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TO REACH THE PINNACLE OF GLORY AS A CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN TH

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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 t

last years 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 academexcellence and continuous improvement.

I believe that excellence in education is aided by creating a learning environment in which all learners asupported in maximizing their potential and talents. Education needs to focus on personalized learni

and instruction, while promoting an education system that is impartial, universally accessible, and meeti

the needs of all students.

It is of paramount importance that our learners have sufficient motivation and encouragement in order

achieve their aims. We are all very proud of you, our students, and your accomplishments and looforward 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 looki

forward and wants our Institute to flourish as a Post Graduate Institute of Excellence. Steps are taken

this direction and fruits of these efforts will be received by our students in the near future. Our Teacheare committed and dedicated for the development of the institution by imparting their knowledge and pl

the role of facilitator as well as role model to our students.

The Pharmacy profession is thriving with a multitude of possibilities, opportunities and positi

challenges. At Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, our focus is on holist

needs of our students.

I am confident that the students of GNIPST will recognize all the possibilities, take full advantage of t

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

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

Henry Moseley

1887 1915

Henry Moseley was an outstandingly skilled experimental physicist.In 1913 he used self-built equipment to prove that every elements

identity is uniquely determined by the number of protons it has. Hisdiscovery enabled him to predict confidently the existence of fournew chemical elements, all of which were found.

Early Life and Education

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was born in the town of Weymouth,England, on November 23, 1887.

His parents were both from well-educated families. His father, who

was also named Henry, was a professor of anatomy and physiology.His mother, Amabel, was the daughter of a barrister who hadchanged careers to become a mollusc biologist.

Henry Moseley was educated in private schools. His first school wasSummer Fields School an elementary school. There he won ascholarship for Eton College, which is probably Britains mostprestigious high school.

Some time after arriving at Eton he decided the schools physicslessons were too easy, so he worked on the subject independently.Aged 18, he won Etons physics and chemistry prizes.

Already a high achiever, he was admitted in 1906 to the University ofOxfords Trinity College, where he studied physics. There hedisappointed himself. He was suffering badly from hayfever when he


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sat his final exams. He got a second class honors degree in physics,not the first he had hoped for and expected.

The Atomic Battery

Working in Rutherfords group, it was inevitable that Moseleywould work with radioactive chemical elements.

After becoming familiar with the field, he went beyond experimentsothers had thought of and came up with his own particular twist.

In 1912 he attempted to use high positive voltages to pull betaparticles (high energy electrons) back into their radioactive source.(This sounds like a fun sort of thing anyway, but Moseley hoped to

use the results to shed light on one of the predictions ofAlbertEinsteinsspecial theory of relativity: that mass increases withvelocity.)

He tried to pull the beta particles back by insulating their radioactivesource (radium) so that it would become increasingly positive as thebeta particles carried negative charge away.

If the radium could reach an electric potential of one million volts,then even the most energetic beta particles would be pulled back

into the source as they were emitted. Unfortunately, the high degreeof perfection needed in insulating the radium could not be achieved,so one million volts could not be reached.

However, by generating voltages (about 150,000 volts) on aradioactive source, Moseley actually created the worlds first atomicbattery a beta cell. He called it a radium battery.

Today, atomic batteries are used where long battery life is crucial,

such as in cardiac pacemakers and spacecraft.Antonius van den Broeks Hypothesis

In 1911 Antonius van den Broek had published his hypothesisthat atomic number which at this time was simply the position of anelement in the periodic table might actually be equal to the amount


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of charge in the atoms nucleus. There was, however, no experimentalevidence to prove this hypothesis.

Enter Henry Moseley!

Shooting Electrons at the Elements

Moseley had learned from William and Lawrence Bragg that whenhigh-energy electrons hit solids such as metals, the solids emit X-rays.

This intrigued Moseley, who wondered if he could study these X-rays to learn more about what goes on inside atoms; he had van denBroeks hypothesis in mind specifically.

He moved back to Oxford in 1913. Rutherford had offered him a newfellowship at Manchester on better terms, but Moseley decided thebest path for his career would be to get experience in severaldifferent laboratories. There was no fellowship open at Oxford, butMoseley believed one was coming up. He was given laboratory space,but had to self-fund his work.

In a very small amount of time he personally put togetherexperimental apparatus to shoot high-energy electrons at different

chemical elements and measure the wavelength and frequencies ofthe resulting X-rays.

