Month: January 2019

Jan
30
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Its ePunch Time!

Its ePunch Time!

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IIT KGP is all set to digitize its classroom attendance with a bio-metric system as part of the smart campus project of the Institute. With the growing number of students, attendance keeping has become a time-consuming activity. Though the current teacher-student ratio for classroom teaching at IIT KGP is 1:13.5, but average class strength, especially for undergraduate students, range from 40 - 90. The attendance takes about 10-12 minutes of the 1-hour classes. Sample gadgets have been acquired which will be tested on a pilot basis in the ongoing Spring semester. Both fixed and portable bio-metric machines will be tried…
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Jan
30
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Live it up

Live it up

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The goal of modern medicine is no longer confined to the mere treatment of sickness. Equally important is disease prevention and improvement of the basic quality of life. This requires knowledge sharing and collaborations among medical profession, architects, administrators, academics and management consultants to help them put forward their view points on the future of healthcare in India. A conference on “Hospital Planning and Beyond” organized by the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning of IIT Kharagpur on January 28 in Kolkata brought together experts from the medical profession, architects, administrators, academics and management consultants to put forward their view…
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Jan
28
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Greater reliability

Greater reliability

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Times of India    India Today    Economic Times     Energy Infra Post In a major development that will lend impetus to the 2nd stage of India’s nuclear power programme, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, has entered into a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur to carry out research related to the design and development of Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs). A dedicated IGCAR-IITKGP R&D cell has been set up under an MoU in the premises of IIT Kharagpur under the Advanced Technology Development Centre’s Structural Reliability Research Facility of IIT KGP to address the key…
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Jan
28
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
An Interaction with the Partition Archive

An Interaction with the Partition Archive

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Three young boys, almost painfully conscious of addressing what they believed was a way more mature audience than what they probably had in mind. Yet they represented a wisdom that is perhaps as tall as a mountain. The three of them were from  “The 1947 Partition Archive”, a globally important organisation.  The Partition Archive, a non-profit organization born at Berkeley, with an office in Delhi, has been collecting, preserving and sharing first-hand accounts of the Partition since 2010. The three bright young scholars, who have worked for the organization and continue to work with it, were invited to IIT Kharagpur’s…
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Jan
23
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IIT KGP Partners with AOTS Japan

IIT KGP Partners with AOTS Japan

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Financial Express   The Week   Navbharat Times   Business Standard  Techgraph    NDTV    Millenium Post     Gadget Now    NewsNation   The Indian Wire   DevDiscourse IIT Kharagpur and Japan’s The Association for Overseas Technical Cooperation and Sustainable Partnerships (AOTS) have signed an MoU on January 21, 2019, to explore opportunities for an Indo-Japanese Research Centre at IIT Kharagpur to showcase research and technology developments in thematic areas. The two organizations shall focus on state of the art joint certification courses in the domains of technology and management to be co-taught by faculty/experts in both countries including visits to the host institutions. This…
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Jan
21
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Secrets from Deccan Traps

Secrets from Deccan Traps

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Times of India      Kolkata(p1), Kolkata(p4),   Delhi,   Mumbai,   Hyderabad,   Bangalore,  Chennai,   Chandigarh,  Goa,   Lucknow,  Pune,   Jaipur,   Bhopal    IndiaTimes    The Week    Business Standard    TimesNow    The Sentinel Assam     NewsTrack   The Weather Channel     Eastern Mirror   India.com In 1993 filmmaker Steven Spielberg told us an exciting story of the dinosaurs and their creation from the blood of mosquitoes in the Jurassic era carrying dinosaur DNA. The DNA was so critical to the story that we saw John Hammond, a lead character, carry it in his walking stick all through the movie. That was few drops of blood and now researchers have found an…
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Jan
15
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
KGP – Alberta Collaboration

KGP – Alberta Collaboration

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Business Standard     Times Now     NDTV     Outlook     Yahoo   DevDiscourse      CanIndia     World Education Review     Tech2     ProKerala IIT KGP and University of Alberta (UoA), one of Canada’s top ranking university have rekindled their partnership with an MoU signed on January 14, 2019. The two institutions have agreed to explore opportunities for a joint doctoral degree program where doctoral students will be working on collaborative projects and co-supervised by faculty members at both institutions. The special scheme from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India and UoA will be explored where doctoral students…
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Jan
12
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Alumni Gift on Alumni Meet

Alumni Gift on Alumni Meet

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Times of India Giving back at the Annual Alumni Meet is a ritual at IIT Kharagpur. In keeping true to the tradition, close to 400 alumni from the 1969, 1979, 1994 and 1997 batches have donated Rs. 3.6 crore to their Alma Mater on the occasion of the 16th Annual Alumni Meet scheduled from January 11-13, 2019. The annual giving is among the several alumni fundraising campaigns conducted by the grand old IIT during the year. The donation has been made towards their respective batches in endowment mode, partial interest out of which will be utilized every year to support…
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Jan
11
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
We’re Home

We’re Home

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Times of India (Alumni Outreach)   Times of India (Alumni Gift)      Business Standard (DSA) IIT Kharagpur is celebrating its 16th Annual Alumni Meet scheduled on January 11-13, 2019. Alumni Meet is an occasion when close to 300 alumni visit every year from the batches celebrating their 50th, 40th and 25th year of graduation. This year it was no different as the Institute welcomed the alumni from across the globe starting from the evening of January 10. The boys and girls who once cycled around the hallowed boulevards of the campus are now heading various corporations essaying the roles of…
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Jan
07
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Kgpian Receives NATO Award

Kgpian Receives NATO Award

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Business Standard      India Today      Outlook      Zee News      Odisha Sun Times      Patrika       Swarajya       Devdiscourse IIT KGP alumnus Dr. Prakash Patnaik has been conferred with the prestigious NATO Science & Technology Organization (STO)’s Panel Excellence Award. Dr. Patnaik is a globally recognized scientist in the domain of Aerospace Materials Science and Engineering. Much of this work, in the last 30 years, has been performed in a collaborative global milieu, including governments, industries and academic organizations. He has been awarded in recognition and appreciation for his longstanding service and extraordinary scientific contribution rendered to…
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