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	Kharagpur - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Delhi Police on Tuesday arrested a student of IIT Kharagpur in connection with the circulation of a lewd MMS showing a girl and a boy of a leading school of...
		IIT Kharagpur on Tuesday announced the commencement of a two year post graduate programme in statistics and informatics from the next academic year.
		Kharagpur, December 15: The student of exploration geophysics at IIT, Ravi Raj, who was arrested last evening in the school MMS clip case, was today produced...
	news.daylightonline.com /2003/Kharagpur.html (4734 words)

	rediff.com: IIT Kharagpur to open campus in Silicon Valley
		An association of the IIT Kharagpur alumni, the IIT Foundation, is pooling in money for setting up the campus.
		He said IIT Kharagpur, which has two campuses in the country (Calcutta and Bhubaneswar), is well equipped to undertake distant-learning with its nearly 2,100 ready video lectures by experts on different subjects.
		The IIT Kharagpur's endeavor is seen as another step in that direction.
	www.rediff.com /money/2001/aug/07iit.htm (507 words)

	Kharagpur's legend
		INDIAN Institute of Technology- Kharagpur, the oldest among the IITs, was formally inaugurated on August 18, 1951 by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
		Over the next 50 years it not only set the standards for other similar institutions, but became a key contributor to the technological self-reliance of the country through numerous research projects sponsored by the scientific departments of the government and by other organisations.
		It is only about 5 km from the Kharagpur railway station, which has the longest railway platform in Asia.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1909/19090840.htm (1363 words)

	INDIA: Custodial death of a man in Kharagpur due to severe torture by Railway Protection Force
		It is also alleged that after his arrest, he was severely beaten and tortured and also given electric shocks by the RPF personnel while in their custody.
		It is alleged that Seikh was severely tortured, beaten and even given electric shocks while in the custody of the RPF on the day of his arrest.
		Please write to the Director General of Police to order an impartial inquiry into this incident and see that the perpetrators are duly punished and the victim’s family is adequately compensated for their loss.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2005/1330 (1312 words)

	DPS flash graduates to IIT, 1 held in Kharagpur
		The investigations into the sale and transmission of the MMS clip involving two Delhi Public School students in a sexual act took a dramatic turn when a student of geophysics at IIT, Kharagpur, was arrested this evening on the campus.
		A case had been registered by the police last Thursday under sections 292 and 294 (sale of obscene material) of the IPC and section 67 of the IT Act after it came to their notice that MMS was being sold in 2.37-minute CDs in the market and on Baazee.com, for Rs 125.
		His address was tracked down to D 225, Rajendra Prasad Hall, IIT campus, Kharagpur, where the drafts were being sent.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=110396 (769 words)

	Encyclopedia: IIT Kharagpur
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	Wired News: India Tech: What's the Matter U?
		IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee are braving the same situation, with shortages in faculty between 20 and 35 percent.
		Similarly, the number of citations per faculty between 1993-98 was 2-3 for the typical IIT, while it was 52 in the case of Stanford Engineering and 45 for MIT Engineering.
		A group of alumni of IIT Kharagpur joined Cisco in donating $25 million to wire up the entire campus, helping to lend credence as a world-class campus.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,52942,00.html (860 words)

	The Hindu : An institution builder
		Sir J. Ghosh was the first Director of IIT, Kharagpur, and helped build up this institute which recently celebrated its golden jubilee.
		JNAN CHANDRA Ghosh was born at Purulia (East Bengal).
		In April 1947, he was nominated the Director General of Industries and Supplies, New Delhi, which he relinquished in May 1940 to assume office as the Director of the IIT, Kharagpur, which was inaugurated on August 18, 1951.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/seta/2002/12/12/stories/2002121200120300.htm (597 words)

	ASEE PRISM - Oct 1999 - Jewel in the Crown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first IIT was built in Kharagpur in 1951, a few years after India gained independence from Great Britain.
		One of the IIT's early enrollees, Preetinder S. Virk, graduated from the Kharagpur school in 1962 and is now a chemical engineering professor at MIT.
		The Kharagpur, Delhi, and Bombay campuses have each benefited from alumni donations totaling around $2 million in the last year, while Madras received about $500,000.
	www.asee.org /prism/oct99/html/india.htm (1573 words)

	IIT Foundation [ News about IIT Kharagpur and its Alumni ]
		IIT Kharagpur Alumni Articulate Their Perspective on Vision 2020 at the First Annual Meet of IIT Kharagpur Global Alumni Network
		Alumni to raise $200 mn for IIT Kharagpur [
		(Ajay Kumar Singh was from IIT Kharagpur, 1993 Patel EE)
	www.iitfoundation.org /media (1257 words)