He discovered that each element emits X-rays at a unique frequency.He also found he could get a straight line graph by plotting thesquare-root of X-ray frequency against elements atomic numbers.

Startlingly, Moseley realized that his work had confirmed van denBroeks hypothesis.

His data made most sense if the positive charge in the atomic nucleusincreased by exactly one unit as you look from one element to thenext in the periodic table. In other words, he discovered that anelements atomic number is identical to how many protons it has.


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New Method of Identifying Elements

As if his explanation of the periodic table were not enough, Moseleyhad also discovered a new non-destructive method to find out whichelements are present in any sample: you bombard the sample withhigh-energy electrons and look at the frequencies of the resulting X-rays. These X-rays are as good as a fingerprint for any elementspresent in the sample.

At the time, this was a particularly welcome technique for rare-earthchemists, who had found their work becoming almost nightmarish.The rare-earth metals behave so similarly that to analyze a samplecontaining these elements could take years of work. Moseley could

now do it in minutes!X-ray spectroscopy is now used in laboratories all over the world. Itis also used to study other worlds, such as Mars.

The End

In 1914 Rutherford and Bragg recommended to the University ofOxford that Moseley should be appointed to a chair of physics thatwas becoming vacant there.

Moseley, however, had other ideas.

When World War 1 began in 1914 he enlisted as a volunteer in theBritish Armys Royal Engineers. His family pleaded with him tocontinue his scientific research, and the army was reluctant to accepthim. Moseley had to fight hard to get into the army.

Second Lieutenant Henry Moseley was killed in battle at the age of27 in Gallipoli, Turkey on August 10, 1915. His grave is located on

Turkeys Gallipoli Peninsula.As a result of Moseleys death, and after much lobbying by ErnestRutherford, the British Government placed a ban on other scientistsof repute serving in front-line roles.


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In 1916 no Nobel Prizes were awarded in physics or chemistry. Thereis a strong scientific consensus that Henry Moseley, had he beenalive, would have received one of these awards.

NEWS UPDATE

Blood test could transform tuberculosis

diagnosis, treatment in developing countries:

(19thFebruary, 2016)A simple blood test that can accurately diagnose activetuberculosis could make it easier and cheaper to control a diseasethat kills 1.5 million people every year.

Smart skin made of recyclable materials maytransform medicine and robotics: (19th

February, 2016)Smart skin that can respond to external stimuli could haveimportant applications in medicine and robotics.

Researchers discover new Ebola-fighting

antibodies in blood of outbreak survivor: (19

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February, 2016)A new group of powerful antibodies to fight Ebola virus has beendiscovered by a team of scientists. The antibodies, isolated fromthe blood of a survivor of the 2014 Ebola outbreak and the largestpanel reported to date, could guide the development of a vaccineor therapeutic against Ebola.

Bath salts difficult to detect in biological

samples, study finds: (19thFebruary, 2016)Synthetic cathinones or 'Bath salts' continue to be popular amongrecreational drug users and a new study highlights the challengesassociated with the detection of these drugs in biologicalevidence.


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Gut microbes help sustain body growth despite

malnutrition: (18thFebruary, 2016)Gut microbial species transferred from healthy children to mice

can counter the detrimental effects caused by microbes fromundernourished children. The study showing this goes on toidentify certain species of microbe that offset malnutrition'snegative effects, suggesting the possible role of the microbiota as atherapeutic intervention for malnutrition.

Stenting and surgery effectively lower long-

term risk of stroke: (18thFebruary, 2016)Risk of long-term stroke equally and effectively lowered in

stenting and invasive surgery procedures.Ebola crisis provides framework for responding

to outbreaks like Zika virus: (18th February,

2016)As world leaders grapple with containing the Zika virus, theEbola epidemic in West Africa provides valuable lessons for howto respond to infectious disease epidemics, according to a new

policy report.Pairing pain medicine with metal ions to battle

cancer: (17thFebruary, 2016)Fighting chemoresistant cancer remains a huge challenge thatscientists are tackling from as many angles as they can. Onealternative approach involves pairing two groups of compounds --pain medicine and metal ions -- that have individually shownpromise as anti-cancer agents. Scientists now report that

combining the two led to new compounds that could destroydrug-resistant cancer cells and leave most normal cells alone in labtests.


