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  IIT-Kharagpur students receive over 1000 job offers in five days

  Education | December 07, 2019 17:11 IST

  Students of IIT-Kharagpur have received over 1000 job offers in the first five days of the ongoing placements as a total of 144 companies visited the campus of the institute during the period.

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  IIT researchers to create Gandhipedia

  India | November 29, 2019 10:12 IST

  Two IITs and the National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) have joined hands to develop 'Gandhipedia', an online repository of books, letters and speeches written by Mahatma Gandhi, to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary. The entire project will be done with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI), an IIT Kharagpur statement said on Friday. In the first phase, over 40 books written by Mahatma Gandhi will be digitised and indexed and their portions tweeted

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  5 Universities in India declared 'Institutions of Eminence'. Check list

  Education | September 05, 2019 16:19 IST

  ​Five Universities in India have been declared 'Institutions of Eminence'. Among those featured are IIT Madras, Banaras Hindu University, IIT Kharagpur, University of Delhi and University of Hyderabad.

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  220 foreign students apply at IIT Kharagpur for different courses

  India | July 30, 2019 10:36 IST

  The acceptance rate of the international students in various masters and doctoral degree programmes is about eight per cent, of whom 11 students have already joined the institute for the academic year starting 2019, an IIT KGP statement said. "Internationalisation is a priority for our institute, especially with the country making it a thrust area in the recently announced budget.

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  JEE Advanced AAT Result 2019 to be declared today at jeeadv.ac.in; Direct link to check your score

  Exam Results | June 21, 2019 13:18 IST

  JEE Advanced AAT Result 2019: The JEE Advanced Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) 2019 will be announced today at the official website -- jeeadv.ac.in. Students can visit the mentioned website to check their JEE Advanced AAT 2019 Result.

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  IIT Kharagpur to sponsor undergraduate research program

  Education | June 19, 2019 16:09 IST

  For the UGRP, the institute will fund select research ideas proposed by the students on a competitive basis and each successful proposal will be guided by a member of the IIT faculty.

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  Over 400 job offers land at IIT-Kharagpur on first day of placement season

  Education | December 03, 2018 14:57 IST

  The highest number of offers, which stood at 21, were made by Qualcomm and Microsoft.

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  IIT Kharagpur study confirms healing of Antarctic Ozone hole

  Science | December 01, 2018 6:58 IST

  "A research team from the Centre of Oceans, Rivers, Atmosphere and Land Science (CORAL) at IIT Kharagpur has come up with new data confirming that the Antarctic Ozone Hole is on a healing path," said an IIT Khragpur statement.  

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  IIT Kharagpur student found hanging inside hostel room; suicide suspected

  India | October 26, 2018 15:43 IST

  The family members of the deceased are not ready to accept that Reddy had committed suicide and have demanded a detailed probe.

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  Govt sanctions Rs 456 crore for four IITs for developmental projects

  Education | January 26, 2018 19:06 IST

  In a tweet, the HRD Ministry has confirmed approval of a total grant of Rs 456.10 crore as one-time additional capital funding for IIT-Kharagpur and three other IITs.

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  IIT Kharagpur accepts resignation of whistle-blower professor

  India | August 20, 2017 18:05 IST

  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

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  IIT Kharagpur scientists develop ‘wearable technology’ from silk.

  Lifestyle | June 15, 2017 11:19 IST

  A team of scientists from IIT Kharagpur devised a wearable technology from silk protein fibroin.

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  IIT Kharagpur alumnus wins prestigious Technical achievement Oscar

  World | January 10, 2017 13:18 IST

  Indian-American Parag Havaldar, a computer engineer from IIT Kharagpur, is part of the Academy Awards’ list of winners for Techinical achievement.

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  Global software giants to emerge from India in 5-10 years, says Google CEO Sundar Pichai

  January 05, 2017 17:20 IST

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai who is currently in India on a work and personal visit is exuded confidence in India’s development and hoped that the country would dish out big global software companies in the

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  Honey best cure to treat oral cancer wounds, claim IIT Kharagpur scientists

  Lifestyle | November 30, 2016 10:35 IST

  An inter-disciplinary research group comprising chemical engineers, bio-technologists and doctors at IIT Kharagpur have developed a therapeutic patch which is made of silk and embedded with honey.

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  IIT-Kharagpur students develop radio frequency tracker for safety of school kids

  June 21, 2016 14:26 IST

  Kolkata: Kids are nowhere safe, so to help address concerns of parents a team at IIT-Kharagpur has designed an electronic tracking system. This will help track the children commute to and from schools, through radio

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  Bihar welder's son lands Rs 1.02 crore dream job with Microsoft

  India | February 06, 2016 10:56 IST

  Kota (Rajasthan): A 21-year-old son of a welder in Bihar has bagged a job with US-based software giant Microsoft for a salary of Rs. 1.02 crore per annum. Vatsalya Singh Chauhan, a final-year student of IIT Kharagpur, has

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  IITs not to reveal salary figures from this placement season

  India | December 02, 2015 15:58 IST

  Kharagpur (WB): Country's premier technical institute, the IITs have decided not to reveal any pay package figures from this placement season following complaints of peer and parental pressure on students.  "Disclosing salaries puts unnecessary pressure

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  IIT boy from Pune bags Rs 2 crore job offer from Google

  India | November 29, 2015 14:45 IST

  New Delhi: Abishek Pant, a final-year computer science student of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, has bagged the most wanted job desired by almost any youth with a whopping Rs 2 crore annual package,

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  IIT Kharagpur soon to start offering MBBS courses

  India | June 22, 2015 10:19 IST

  Kolkata: Going beyond engineering, IIT Kharagpur would soon start offering MBBS courses as well. On a three-acre plot on the edge of the campus, the 400-bedded super-speciality hospital, Dr B C Roy Institute of Medical