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IIT Kharagpur faces faculty uproar: What’s happening?

IIT Kharagpur faculty accuses director of favouritism, protests follow

The controversy began in September when the IIT Teachers' Association (IITTA) petitioned the Union Education Ministry, accusing Tewari of arbitrary recruitment practices and other irregularities

Over 1.4K accessibility complaints filed on govt app, 75% solved: Data

More than 1,400 complaints related to accessibility have been lodged through the government's flagship Sugamya Bharat mobile application since its launch in 2021, with approximately 75 per cent of those resolved, according to official data. The Sugamya Bharat app, designed to assist people with disabilities and the elderly, allows users to report accessibility issues in public infrastructure, transportation and buildings by uploading photos. Information revealed following a Right to Information (RTI) request filed by PTI showed that 1,441 complaints were received on the app between 2021 and 2024. Of these, 1,081 were addressed after being forwarded to the authorities concerned. The RTI response revealed that 647 complaints were received in the 2021-22 period, of which 567 were resolved. The following year, 530 complaints were lodged and 391 resolved. The app recorded 264 complaints in 2023-24 while 123 were addressed. To further improve the app's functionality, the government plans

Jindal Stainless collaborates with IIT-Kharagpur for metallurgical projects

Jindal Stainless Ltd and IIT Kharagpur will jointly work on metallurgical projects like primary alloy production and materials characterisation. It is an industry-academia collaboration, under which the premier educational institution will offer technical and operational solutions, Jindal Stainless Ltd (JSL) said in a statement on Saturday. The collaboration will work together on metallurgical projects, such as process optimisation, materials characterisation, and primary alloy production, it said. "The partnership will enable us to harness research in metallurgy and translate it into tangible solutions that benefit the industry. "We are committed to shape the trajectory of stainless steel technology and making substantial strides in the industry, contributing to our collective pursuit of an atmanirbhar India," JSL Managing Director Abhyuday Jindal said. Under the terms of the MoU, IIT Kharagpur will provide technical consultancy and engage in academic and industrial research to .

IIT-G researchers develop model to understand water flow in braided rivers

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IITG) in collaboration with the Brahmaputra Board, under the Union Ministry of Jal Shakti, have developed a model to understand the flow of water in large braided rivers. The initiative is aimed at providing valuable insights to engineers to design sustainable structures for river bank protection measures, a researcher said on Friday. The model - BRAHMA-2D (Braided River Aid: Hydro-Morphological Analyzer) - was successfully validated on the Brahmaputra river near Majuli Island, the second largest freshwater river island in the world and prone to river bank erosion. It will help understand how fast water moves at different depths in a river, he said. The research, led by Prof Arup Kumar Sarma of the Department of Civil Engineering, has developed the comprehensive mathematical model to help predict river flow variations across depths, which is "crucial for flood and erosion control, agriculture, water supply intake design a

Tata Steel CEO TV Narendran new chairperson of IIT-Kharagpur's board

Tata Steel Ltd's CEO and MD TV Narendran was appointed the new chairperson of the board of governors of IIT-Kharagpur, a statement said. IIT-Kharagpur director VK Tewari said that as a man beholding technical and industrial supremacy, Narendran understands the needs of the society and the practical implications of industry-academia amalgamation with a technical institution. "We welcome TV Narendran as the new chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur," he said. "We look forward to his able guidance, constructive ideations and supportive encouragement in reshaping this institute for its future aspirations," he added. Narendran has over 34 years of experience in the mining and metals industry, the statement said, adding that he is a mechanical engineer from NIT-Trichy and an MBA from IIM-Calcutta.

Tata Steel CEO new chairman of Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur

T V Narendran, CEO and Managing Director of Tata Steel Limited has been appointed the new chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur Director V K Tewari on Tuesday said, "We welcome T V Narendran as the new chairperson of the Board of Governors of IIT Kharagpur. As a man beholding technical and industrial supremacy, he understands the need of the society and practical implications of industry-academia amalgamation with a technical institution. "We look forward to his able guidance, constructive ideations and supportive encouragement in reshaping this institute for its future aspirations." An IIT Kharagpur statement said Thachat Viswanath Narendran is the Chairman of Tata Steel Europe and Tata Steel Long Products Limited and oversees the organic and inorganic growth of Tata Steel over the last few years with over 34 years of experience in the mining and metals industry. Narendran is a mechanical engineer from the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy

8 gazelles demoted to cheetahs, 9 out of Hurun Unicorn Index 2023

India's future unicorns are currently worth $57bn, with an increase of 16% as Compared to last year - mainly driven by addition of new future unicorns to the list

IIT Madras, IISc Bangalore top education ministry's NIRF Rankings 2023

NIRF Rankings 2023: In the university category, IISc, Bangalore topped the list followed by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

IIT-Kharagpur partners HCLTech for collaboration in petroleum engineering

IIT-Kharagpur inked an agreement with HCLTech for collaboration in the field of petroleum engineering and earth sciences. HCLTech and IIT-Kharagpur will jointly develop innovative and sustainable solutions to address critical challenges of the petroleum industry, including reduction of carbon footprint, and provide significant sustainable solutions towards net zero, a statement said on Thursday. "We are pleased to work with HCLTech on this path-breaking initiative. Academia and industry need to forge such symbiotic partnerships that will be instrumental in advancing research and innovation in technology, besides creating a skilled workforce," IIT-Kharagpur's Dean (R&D) Chandan Chakraborty said. "Joint activities in research and knowledge development have tremendous potential for creating economic and social impact on society," he added. Under the agreement, HCLTech will provide opportunities to students and research scholars from IIT-Kharagpur to undertake projects and internships