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New predictor of cancer: (17thFebruary, 2016)Epigenetic age is a new way to measure your biological age. Whenyour biological (epigenetic) age is older than your chronologicalage, you are at increased risk for getting and dying of cancer,reports a new study. And the bigger the difference between thetwo ages, the higher your risk of dying of cancer. The researchcould be used to develop an early detection blood test for cancer,say researchers.

Potential pathway between insomnia, depression,

study of firefighters finds: (17th February,

2016)Insomnia and nightmares may increase the risk of depression byimpairing the ability to access and leverage emotion regulationstrategies effectively, a new study of firefighters suggests.

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KNOWLEDGE BASED ARTICLE

Zika virus

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a member of thevirus familyFlaviviridaeand

thegenusFlavivirus,transmitted by daytime-activeAedesmosquitoes,

such as A. aegyptiandA. albopictus. Its name comes from theZika

Forest ofUganda, where the virus was first isolated in 1947. Zika

virus is related todengue,yellow fever,Japanese encephalitis,

andWest Nileviruses. Outbreaks of Zika virus disease have been

recorded in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific.

Signs and Symptoms

The incubation period (the time from exposure to symptoms) ofZika virus disease is not clear, but is likely to be a few days. Thesymptoms are similar to other arbovirus infections such asdengue, and include fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and


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joint pain, malaise, and headache. These symptoms are usuallymild and last for 2-7 days.

Potential complications of Zika virus disease

During large outbreaks in French Polynesia and Brazil in 2013 and2015 respectively, national health authorities reported potentialneurological and auto-immune complications of Zika virus disease.Recently in Brazil, local health authorities have observed anincrease in Guillain-Barr syndrome which coincided with Zikavirus infections in the general public, as well as an increase inbabies born with microcephaly in northeast Brazil. Agenciesinvestigating the Zika outbreaks are finding an increasing body ofevidence about the link between Zika virus and microcephaly.

However, more investigation is needed to better understand therelationship between microcephaly in babies and the Zika virus.Other potential causes are also being investigated.Transmission

Zika virus is transmitted to people through the bite of an infectedmosquito from theAedesgenus, mainlyAedes aegyptiin tropicalregions. This is the same mosquito that transmits dengue,chikungunya and yellow fever. However, sexual transmission of

Zika virus has been described in 2 cases, and the presence of theZika virus in semen in 1 additional case.Zika virus disease outbreaks were reported for the first time fromthe Pacific in 2007 and 2013 (Yap and French Polynesia,respectively), and in 2015 from the Americas (Brazil and Colombia)and Africa (Cape Verde). In addition, more than 13 countries in theAmericas have reported sporadic Zika virus infections indicatingrapid geographic expansion of Zika virus.Diagnosis

Infection with Zika virus may be suspected based on symptomsand recent history (e.g. residence or travel to an area where Zikavirus is known to be present). Zika virus diagnosis can only beconfirmed by laboratory testing for the presence of Zika virus RNAin the blood or other body fluids, such as urine or saliva.


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Prevention

Mosquitoes and their breeding sites pose a significant risk factorfor Zika virus infection. Prevention and control relies on reducingmosquitoes through source reduction (removal and modification ofbreeding sites) and reducing contact between mosquitoes andpeople.This can be done by using insect repellent regularly; wearingclothes (preferably light-coloured) that cover as much of the bodyas possible; using physical barriers such as window screens, closeddoors and windows; and if needed, additional personal protection,such as sleeping under mosquito nets during the day. It isextremely important to empty, clean or cover containers regularly

that can store water, such as buckets, drums, pots etc. Othermosquito breeding sites should be cleaned or removed includingflower pots, used tyres and roof gutters. Communities mustsupport the efforts of the local government to reduce the density ofmosquitoes in their locality.Repellents should contain DEET (N, N-diethyl-3-methylbenzamide), IR3535 (3-[N-acetyl-N-butyl]-aminopropionicacid ethyl ester) or icaridin (1-piperidinecarboxylic acid, 2-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1-methylpropylester). Product label instructionsshould be strictly followed. Special attention and help should begiven to those who may not be able to protect themselvesadequately, such as young children, the sick or elderly.During outbreaks, health authorities may advise that spraying ofinsecticides be carried out. Insecticides recommended by the WHOPesticide Evaluation Scheme may also be used as larvicides to treatrelatively large water containers.Travellers should take the basic precautions described above to

protect themselves from mosquito bites.Treatment

Zika virus disease is usually relatively mild and requires no specifictreatment. People sick with Zika virus should get plenty of rest,drink enough fluids, and treat pain and fever with common


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medicines. If symptoms worsen, they should seek medical care andadvice. There is currently no vaccine available.

