BBIT Chronicles
Vol um e 1 , I ss ue 1
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ASSAM DROWNS...
Tanmoy Banerjee, 4th Year, ME, B.Tech
While images of waterlogged streets of Gurgaon,
Bengaluru and Mumbai
flood our Timelines, an
actual flood has crippled
the North-Eastern State of
Assam , and it is one of the
worst one in a decade.
Lakhs of people have been
displaced and wildlife
sanctuaries inundated by an
overflowing river Brahmaputra and its Tributaries.
As many as 26 people have
reportedly died in the state
and scores of animals have
either been killed, washed
away or are endangered.
Almost 18 Lakh people
have been displaced but
only 2.3 Lakh have taken
shelter at relief camps.
More than 3375 villages
have been affected b this
deluge caused by Nine
rivers, including Brahmaputra & its tributaries flowing above danger mark
along 18 districts and inundating new areas.
The NDRF,SDRF & Indian
Army have set up more
than 517 relief camps and
186 relief distribution centers to help the displaced.
INS ID E TH IS I SSU E:
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Fitbiz
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Tech-Trick
3
Imaginarium
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Kalakriti
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Trivia
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BBIT
REC
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GLORY FOR
BBIT
Rohit Daw,4th Year,CE,B.Tech
KALYANI UNIV. TO GET NEW V.C.
Arunima Bhattacharya, 3rd
Year, CST, Diploma
Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi , who’s the chancellor of
Kalyani University has set up a
committee to recommend a
panel of candidates to select a
Vice Chancellor for the University. The committee consists of
Somnath Ghosh, Vice Chancellor of North Bengal University,
Shyamal Roy, Vice-Chancellor
General News
of Cooch Behar Panchanan
Barma University, Subha
Shankar, Vice-Chancellor
of Netaji Subhas Open
University.
Malayendu Saha, a teacher
of the commerce department of Calcutta University
was appointed Interim VC
till a permanent VC was
appointed
Budge Budge Institute of Technology (BBIT) has been
awarded Best Engineering College Award 2016 in West Bengal by 2016 Leaaders Awards
(Education) on 21st May 2016.
The award was received by
Director of BBIT, Prof. Dr.
C.V. Reddy.
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FITBIZZ
Volume 1, Is s ue 1
BBIT BOYS CONQUER IIEST
Srijit Sinha Roy, 4th Year, ME, B.Tech
Shibpur: After winning the toss, BBIT
team chose to bat first and gave a total
of 86 at the loss of 9 wickets in
20ovrs. While IIEST gave a close call
by chasing the run but unfortunately
ended up in 80 runs at the loss of 9
wickets in 20 overs. It was quite a
match only for the bowlers.
Defending a small score wasn't that
easy. Kishor Balmiki was given the
man of the match award and they
cheered “Awaazz to abhii karenge
boys!!”
INDIA SHOWS CLASS AS WEST INDIES CRUMBLE
Mriganka Mondal, 4th year, ME, B.Tech
The Indian Cricket team under the leadership of Virat Kohli is currently dominating the West Indies Cricket team during
the 4 Test Match Bilateral Series Going
on in West Indies. India won the First
Test by an innings and 92 runs. Virat
Kohli once again showed why he is regarded as one of the greatest batsman in
today’s world of International Cricket as
he smoothly cruised to his first majestic
Double century. He became the first Indi- a classy performance ,the man who
an Captain to score a double century out- stole the show in the First Test was
side the subcontinent. But in spite of such Ravichandran Ashwin. Ashwin with
his all round show with bat and ball
( Scoring a applaudable 113 runs and
a 7 wicket haul for just 83 runs) ensured a smooth victory for India.
India continues to hold on to their
superb form even during the Second
Test. With K.L.Rahul’s 158(off 303
balls) and Ashwin’s devastating spell
of 5 for 52 India has again taken control of this Test. With his outstanding
performance Ashwin moved to the
Top Spot of ICC TEST RANKINGS
for both Bowlers & All-Rounders
RIO OLYMPICS 2016
Ayan Majumder, 4th year, CSE, B.Tech’
The 2016 Summer Olympics is due to
take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from
5th to 21st August 2016. More than
10,500 athletes are scheduled to take part
in this event. With 306 sets of medals,
the games will include 28 Olympic
Sports.
Two new sporting events, Rugby Sevens
and Golf has been included in this Olympic Games.
Due to European Migrant Crisis and
other reasons, the International Olympic
Committee will allow athletes to compete as Independent Olympians under
the Olympic Flag. Among the chosen
refugee athletes, Syrian Refugee Swimmer Yusra Mardini is grabbing quite a
lot of headlines for her heroic deeds
while fleeing her hometown, as she
swam across the Mediterranean Sea to
Greece.
India’s Rio 2016 Campaign:
This Year’s Indian Olympic Contingent is the largest ever in history for India.
With 120 athletes competing in this mega event, India hopes to bag quite a
few medals in different events.