IIT KGP researchers find increasing atmospheric pollution in rural India

Researchers from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur have found increasing atmospheric pollution in rural India using Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) measurements from satellites. The researchers found that air pollution is not typically an urban phenomenon but can affect the environment in rural pockets also. They conducted an analysis of the rural air quality to assess the extent of air pollution by measurements of NO2 through satellite imaging. The analysis exposes increasing trends (0.050.441015molec./cm2/yr) of NO2 in the rural regions of India, the institute said in a statement on Wednesday. The statement said a team of Prof Jayanarayanan Kuttippurath and Research Scholar Mansi Pathak of Centre for Ocean, River, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of IIT Kharagpur analysed the significant impact of urban pollution on the air quality of rural India by differentiating the pollution in two zones - rural and urban - and assessing the extent of air pollution in rural India. Th

IIT-Kharagpur delivers new software for welding defect detection to GRSE

IIT-Kharagpur has handed over to Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) a new software that it developed to detect defects in welding from the radiography images taken of an object, a spokesperson of the institute said. Radiography testing is carried out to ascertain material integrity of welds, castings, piping and other machined parts. Doctoral Scholar Avishek Mukherjee, under the supervision of the chairperson of the institute's 'Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology' (CoEAMT), Surjya K Pal, developed the software 'iWeld', employing artificial intelligence, the spokesperson said on Saturday. The software, tested over a large number of samples at GRSE, was found to provide results that were 93.18 per cent accurate, he said. It was last week handed over to GRSE, which functions under the ministry of defence, the spokesperson said. iWeld is likely to replace the need of skilled weld supervisors in near future, he added.

IIT Kharagpur's first phase of placement nears end with over 1,600 offers

IIT-Kharagpur concluded its first phase of 2021-22 placement session in the second week of December, with over 1,600 job offers and 900-plus internship opportunities, a statement issued by the institute said. The season had begun with more than 500 pre-placement offers (PPO), which soon jumped to 1000-plus offers on the second day, "a milestone across all IITs", the statement said on Saturday. The institute recorded 48 offers in the CTC range of Rs 50 lakh to Rs 2.64 crore. Over 45 plus offers came from international companies, the statement said. This year, five foreign students also secured jobs at the session. More than 300 companies participated in the first phase across various sectors, including software, analytics, consulting, core engineering companies, banking and high-frequency trading. Companies that recruited students in the just-concluded session are Airbus, Accenture Japan, Da Vinci Derivatives, Excel, Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Squarepoint Capital, N K Securities

IIT-K gets 1,300 placement offers, receives highest package of Rs 2.68 cr

IIT Kharagpur has received over 1300 placement offers this year, the institute said in a statement on Tuesday. This year, the institute also accomplished a new landmark of receiving the fastest 1000 offers within day two. IIT Kharagpur said it is the only IIT to receive the highest package offer of Rs 2.68 crore on the first day of placement including 760 total offers in the Campus Placement 2022-23. A total of 45 international offers - from Japan (28), Taiwan (9), the US (3), Singapore (2) and others(3) have been bagged by IIT KGPians, a spokesperson of the institute said. The Institute has received 10 big-ticket offers ranging from Rs 1 crore to Rs 2.65 crore - both from domestic and international companies across the sectors including analytics, software, finance-banking, supply-chain-logistic, consulting, core-engineering, high-frequency trading, tech profile, product development, etc. Among many high-valued domestic offers, two are close to Rs 1 crore. Chairman CDC Prof. A.

Significant drop in SO2 levels in India in last decade: IIT KGP study

There has been a significant drop in Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) levels in India in the last decade as compared to the previous three decades, a study conducted by IIT Kharagpur has found. The reduction in emission and concentration of SO2 has been due to environmental regulation and the adoption of effective control technologies such as 'scrubber' and 'flue gas desulphurisation', the study conducted by a team of researchers from the Centre for Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Sciences (CORAL) of the institute stated. The study represents temporal changes in SO2 concentrations across India in the last four decades (1980-2020), an institute spokesperson said. While thermal power plants contributed 51 per cent to SO2 concentration, the construction sector's share was 29 per cent, as per the estimate during that period, the study noted. The temporal analyses reveal that SO2 concentrations in India increased between 1980 and 2010 due to coal burning and the lack of novel technology to ...

India needs to become superpower in IP, says PM's adviser Amit Khare

Amit Khare, adviser to the Prime Minister, has said people have to be creators of knowledge and not borrowers as the country aspires to become a superpower in Intellectual Property (IP). At the 72nd foundation day of IIT Kharagpur on Thursday, Khare stressed the need for linking our past knowledge with the future, saying institutions like IITs have a role to play in it. As we are a 100-year- old civilization, we have past knowledge and can develop it and test it empirically with the help of institutions like IITs, Khare said. On the need for the country to become a superpower in IP, Khare said " we are an IT superpower but we need to be a superpower in IP because knowledge is power. We cannot borrow technologies and indigenize them, we need institutions like Nalanda and Vikramshila. We have to be a creator of that knowledge. Pointing out that a multidisciplinary approach is essential for the creation of knowledge, Khare said new frontiers of knowledge are emerging due to the ...

Road accidents: Scientific speed management required, says IIT Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur has recommended scientific and uniform nationwide speed management to reduce fatal road accidents.

IIT-KGP, Virginia Tech launch online course in artificial intelligence

The course, spanning over nine months from May 30, 2022 to January 7, 2023, will be open for both students and industry executives across the world.

Twenty more people tests Covid-19 positive in IIT Kharagpur campus

Twenty more people, including eight students, residing on the IIT Kharagpur campus have tested positive for COVID-19, an official said on Saturday.

IIT Kharagpur reports 60 Covid infections, including 40 students

Most of those infected are mildly symptomatic or asymptomatic