19 October 2024: The 25th Research Day organised by the Research and Development Cell DBCK was held on 19 October at 10:30 Am at the conference hall DBCK. The main objective of the programme was to promote research work among the faculties. Chairperson Miss Sharon Khing, Assistant professor (dept.of.commerce)DBCK courteously welcomed the invitees and attendees before the commencement of the program.

The program began with a word of prayer by Dr Yanthungbeni T.Kithan (Dept.of.Education) DBCK followed by a a few words of greetings delivered by Dr Velhou Koza Convener, RDC, DBCK and provided more emphasis on 25th Research Day as a remarkable date as it also indicate silver jubilee and facilitated the special invitee, Dr. Laishram Bijen Kumar Singh, Assistant professor Centre for Naga Tribal Language Studies Nagaland University Kohima Campus Meriema. Dr Singh has 8 years of teaching experience expertise in phonology, Morphology and language documentation. He completed 2 Major research projects and is currently engaged in other and delivered 17 lectures as an invitee Resource Person. He presented 13 papers at National and International conferences. Dr Velhou expressed his profound appreciation to the guest and the attendees and emphasised the essence of promoting Research Day as it is unique and special for everyone. As a gesture of appreciation the college presented Dr Singh's with a token of recognition.

Following the felicitation time was given to Dr Pinky Sagolsem (dept.of.English) DBCK to present her research paper. Dr Pinky presented on the topic "A Contrastive Study of Germination of Plosive Consonants in English and Manipuri Phonology". She discuss about what is Germination and mentioned that germination comes from Latin words "gemmnation-em doubling", related to Geminus "twin", seen in the astrological sign Gemini, which means, as the name suggests, the  doubling of  consonants, that is, the change which produces a sequence of two identical consonants starting from a single starting consonants. Dr Pinky also debated that in phonetics, germination and consonants elongation happens when a spoken consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than a short consonant.

In the feedback session special invitee Dr Singh acknowledged Dr Pinky's well structured and excellent work, her informative and engaging presentation. Dr Singh also mentioned long associations with the college. He further suggests a constructive and friendly suggestion that whoever is interested in association with her then they can create a Naga language as well. He concluded by stating  that he would be delighted to see the paper in the form of a published paper in the near future.

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