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PAN IIT Conclave 2019

PAN IIT Conclave 2019

PanIIT, the alumni association of more than 30,000 IITians from all the IITs, is going to hold a Conclave at IIT Delhi on Artificial Intelligence on January 19-20, 2019. The theme of the meet is “Artificial Intelligence: What does the Future hold for India?” The conclave will be attended by over 1,500 IITians from across the world, thought leaders, researchers and authors, ministers from the Central and state governments, senior bureaucrats, industry captains, entrepreneurs and practitioners. PanIIT has previously held national meets on issues of great national and international importance. There is no doubt that AI and Machine Learning are…
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Preserving a palimpsest

Preserving a palimpsest

Indian Express   The Telegraph, The Week   Outlook   Millennium Post   Business Standard   Ei Samay  The Times of India In keeping with the spirit of the ongoing World Heritage Week, a Heritage Fest was organized in Chandernagore on November 25 by a local project team in partnership with the University of Liverpool and IIT Kharagpur. Their two-year project covers the stretch from Bandel to Barrackpore and seeks to protect and raise awareness of the rich cultural heritage of the cities and towns along the course of the Hugli River. Raising awareness among the young, the inheritors of the world’s heritage, is the chief aim…
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From the lab to the hospital

From the lab to the hospital

Prof. Suman Chakraborty, Head, School of Medical Science and Technology, talks about the thrust areas, ongoing programmes, research, achievements and long-term goals of one of the youngest and most ambitious departments of IIT Kharagpur Could you talk about the genesis of SMST? The department started its journey in 2001 against a background where technology was progressively coming into the domain of medical world. It was felt that a unique school or department should be established that would work at the interface between medicine and technology. A medical school would be bothered about the clinical aspects of the study, not necessarily…
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Step on the gas!

Step on the gas!

Financial Chronicle      Economic Times    Business Standard    Zee Business Economic Times Energy World    The Week     Millenium Times    Outlook Jagran Josh  NDTV   Devdiscourse    Suryaa    Sify   Energy Infra Post   The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) has been an immensely successful government program. Launched in May 2016, it aimed to safeguard the health of women and children by providing 5 crore LPG connections in the next 3 years (2016-2019) to BPL families with the support of Rs 1600 to each family. The government has recently decided to enhance the target to 8 crore LPG connections. The time period has been…
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A man with a mission

A man with a mission

An inspiring leader, dedicated nationalist and a visionary, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was the first Union minister for education of independent India. Since 2008, the nation has been celebrating the birthday of Maulana Azad as the National Education Day on November 11. This year too, educational Institutions all over the country commemorated the occasion by organizing seminars, symposia, essay writing and elocution competitions, and rallies with banners and slogans that emphasized the importance of education and the nation’s commitment to all aspects of education. At IIT Kharagpur, the National Education Day began with a floral tribute to Maulana Azad at…
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Play it again, Sam

Play it again, Sam

Tony Braganza of Kolkata’s iconic music store, Braganza and Co., on his life and his time at IIT Kharagpur Anthony Braganza is a much admired figure, both among his friends at IIT Kharagpur and in the music milieu in Kolkata and farther beyond. Tony, as he is best known, and his family are the proprietors of Braganza and Co., the iconic music shop on Marquis Street, Kolkata. The Braganzas have been an indispensable part of the music scene of Kolkata for decades now, supplying, repairing and lending the finest of musical instruments, and even creating trends in the market for…
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Beyond the horror and heartbreak of Partition

Beyond the horror and heartbreak of Partition

Dr Anjali Gera Roy's ongoing project, “After Partition: Post-memories of the Afterlife of Partition 1947”, is part of the worldwide initiative to record the stories of the victims of Partition as they orally recount their horror and heartbreak A house by the river. Moonshine on the waters. And an amazing sunrise every day. That is how Sova Mukherjee recounts the idyll she had to leave behind in Noakhali when political vagaries and Partition drove them away from their land. The family got divided as they shifted to Ganderia in old Dhaka and then to Kolkata before coming together again. Sova…
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Catch them young, watch them grow

Catch them young, watch them grow

The unique ‘C minus 4’ programme helped IIT Kharagpur reach out to several rural schools and assist students in enhancing their confidence and developing their personality The Telegraph In one of the many social initiatives undertaken by IIT Kharagpur, the Institute launched a study model that equips students, especially those belonging to rural schools, to grow into confident, knowledgeable, competent individuals. The project is called “Innovative ‘C-4’ Model for High School Students”. Under the ‘C-4’ model, middle or high school students are trained and mentored so that they can teach students who are four classes (that is, minus 4) junior…
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Adding value

Adding value

Professor Tiwari’s gurukul If you happen to take a midnight stroll across the academic complex of IIT Kharagpur, somewhere close to the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, you are likely to come across a group of students in deep conversation with a professor. Classes at odd hours of the day, and even night, are not something unusual in IIT Kharagpur. But hardly any class continues till the wee hours of the morning, except perhaps this particular one in this particular department. The most amazing part is that this is a class of students who willingly subject themselves to the…
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Turning the tide

Turning the tide

IIT Kharagpur will play a critical role in the preservation of Hugli’s heritage Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur is all set to play a critical role in conservation efforts in Bengal. The Institute’s Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, in association with the University of Liverpool, UK¸ has initiated a pilot project that seeks to protect the rich cultural heritage of the cities and towns along the course of the Hugli river. “The Hugli River of Cultures Pilot Project, from Bandel to Barrackpore” intends to bring this rich heritage corridor into intense focus. The project is being jointly funded by…
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