INDIAN COMPETITORS
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TECH-TRICK
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ANDROID N: GOOGLE REVEALS FUTURE OF OS
Aniket Mondal , 4th Year ,CSE,B.Tech
Early developer preview available
with better battery-life optimisation,
faster app switching, multi-window
and night mode was made available by
Google for the developers early this
Month.
Usually Google releases a developer
preview of the new version of Android
at the company’s developer conference, Google I/O, at the end of May.
It’s designed to allow developers time
to test their apps and build new parts
to take advantage of new features in
Android before its release to
smartphone manufacturers in October.
This year, however, Google has started
two months early, with a developer
and beta build that lets users test new
features.
Head of Android, Hiroshi Lockheimer,
said: “It’s earlier than ever, it’s easier
to try and we’re expanding the ways
for you to give us feedback. We want
to hear from you and iterate on the
platform with you – that’s what makes
Android stronger.”
Google hopes that the earlier preview
will allow greater testing and let it
provide the new Android version to
manufacturers earlier. It takes several
months for most smartphone manufacturers to release the new versions of
Android for their existing
smartphones. This means that Google’s Nexus smartphones and tablets
remain the only devices running the
new version of Android for months.
This new preview strategy also gives
an earlier look at what’s changing in
the most-used mobile operating system
in the world.
Android N is faster and more efficient,
meaning apps will install and update
faster without needing a period of
optimisation. This should greatly reduce the time required to install Android updates and other upgrades.
Google’s Project Svelte also been
working on reducing the size and
weight of Android so that it takes up
less storage space and can run on
lower-power devices, which should
mean more space for apps and media.
Those not running Google’s Nexus
devices will have to wait until the
manufacturer of their smartphone to
receive Android N in the summer
and then push it out to devices,
which will likely be in 2017.
Twitter to keep 140Malay Acharya, 2nd Year,CSE, B.Tech
Twitter will keep the 140-character
limit for tweets, chief executive Jack
Dorsey said on Friday.
"It's staying. It's a good constraint for
us and it allows for of-the-moment
brevity," Dorsey said on NBC's Today
Show when asked whether the limit
was staying.
Technology news website Re/code
reported in January that Twitter was
building a new feature that would
allow users to post tweets as long as
10,000 characters.
Twitter never confirmed that it was
considering 10,000character tweets.
SELF DRIVING
Shehnaz Mullick,3rd year,CSE, B.Tech
Singapore is gearing up to become the
world’s first “Smart Nation”, with
another deal to bring self driven Taxis
to the city.
The city authorities have signed up a
deal with NUTONOMY to test autonomous vehicles.
Now Delphi Automotive will also
offer a small fleet of Automated taxis
to carry passengers around a business
park.
Automated Taxis by Delphi Automotive
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IMAGINERIUM
Volume 1, Is s ue
MISTAKE-The not so perfect symphony
One
“…more often than not I have observed you staring blankly at my lips. I
was never that gullible to be fooled by
the blankness in your eyes. Though
they have intrigued me since ages but I
have never failed to register those
millions unspoken expectations that
spilled out of their grey cover of
blankness. Today, when we both are at
the verge of beginning the end, why
don’t we first end the beginning? As
the mute observers of eternal void
stand witness to our saga, and the hurrying footsteps of running out time
compose the background score before
the curtain call, why don’t we for once
indulge into some adultery?
And then they kissed.
The next morning their cold bodies
were found locked in an inseparable
embrace lying on the bed.”
Komolika finished reading the story
and slammed the bunch of pages on
the table so hard that the frail table of
the college canteen trembled for approximately 14 seconds before coming
to rest.
‘Uff, Somoresh… can’t you for once
take a break from this crusade for Platonic Love. I really don’t know whether you are doing this consciously or
not but, nowadays, this topic is showing its ugly head in almost every piece
of writing of yours. What exactly do
you want to prove? If this thing goes
on, I am afraid I will have to stop reading your pieces. It really pisses me
off.’
Somoresh took a long drag of his cigarette. Eyes closed, head leaned slightly
backwards, as always he kept on listening to Komolika’s monologues
silently. He waited for her anger graph
to take a descending course and just to
initiate the process he started humming,
“Ami rope tomay volabo na, Valobasay volabo;
Ami haath diye dwaar khulbo na, gaan
diye dwaar kholabo…”
‘Just shut up’, Komolika screamed.
‘Quoting Tagore in every situation
throughout the day, wearing Punjabi,
keeping unkempt beard, carrying a
jhola, smoking joints and making unrealistic stands on impractical issues
might have been the quintessential
image of so-called intellectuals here.
But believe me, this is a huge turn off
for me. Especially, when I see you in
this image, I keep on wondering why
am I with you at all? I just can’t understand… just cant.’
Saying this Komolika stormed out of
the canteen. Somoresh had finished his
in his engineering department; he was
just a good for nothing over there.
