Articles in IIT Kharagpur
According to recently published reports, IIT Directors are opposed to the idea of non-resident students. However, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Council said otherwise, in a meeting with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), on August 23, 2016. PaGaLGuY spoke to IITians, to know what they have to say about it. Mohit Goel, an alumnus […]
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) is about 3.5 kilometres away from Gole Bazar, which has been a hotbed for communal tensions over the past week. This has led to an acute short-supply of essential food items such as milk, curd, vegetables, and bread to the mess in IIT-Kgp. “The police isn’t allowing […]
A job in the Public Sector Undertaking (PSUs) is lucrative. PaGaLGuY listed out the perks of working in the PSU, but engineers who have worked in PSUs say that there is a flipside to all the benefits that one gets. PSUs come with the chip of being a ‘sarkari naukri’. Many Indian families associate a […]
The closing ceremony of the 32nd Inter-IIT Aquatics Meet will be held this evening (October 5, 2016) at the host institute, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K). IIT Madras is on the top of the medals and point tally with 10 medals, and 41 points, followed by IIT Delhi, with nine medals, and […]
The closing ceremony of the 32nd Inter-IIT Aquatics Meet will be held this evening (October 5, 2016) at the host institute, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K). IIT Madras is on the top of the medals and point tally with 10 medals, and 41 points, followed by IIT Delhi, with nine medals, and […]
GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) committee has added Gorakhpur as a new test centre in its tentative list of 184 examination cities. These 185 examination cities are divided on the basis of the eight Zonal GATE offices, which includes the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, IIT Delhi, […]
Engineers are used to problem-solving, so it’s not surprising when over the course of their studies, or their working life, they identify a problem that they could come up with a solution for. India has numerous sectors that have been relatively untouched by IT and IT solutions. Some of these fields include education […]
‘Learn-Earn-Return’ scheme comes as a great relief to the students of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp), after the 122% fee hike in April, 2016. The institute has reached out to its alumni all over the world to donate Rs 10,000 to help create the corpus for this scheme. IIT-Kgp will offer funding and scholarships […]
Praveen Manwar (39), a alumni of IIT Kharagpur has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in Multai on the charge of murder. According to the Betul Police report, he killed his wife Shilpa and two children when he set his car ablaze on March 3, 2015, because of fears of being HIV infected. A senior official of the Betul […]
The global phenomenon, ‘Pokemania’ has gripped India’s premier engineering institutes, Indian Institutes of Technology. Students who might appear to be wandering aimlessly around the IITs, are actually exploring their campuses, desperately looking for Pokemon. Usually gathering around Poke Stops, they reload on supplies of Poke balls, an essential tool for catching Pokemon. While the game is yet to […]