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Women’s Leadership Conclave 2022

Alumni Corner, Community, Engagement, Environment & Social Impact, Social ImpactAccountability, Dr. Kiran Bedi, Dr. Tessy Thomas, DRDO, Empowerment, Manoshi Roychowdhury, Missile Woman of India, National Adventure Awardee, Padmashri, Partha Ghosh Academy of Leadership, Phoolbashan Bai Yadav, Premlata Agarwal, Social Worker, Trust, Vedic Philosophy, Women Leaders, Women’s Leadership Conclave

As India enters its 76th year of Independence, it aims to reclaim its status of Vishwa Guru by 2047 where the role of women leaders is crucial in the diverse fields of our society to create a balance. With a drive to encourage women empowerment, Partha Ghosh Academy of Leadership at IIT Kharagpur organized the first of its kind Women’s Leadership Conclave from 26th to 27th November 2022 on “Women – The Backbone of Society,” in Netaji Auditorium. Eminent women guest speakers like Dr. Kiran Bedi, Ex. Lt Governor of Puducherry and a Megsaysay Awardee along Smt. Premlata Agarwal, Padmashri,…

Devastating Aftermath of Cyclones

Environment, Environment & Social Impact, Expert Insight, Research & Innovation, ResearcherAcademia Sinica, American Geophysical Union, Anindyo Sarkar, Climate Change, Collaboration, Cyclone Sitrang, Cyclones, Geology, Geophysical Research, Geophysics, Isotope Studies, Mao-Chang Liang, Mass Spectrometer, Megi, Meranti, Moving Cyclones, Nepartak, Sitran, Sourendra Bhattacharya, Typhoons

Isotope studies by IIT Kharagpur and Academia Sinica, Taiwan scientists shed light on how the cyclones sustain their energy. Cyclones are increasingly becoming perilous to the coastal populations of the subcontinent. Climate change due to global warming, projects that the frequency of category 4 and 5 storms (60 to >70 m/s sustained wind speed) will be doubled by the end of the 21st century. However, the question remains: why some cyclones are devastating while others are not? What controls the intensity of cyclonic winds and rains? Cyclones are gigantic vortex, 500-700 km in diameter and 20 km in height, which…

Effective Control Technologies to Reduce Sulphur Dioxide Pollution In India

Environment, Environment & Social Impact, Research & Innovation, Researcherair pollution, Air Quality Monitoring Network, Anthropogenic SO2, Atmosphere and Land Sciences, Bharat Stage, Centre for Oceans, Conventional Coal, CORAL, Ecosystem Dynamics, FGD Technologies, Flue Gas Desulphurization, Fossil Fuel, GHG Emission, Indo-Gangetic Plain, industrialization, Mitigation Strategies, Policy Decisions, Pollutants, Radiative Forcing, Regional Climate, rivers, Scrubber, SO2, Sulfate Aerosols, Technological Advance, Thermal Power Plants, urbanization

FLUE GAS DESULPHURIZATION REDUCES SO2 POLLUTION IN INDIA A study by a team of researchers from IIT Kharagpur led by Prof. Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath from Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) found a significant decline in SO2 trends in India in the last decade, as compared to those in the previous three decades. The decrease in trend and concentration of SO2 is due to the environmental regulation and adaptation of effective control technologies such as scrubber and Flue Gas Desulphurization that shows the positive impact of technological advance and policy decisions to improve the air quality in India.…