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Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' has announced that the JEE (Advanced) - 2021 examination will be conducted on July 3, 2021. The exam will be held as a computer-based test and will be conducted by IIT Kharagpur after the final merit list of JEE Main 2021 will be released.

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kharagpur have developed a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) assisted communication infrastructure for 5G communication network.
 

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 To regulate crowd, the South Eastern Railway has decided to run 14 EMU (Electric Multiple Unit) services from today (November 17) in addition to the existing 81 suburban trains that are running in its Howrah-Kharagpur section since the resumption of local train services in West Bengal.

In a meeting on Sunday (November 8), The Eastern Railway announced that it will start running 615 suburban services in its Howrah and Sealdah divisions from Wednesday. South Eastern Railway will run 81 services in its Kharagpur Division. Besides, seven local trains will run between Bangaon or Naihati, Dumdum, Majherhat and two local trains between Bibadibagh and Sealdah.
 

'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.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, chief minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee left for a tour of another district. On October 6, she held a meeting with the administrative officials of West Midnapore district in Kharagpur. Not only officials of different departments, but also the government allowance recipients were examined by the officials of the health department before they entered the meeting venue.

 

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced at an administrative meeting of Kharagpur Grameen, on October 6, that the state government will compensate the families of those who have been missing for 10 years in Jhargram and will also provide one of them with a job as a special home guard.
 

Researchers at the institute’s Dept. of Electronics & Electrical Communication Engineering have developed a micropump and microneedle which are integral parts of transdermal drug delivery systems capable of administering large and viscous drug molecules in a painless way.  The innovation will further enable transdermal application of COVID-19 vaccine.

 

IIT-Kharagpur has asked students to vacate hostels by August 23 after one of them tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday (August 19). At present, 300 students are living in the campus residence halls.

 

 The test results - COVID positive or COVID negative - will be sent to the patient’s mobile through a smart phone app.
 

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Nine Railway Protection Force (RPF) staff, part of a 26-member team that had been to New Delhi from Kharagpur division in West Bengal, have tested positive for COVID-19.

The Karimpur, Kharagpur Sadar and Kaliaganj Assembly seats in West Bengal and Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh seat went to polls on Monday. TMC bagged all the three seats while BJP won in Uttarakhand.