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Feb
27
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Green Horns to offer Industrial Solutions at SIH2019

Green Horns to offer Industrial Solutions at SIH2019

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Times of India     India Today   Business Standard   Zee Business IIT Kharagpur is hosting the Grand Finale of the Smart India Hackathon 2019, Software Edition on March 2-3, 2019. This year 186 students from various colleges including 6 from IIT Kharagpur will be participating in the event. Another 36 students from the Institute will be participating at other editions of SIH2019 hosted by ISRO, Adani group etc. Shri Prakash Javadekar, Hon'ble Minister of Human Resources Development will announce the start of the Smart India Hackathon 2019 on March 2. A live interaction session with the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India, Shri…
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Feb
19
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IITKgp Full Scholarship for SAARC Nationals

IITKgp Full Scholarship for SAARC Nationals

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Economic Times    Times of India (TNN)  Times of India (PTI)   India Today  The Week    Business Standard   Times Now    Jagran Josh   Telengana Today  Swarajya IIT Kharagpur is launching a full scholarship program for SAARC nationals. The program will be open for full-time students across all levels of study undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral studies in SAARC countries outside India regardless of whether their home institution has an MoU with IIT Kharagpur. The Institute is focusing on students from Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. The Institute will be reaching out to universities and embassies of these countries as well…
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Feb
18
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Honda Y-E-S award for three students of IIT Kharagpur

Honda Y-E-S award for three students of IIT Kharagpur

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India Today Three students from IIT Kharagpur have won the Young Engineer and Scientist’s (Y-E-S) Award for 2018-19. They are Lakshmi Vasanta Majety (3rd year, Chemical Engineering), Nirmalya Panigrahi (3rd year, Mechanical Engineering) and Sabyasachi Sen (3rd year, Mechanical Engineering). The Y-E-S Award, instituted by the Honda Foundation in India in 2007 and facilitated by Honda Cars India, is awarded each year to young students from premier institutes across India who have proven their academic brilliance in the area of science and technology and show the promise of leading society towards an eco-technological orientation. Each student will receive a scholarship…
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Feb
11
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
IIT KGP signs MoU with ZHAW

IIT KGP signs MoU with ZHAW

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IIT Kharagpur and the School of Applied Psychology of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), one of the leading universities of applied sciences in Europe, signed an MoU on February 7, 2019, to explore opportunities for academic exchange and collaboration in research efforts. The academic exchange between the two institutions will not only encompass the exchange of faculty members, researchers and students but also lead to the organization of joint research projects, workshops, conferences and symposia. The two institutions will also work towards the offering of joint or dual programs or projects that allow for joint supervision and credit…
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Feb
06
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
A new prescription

A new prescription

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Railways and the Indian Institute of Technology lend Kharagpur its instant recall value. On February 5, 2019, IIT Kharagpur embarked on a new initiative with South Eastern Railway Hospital that is likely to make the town a major destination for medical research and education as well as medical care. The MoU signed between the two premier institutions cements an arrangement in which both will cooperate and collaborate to further mutually beneficial academic, research and clinical activities. In accordance with the arrangement, IIT Kharagpur and the SE Railway Hospital, which is a 340 bed Heritage hospital, will provide diagnostic services support…
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Feb
03
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IIT KGP to Drive MSME Innovations

IIT KGP to Drive MSME Innovations

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Financial Express   FE Twitter  Times Now   Business Standard    The Week    Dainik Jagran  Dainik Jagran (Print)   Anandabazar   Anandabazar (Print)    Ei Samay (Print)   Nampa   DevDiscourse    KNN   India.com IIT Kharagpur is all set to build Eastern India’s first Industrial Research and Innovation Unit for MSMEs and Start-ups. The Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Industrial Research and Innovation Unit of the DHI Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology at IIT Kharagpur was held in the august presence of Shri Babul Supriyo, Hon’ble Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises on February 3, 2019. Setting up a state-of-the-art centre for…
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Feb
01
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Health-Tech MSME Hub @IITKgp

Health-Tech MSME Hub @IITKgp

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Times of India    Business Standard     The Week    NDTV   India Blooms    Telegraph   Telegraph (Print)  DNA   DevDiscourse    Anandabazar Patrika    Swarajya  UNI In a new development aligned with the upcoming 400-bed superspecialty hospital at IIT Kharagpur, the Institute is going to set up a Common Research & Technology Development Hub (CRTDH) on Technologies for Affordable Healthcare. The initiative which is being supported by the Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India, will address the issues of accessibility and affordability challenging the modern healthcare system through technological innovations. Another key area of focus of the Hub will…
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Jan
30
2019
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By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Its ePunch Time!

Its ePunch Time!

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IIT KGP is all set to digitize its classroom attendance with a bio-metric system as part of the smart campus project of the Institute. With the growing number of students, attendance keeping has become a time-consuming activity. Though the current teacher-student ratio for classroom teaching at IIT KGP is 1:13.5, but average class strength, especially for undergraduate students, range from 40 - 90. The attendance takes about 10-12 minutes of the 1-hour classes. Sample gadgets have been acquired which will be tested on a pilot basis in the ongoing Spring semester. Both fixed and portable bio-metric machines will be tried…
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Jan
30
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Live it up

Live it up

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The goal of modern medicine is no longer confined to the mere treatment of sickness. Equally important is disease prevention and improvement of the basic quality of life. This requires knowledge sharing and collaborations among medical profession, architects, administrators, academics and management consultants to help them put forward their view points on the future of healthcare in India. A conference on “Hospital Planning and Beyond” organized by the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning of IIT Kharagpur on January 28 in Kolkata brought together experts from the medical profession, architects, administrators, academics and management consultants to put forward their view…
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Jan
28
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Greater reliability

Greater reliability

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Times of India    India Today    Economic Times     Energy Infra Post In a major development that will lend impetus to the 2nd stage of India’s nuclear power programme, the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, has entered into a collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur to carry out research related to the design and development of Fast Breeder Reactors (FBRs). A dedicated IGCAR-IITKGP R&D cell has been set up under an MoU in the premises of IIT Kharagpur under the Advanced Technology Development Centre’s Structural Reliability Research Facility of IIT KGP to address the key…
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