Jeenatara BegumAssistant Professor

GNIPST

DISEASE RELATED BREAKING NEWS

Lassa Fever Benin: (19thFebruary, 2016)

On 25 January 2016, the National IHR Focal Point of Beninnotified WHO of an outbreak of Lassa fever.

The outbreak was initially detected on 21 January followingreports of unexplained fever within a cluster of health workersfrom the district of Tchaourou, Borgou department. On 3January, these health workers provided care to a patientsuffering from haemorrhagic fever.Between 21 January and 16 February, 71 cases (6 confirmed, 10probable et 55 suspected) were reported from sevendepartments namely, Borgou (52), Collines (13), Oum (2),Alibori (1), Atlantique (1), Kouffo (1) and Littoral (1). During the

same period of time, a total of 23 deaths were recorded in thedepartments of Borgou (16), Collines (4), Atlantique (1), Oum(1) and Plateau. Seven of the reported cases (3 confirmed, 1probable and 3 suspected), including 2 deaths (1 confirmed and 1probable), were health workers.Read more

UPCOMING EVENTS

National seminar on Reformulating potential active molecule:Future aspect and challenges at Shambhunath Institute ofPharmacy, Allahabad will be held on 26thto 27thFebruary 2016.

International conference on pharmaceutical, medical andenvironmental health sciences (ICPharME-2016) organized by


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Institute for Global Research Forum (IGR Forum) Vizag, AndhraPradesh will be held on 6thMarch, 2016.

5th Annual Pharma Intellectual Property Right at Mumbai, Indiawill be held on 9thto 11thMarch, 2016.

12th International Conference of the Asian Clinical OncologySociety at New Delhi, India will be held on 8thto 10thApril, 2016.

DRUGS UPDATES

FDA Approves Briviact (brivaracetam) to Treat

Partial Onset Seizures: (19thFebruary, 2016)

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday approvedBriviact (brivaracetam) as an add-on treatment to other

medications to treat partial onset seizures in patients age 16 years

and older with epilepsy.

Read more

CAMPUS NEWS

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC):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 4thyear

Runners:B.Pharm 2ndyear

Man of the match, best wicket taker, best batsman: B.Pharm 4 th

year student Gourab Dey


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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 PalSack race for Girls:

1st: Nirmita Gupta

2nd: Aindrila Bhoumik

3rd: Moutan Roy

Balance race for Girls:

1st: Indira Saha

2nd

: Nirmita Gupta3rd: Aindrila Bhoumik

Relay Race for Girls:

Aindrila Bhoumik

Manpreet Ghai


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Anjali Mondal

Joyati Ghosh

Skipping for Girls:

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: Aindrila Bhoumik2nd: 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 Akunjee2nd: 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

2nd: Subrajit Mazumder


Long Jump for Boys:

1st: Abu Sufian

2nd: Maruf Billa Akunjee

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: Dipankar KamilaGo for Goal for Boys:

1st: Rohan Dutta

2nd: Souvik Ganguly

3rd: Ankit Chowdhury

Discuss throw for Boys:


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1st: Bishal Kr. Singh

2nd: Raj Kumar


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 29thJanuary to 30thJanuary 2016 GNIPST organized the cricketmatch.

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

From 19th January, 2016 to 28th January, 2016 B.Pharm final yearstudents had their Industrial Tour in Gangtok, Sikkim and Pelling.

They visited Alkem Laboratories Ltd. Sikkim under the

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

Dipanjan Mondal.

On 12th January, 2016 the students and teachers of GNIPSTcelebrated youth day on the occasion of 153rdbirth anniversary of

Swami Vivekananda.

A competition on Innovative and Scientific Modelling will be held

in Tech-Fest 2016. Only B.Pharm students are eligible forparticipation. 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 11thJanuary, 2016.


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A Bulletin committee will be formed and all the committeemembers are requested to attend the Bulletin Committee Meeting

on 4thJanuary, 2016.

On 23rd

December 2015, a meeting was held in GNIPST for Bulletincommittee formation and Tech-Fest 2016.