	AllRefer.com - Kharagpur, India (Indian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Kharagpur, India (Indian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
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		It is a railway and industrial center and has an important school of science and technology.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kharagpu.html (121 words)

	Asia Times
		Some of the solutions being currently showcased at the center are advanced applications for bio-informatics, grid computing, knowledge management and application of e-commerce to local initiatives.
		Similarly, IIT Kharagpur is doing research work in collaboration with multinationals like Motorola, Compaq, Oracle and GE Caps.
		In fact, IIT Kharagpur, the oldest of the IITs, was recently in the news when it announced the setting up of a campus in Silicon Valley.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/EB19Df04.html (1550 words)

	Joshi's remarks on IITs create furore- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		KOLKATA: Faculty and students of IIT Kharagpur and the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC), on Saturday, lashed out at Union HRD minister Murli Manohar Joshi, who had gone on record saying IIMs and IITs were producing mediocre students and wasting the huge sum of money being granted to them.
		Expressing shock at Joshi's comments, assistant professor of IIT Kharagpur's mechanical engineering department Suman Chakrabarty said, "IIT Kharagpur has been ranked the best technical institute in India for the last three years.
		Admitting that there were areas where IIT Kharagpur needed to be self critical, Chakrabarty said Joshi's comment that IITs and IIMs were not inculcating 'Indian values' among the students, was surprising.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/429978.cms (360 words)

	Welcome to ICTACEM 2001, December 27-30 2001, Kharagpur India
		Mechanics is an area common to many disciplines of science and engineering and has made tremendous strides in recent years.
		AR and DB Centre of Excellence for Composite Structures Technology, Kharagpur.
		The Conference will be held at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
	www.jeo.org /ictacem (212 words)

	The making of new IITs
		Some southern states were then ruled by political parties that supported the erstwhile National Democratic Alliance government and the pressure began to mount on the Centre began to mount.
		Although there is no such rule which says that there can be only one IIT per state, the IITs will be geographically dispersed around the country to remove the present regional imbalance.
		Ever since the first IIT was set up at Kharagpur in 1952 -- as per the recommendation of the Nalini Ranjan Sarkar Committee -- it was decided to set up IITs in different parts of the country.
	inhome.rediff.com /money/2005/mar/23iit.htm (2218 words)

	IIT Foundation [ IIT Kharagpur Alumni Network ]
		The IIT Foundation is a non-profit organization devoted to enhancing the capability of Indian Institute of Technology ("IIT"), Kharagpur.
		This is a report from a IIT Foundation “Leadership Meeting” we had in February 2005, in the San Francisco Bay area.
		Several alumni and several members of the IIT Kharagpur faculty were present.
	www.iitfoundation.org (730 words)

	rediff.com: IIT alumni's invisible hand in Intel's latest chip
		When global microprocessor giant Intel released its sophisticated 64-bit computer chip Itanium, few were aware of the high stakes and drama behind the creation of the wonder.
		As events unfold now, the protagonist behind the high-tech potboiler is an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur - Rajiv Gupta.
		According to Gupta, Hewlett Packard's 37-year-old whiz kid, he had visions of Itanium nearly a decade ago and his contributions were absolutely critical to the development of the final product.
	www.rediff.com /money/2001/jul/21intel.htm (776 words)

	IIT Foundation [ What Happened to KGPNET? ]
		As part of our goal to create a "world class network" of IIT Kharagpur alumni, we decided to merge the KGPNET and the IIT Foundation web-sites into one.
		Since it did not make any sense to maintain two separate databases, the IIT Foundation began to use the KGPNET alumni database to send out its Newsletters and its "roster".
		One of the primary goals of the IIT Foundation is to create a "world-class network" of IIT Kharagpur alumni.
	www.kgpnet.org (235 words)

	The Financial Express
		Addressing a press conference here on Monday, IIT Kharagpur’s director, Prof A Ghosh, said that a fusion of medical science with physical sciences and technology is felt desirable.
		But why IIT Kharagpur and not any pioneering medical research institute like Indian Council for Medical Research?
		Explains Prof Ghosh: “Such institutes are basically focussed to medical services and do not have the required infrastructure, while we have a highly developed laboratory and research facilities and is already engaged in innovative investigations in certain areas like biotechnology, telemedicine, plant research etc.”
	www.financialexpress.com /fe20010417/eco8.html (443 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Bengal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calcutta, April 6: Opportunities are raining this summer at the Vinod Gupta School of Management at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
		“We are delighted at the excellent response from the various companies that have offered summer training programmes to all our 85 students,” said Gautam Sinha, in-charge of training and placement at IIT Kharagpur.
		The largest recruiter was the fast-moving consumer goods giant ITC, which picked up 15 students — a record among the country’s management institutes, according to the school’s officials — for six-month stints.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050407/asp/bengal/story_4585134.asp (265 words)

