Month: March 2019

Mar
12
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
VGSOM’s Placement Century

VGSOM’s Placement Century

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VGSOM Silver Jubilee Celebrations Concluded with 100% Phase I Placement Economic Times Careers 360 Jagran Josh The Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur concluded its first phase of Final Placements season for the 26th batch of its flagship MBA program with 100% placements. With more than 65 companies participating in the process, 139 job offers, including 31 Pre-Placement Offers were made to 123 students of the Class of 2019. Leading corporates like Accenture Digital, Amazon, eBay, Deloitte, ZS Associates, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Titan, Schlumberger, Trident Group, Vedanta, ICICI Bank, HSBC, Virtusa, Maybank, Wipro, IBM, Novartis and many more reiterated their…
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Mar
11
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Breakfast with Ron

Breakfast with Ron

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At the Distinguished Service award ceremony at IIT Kharagpur in January 2019, Prof. Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Director, IIT Kharagpur, laid bare a fact that should have been pretty obvious but, as usual, had not occurred to anybody else. While talking about IIT KGP alumni’s contribution to the Institute, Prof. Chakrabarti referred to the recent hoopla over the donation pledge of Rs 25 crore undertaken by the alumni of a particular IIT and pointed out, “Among several batches, more than Rs 50 crore has been given by the Batch of 1970 alone.” There are, of course, other batches, which have donated…
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Mar
09
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
VGSOM in Top QS Ranks

VGSOM in Top QS Ranks

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VGSOM ranked among India's top 5 in QS 2019 Subject Ranking for Business and Management Studies IITs which are typically renowned for technology-based education are now leaders in management education as well. This is evident from the QS Subject Ranking 2019 for Business & Management Studies, in which IITs have occupied 5 out of top 10 places. Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM), the business school of IIT Kharagpur which has recently completed its Silver Jubilee, has been ranked 4th among the business schools in India with exceptionally high Citations per Paper and H-index Citations scores. The QS World University…
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Mar
08
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Paving through the Waterways

Paving through the Waterways

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India Today News18 Business Standard Careers360 Times Now Outlook NDTV India Education Diary Reddit Times of India SME Times Ministry of Shipping (MoS) under its flagship Sagarmala Programme is setting up the Centre for Inland and Coastal Maritime Technology (CICMT) at IIT Kharagpur. CMICT will provide applied research and development for the inland and coastal waterways sector. This will provide real-world solutions for inland and coastal waterways transportation and provide tools and technological inputs to double the share in intermodal transport for domestic waterways freight carrying capacity. The project is of strategic long-term interests for the port and maritime sector…
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Mar
07
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Gone too soon

Gone too soon

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There are not too many who can act as a bridge across peoples, cultures, disciplines, institutions and vocations  – all at the same time. Lord Sushanta Kumar Bhattacharyya was one of them. Renowned academic, successful entrepreneur, manufacturing expert and leading consultant to industry and government across geographies, this eminent alumnus of IIT Kharagpur donned many caps and influenced many lives. Not surprisingly, his demise on March 1, 2019, has come as a rude shock not only to the people of Britain, where he lived and worked, but also to multitudes of individuals and institutions who gained from his genius; our…
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Mar
07
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Smart Solutions for Smarter India

Smart Solutions for Smarter India

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Times of India     News18    India Today    Business Standard   Ei Samay     Outlook   Zee Business Students from IIT Kharagpur have devised unique solutions for smarter & safer industrial operations ranging from detecting counterfeit currency through a mobile app, to nuclear radiation tracking through wearable sensors, to VR based human resources training at a thermal power plant. Fake Currency Indian Notes (FCIN) have plagued the country for decades leading to not only economic losses for the country but also as the source of funds of various illegal activities even leading to breach of national security. The country has witnessed…
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Mar
01
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Earn your spurs

Earn your spurs

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Science and technology can be used to create a number of innovations useful in various facets of life. Sometimes the true value of a research work remains unexplored and the innovator is unable to fully exploit the invention commercially. A different situation may arise where some other person copies or misuses an invention without the permission of the true inventor. So it is essential to protect the right of an inventor which not only prevents misuse and copying of an invention but also promotes further innovation.  Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) are a kind of legal right which gives privileges to…
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