Tag: Indian Institute of Technology

IIT Kanpur, ASI sign MoU with Italian institutes for restoration of monuments

October 30, 2020

• The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) and the Archaeological Survey of India have signed an agreement with two institutions from Italy, seeking restoration and protection of historical monuments.

ICMR approves “COVIRAP” test developed by IIT Kharagpur

October 22, 2020

• The Indian Council of Medical Research recently approved the covid-19 test called COVIRAP.It is a Diagnostic machine that was developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. This kit gives close test results as produced by RT-PCR.

IIT Madras startup launches ‘mooPay’ for dairy farmers in Rajasthan

October 20, 2020

• The IIT-Madras incubated dairy-tech startup, “Stellapps” has launched a fully-automated direct payment platform, ‘mooPay’, for dairy farmers in Rajasthan.

CRPF collaborates with IIT Delhi, DRDO

October 18, 2020

• The country’s largest paramilitary force, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has collaborated with IIT Delhi, Defence Research and Development Organisation, and Joint Advanced Technology Centre (JATC) to augment its Research and Development capabilities.

Czech Republic collaborated with IIT Guwahati

September 4, 2020

• IIT Guwahati collaborates with a university in Czech Republic for a data protection project that can protect the Nation’s digital data from cyber-attacks by advanced computers.

IIT-Bombay students launch scanning app named ‘AIR Scanner’

September 1, 2020

• AIR Scanner, a free-of-cost mobile application, has been developed by Rohit Kumar Chaudhary and Kavin Agrawal, two final-year B.Tech students in the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay under PM Modi’s Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.

‘world’s most affordable’ respirator mask : IIT Hyderabad

August 31, 2020

• The Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, has launched a novel respirator mask in the country.

IIT Alumni Council signs MOU with Russia for building Quantum Computers

August 28, 2020

• Indian Institute of Technology’s (IIT) Alumni Council has signed an agreement with Russia’s Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) and Russoft to build the world’s largest and fastest hybrid quantum computer in India.

Flipkart partnered with IIT Patna for Industry Focused Research

August 19, 2020

• Flipkart signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Patna to support the industry focused applied research in the fields like Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML).

IIT Kharagpur has conferred the ‘Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2020’

August 11, 2020

• IIT Kharagpur has conferred the ‘Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Awards 2020’ for developing a mechanism for generating electricity from wet clothes left under sunlight to dry.