Dr. Asis Bala got 1st prize in the Oral presentation conducted bySFE 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 belowGrantee 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.

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 SFE2015.

Report of National Seminar on Current Innovation inBiotechnology for Human Welfare:

1. Name of the Institute: Guru Nanak institute of PharmceuticalScience & Technology2. Sanctioning Authority: West Bengal State Council of Science& Technology, Department of Science & Technology, Governmentof West Bengal for conducting Seminar for National Science Day.


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3. Seminar Topic : Current Innovation in Biotechnology forHuman Welfare.4.Amount Sanctioned:30,000/-5. Purpose of Utilisation:Celebration of National Science Day (7th

November 2015) One day National Seminar on CurrentInnovation in Biotechnology for Human Welfare.

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

There was scientific poster presentation competition among thestudents of different colleges of WestBengal. Total number ofsixty three posters were selected for presentation and best threeposters were awarded .

I. First prize winners Poulami Majumdaer, Indrajit Karmakar,Suchandra Majumder, Pallab kanti halder from JadavpurUniversity, Department of Pharmaceutical Science on Evaluationof invitro antidiabetic activity of methanol extract of Curcuma caesiarhizome,

II. Second Prize winners Susmita Dutta, Swati Chakraborty , GuruNanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science & Technology, Optimization of biofilm poduction from Pseudomonas sp. andapplication in antimicrobial and bacteriocin producing activity ,

III. Third prize winners are jointly from Arindam Ganguly, AparupaBhattacharya, Guru Nanak Institute of Pharmaceutical Science &Technology, Microbial fuel cell and Apurba Mukherjee , SutapaMukherjee, Madhumita Roy, Chittaranjan National Cancer

Institute , The common Indian spice curcumin act as an enhancerof antitumor agent in Leukemia.

Around 580 delegates from different academic and reserchinstitutes attended the day long seminar


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Swarangam:On 9th November, 2015 GNIPST organized the post puja and preKalipuja celebration programme Swarangam.

National Science Day 2015:On 7thNovember 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 inIntracollege Football Tournament.

Intracollege Football Tournament:On 9thOctober and 10thOctober, 2015 GNIPST has organized theIntracollege Football Tournament.

EN BIOLET:On 5thand 6thOctober, 2015 seminar was held on EN-BIOLET byStone India Ltd.

INDOOR BATTLE 2015On 24th September, 2015 GNIPST organised the Indoor games(Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess for both Boys and Girls) IndoorBattle 2015.Congratulations to all winners and participants.The Winners are:Table Tennis (for Boys):1st: Soumen Dhara (M.Pharm, 2ndyear [Pharmacology])

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year)3rd: Sneham Sen (B.Pharm, 3rdyear)Table Tennis (for Girls):1st: Sweta Saha (B.Sc [BT], 3rdyear)2nd: Moutan Roy (B.Pharm, 2ndyear)


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Carrom (for Boys):1st: Sk. Sajjat Ali (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Sk. Abdul Aslam(B.Pharm, 3rdyear)2nd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm, 4th year) and Rajib Singha Roy

(B.Pharm, 4thyear)3rd: Arnab Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2ndyear [Pharmaceutics])and Achinta Banerjee (M.Pharm, 2ndyear [Pharmaceutics])Carrom (for Girls):1st: Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4th year) and Rituparna Das(B.Pharm 4thyear)2nd: Rinita DasBhowmik (B.H.M, 1styear) and Tania Datta (B.H.M,1styear)

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year) and Keya Das (D.Pharm, 2

nd

year)Chess (for Boys):1st: Sayantan Dutta (B.Pharm, 3rdyear)2nd: Tanmoy Das Biswas (B.Pharm 4thyear)3rd: Sourabh Saha (B.Pharm 4thyear)Chess (for Girls):1st: Rituparna Das (B.Pharm 4thyear)2nd: Suchetana Dutta (B.Pharm 4thyear)

3rd: Krishnakali Basu (B.Pharm 4thyear)SAGAR DUTTA MEDICAL COLLEGE FEST-ASTERICA 2015

WINNER:The students of GNIPST stood first in the FASHION SHOWcompetition of Sagar Dutta Medical College Fest:Congratulation to the participants-Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2ndyear)Riya Taran (B.Pharm 4thyear)

