Pranav Krishnan - IIT Tech Ambit

Breaking a Virus 2: COVIRAP and where it goes from here

Part 3 and 4 of the article on IIT Kharagpur's innovative rapid diagnostic test for Covid-19. Featuring an exclusive interview with the 3 student researchers who helped develop it, as well the exciting results of the ICMR approved field-testing. Spoiler alert: it passed

PanIIT

Y Combinator - the Fabled Start-up Accelerator

Y Combinator is coming to the IITs. With a series of Start-up Talks, the incubator hopes to nurture a flourishing Entrepreneurial culture in India's Premier Institutes. This is the first article of the 2-part Y Combinator series. An intro to who they are, and what they do that's so different

IIT Kharagpur

Breaking a virus: the story of IIT Kharagpur's ground-breaking COVID test

The team from the School of Bioscience and the Mechanical Engineering Department, has broken interdisciplinary barriers to create a disruptive and low-cost rapid diagnostic test

Tech

Code for the Stars: Programming the world's largest telescope

This isn't so much a story about the Thirty Meter Telescope - an event that astronomers around the world wait for with baited breath - as the technology that's helping build it: software and hardware with a distinctively Indian flavour.

IIT Kharagpur

IIT Kharagpur innovates to breathe life into the fight against COVID-19

A team of students and Professor Aditya Bandopadhyay from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur in collaboration with DRDO, has been working to make affordable ventilators that could potentially save hundreds of lives.

IIT Madras

The State of Hyperloop

A story of the pursuit of engineering excellence in Chennai, far from the bright lights of LA and the silicon sheen of SF, and how the first implementation of a futuristic technology might be in India.

Business

Data in the Time of Water Crisis

Started in Mumbai in 2016 Faclon Labs has developed a product that offers hardware and software solutions for water management, backed up by an ‘I/O Sense IoT Suite’.

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