Events Reports and Investigations IIT Kanpur’s Performance on Day 4 Athletics The evening session had its share of excitements. In Men’s 110m Hurdles final, Kanpur was represented by M. Surya Prakash and Sagar Yadav who finished 4th and 6th respectively. The 3rd, 4th and 5th positions were narrowly decided, lying within a range of 0.5s. In women’s Discus Throw, the burden of expectations was on […] Written by Vox Populi December 17, 2016May 15, 2021
Events Reports and Investigations Day 3: How did Kanpur fare? Athletics In men’s 200m heats, Deepak Jorwal and Mohit Yadav, both qualified comfortably for the semifinals held later in the day. Deepak came second in his semi-final round clocking 23.1s and Mohit came first with a time of 23.5s. Both will run in the finals to be held tomorrow. In women’s 200m, Ruchika narrowly missed […] Written by Vox Populi December 16, 2016May 15, 2021
Events Reports and Investigations Day 2: Another Great Day for Kanpur! Athletics The second day brought more laurels for the Athletics team. In the 110m hurdles, both Sagar and Surya qualified, coming 2nd in their respective heats. In 400m women, Ruchita qualified by a whisker as she reached the next stage with a lead of just 0.1s. In men’s 400m heats held in the morning, Deepak Jorwal […] Written by Vox Populi December 15, 2016May 15, 2021
Events Reports and Investigations Inter IIT : How did Kanpur fare on Day 1? Volleyball The volleyball meet kick-started this morning with the Women’s teams competing with each other in four league matches. The event was witnessed by the DOAA, Prof. Neeraj Mishra, himself a former Inter-IIT volleyball player. Smashing Ropar, the Kanpur team displayed some crisp lifts, drops and services. Both the teams mainly lost points owing to […] Written by Vox Populi December 13, 2016May 15, 2021
Events Reports and Investigations Inter IIT Meet Opening Ceremony The 51st inter IIT Sports Meet was inaugurated today with the opening ceremony being held in the afternoon. The ceremony was graced by the presence of Mr. KK Sharma, Secretary Designate, MHRD, Mr. R Subramaniam, additional secretary, technical education, MHRD, Mr. Devendra Jhajharia and Mr. Varun Bhati, paralympians. The ceremony was held in the Main […] Written by Vox Populi December 12, 2016May 15, 2021
Events Reports and Investigations The Inter IIT cricket action continues … The second day of cricket matches was as exciting, if not more with the same venues hosting seven matches today. Ropar beat Jodhpur by 28 runs. Sumit high scored for Ropar with a useful 39, helping them reach the total of 136/10. Jayant’s heroics for Jodhpur went in vain as they fell short at 108/6 […] Written by Vox Populi December 11, 2016May 15, 2021
Events Reports and Investigations Inter IIT Sports Meet action begins ! Today saw the first few matches of the 51st Inter IIT Sports Meet being played with cricket matches being held at Main ground, ACES ground, Kamla Club and City ground. Seven matches were held in all with ACES, Kamla and City ground hosting two each and one match being played on the main ground. Due […] Written by Vox Populi December 10, 2016May 15, 2021
Reports and Investigations Report : CC password change request Recently, a mail was circulated among all the residents requesting them to change their CC passwords urgently. When contacted, Prof. Y N Singh, Head, CC, asked us to get in touch with Prof. Sandeep Shukla of the CSE department for details. Prof. Shukla informed us that this was a regular security measure since the passwords […] Written by Vox Populi April 28, 2016May 15, 2021
Reports and Investigations Vox-Tech: A hot topic, literally Vox Populi, here, starts a new portion. We like to call it Vox-Tech. Basically, it is a place where you, being a student/teacher/whatever in our institute, can tell us something interesting about a particular field of science (Some people call it PopSci) and if we find it interesting enough, we will tell the world about […] Written by Vox Populi September 29, 2015May 15, 2021
Reports and Investigations Opportunities and Challenges of Building a World Class IIT from the Ground Up: The IIT Gandhinagar Story Dr. Sudhir Jain was the first speaker in the latest lecture series initiated by IIT Kanpur, Making of a University, in which distinguished academicians are invited to share their vision which has been instrumental in the establishment of the eminent educational institutes of India. The lecture was held on 27 November 2014 in the Outreach […] Written by Vox Populi December 7, 2014May 15, 2021