Moktar Hossain (B.Pharm 4thyear)Chandrika Saha (B.Pharm 4thyear)Swaranjeet Banik (B.Pharm 4thyear)Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rdyear)Ranit Kundu (M.Pharm 1styear)Susmita Kar (B.Pharm 2ndyear)


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Md. Nadeem Shah (B.Pharm 4thyear)Sreyashee Mitra (B.Pharm 4thyear)Sunanda (M.Pharm 1styear)Best Male Model of ASTERICA 2k15:

Souvik Ganguly (B.H.M 2ndyear)Best Female Model of ASTERICA 2k15:Sampita Pal (B.Pharm 3rdyear)Anchor:Sreejita Roy (B.Sc )Solo Singingcompetition:Sayantan Goswami (B.Pharm 4thyear):winnerArpita (B.Sc) :2ndrunner up

CARNIVAL OF CANVASS:On 4thSeptember the Students of GNIPST celebrated the freshersparty for Masters degree students.On 4th September the students of GNIPST celebrated TeachersDay.

ESPERANZA:On 21st August, 2015 the 1st year students of GNIPST werewelcomed in the Freshers Welcome Programme ESPERANZA.

HOMAGE TO FORMER PRESIDENT DR A P J ABDULKALAM:

On 31st July, 2015 all the students and teachers of GNIPST paidtheir homage for our former president Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

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

FAREWELL PROGRAMME:

On 15th May 2015 GNIPST celebrated the farewell programmeSesh Chithi for the final year students of M.Pharm, M.Sc,B.Pharm, B.Sc and BHM.

JIS SAMMAN 2015On 11th May, 2015 GNIPST attended the JIS SAMMAN 2015.


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JIS SAMMAN Awards: Best College (Non Engineering):

GNIPST

Best Principal:Dr (Prof.) Avijit Sengupta

Best HOD:Mr. Jaydip Ray

Best Faculty:Mr. Debabrata Ghoshdastidar (Pharmacy)Dr. Swati Chakraborty (Life Sciences)

Best faculty since inception:Mr. Jaydip Ray

Best Office Staff:Ms. Jaya Banerjee

Best technical Assistant:Mr. Somnath Majhi

College Blue:Avik Paul

Highest DGPA of 2014:B.Pharm:Purbali Chakraborty (4th year)Diksha Kumari (3rd year)Aishika Dutta (2nd year)Sampita Paul (1st year)M.Pharm:Aritra Mukherjee (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)Mounomukhar Bhattacharya (Pharmacology)

B.Sc (Biotechnology):Papiya Saha (3rd year)Shomasree Das (2nd year)Ayanita Basak (1st year)B.Sc (Microbiology):Bonhisikha Chatterjee (3rd year)


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Riaz Hossain (2nd year)Soumi Chowdhury (1st year)BHM:Bishal Roy (3rd year)

Shreyabhanja Chowdhury (2nd year)Recitation:

Udita Majumder

Debate:Srijita RoyPoushali Ganguly

Quiz:Arani Ray

Dipayan NathBand:

Syantan GhoswamiAnurag GhoshAtanu MondalArka KhamaruRitobroto PaulAbhirup Dasgupta

Fashion:Md. Nadeem ShahKoustav SarkarShaksar SahaAvirup DasguptaRanit KunduNamrata GangulyShreyasee Mitra

Chandrika SahaDebopriya ChatterjeeRiya Taran

Innovative Modeling:Ankit ChowdhuryKartik Koley


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Mudasar MannaDipan ChaterjeeAbhishek SinghKaustav Pal

Manojit DuttaSPIRIT JIS 2015

On 03th to 05th April, 2015 JIS organised SPIRIT JIS 2015.

GPAT 2015 Result:The following B.Pharm. final year students have qualified, GPAT-2015. We congratulate them all.Diksha KumariRupanjay Bhattacharya

Avik Paul Xtasy 2015:

GNIPST is going to organize the Tech Fest Xtasy 2015 from 30thMarch, 2015 to 1st April, 2015.

FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME:The FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME wasorganized by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell and Training

& Placement Cell, GNIPST in collaboration with Indian PharmacyGraduates Association (IPGA), Bengal Branch from 21st Februaryto 11thApril, 2015 at GNIPST Auditorium.

