Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur Students Bag Over 200 Pre-Placement Offers At Top MNCs

Education | Press Trust of India | Wednesday September 13, 2017

Companies like Goldman Sachs, Samsung, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Adobe Systems, Wipro have offered more than 10 PPOs each, an IIT Kharagpur spokesperson said today.

Delhi University Ahead Of IIT Kharagpur In QS Graduate Employability Ranking

Education | Written by Anisha Singh | Tuesday September 12, 2017

University of Delhi and University of Mumbai have left two top IITs behind to grab a spot in the top 500 universities in the QS Graduate Employability Ranking.

World University Rankings 2018: IIT Delhi, IISc Bangalore Slip In Times Higher Education Rankings

Education | Edited by Shihabudeen Kunju S | Tuesday September 5, 2017

India has some bad news with its premier institutes like IIT Delhi and IISc Bangalore slipping in the rankings to lower bands.

IIT Kharagpur Professor Drowns Trying To Save His Son

Cities | Press Trust of India | Sunday August 27, 2017

A professor of IIT Kharagpur got drowned in a ditch filled with water today while trying to rescue his 4-year-old child who had fallen into the waterbody near the IIT campus in Kharagpur Rural area of West Midnapore district today, police said.

JNU Reinstates Whistleblower Former IIT Kharagpur Professor

Education | Press Trust of India | Thursday August 24, 2017

JNU has reinstated whistleblower former IIT Kharagpur professor Rajeev Kumar, whose penalty of compulsory retirement was quashed by Pranab Mukherjee days before he demitted office as President.

IIT Kharagpur To Launch Genomics Study For Beginners

Education | Press Trust of India | Monday August 21, 2017

IIT Kharagpur has launched an ambitious programme to encourage beginners of undergraduate engineering courses at the institute to enrol for Genomics Study.

IIT Kharagpur Accepts Resignation Of Whistle-Blower Professor

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday August 20, 2017

IIT Kharagpur has accepted the resignation of whistle-blower professor Rajeev Kumar, whose compulsory retirement order was quashed by President Pranab Mukherjee days before he demitted office.

IIT, IISc PhD Researchers To Get Rs 70,000 Monthly Central Fellowship

Education | Edited by Shihabudeen Kunju S | Monday August 21, 2017

The Union Government will now grant Rs 70,000 as monthly fellowship to 2,000 PhD scholars across IITs and IISc in the country.

IIT Kharagpur, Tata Medical Center To Launch Inter-Disciplinary Research

Education | Press Trust of India | Saturday August 19, 2017

IIT Kharagpur and Tata Medical Center will go for institutional collaboration in education, research and outreach programmes in the field of inter-disciplinary medical research.

IIT Kharagpur To Start Genomics Lab

Education | Indo-Asian News Service | Saturday August 19, 2017

The primary objective of this laboratory will be to teach all the students at the second year the basic techniques of life sciences that will include microscopy-based observation, molecular biology, protein structure and function and lastly, bioinformatics.

IIT Kharagpur Students Get Over 100 Pre-Placement Offers At Start Of Semester

Education | Press Trust of India | Sunday August 13, 2017

As on August 11, Microsoft and Wipro have made the highest number of offers at 14, while Qualcomm has made 13 offers, Samsung at 12 and Texas Instruments at 11, professor in-charge of Career Development Centre at IIT Kharagpur Debasis Deb said today.

IIT Kharagpur To Ensure Higher Number Of PhDs In Future

Education | Press Trust of India | Monday August 7, 2017

IIT Kharagpur will ensure that there are higher number of PhDs as part of its objective to give thrust on more innovative research.

IIT Kharagpur To Raise Number Of Female Students

Education | Press Trust of India | Monday August 7, 2017

IIT-Kharagpur will raise the number of female students at its undergraduate level to give girls more scope in the premier institution, IITKGP director Prof Partha Pratim Chakrabarti has said.

IIT Kharagpur To Revamp UG, PG Programmes In Near Future

Education | Press Trust of India | Monday August 7, 2017

The IIT Kharagpur will restructure under-graduate and post-graduate programmes in near future, IITKGP director Professor Partha Pratim Chakrabarti said yesterday.

12 IIT Kharagpur Alumni Get Distinguished Alumnus Award

Education | Press Trust of India | Monday August 7, 2017

Twelve alumni of IIT Kharagpur were given the Distinguished Alumnus Award at the 63rd Convocation of IIT-KGP today.

