inauguration will be followed by Technical Session on “Types of Teaching Practices & Cultural Demands” wherein Marsim Cassar, Deputy Head of the Mission, High Commission of Malta, New Delhi, Sara Poehlman, Education Specialist, UNICEF-India Country Office, New Delhi, Huang Zhigang, First Secretary, Head of Education Department, Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in India, Lisa Levy will share their views on the occasion.

Principals of Schools from NCR area, Malini Narayanan, Principal, APS, Shankar Vihar, New Delhi, Rita Kaul, Director, The Millennium School, Noida, Graham Ranger, Director, The British School, New Delhi, would present their views on “Adolescents outlook as they form the future human resource of the Nation”

Over 40 universities and institutions for higher education are based on biotechnology and agriculture. Innovation and technology are the base of economy of Italy. Lidia Szpyrkowicz, Scientific Attaché of Italy in New Delhi said while addressing the inaugural ceremony of three day Indo-Italian workshop on bacteria and microbes at Noida.

She also talked about the opportunities for research and higher education in Italy and said that the Italian Government provides scholarship for study for Indian students.

Giacomo Sanfelice di Monteforte, Ambassador of Italy said that bacteria and microbes are important for ecology. The three-day workshop will open new avenues for scholars for research, he said.

The workshop has been organized by Amity University, Noida in association with Embassy of Italy. Noted scientists and former Vice-Chancellor of JNU Prof. Ashish Dutta was also present on the occasion.

Top performers of class-X and top scientists will interact together in INSPIRE camp. The students will have opportunity to work with them in their laboratories and enhance their knowledge through the interaction in the five-day camp starting today at Noida.

Amity University has organized a camp in association with Department of Science and Technology (DST).
Students from Vishwa Bharti School, Father Agnel School, Amity International School are participating in the camp.

“Innovation in Science Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE)” is an innovative program initiated and managed by the DST with an objective to attract the talent to the study of Science at an early age and build the required critical human resource pool for strengthening and expanding the Science & Technology and R&D base of the country. The idea behind it is to prepare students for future scientists.

Topics like “Excitements in Biotechnology”, “Aerospace Engineering”,” Fingerprinting in Forensic Science”, “Current Trends in Condensed Matter Physics”, “Computational Physics”, ” Allopathy, Biotic & Abiotic stress Physiology”, “Maths in Life” and others will be covered during the camp sessions.

In his address during the inauguration of a cricket tournament of Amity University at Noida the former cricketer said that the there are verities of cricket matches these day. These include Test matches, One-day, T-20 and others but reason behind popularity of 20-20 matches is the outcome of the result is instant in these kind of matches. He also urged parents to inculcate habit to participate in the games among children for their overall development.

The cricket tournament 9th Amity Insurance Cricket Cup 2010 was organized by Amity University. 16 insurance companies are participating in the tournament. The first match of the tournament was cancelled due to rains.

Computational Forensics, Criminalities, Digital Forensics, Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Archaeology, Forensic Entomology, Forensic Seismology and Forensic DNA analysis and many other related areas will be discussed during the five-day conference.

Crime Scene Investigations by Dr. Henry Lee, Prof & Director, University of New Heaven, USA; Forensic Anthropology by Dr. Ali Chadly, Prof & Head of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Tunisia and Dr. P.K. Chattopadhyay, Director, AIAFSRAT, AUUP; Problem Based Learning by Dr. Philip Beh, Institute of Pathology, Hong Kong University and on Forensic Medicine by Dr. Byard, Chairman of Pathology, University of Adelaide, Australia and many others will be the part of the conference.

Students participating in cultural event during celebration of World Tourism Day at Amity.

Today, the initial phase of screening process, which is a three day general training started with the first batch comprising of 72 students from Amity Institute of Physiotherapy (AIP) and Amity Institute of Forensic Sciences at Amity Campus, Sector-44, Noida.

The screening process will have three stages namely “General Training on Doping” (amalgamation of theoretical and practical components), “Role Specific Training” (one day training which will be conducted in July, 2010) and “Venue Specific Training” ( one day training which will be conducted in August, 2010), and subsequently, based on their performance in written examination, the students will be certified and registered as “National Doping Control Officials”

The training session started with an informative presentation by Dr. Prerna Bali-Director Training, DCP who apprised the students with the mission, vision, values and the role of OC during CWG Delhi 2010; 35 functional areas under OC and competition venues and non- competition venues of the games.

