Month: December 2020

Dec
07
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Faculty Achievement

Faculty Achievement

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Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Dean, Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy Cell and Professor, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering has been named for the prestigious Newton-Bhabha Fund Researcher Link Workshop Grants 2020-21. The program is funded by the UK Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under the Newton Bhabha Fund facilitated by the British Council. He will be collaborating with the faculty experts from the University of Glasgow, the United Kingdom to hold a series of workshops focusing on high-impact research in the area of healthcare technology for public health preparedness and response to…
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Dec
03
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Ammonia Hotspot Trends in India – First-time observations from India

Ammonia Hotspot Trends in India – First-time observations from India

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Indo-Gangetic Plain an atmospheric ammonia hotspot but India’s overall trends look promising Agro fertilizers containing high levels of ammonia have long been designated as a hazardous material for human health. For the first time in India, the seasonal and inter-annual variability of atmospheric ammonia emitted by the agricultural sector has been analyzed by researchers from IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with IITM Pune and European researchers. And the results are in agreement with the long-held apprehension of global environmentalists - the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) is indeed the global hot-spot of atmospheric ammonia (NH3) due to intense agricultural activities and fertilizer production…
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Dec
02
2020
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Higher Risk in Concentrated Business Control – VGSOM Researchers

Higher Risk in Concentrated Business Control – VGSOM Researchers

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Award-Winning Research from IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management Indicate Higher Risks with Family-controlled Firms In an award-winning research study conducted by faculty and alumni at IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management, the researchers have found that family and family control ownership is negatively related to firms’ profitability due to lags in management.  The study is based on decadal data from 2007 to 2017 of 421 listed firms in emerging markets which have at least 5%-20% of the equity capital is owned by a family group including concert promoters. The results show that family-owned firms dominant with concentrated…
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Dec
01
2020
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By Poulami Mondal
2020 Day 1 Placement Report

2020 Day 1 Placement Report

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Despite Pandemic, IIT Kharagpur secured a significant number of placement offers for the 2020 season At this ongoing pandemic situation, IIT Kharagpur bagged 276 Pre-Placement Offers (PPOs) out of 425 eight-week internship opportunities through online mode. Companies like Barclay, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, Microsoft, MasterCard, Dr. Reddy, Tata Steel have offered more than 10 PPOs each. Around thirty companies participated in Day 1 and more than 130 placement offers were received for the final year students. TSMC, Sony-Japan and Cohesity US made international hiring offers. “Key components of this success are excellent technical skills of the students, the flexible online internship…
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