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IIT Roorkee researchers find novel antibiotic against multi-drug resistant bacteria

New Delhi,15 January 2020- Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee have discovered a novel compound that can effectively kill a multitude of notorious antibiotic resistant bacteria. Antibiotics have been considered as the cornerstones of both basic and modern medicine and it is difficult to envisage a world without them. However, injudicious over the …

IIT Roorkee awarded the Indo-Netherland Project on Water4Change

 17th October 2019: IIT Roorkee has been awarded the Indo-Netherland project on Water4Change – Integrative and Fit-for-Purpose Water Sensitive Design Framework for the fast Growing Liveable Cities of India. This award was given by Honorable Minister of Science & Technology Dr. Harsh Vardhan in presence of King and Queen of Netherlands during the DST-CII India-Netherland …

Indo-Netherland (DST-NWO) Project on Urban Water Systems Awarded to IIT Roorkee

26th April 2019, Roorkee- Prof. M L Kansal, Head of the Department of Water resources Development & Management, IIT Roorkee awarded an Indo-Netherland (DST-NWO) Project on Urban Water Systems named as “Water4Change – Integrative and fit-for-purpose water sensitive design framework for fast growing liveable cities”. The core objective of Water4Change is to provide communities, city, …

IIT Roorkee, in association with Jindal Stainless, to include an elective course on stainless steel and advanced carbon special steel

February 21, 2019: IIT Roorkee and Jindal Stainless have recently entered into a long-term association in order to equip the bright and young minds of the country, who are on the verge of stepping into the industry, with full knowledge about stainless steel and advanced carbon special steel. This will include the study of these …

ABB microgrid to be installed at IIT Roorkee, the oldest technical Institution of Asia as part of joint smart campus development

The ABB microgrid is part of the extended R&D collaboration between ABB and IITR to create platforms for research on various aspects of smart city technology deployment ( The groundbreaking ceremony of ABB microgrid with battery energy storage at the campus of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR), was held to commence the smart campus …

Prof. (Er.) Jayanta Kumar Ghosh of IIT Roorkee conferred with ISRS (Indian Society for Remote Sensing) National Geospatial Award for Excellence-2017 (Life Time Achievement Award)

ISRS (Indian Society for Remote Sensing), the most renowned society in the area of space science/remote sensing/ geo-spatial technology in India, felicitated Prof. (Er.) Jayanta Kumar Ghosh, Civil Engineering Department, IIT Roorkee with the National Geospatial Award for Excellence-2017 (Life Time Achievement Award). The award was conferred on 5th December 2018 to Prof. J. K. …

Indian Team from IIT Roorkee wins Schneider Electric’s Global ‘Go Green in the City 2017’ Contest in Paris

Team Phoenix won the contest for their cooling solution ‘Evacool’ a low cost technology for cooling rooms New Delhi, 27th  October, 2017: Schneider Electric, the leader in digital transformation of energy management and automation, recently hosted the 12 finalist teams of the seventh Go Green in the City, its international student competition to find innovative …

IIT Roorkee to effect change in institutional processes and systems across all three of its campuses using ERP technology

IIT Roorkee, 21 September 2015: IIT Roorkee (IITR) announced a “kick-off meeting” for the implementation of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project. The project will be implemented in multiple phases and would cover the end-to-end life cycle management of the operations. The launch function was held on 21 September 2015 at the Multi Activity Centre …