Department of Physics, Akal University, Talwandi Sabo is organising a three day (April 22-24, 2017) workshop on “Olympiad Experiments at School Level” in collaboration with Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Mumbai. Prof. Gurmail Singh, the Vice Chancellor, Akal University and Prof. M. S. Johal Dean Academics, Akal University inaugurated the workshop. S. Baljeet Singh, District Science Supervisor and S. Gurpreet Singh, Assistant Education officer were the special guests for the inaugural session.

Thirty-three teachers from Twenty-one schools of Bathinda and Mansa districts are participating in the workshop. The eminent speakers for the event are Prof. P. K. Joshi, Mr. Vikrant Ghanekar from HBCSE, TIFR-Mumbai and Dr. Jogeshwar S. Purohit from Cluster Innovation Centre Delhi University. The workshop began with the lecture of Mr. Ghanekar who informed the participants about Olympiad programs for the science students. Prof. P. K. Joshi, another expert encouraged the participants to link all the science topics to everyday life scenarios for better understanding of the subject and demonstrated the experiments that deal with very basic concepts of science and mathematics such as pendulums, testing characteristics of milk, observing the digestion of milk in a test tube, detection of lycopene of tomato etc. The prime objective of the workshop is to introduce the teachers to the importance of carrying out science experiments in the schools and using hands on experiments as a powerful education tool.

A drunken passenger roughed up a Sikh cabbie and snatched the turban off his head in an assault the NYPD is investigating as a possible hate crime.

Harkirat Singh, 25, said the theft of his religious garb was the culmination of a scary encounter early Sunday with a belligerent boozehound and his three buddies that has made him too scared to drive another night shift.

“I’m so afraid. I don’t want to work,” Singh told the Daily News at his home in Ozone Park, Queens.

“It’s an insult on my religion, also,” he said. “An insult of my faith. It’s horrible.”

The immigrant from Punjab, India, said he picked up three men and a woman – all in their 20s – around 5 a.m. at the corner of Eighth Ave. and 30th St., a few blocks south of Madison Square Garden.

The quartet said they wanted to go to E. 165th St. and Jerome Ave. in the Bronx. When the yellow taxi reached that intersection, the passengers complained that Singh took them to the wrong destination — but the drunks couldn’t give the cabbie a straight answer about where to go next, he said.

“The girl’s saying, ‘Take the right.’ The Spanish guy’s saying, ‘Take the left.’ So, at that time, I was confused,” Singh said.

They began hurling slurs and banging on the plastic partition in his cab, Singh recalled.

“They’re using bad words, also. They said, ‘Ali Baba, f–k you,’” said Singh, who moved to the U.S. three years ago.

He pulled over and told the group to pay $41.76 and to find another cab. The woman coughed up the cash after Singh called 911 — but then one of the men got back into the cab.

Singh said the man who got back into the cab tried to smash the meter. Then he punched Singh in the arm, the cabbie said.

After that, he picked off my turban from my head,” he said. “He wanted to snatch my phone also…It was too horrible.”

Police sources described the suspect as a clean-shaven white Hispanic man in his 20s, around 5-foot-9 and weighing 160 lbs. He was wearing red shoes and blue jeans. He had short hair.

Terrified and crying, Singh says he pleaded with the man to calm down.

“Why are you doing this, brother? We can sit. We can talk,” he recalled telling the unruly passenger.

“At that time, I’m so afraid — they can do anything to me. They’re gonna kill me.”