Jalandhar, Jan. 10 -- Lovely Professional University organised its 12th convocation ceremony on Friday, with India's Vice-President CP Radhakrishnan gracing the occasion as the chief guest. The university conferred degrees on over 50,000 graduating students from 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 batches, across regular, online and distance education programmes. It also awarded academic medals to 320 students, including 37 gold medals, and honoured 861 PhD scholars. Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria presided over the convocation, where former United Kingdom Prime Minister Mary Elizabeth Truss was awarded an honorary doctorate, recognising her leadership, public service and contributions to global political discourse. In his convocation address, Radhakrishnan congratulated the graduating students on reaching an important milestone, and urged them to carry forward the values of integrity, diversity, compassion and service, emphasising, "Living for yourself is not wrong, but living only for yourself is. We must give back to society." Meanwhile, Kataria reminded the students that education extended far beyond academic attainment to the formation of character, values and civic responsibility. He urged them to uphold integrity, discipline and ethical grounding in every sphere of life. Ashok Kumar Mittal, Rajya Sabha member and founder chancellor of LPU, called upon the graduates to translate learning into meaningful impact, contributing to society while strengthening India's position in the global knowledge economy....