Alumni Must Play Bigger Role In IIT's Development: Prakash Javadekar

Education | Indo-Asian News Service | Sunday August 6, 2017

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday urged the alumni to play "bigger" role in overall development of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

IIT Postgraduate Held For Allegedly Accessing Aadhaar Server Without Permission

Karnataka News | Press Trust of India | Sunday August 6, 2017

A postgraduate student of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, has been arrested for illegally accessing the server of Aadhaar data provider UIDAI via a mobile application. Abhinav Srivastava, 31, developed the app for enabling Aadhaar verification of users but without authorisation, police

IIT Kharagpur To Let Student Entrepreneurs To Operate From Hostel Rooms

Education | Edited by Shihabudeen Kunju S | Sunday August 6, 2017

The Indian Institute of Technology - Kharagpur is coming out with a scheme allowing students to use their hotel rooms as entrepreneurship offices, a top official said here.

IIT Kharagpur To Make Eastern India Students Aware Of NPTEL Courses

Education | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 16, 2017

The IIT Kharagpur has decided to approach institutes of higher education in Eastern India to make students and teachers aware of free online courses offered by National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).

IIT Kharagpur Alumnus Ajit Jain Donates Company's Stock To Foundation

Indo-Asian News Service | Friday July 14, 2017

Jain graduated with B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT in 1972, and moved to the United State six years later and earned an MBA from the Harvard University.

Government Gives 4 Mega Projects, Crucial For India's Future, To IIT Kharagpur

India News | Press Trust of India | Sunday July 9, 2017

IIT Kharagpur has undertaken four mega research projects from MHRD which considered critical for the country's development and will give special focus to them.

Sanjiv Goenka Renominated IIT Kharagpur Chairman

Education | Press Trust of India | Thursday July 6, 2017

Industrialist Sanjiv Goenka has been renominated as chairman, Board of Governors (BoG) of IIT-Kharagpur, for the second time.

IIT Kharagpur To Introduce Induction Programme For Freshers

Education | Press Trust of India | Tuesday June 27, 2017

IIT Kharagpur is going to introduce a nine-day Induction Programme for freshers from next month to familiarise them with various departments, facilities and life at the institute.

IIT-Kharagpur Team Develops Wearable Technology From Silk

India News | Indo-Asian News Service | Wednesday June 14, 2017

Just imagine India-made smart textiles that can sense what goes on around you, store data and communicate for necessary action! Well, scientists have inched closer to indigenously built wearable electronic devices, thanks to unique properties of silk.

IIT Kharagpur, Indiana University To Study Kolkata's Wetlands

Education | Press Trust of India | Tuesday June 13, 2017

The wetlands of Kolkata, a Ramsar site, which are gradually shrinking in size, have come under the focus of a study by a joint team of the IIT Kharagpur and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Joint IIT Kharagpur And University Of Pennsylvania Team To Study Climate Effect On Darjeeling Tea

Education | Press Trust of India | Tuesday June 6, 2017

A team from IIT Kharagpur and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is jointly conducting a study to find whether climate change is having any effect on the quality of Darjeeling tea and its production process. The Department of Architecture and Regional Planning of IIT-KGP and the Department of Geography and Regional Planning of IUP have come t...

IIT Kharagpur Signs MoU With Madhya Pradesh For Measuring Happiness Index

Education | Press Trust of India | Tuesday May 23, 2017

IIT Kharagpur's Rekhi Centre of Excellence for the Science of Happiness has signed an MoU with Madhya Pradesh government to collaborate on the development of a Happiness Index for measuring the well-being of the people of the state.

IIT Kharagpur Team To Visit MIT This Summer

Education | Press Trust of India | Wednesday May 17, 2017

Students and faculty members from the Department of Architecture and Regional Planning of IIT Kharagpur will be visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology this summer on the conclusion of a joint programme.

Business Schools Of Three IITs Rank In Top 10 Management Institutes List By NIRF

Education | Press Trust of India | Wednesday April 26, 2017

Business schools of three IITs - Kharagpur, Delhi and Roorkee - have featured in the top 10 list of NIRF Management ranking this year.

IIT-Kharagpur Addresses Issues Of Student Depression With Outreach Programmes

Press Trust of India | Sunday April 23, 2017

IIT Kharagpur's outreach programme "Life under Canopy" encourages students to take care of trees around the campus.