Articles from: 2013

Harshwardhan Gupta is a mechanical engineer and a practicing machine designer. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the IIT Bombay in 1976. Gupta has been designing complex machines for the last 31 years. Most of these designs are India’s First, and many are World’s First. He has recently been named as a co-inventor in a U.S. Patent for Banknote Counting, Validating and Storage system for use on Gaming Tables in Casinos.

Following the recent findings that IITM graduates are more likely to go bald due to the extreme academic pressure they face in their college lives, the administration has begun a slew of measures to ensure that students feel more at home and relaxed in campus, especially during the end semester examinations.

Dear reader, if you have come reached this point, I know that Bridge may be totally alien to you as it was to me at…

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The probability of one’s bicycle remaining in an operable condition decreases sharply as the semesters proceed. Add to that the cases of a few unfortunate thefts, and you have a fair share of the hostel zone relying on the campus bus services. It is, after all, the fastest permissible way of travel in the campus. A strict professor at 8 in the morning, getting back to the room when there are two free slots, going outside the institute, etc. are multiple scenarios in our campus lives where we need the bus. But here’s the rub. How do we get to know where the bus is? Do we wait for it or walk? None of us is keen on wasting additional time for that bus which might or might not come . These were the questions which the GEOTAGG team asked themselves as they set out to devise a bus tracking application for campus buses.

The start of the even semester brought with it the buzz of elections. Rumours about potential candidates became a topic of discussion, and current secretaries,…

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