PlayShifu, an Augmented Reality (AR) toymaker founded by IIT Kharagpur alumnus Vivek Goyal and Dinesh Advani, has its presence in over 35 countries and a customer base of over 7 lakh.
Kishore Indukuri quit his job at Intel in the US and returned to rural India to start Sid's Farm. Named after his son, the dairy farm in Hyderabad has scaled up its operations through word-of-mouth.
Chirasmita Panigrahi, a research scholar at IIT Kharagpur has invented a new manufacturing process to extend the shelf life of sugarcane juice without any heat or chemicals.
Not many may know Jitendra Kumar—a 30-year-old actor from Khairthal, Rajasthan, of the Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan fame—was initially an IITian on his way to become a civil engineer.
This free online course on cloud computing is being offered by IIT Kharagpur, and will cover data management, security and architecture of cloud computing.
After two years of experiments and tests, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur have invented an eco-friendly packaging material from cucumber peels.
The new COVID-19 testing machine, developed by a team IIT-Kharagpur scientists, is certified by ICMR and enables testing for Rs 500, with 98 per cent accuracy