On 21st

February, 2015 the Finishing School Training Programme ofGNIPST was inaugurated by Sri Soumen Mukhopadhyay, DeputyDirector, 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 DrugController, Mr. Sujoy Chakraborty, divisional Therapy Manager,Cipla and Mr. Vikranjit Biswas, Senior Manager, Learning &Development, Cipla delivered their valuable lectures in the 2nd dayFINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME of GNIPST.


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On 14th March, 2015 Mr. Milindra Bhattacharya, Senior Manager,QA & QC, Emami Ltd. and Mr. Joydev Bhoumik, Manager,Operation, Ranbaxy Laboratory Limited delivered their valuablelectures 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 valuablelectures in the 4th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAININGPROGRAMME of GNIPST.On 28th March, 2015 Dr. Gautam Chaterjee, an Alumni of JadavpurUniversity and presently associated with NIPER delivered hisvaluable lectures in the 5th FINISHING SCHOOL TRAINING

PROGRAMME of GNIPST.On 11th April, 2015 the closing ceremony of the FINISHINGSCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAMME was held in GNIPSTAuditorium.

JOBS:All the students of Final Year B. Pharm and M. Pharm are herebyinformed that an interview will be conducted on 23rdMay, 2015 byStandard Pharmaceuticals Ltd. GSK for post: Production, QA, QC.All the students of Final Year B. Pharm and M. Pharm are herebyinformed that an interview will be conducted by GSK for sales andmarketing job.Details given below:

Date: 27.03.2015Time: 09:45 amVenue : GSK Consumer Healthcare Limited, Unit No. 208,

2nd

Floor, Ecospace Campus B (3 B), New Town,Rajarhat, 24 Pgs (N). Kolkata-700156.

THYROCARE provisionally selected 15 students from JIS Group.Amongst these, 3 students of B. Sc (H) Biotechnology and M. ScBiotechnology have been selected.Ipsita Mondal (M. Sc Biotechnology)Debriti Paul (M. Sc Biotechnology)Debopriya Chatterjee {B. Sc (H) Biotechnology}


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The final year students of B.Pharm (31 students) and B.Sc (11students) attended the pooled campus drive of Abbott India Ltd.on 10th March, 2015 at Jadavpur University. Among them 17students have gone through to the final round of this pooled

campus drive and short listed for final selection.ACHIEVEMENT:

Congratulations to Anurag Chanda, student of B.Pharm final yearwho have got the 1st prize in poster presentation event in Prakriti2015 at Department of Agricultural and Food engineering, IIT,Kharagpur.

OTHERS:On 24

th

and 25th

February, 2015 Swamiji of Gourio Math was

delivered some motivational lectuers in GNIPST.The students of GNIPST participated in the 4

th

Sardar JodhSinghTrophy organised by NIT on 20

th

February, 2015.

On 8th February, 2015 Gnipst celebrated the ReunionprogrammeReminiscence Reloaded 2015.

STUDENTS SECTION

WHO CAN ANSWER FIRST????

Literally meaning of which country

is Rich coast ?

Answer of Previous Issues Image

Bromine

Send your thoughts/

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contributions for Students Section answ ers

of this Section [email protected]

EDITORS NOTE

It is a great pleasure for me to publish the 1stissue of 53th 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

and Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya for their kind co-operation and

technical supports. Thank you Mr. Soumya Bhattacharyafor 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

The general body meeting of APTI, Bengal Branch has been

conducted at GNIPST on 15thJune, 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 hourlong discussion among more than thirty participants on different

aspects of pharmacy education. Five nonmember participants

applied for membership on that very day.


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GNIPST is now approved by AICTE and affiliated to WBUT for

conducting the two years post graduate course (M.Pharm) in

PH RM COLOGY

The approved number of seat is 18.

The number of seats in B.Pharm. has been increased from 60 to120.

AICTE has sanctioned a release of grant under Research

Promotion Scheme (RPS) during the financial year 2012-13to

GNIPST as per the details below:

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 FacultySPORTS Mr. Debabrata GhoshDastidarLITERARY AND PAINTING Ms. Jeenatara BegumSCIENCE AND INNOVATIVEMODELLING

Mr. Samrat Bose

ECO Ms. Sumana RoySOCIAL SERVICES Dr. Asis BalaPHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Sanchari BhattacharyaCULTURAL Ms. Priyanka RayDEBATE AND EXTEMPORE Mr. Soumya Bhattacharya

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