Year: 2019

Mar
19
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Build small, think big

Build small, think big

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“The duty of universities, more than ever now, is to train students to think critically,” said Prof. Ben L. Feringa during his visit to IIT Kharagpur Professor Ben L. Feringa won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry together with Jean-Pierre Sauvage (France) and Sir James Fraser Stoddart (UK) for their work on the development of molecular machines. He has been a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Groningen since 1988. In 1999, his discovery of the 'molecular motor' - a light-driven rotary molecular motor -was widely recognized as a spectacular scientific breakthrough. Prof. Feringa is internationally recognized as a…
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Mar
18
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Amazon Cloud for IIT KGP Students

Amazon Cloud for IIT KGP Students

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Hindustan Times   Times of India     Business Standard     India Today      News18     Careers360     Asian Age     Express Computer (Indian Express)    India Education Diary      Gadgets Now    NDTV      Reddit IIT Kharagpur will adopt Amazon Web Services (AWS) Educate, a program designed to help students gain in-demand cloud computing skills, including artificial intelligence (AI) hands-on experience, and other competencies from the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud services provider. "We are happy to introduce AWS Educate program to provide AWS Cloud Computing experience and AI-enablement for all our students, irrespective of their branch of…
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Mar
15
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
And the 1st Prize goes to . . .

And the 1st Prize goes to . . .

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Times of India       India Today     Careers360    Jagran Josh A two-member student team from IIT KGP has adjudged winner of the APICS Supply Chain Case Competition for South and Western Asia. The American Production and Inventory Control Society known as APICS is the world’s leading professional body for end-to-end supply chain excellence. The Case Competition has two segments in Asia, the Singapore edition for East Asian and South East Asian countries and the Hyderabad edition for West Asian and South Asian countries. The winning team comprising Rohan Sewani and Rohit Sar from IIT Kharagpur was given…
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Mar
15
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Ground rules

Ground rules

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Two new MTech courses introduced by IIT Kharagpur will have wide acceptability in the industry India Today Jagran Josh AglaSem Swarajya Starting next semester, that is July 2019, the Mining Engineering Department of IIT Kharagpur will throw open two new MTech programs – one in GeoMechanics for Mineral and Energy Resources, and the other in Safety, Health and Environment. The Department so long allowed an MTech in Mining Engineering, which will be replaced with the two new ones. However, it also allows a Dual Degree in Mining Engineering and in Safety Engineering that will continue. “The MTech course in GeoMechanics…
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Mar
13
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IIT KGP’s Another First – 1.3 petaFLOPS High-Performance Computing

IIT KGP’s Another First – 1.3 petaFLOPS High-Performance Computing

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IIT Kharagpur and C-DAC to set up India’s First 1.3 PetaFlop HPC Facility and Data Centre under National Supercomputing Mission Times of India Indian Express India Today The Week Business Standard Millenium Post BusinessLine Jagran Josh Swarajya Down To Earth NDTV High-Performance Computation based R&D in India is going to witness a new phase with the setting up of India’s first state-of-the-art 1.3 PetaFlop High-Performance Computing facility and datacenter ecosystem at IIT Kharagpur under the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM). The Institute signed an MoU with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), an autonomous Scientific Society of the Ministry…
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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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