Despite the pandemic situation, students of IIT Kharagpur secured more than 1,000 offers till the eighth day of the first phase of placements for theacademic year 2020-21, a statement issued by the premier institute said.
Sarkar said the crowd was wearing masks and there was frequent announcements on mike asking people to maintain social distancing norms.
'COVIRAP,' the diagnostic machine developed by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur researchers, has been successfully validated for its efficacy in Covid-19 detection by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Institute said on Wednesday.
Two more IIT Kharagpur students and a hostel staff have tested positive for COVID-19, a top institute official said on Tuesday.
An IIT Kharagpur student staying in its campus on Wednesday tested positive for COVID-19, following which the institute decided to seal all the hostels.
Researchers at IIT Kharagpur have developed a software which can be of immense help to teachers who are currently facing challenges as the entire classroom session has shifted to online mode in different educational institutions in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A rapid test conducted through the device, named 'Covirap', will cost only Rs 400 and the result will be available on a mobile application within an hour, Mechanical Engineering Professor Suman Chakraborty, one of the two persons leading the project, told reporters during a virtual press meet on Saturday.
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur will announce the final results for the academic year 2019-20 after July 8, director Prof V K Tewari said.
The body of a 31-year-old research scholar of IIT-Kharagpur was found hanging in his hostel room. The body of Bhavanibhatla Kondal Rao was found in his room on the second floor of the B R Ambedkar Hall around 10 am on Monday
A couple in West Bengal's Kharagpur got married during an extended nationwide lockdown to contain spread of COVID-19 virus.
IIT Kharagpur researchers have taken an initiative to carry out a study on travel and social distancing perspectives of Indian citizens during the recent outbreak of COVID-19, throwing light on understanding people's psyche preparedness in case of a lockdown.
The IIT Kharagpur's 'Deshla' electric vehicle project has secured funding from a leading trusteeship firm for developing aerodynamic body panel design of a next-generation electric three-wheeler.
The Delhi assembly elections, due next month, are keeping Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal on his toes.
An estimated 1,310 students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur received job offers during the first phase of placement of the premier institute. The first phase of placement started on December 1 and ended on December 11.
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.
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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