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Dec

31

2019

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Three decades and counting!

PeopleEstablishment Section IIT Kharagpur, IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur, Recruitment, Research Park, SRIC, Sundar Pichai

“September 24th 1982. I joined IIT Kharagpur as a Lower Division Clerk, giving in to my parents repeated requests. Today, after spending more than two-thirds of my life here, I do not regret the decision of my parents. Rubber Technology Center had started the year before, in 1981. With no one to look into office work there, I was posted in that department as secretary to the HoD. My job profile consisted of mainly typing and maintaining office records. I stayed there from 1982 to 1987. With my promotion in 1987, I joined the Recruitment Section for a few days…

Dec

24

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Opening new vistas

In-Depthblood disorder and IIT Kharagpur, genes, hematology, IIT Kharagpur, microRNA, miRNA, NRS Medical College and Hospital, Regenerative Medicine Lab, repurposed drugs, RNA, school of medical science and technology, sickle cell anemia, SMST, thalassemia

India Today , Times Now, Can India Headlines Today, Daiji World, Hans India, The Week, Outlook, Millennium Post Curcumin, found in turmeric, and Ginsenoside, found in the roots of Ginseng, both known for their medicinal properties, could go a long way in treating blood disorders like thalassemia and sickle cell anemia. These two plant ingredients, together with approved drugs such as Valproate and Vorinostat were found to be “most suitable for future trials” by a team of genetic scientists at IIT Kharagpur. They are trying to see which drugs induce fetal hemoglobin production – which is known to ameliorate such blood…

Dec

23

2019

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By Sreeparna

And the winner of the 54th Inter IIT Sports Meet is….

EventsBasketball, Champions, games, Hockey, IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur, Inter IIT Sports Meet, sports

“Yesterday is not ours to recover but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.” Lyndon B. Johnson; 36th president of the United States of America. The 54th Inter IIT Sports Meet 2019 concluded on December 22 evening after 8 days of tireless efforts by more than 2000 participants from 23 IITs across the country. The closing ceremony witnessed some spectacular winning moments in the presence of Prof. William Kumar Mohanty, Convener, 54th Inter IIT Sports Meet, Chief Guest Shri Ashok Kumar Dhyan Chand, son of Indian Hockey legend late Dhyan Chand, Prof. P. K. Das, Acting Director and Dean,…

Dec

20

2019

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By Sreeparna

I Came. I Saw. I Played.

PeopleFootball, IIT KGP, IIT Kharagpur, Inter IIT Sports Meet, mechanical engineering, Post Doctoral Fellow, sports

“When I came here in July this year, I found a few students playing football at the Tata Steel Sports Complex. That intrigued me. I also wanted to play, since I come from a country where football is widely played. We won the FIFA World Cup last year, you see! I didn’t know who to approach or how to go about it. I have a friend who also works in the same Mechanical Engineering lab as mine. He was playing in the IIT Kharagpur football team. I told him of my desire to play for IIT Kharagpur. He told me…

Dec

18

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Ear to the ground

Peopleclassroom, IIT Kharagpur, student life, Teaching feedback

Prof. Jeevanjyoti Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, received Top Feedback from First Year Undergraduate students for Spring 2019. His faceweb page reveals a lot about his connection with students. More than the academic exploits of the teacher, it talks about how students should proceed if they wanted to collaborate with him in research or what they ought to do for a recommendation, and so on. With little more than a decade separating Prof. Chakraborty from his students, and given that he has spent a considerable time of his student life at IIT Kharagpur - from his BTech years…

Dec

17

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Now and then

PeopleCareer Development Centre, IIT Kharagpur, mental health, multiple offers, Placement, stress

Why is a black coat and dark trousers the invariable wear during placements? If Pradeep Poddar, who just landed a placement with Accenture, is to be believed, it is only because students are following tradition. “We have seen pictures of our seniors wearing black, and so black it is,” says Pradeep, who is a final year Dual Degree student of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. But except for the colour, everything else seems to have changed about placements. For one, placements were not concentrated around the month of December and January. Alumnus and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Prof. Anandaroop Bhattacharya…

Dec

16

2019

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54th Inter IIT Sports Meet Flags Off at IIT Kharagpur

Eventsathletics, Basketball, Cricket, Director IIT Kharagpur, Football, IIT Bombay, IIT Kharagpur, Inter IIT Sports Meet, sports, Tyra

IIT Kharagpur, 15th December: IIT Kharagpur flagged off its 54th Inter IIT Sports Meet on 14th December 2019. The nine-day event is co-hosted by IIT Bhubaneswar with more than 2600 students participating from 23 IITs. The mega event held at IIT KGP is witnessing tough competition across eight games - Athletics, Basketball, Chess, Cricket, Football, Hockey, Lawn Tennis and Weightlifting while IIT Bhubaneswar is hosting four events - Volleyball, Badminton, Table Tennis and Squash. Tyra, the Royal Bengal Tigress is the mascot for the 54th Inter IIT Sports Meet 2019. Prof Sriman Kumar Bhattacharya, Director, IIT Kharagpur and Chief…

Dec

03

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Lessons from Day 3

EventsCareer Development Centre, coding, Data analytics, IIT Kharagpur, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Placement

Beating all conventional logic, which would expect the number of placements to go down steadily with each passing day, the figures at IIT Kharagpur show a consistently upward trend. From 170 placements offered on Day 1, the figure went up to 250 on Day 2. A total of 162 were placed on Day 3, with the top recruiters of the day being Honeywell, Axis Bank, ANI Technologies (OLA) with 34, 12 and 10 offers respectively. Perhaps the faces said it all. Although still clad in their crisp white shirt and dark trousers and coat, many of those assembling in Nalanda…

Nov

26

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Eye to the future

EventsAlzheimer's disease, amyloid peptide, cataract, Department of Chemistry, EGCG, fibrillation, IIT Kharagpur, nanomedicinal chemistry, Protein Chemistry Laboratory, UV

Research in the Protein Chemistry Laboratory is aimed at an understanding of protein interactions with small molecules, other proteins and nanoparticles. The increasing use of peptides as therapeutics has prompted us to look into the various aspects of these interactions to try and understand the impact on disease related processes. A brief outline of the different projects: Protein aggregation studies: Aggregation studies currently underway involve several proteins as well as the amyloid peptide fragment Ab25-35which represents the biologically active and toxic domain of the full length Aβ peptide, responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. Inhibition of amyloid fibrillation of the Aβ25-35 peptide…

Nov

20

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Dance of the rain

In-DepthIIT Kharagpur, Indian monsoons, Indian summer monsoon, Meghalaya, Mughals. Little Ice Age, rain, stalagmite, Wadia Institute, Wah Shikar cave

The Hindu, Times of India (Kol), Times of India Reduced rainfall was among the factors that created multicentennial-scale drier conditions that may have contributed to the Indus Valley deurbanization. Lack of rainfall is believed to have been among the reasons for the social upheaval and the eventual fall of the Tang, Yuan and Ming dynasties of China. Drought interspersed with violent monsoon rains sounded the death knell of the Khmer empire of south-east Asia that flourished between 802 and 1431 CE. There can be no doubting the profound impact of the abrupt shifts of rainfall on human history – a fact…