KHARAGPUR: After Presidency University, the latest victim of political strong-arm tactics is the country's oldest technology campus - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.Supporters of the Indian National Trinamool Trade Union Congress (INTTUC) and its affiliated IIT-Kgp contract workers union staged a six-hour protest at the main gate and gate No 5, forcing the institute to delay its M Tech viva...

Source : Times Of India | 19 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

Locals stop removal of 'chit fund' property

KHARAGPUR: Residents of Kharagpur's Udhas Nagar on Sunday objected when the furniture and documents of an alleged chit fund office were being removed by the landlord. Police later came and sealed the office.Sushanta Shikdar, the house owner, was removing the furniture of the Dream Light Agro Project in a mini-truck when a few locals, led by Subir Marik and Arindam Das, stopped the vehicle and informed...

Source : Times Of India | 21 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

IIT-Kharagpur to help GRSE build ships

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, will help the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata in designing the Navy's next generation stealth frigate. The over Rs 50,000 crore project, codenamed 'P-17A', envisages to build seven stealth frigates that will be more advanced than the three Shivalik Class ones (P-17) that the Navy commissioned in the last three years. The frigates...

Source : Goiit | 26 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

IIT-Kharagpur to help GRSE build ships

Kharagpur, will help the Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) in Kolkata in designing the Navy's next generation stealth frigate. The over Rs 50,000 crore project, codenamed 'P-17A', envisages to build seven stealth frigates that will be more advanced than the three Shivalik Class ones (P-17) that the Navy commissioned in the last three years. The frigates under P-17A will also be capable...

Source : Goiit | 30 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

3 IITs among top 100 universities in Asia

While IIT-Kharagpur is ranked 30th, IIT-Bombay is 33rd and IIT-Roorkee 56th, the University of Tokyo secured the pole position with an overall score of 78.3, followed by the National University of Singapore with 77.5, University of Hong Kong (75.6) and Peking University (70.7).CHENNAI: Only three institutes in the country, all of them Indian Institutes of Technology, feature among theWhile IIT-Kharagpur...

Source : Times Of India | 38 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur defies CVC, faces heat

Centre may soon crack the whip on IIT Kharagpur for disregarding the Central Vigilance Commission's order to act against three professors for their involvement in a scam.The HRD ministry is weighing several options, including action against the entire board of governors, and is set to summon the institute's director over the issue.The CVC had sought action against professors A K Bhowmick, director...

Source : Goiit | 38 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

Frequency of Villupuram-Kharagpur express to Bi-weekly

frequency of Villupuram-Kharagpur-Villupuram Express will be increased from weekly to Bi-weekly with effect from April 10Train No 22604 Villupuram-Kharagpur Express will depart Villupuram at 1040 hrs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and arrive Kharagpur at 1930 hrs on the next day, a SCR release said here today.In the return direction, Train No. 22603 Kharagpur - Villupuram Express will depart Kharagpur...

Source : Webindia123 | 40 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

Impersonator at JEE claims IIT label

person who claimed to be an IIT Kharagpur student was arrested today on the charge of impersonating an examinee of Joint Entrance Examination (Main) in Durgapur.Police said Manidra Kumar, 21, who identified himself as a second-year student of agricultural and food engineering at IIT Kharagpur, was impersonating one Avishek Kumar, both of whom hailed from Nalanda in Bihar.Asked about the arrest, the...

Source : Telegraphindia | 42 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur

Twin frowns on tech school

human resource development ministry and the Central Vigilance Commission are frowning on IIT Kharagpur for defying the corruption watchdog’s jurisdiction.The ministry has decided to ask IIT Kharagpur to withdraw a controversial affidavit filed in Delhi High Court last month questioning the CVC’s jurisdiction over it. It will also ask the institute to fix responsibility for how the affidavit was ap...

Source : Telegraphindia | 43 Day(s) AgoCategory : City | City : Kharagpur