While presenting his views during a session on “Doping Control Induction”, Dr. Munish Chander -DDG (Doping Control), OC CWG highlighted various anti- doping organizations functioning across the world and the objectives of the training programme. Talking about the reason behind the growing use of prohibitive substances during the games, Dr. Chander said that the athletes face a lot of pressure from society, their coaches and their country during the International Games, where even a millisecond counts in attaining name, fame and money. Therefore, the athletes resort to prohibitive substances to enhance their performance. Dope Control is very important from legal and ethical point of view. WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) has made it mandatory for all the participating nations to sign WADA code, which is the core document that provides the framework for harmonized anti-doping policies, rules and regulations within sports organizations and among public authorities. Highlighting the training objectives and the benefits accruing from the same, Dr. Chander said, “the training programme aims to develop skills and knowledge for the Doping Control Program for CWG and evaluate and identify suitable candidates for training as Doping Control Officials. The certification will be valid for two years, after which a person has to go for one day refresher training to continue the certification. On the completion of the training module, the successful candidates will become Certified Doping Control Officials, which is an International level accreditation and will become a member of National Anti- Doping Agency”

The training programme will cover a plethora of topics namely “Brief Outline of Doping Control Personnel”; “Authorization and Preparation Of Testing”; “Doping Control Stations” ; “Athletes selection and Notification Procedure”; “Sample Collection Procedure ( Blood & Urine )”; “Partial Sample procedure “; “Additional Sample procedure”; “Modifications for Testing for Para-athlete & Minors”; “Post test Administration”; “Transportation Of Samples” and “Doping Control Documentation”

Doping Control Department will conduct over 1500 Urine Test, 150 Blood Test and 150 EPO Test on the athletes during CWG. Maximum level of tests will be done in the highly susceptible games which include Weightlifting, Swimming, Cycling and Athletics. The Doping Tests can be conducted “Out of Competition”, when the selected athlete is in his own country before the starting of the games; “Pre- competition”, when the athlete is in games village or training venue and “ In Competition”, when the athlete is competing during the games.

The Doping tests on athletes will start as soon as games village will open from September 23. All the samples collected will be sent to world’s 35th WADA (World Anti- Doping Agency) accredited “National Dope Testing Laboratory” which is housed near CGO Complex.

Over 200 doctors from medical colleges across Delhi and Indian arm forces with over 16-17 years of experience are already being trained as “National Doping Control Officials”

“While a law degree does enable a person to enroll as an advocate, the curriculum must also take into consideration the broader mandates of sensitizing students about social, economic and political realities. Legal education must promote a strong interdisciplinary agenda; disciplines such as Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Literature and Philosophy enrich our understanding of the evolution of the laws and helps us engineer reforms for the future”, Justice Balakrishanan said in valedictory function of National Moot Court Competition at Amity Law School, Noida.
Justice Balakrishnan also said t that best talents are not coming in the field of legal education as more lucrative career options are available these days for a law graduate.

“We should devise methods to attract some of the best talent to the teaching line, after all any law college needs highly qualified and motivated faculty members to train the students in the careers in the bar and the judiciary…”, He said.

National Law University, Jodhpur won the Rolling Trophy and cash prize. NALSAR, Hyderabad emerged as Runner-Up team. The Best Memorial Award went to the team of NALSAR, Hyderabad. Niharika from NALSAR, Hyderabad was declared the Best Speaker. Best Researcher Award was lifted by Prabhat Kumar from NALSAR, Hyderabad

The semi-finals of the Moot Court were contested between four teams NALSAR, Hyderabad; IIT , Khadagpur; Gandhinagar National Law College and National Law College, Jodhpur out of which NALSAR, Hyderabad.

Noted lawyer and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Arun Jaitley and Chancellor of the Amity University Ashok K. Chauhan were also present on the occasion and shared their views.
Over 28 colleges and institutes across India participated in the competition including NALSAR, Hyderabad ; Government Law College, Mumbai; NLIU, Bhopal; University Law College, Bangalore and GGSIP University.