Recently I accepted the proposal of commencing an honorary association with the newly built Apex Management Institute, Durgapur as a Member of the Governing Body. Under this responsibility, it would be my pleasure to help its management with fruiful suggestion and advice using my professional experience and technical expertise. I wish all the very best to this new Institute, located in the heart of the city of Durgapur.
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Our article can be viewed through the Website, http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/360.
My close association and relationship with Mr. Prasun Banerjee, an icon of Indian Football, is something that makes me proud and privileged. Before coming into the personal contact with him, I had knowledge only about his huge technical efficiency in the game of soccer. But afterward by virtue of the growing intimacy through constant personal interaction, I’ve realized how gentle, kind, honest he is as a human being. He is a nice family-man. The prestigious green-maroon Mohunbagan-jersey that he gifted to me during his family-tour to my house is kept with the most care in my collection. His brother-like love and affection toward me and my family, his motivating and encouraging advice to me, his innocent sharing of personal happiness and sorrow with me, his respect toward my highest academic degree, all together have made him a real friend not only to me but to my family as well . “Hats off to you, Prasunda. You’re an inspirational character to me”.
Suddenly on August 1 last, my spouse Piali had to be taken to the Emergency Section in The Mission Hospital, Durgapur, where she was immediately admitted with abnormally high heart-bit. She recovered slowly and steadily under continuous careful treatment of eminent cardiologists, and finally she was discharged on the next day. It was a period of extreme anxiety, followed by an ultimate big relief.
Apart from efforts from our end, Piali also requires good wishes from you all for her permanent recovery from this fatigue state.
Very recently, Pranam Paul, my Ph. D. Scholar registered at National Institute of Technology, Durgapur has successfully published his paper, "Enhancement of Security through an Efficient Substitution-based Block Cipher of Bit-level Implementation with Possible Lossless Compression" in International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (ISSN: 1738-7906, Volume Number: Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 318-326), Korea.
The paper can be viewed using the URL, http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/200804/20080445.pdf
