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Fired Workers Announce Indefinite Dharna

Over four weeks after being fired and given the reassurance of re-employment in other departments, 18 water-supply workers of the Institute remain unemployed. They are now staging an indefinite dharna in front of the IWD (Institute Works Department) until their demand to be re-employed with minimum wages is met.   What happened?   As Vox had […]
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5G Network Developed at IIT Kanpur

A team of engineers and research scholars led by Prof. Rohit Budhiraja from the Electrical Engineering department of the Institute has contributed to the design of the first indigenous 5G network. The complete hardware and software of this 5G network was built from scratch, and that too completely inhouse.  India’s first 5G call was recently […]
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Infra Review #1: Water Quality at IITK

Where does our campus get water from? Is the drinking water we get drinkable? What are the globally accepted standards of potable water? How should it taste?  To seek answers to these questions, our team took readings from water samples around the campus, questioned the respective authorities, and looked into the flipside of the obvious […]
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In Search for a Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Message on Campus Re-Opening

Vedaant Sikka, President, Students’ Gymkhana, writes about the issue of campus re-opening and reaches out to the general body members to provide a clear sense of what has transpired so far and what the plan is going forward. Disclaimer:- The views presented below are the author’s own and are not in any manner representative of […]
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New Developments in IITK: Introduction of Fresh Academic Programs

None of us had expected 2020 to pan out the way it did. While the institute was busy ensuring that our academics must not suffer and that students should safely return to campus, it was alongside working to keep up with our education system’s changing patterns. Our institute realises that modern-day problems require solutions which […]
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A Review of NCC at IITK

To understand the grievances and complaints of NCC cadets with the current NCC management and initiate a dialogue on the same, Vox Populi conducted a survey of students enrolled in NCC this year and received 175 responses. While most students raised grave concerns about class timings, insensitivity of the colonel, unproductive classes and condition of uniforms, […]
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COVID-19 Tech: IITK’s Contributions

To contribute to the country’s fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic, our institute, IIT Kanpur has had a significant role in  Commercializing three ground-breaking innovative healthcare solutions within three months, with the help of some of the startups incubated here. Here in this article, we would be covering the products and the people behind it all.  […]
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