In-Depth

Sep
27
2018
3 Comments
By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IIT KGP Faculty Makes Purified Drinking Water Available for Rs. 1

IIT KGP Faculty Makes Purified Drinking Water Available for Rs. 1

In-Depth, , , , , , ,
Times of India    India Today    Business Standard   Millennium Post    Navbharat Times    NDTV    ABP News    ABP News Twitter   Indian Express   Jagran Josh  EiSamay Faculty from IIT KGP has developed a model for purified drinking water supply, costing Rs. 1 per family per day, for a village in Southern Bengal. Dr. Somnath Ghosal from the Rural Development Centre of IIT Kharagpur has involved participatory management offering villagers access to purified drinking water in a sustainable manner, using Water Cards, Water ATM Vending Machine, etc. The unique set-up has been built in the Porapara village in West Midnapore district of Bengal. He…
Read More
Sep
20
2018
0 Comments
By Shreyoshi Ghosh
New Indian Monsoon Rainfall Prediction Model Developed by IIT KGP Researchers

New Indian Monsoon Rainfall Prediction Model Developed by IIT KGP Researchers

In-Depth, , , , , ,
Business Standard     Financial Express      Millenium Post     Prabhat Khabar     The Week     Outlook Researchers from Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of IIT KGP have developed a new statistical model, which can be used to predict variability and trends in rainfall over different climate regions of India taking into consideration both local and remote factors causing weather change. Many of these, local and remote, factors that affect weather conditions have been known to the scientific community. However, most weather forecast models typically consider local factors or a single factor that affects rainfall or…
Read More
Sep
19
2018
0 Comments
By Chirosree Basu
That Guilty Feeling

That Guilty Feeling

In-Depth, , , , , , , , , , ,
IIT Kharagpur researchers find that men shop as impulsively as women, but it is the women who feel the guilt The billing is almost complete, you know that. And yet, you pick up a product lying in front of you – perhaps a box of chocolates, a pack of colourful socks or even a tie you don’t really need – and hand it over to the smiling, accommodative person at the check-out counter. Ever wondered why there are so many things kept near the billing counter? They are there to take advantage of what is known as ‘impulse buying behaviour’.…
Read More
Sep
17
2018
0 Comments
By Chirosree Basu
The magic of spun silk

The magic of spun silk

In-Depth, , , , , , , ,
Nature Asia    Indian Express   Outlook    India Today IIT Kharagpur researchers use spider silk fibre to device self-powered bio-nanogenerator You can dismiss Spiderman as a figment of the imagination, but in real life, the web he spins is as powerful as its reel-life version. Spider silk fibres, which have a remarkable protein sequence structure, contain nature’s most outstanding mechanical properties. They have unrivalled elasticity along with biocompatibility and biodegradability. Using these unique properties of spider silk, scientists at IIT Kharagpur, along with a team of researchers from South Korea, have devised a piezoelectric nanogenerator that is self-powered and can harvest…
Read More
Sep
13
2018
1 Comment
By Chirosree Basu
And quiet flows the Saradha

And quiet flows the Saradha

In-Depth
An IIT Kharagpur team of researchers finds traces of the mythical river Saradha in Odisha The recent findings of a team of IIT Kharagpur researchers are bound to add to the aura of the ancient town of Puri, which is also a favourite tourist destination. Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have found evidence that show that the mythical Saradha river, which finds mention in ancient literature, indeed once flowed through Puri in Odisha. The trail of this palaeo-channel, or remnants of a once active river or stream now buried by sediment, has been unearthed both beyond and within the heart of Puri…
Read More
Sep
11
2018
0 Comments
By Shreyoshi Ghosh
IITKGP’s Bioelectronics Research to Develop Coin-sized Biological Computers for Medical Treatment

IITKGP’s Bioelectronics Research to Develop Coin-sized Biological Computers for Medical Treatment

In-Depth, ,
Financial Chronicle    Economic Times Health    Business Standard    Asian Age   Economic Times   NDTV   Indian Express IIT Kharagpur has set up India’s pioneering Bioelectronics Innovation Laboratory to develop futuristic battery-free implantable medical devices for treatment of brain, nerve, muscle or spinal cord disorders that are untreatable by using standard medical practices. Bioelectronics is a new and an exciting field in engineering that is yet to make its mark in India. It utilizes the intersecting knowledge of both electronics and biology. Bioelectronic devices generally target to restore missing neural functions, while utilizing energy efficient and miniaturized engineering systems. “We aim…
Read More
Jan
19
2018
0 Comments
By Shreyoshi Ghosh
Microwave for Clean Fuel

Microwave for Clean Fuel

In-Depth, , , , , , , ,
Times of India     Economic Times       Financial Express        Business Standard        India Today Watch Video Kitchen to Cosmos Microwaves these days ring ‘n’ number of bells. IITKGP Researchers have tapped this microwave radiation to create Clean Energy from the nitrogen-rich non-food Sunn Hemp plants. In the wake of the ongoing initiatives to control pollution, we are often made to think of the proverb ‘prevention is better than cure’. There is an urgency to replace the use of fossil fuels like petrol and diesel which are direct causes of pollution, global warming and climate…
Read More