	Paedophile held in IIT Kharagpur - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		After Ravi Raj, the MSc student from IIT, Kharagpur, detained by Delhi police for selling on the Internet a clip revealing a male and a female student in a compromising position, a research scholar from Kerala, Iqbal Mohammad, was arrested from the same campus on Thursday for sexually abusing minors.
		In less than three months of the first incident of a sex scandal rocking the IIT, Kharagpur, about 100 km from the city here, the second one involving a married researcher well past his 40s put the authorities in an awkward position, prompting the IIT disciplinary committee to terminate his scholarship.
		A lecturer in Malappuram in Kerala, Iqbal, who joined the campus in July 2004 for his research, lured minor boys into his room through biscuits and chocolates and sexually abused them, the police said.
	67.18.142.206 /deccanherald/mar052005/n2.asp (510 words)

	IIT Kharagpur among top 100 Asia Pacific univs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		IIT Kharagpur among top 100 Asia Pacific univs
		Washington, December 22: Indian Institute of Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and University of Kolkata have figured among the top 100 Asia Pacific universities.
		While Indian institute of science ranked 22nd, both Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and the University of Kolkata were ranked 67th, according to rankings released by China's Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
	www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=39893 (288 words)

	The Hindu : He made environment a national concern
		The Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment, (CSE) an organisation which he founded in 1980 (www.cseindia.org), soon became the most respected environmental action group in India, trusted worldwide as an authentic people's voice with no governmental or political baggage.
		in mechanical engineering from IIT Kharagpur) had made a name for keen and professional reporting on science developments.
		I first interacted with him when he was the Science Correspondent of the Indian Express in the late 1970s, a position he briefly held after a similar task at the Hindustan Times.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2002/01/04/stories/2002010401531300.htm (454 words)

	MMS scandal case: IITian granted bail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Police also claimed that besides the MMS clip, he had also been selling other pornographic material through the net.
		Raj, a final year MSc Geophysics student of IIT Kharagpur was arrested on December 14 and produced before a Delhi court two days later.
		The court had remanded him to three days police custody.
	us.rediff.com /news/2004/dec/24mms.htm (460 words)

	Alert: Management at IIT Kharagpur
		The Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT, Kharagpur invites applications for its first 2-year, 4-semester part-time executive MBA (PGDBM) programme.
		The programme will be conducted at the Kolkata, Bhubhaneswar, and Kharagpur campuses of IIT Kharagpur in distant as well as contact mode.
		Applicants need to have at least two years of work experience in private or public sector companies with the following educational qualification: B Tech/BE/MSc/MCA (3 years)/M Com or equivalent degree in any discipline.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/mar/26iycu.htm (147 words)

	In pursuit of excellence
		Then it was realised that it must ultimately be an autonomous institution.
		And the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur Act, 1956, became the main foundation on which all the other IITs came up.
		It was IIT-Kharagpur that provided the basic concept of the infrastructure and the administrative structure for the other IITs.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1909/19090880.htm (1802 words)

	MMS boy back from Nepal, held : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The boy is likely to be produced in the juvenile court on Monday.
		The Crime Branch needs to interrogate the boy to find out the identity of the people who may have circulated the MMS which not only reached IIT Kharagpur's Local Area Network but also was auctioned on web portal baazee.com.
		The police have scanned the boy's cell-phone records, and discovered that within days of filming the clip he sent three messages, each of 100 seconds each.
	www.hindustantimes.com /news/5922_1160745,0015002100000000.htm (426 words)

	It takes a doer to make pathbreaking changes - People - Express Computer India
		From being a part of the core team that developed defence systems for the armed forces to heading large scale deployment of telephone exchanges all over the country—Pradhan has seen his labour of love make pathbreaking transformations.
		Graduating from IIT Kharagpur in Electronics and Communication Engineering, at a time it was not a very popular subject, he went to the US for further studies.
		Following his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas, he pursued his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania with special focus on computer hardware.
	www.expressitpeople.com /20020624/people1.shtml (989 words)

	12/07/98 INDIA'S WHIZ KIDS (int'l edition)
		The planners drew on Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Model and on UNESCO for funds to build the first campus, in Kharagpur, near Calcutta, in a former British prison for Indian political detainees.
		California Institute of Technology ''writes to us regularly, asking us to recommend students for scholarships they have available,'' says Kharagpur campus Professor Badriprasad Gupta, who is vice-chairman of the entrance-exam committee.
		Amitabha Ghosh, director of IIT-Kharagpur, recalls the dean of the University of Maryland at College Park, entreating him to ''send his entire graduating class to Maryland'' and promising them all financial assistance.
	www.businessweek.com /1998/49/b3607011.htm (2095 words)

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