IIT Kharagpur

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
15
2019
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By Satarupa Sen Bhattacharya
Humans of KGP

Humans of KGP

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I have spent 38 years on this campus and the one thing that I can tell you as a result is this: I shall die a happier and more contented man than many others on this planet. The lure of KGP is its people – all these bright, young minds as much as their brilliant teachers and mentors. And all these books that you see around me. These books are my passion – they are like my children. Today, as a part time librarian in this Hall Library post retirement, I handle the entire process – from the acquisition of…
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Feb
13
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
The future of medicine

The future of medicine

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In May 2018, IIT Kharagpur set up India’s pioneering Bioelectronics Innovation Laboratory to develop futuristic battery-free implantable medical devices for the treatment of brain, nerve, muscle or spinal cord disorders that are untreatable by using standard medical practices. These medical devices will go a long way in providing affordable and reliable medical solutions. The laboratory will facilitate energy-efficient electronic system development, biocompatible packaging, bio-reliability assessment and animal testing rooms as a unified platform for an end-to-end intelligent medical system development. Prof. Sudip Nag of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering of IIT Kharagpur is heading the initiative. The…
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Feb
12
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Netting a windfall

Netting a windfall

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The Economic Times     India Today     Business Standard   NDTV A bioactive product invented by a start-up incubated at IIT Kharagpur’s STEP (Science and Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park) is silently changing the face of aquaculture in Eastern Midnapore. ‘Mr Fish’, produced with the latest technology, is one-of-a-kind of product that not only increases the size of the fish produced in the least possible time but, and more importantly, enhances its taste and nutritional quality. Produced by Zelence Industries Pvt. Ltd. (www.myzelence.com), the start-up from IIT Kharagpur, the product has come as a boon to fish farmers in Bengal and neighbouring Orissa. Both…
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Feb
07
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Young and honoured

Young and honoured

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Keshav Kishor Jain (2013/B Tech/AG/HJB) has received the much coveted Economic Times Young Leaders 2018 award. The EYTL identifies and rewards India's most promising young managers in the age group of 26 to 32 years and is widely recognized by the corporate world as a gold standard to identify future leaders of India Inc. Keshav is currently Assistant Vice President at Barclays. As a finance professional, he has worked with various investment banks and financial institutions in the areas of financial modelling, M&A, risk management, risk advisory, derivatives research and financial analysis. He has experience in leading teams for multiple…
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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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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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Jan
28
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
An Interaction with the Partition Archive

An Interaction with the Partition Archive

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Three young boys, almost painfully conscious of addressing what they believed was a way more mature audience than what they probably had in mind. Yet they represented a wisdom that is perhaps as tall as a mountain. The three of them were from  “The 1947 Partition Archive”, a globally important organisation.  The Partition Archive, a non-profit organization born at Berkeley, with an office in Delhi, has been collecting, preserving and sharing first-hand accounts of the Partition since 2010. The three bright young scholars, who have worked for the organization and continue to work with it, were invited to IIT Kharagpur’s…
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Jan
07
2019
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By Chirosree Basu
Canals as green lungs

Canals as green lungs

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Since the 1990s, we have observed a rapid change in the urban landscape of Kolkata and the most significant impact has been in areas with extensive water bodies. In addition to the reducing surface water landscape in the city, there has been a considerable deterioration in the condition of the water bodies which thereby has led to the decline of the drainage and sewage system. Notable among these is the Adi Ganga – Tolly’s Nullah stretch, which continues to be the backbone of city’s drainage system. The ‘khal’ or canal system of the city was once integral to the life…
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