Her Excellency Ms. Dana Kursh, Consul General of Israel to South India (Bengaluru), has inaugurated “Women in Sustaining the Environment” (WISE), a new collaborative research project between Amrita and Tel Aviv University on February 11, 2019 at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri campus.
Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, President of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham and Vice-Chairman of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, represented Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (Amma) in UAE at Abu Dhabi’s historic ‘Global Conference of Human Fraternity’. The conference, that aimed at nurturing brotherhood and tolerance between religions, based on the understanding that all faiths were founded to create peace for humanity, concluded with a historic meeting between two of the world’s most prominent religious leaders. In his address, Swami Amritaswarupananda said, “We need to have constant awareness that if we harm or destroy any aspect of creation under the sun — seemingly significant or insignificant — we are, in fact, harming or destroying part of our own selves, an element of our own being.”
Since its inception in 2009, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham Internal Quality Assurance Cell (IQAC) has been actively engaged in knowledge exchange and activities to share best practices with various higher educational institutions and universities.
On 21st January, 2019, a senior administration team from O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, comprising of Dr. Y.S.R. Murthy, Registrar and Dr. Indranath Gupta, Controller of Examinations, visited Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore campus.
In an intercollegiate rapid style chess tournament held at Kollam on December 9th, 2018, the Amrita chess team, comprising of four players, grabbed second prize which included Rs. 3000 cash prize, trophies and certificates.
