Shreyoshi Ghosh

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Nov
02
2018
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Great Step for Tomorrow’s Mining Engineers

Great Step for Tomorrow’s Mining Engineers

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Are minerals the new gold standard? What are the environmental aspects and safety concerns in mining? What are bot functionalities in mining? And many more – IIT KGP’s GREAT STEP, the premier technical fest organized by the Department of Mining Engineering is here to answer many of these questions. With the theme “Ore is Gold” the fest is scheduled on 2nd to 4th of November 2018. The event will address critical areas in mining through case studies, design problems, guest lectures, workshops and various competitions. These would include the Petro Case Study, Mineo Case Study, Enviro Case Study, Geobotics, National Mining…
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Oct
30
2018
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Paving Way to Future of Mobility

Paving Way to Future of Mobility

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IIT KGP and Technical University of Munich Join Hands to Shape India’s Emerging Intelligent Mobility Landscape Business Standard (IANS Feed)  Times of India  Business Standard (PTI Feed)  NDTV Economic Times Auto   Canada Today  CanIndia   Outlook  NewsBytes Jagran Josh In an effort to evolve and give direction to the emerging intelligent mobility landscape in India, IIT KGP and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) from Germany are organizing a two-day workshop at IIT KGP on October 29th and 30th. This workshop is being held in the context of the newly-established Indo-German Collaborative Research Center on Intelligent Transportation Systems, which is currently a joint Center…
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Oct
28
2018
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Young Innovators Spread Wings @IITKgp

Young Innovators Spread Wings @IITKgp

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Urban Challenges and Girl Innovators are Top Picks at IIT KGP's Young Innovators Program 2018 Economic Times     Business Standard (PTI)   Business World (Education)  Telangana Today   Indian Express   The Week   Yahoo News   Quint   NDTV  Ei Samay   Anandabazar Patrika   News18 Bangla Challenges of urban India were the top picks at this year's Young Innovators Program #YIP2018 organized by IIT Kharagpur. Students in classes VIII-X from schools in India and Singapore who attended the final two rounds of the science and technology competition at IIT Kharagpur, came up with solutions to problem statements in the areas of Clean Energy, Health and cleanliness, Resource management, Hardware Modelling,…
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Oct
25
2018
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SciTech Boost for Greenhorns

SciTech Boost for Greenhorns

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IIT KGP promoting technological innovation among school students through the Young Innovators Program Business Standard (IANS)  Outlook IIT KGP has organized the second edition of the Young Innovators Program, the much-coveted science and technology competition for students from grades VIII - X. The finale is scheduled on October 27-28, 2018 at the IIT KGP campus where finalists from schools across India and abroad will put forward their innovations in the areas of Clean Energy, Health and cleanliness, Resource management, Hardware Modelling, Product Designing and Disaster Management. The competition had two initial rounds in addition to the two rounds being held at…
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Oct
23
2018
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Say No to Single-Use Plastic

Say No to Single-Use Plastic

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Students at IIT KGP are working towards preventing single-use plastic usage Business Standard    The Week    The Echo of India    Indian Express (PTI)   NDTV    Indian Express   Indian Express (Print)  NewsBytes   The Telegraph  The Telegraph (Print)   About 30 students at IIT KGP have taken up the task of reducing single-use plastic usage in the campus. The students are in the process of forming a students’ society which among other environmental issues will extensively work towards creating social awareness in collecting and disposing of plastic waste including e-waste. The students have led by example not using single-use plastic for over 4 months and…
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Oct
12
2018
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Harvesting the Oceans

Harvesting the Oceans

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Business Standard   The Week    NDTV    Jagran Josh   Indian Express      IIT Kharagpur and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have signed an MoU on October 11, 2018 at New Delhi to facilitate cooperation in research and education between the two institutions. NTNU is an expert in Hydro Power, Ocean Modelling, Deep Sea Resources and Marine Technology which will be key areas of focus under this MoU. The two institutions shall seek to promote mobility of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, joint research activities and publications, cross-participation in seminars and academic meetings and exchange of academic materials and…
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Oct
08
2018
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IIT KGP Launches AI Drive for NexGen Indian Engineers

IIT KGP Launches AI Drive for NexGen Indian Engineers

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Business Standard  India Today   Outlook With the launch of the Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence earlier this year, IIT KGP has been conducting several outreach programs focused towards challenges and applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) which are directly going to impact people’s lives significantly in the near future. Following the IT wave of 90s and 21st century, AI could turn out to be the next key element for the economic development of India. IIT KGP has taken to the task of bringing the younger generation of engineers to venture into new technologies in this domain. The Institute along with…
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Oct
05
2018
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IIT KGP Collaborates with Top French Doctoral Network for Doctoral Education and Research

IIT KGP Collaborates with Top French Doctoral Network for Doctoral Education and Research

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Business Standard by IANS      Times of India by IANS   Indian Express  Business Standard by PTI   Times of India by PTI   NDTV   The Week  Outlook   Eenadu  Jagran Josh    IIT KGP and REDOC SPI (REseau DOCtoral en Sciences Pour l’Ingénieur), a French network of doctoral schools have come together to strengthen institutional collaboration in doctoral education and research. Through this initiative, interaction and collaboration will be promoted between IIT KGP and the doctoral schools (or equivalent structures) of REDOC SPI through visits and exchange programmes, joint academic and research doctoral programmes and joint supervision of doctoral students on a reciprocal…
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Oct
03
2018
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Alumnus to Donate USD 1 Million for Academy of Leadership at IIT KGP

Alumnus to Donate USD 1 Million for Academy of Leadership at IIT KGP

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Economic Times    Hindustan Times   Indian Express  Financial Express   Business Standard   Jagran Josh  NDTV  The Week IIT KGP is all set to establish India’s first of its kind Academy of Leadership envisioning the advancement of education. The academy intends to develop innovative programmes combining the core curricula in science and engineering disciplines with philosophy, reasoning, and liberal arts. “It is indeed an opportune time to expand the scope of the value proposition of the academic excellence at IIT Kharagpur by developing the next phase education process. This is to be based not only on scientific and technical training but the teachings of ancient philosophies,…
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Sep
27
2018
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IIT KGP gets Post Office Passport Seva Kendra

IIT KGP gets Post Office Passport Seva Kendra

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The IIT KGP community has a new reason to rejoice just ahead of the festive season. The campus has got a Post Office Passport Seva Kendra which has started operations from September 27, 2018. The center is located at the Head Post Office in the IIT KGP campus, near the primary entry point to the campus. The center will typically handle upto 30 appointments in a day. Post Office Passport Seva Kendra (POPSK) is an initiative by the Ministry of External Affairs, Govt. of India and the Department of Posts, to extend passport related services on a larger scale and to ensure wider…
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