Everything that the professors tried to
teach him went above his head, the
books seemed nothing more than junkyard of Latin and Greek symbols to
him. He could never fit himself into
the parade of Engineers. It was not that
he had tried too hard and failed, but
mostly it was because he never wanted
to see himself over there, he never
wanted to see himself as an accomplished engineer. His passion lied
somewhere else. Every time he used to
pass the Comparative Literature building inside his University campus, he
used to stop by its gate and look at the
building with silent admiration and
longing.
“Today when we both are at
the verge of beginning the
end, why don't we first end
the beginning…”
cigarette by then, and was humming
another song…
Komolika Chatterjee was a first year
Economics Masters student of Jadavpur University and Somoresh Bose, a
third year student of Mechanical Engineering department of the same university.
Somoresh was like a fish out of water
To be continued in the next issue
The Busty twelve year old
Her sinewy arms kept on tugging at
her father’s tattered shirt,
Desperately wailed, foaming from her
mouth,
All she needed was a morsel of food,
well deserved.
But wait, she was just twelve and had
a father, pervert.
Poor as she was, poorer in every sense,
But nature had its own conspiracy &
bestowed her with a strange abundance.
Her breasts bulged beyond her age that
drew many a lustful gaze.
Flesh overshadowed her innocence,
only she remembered her age.
A mindfully unmindful touch now and
then, & a gaze that oozes lust,
A man crippled, drunk & pervert, her
father she had to bear.
Not a grain at home to eat, not a soul
at home to hear her weep,
Neither could she kill her hunger, nor
could she let her father satiate his
thirst.
One night she fled,
Fled into the world that dazzles, the rat
-trap that feeds, the world that eats,
Unquestioned she was welcomed there
like many a thousand girls.
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KALAKRITI
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Debojyoti Chakraborty, 3rd Year, CSE, B.Tech
Rahul Dutta, 3rd Year,CST, Diploma
Mriganka Mondal, 4th Year, ME, B.Tech
Ayan Majumder, 4th Year, CSE, B.Tech
Rahul Mondal, 2nd Year, CSE, B.Tech
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THINK
-The TRIVIA Section
Volume 1, Is s ue 1
Partha Sarathi Sarkar, 4th Year, CSE, B.Tech
FUNFACTS
1. Heart attacks are more likely to
happen on a Monday.
2. Banging your head against a wall
uses 150 calories an hour.
3. Is it impossible to lick your elbow?
4. Elephants are the only mammals
that can't jump.
5. The only 15 letter word that can be
spelled without repeating a letter is
"uncopyrightable".
6.51% Of People Think Stormy
Weather Affects Cloud Computing.
7. If you have a pizza with radius Z
and thickness A, its volume is
=Pi*Z*Z*A
8. Facebook is primarily blue because
Mark Zuckerberg suffers red-green
color blindness.
9. Abraham Lincoln, Walt Disney, Bill
Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Henry Ford,
Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs, all of
them had no college degree.
10."Almost" is the longest word in the
English language with all the letters in
alphabetical order.
11. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 =
12,345,678,987,654,321
12. The average person falls asleep in
seven minutes.
13. A rat can last longer without water
than a camel.
14. Months that begin on a Sunday
will always have a "Friday the 13th."
15. The world's youngest parents were
8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.
16. Intelligent people have more zinc
and copper in their hair.
17. Every person has a unique tongue
print.
18. The sentence "The quick brown
fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses
every letter in the alphabet.
19. Polar bears are left handed
20. A giraffe can clean its ears with its
21-inch tongue!
RIDDLES
Tomorrow
Mushroom
An Onion
SUDOKU
Sudoku solution
in the next issue
RIDDLE ANSWERS
1.
2.
3.
1. What is it that's always coming
but never arrives?
2. What kind of room has no doors
or windows?
3. Take off my skin - I won't cry,
but you will! What am I?
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BBIT REC
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To
whomever it may concern,
BBIT has a strict policy that students
cannot arrive or leave the college campus at will.
We are not aware of the intentions of
the authorities behind enforcing such a
rule, but, this rule is considered a big
problem among the students.
First of all, the college is located in a
faraway location and traveling takes
If we don't have working classes in
the second half like T.P.O. classes/
library/ student activities/ seminar, we
cannot go home. We have to stay in
campus till 5.10pm though we don't
have classes.
If we have some important work later
in a day, we cannot attend the first half
and leave for our work. We have to
skip college for that whole day because most of the time we cannot get a
permit for gate pass.
Lastly, we are not in primary school
anymore, we are not children! Why
can't we enter and leave the campus at
will?! I have never heard of any college where this kind of a rule is applied. My apologies if any sentiments
were hurt through our opinion, but,
this is our voice, this is what we want.
Let us bunk classes like normal college kids!
- From a concerned BBITian.
(3rd Year, B.Tech)
time. It is difficult to report every day
at 9.50 am sharp. If we miss a train or
bus in the morning, we miss college
for the whole day.
TO
Whomever it may concern,
Dear sir/madam,
I am a student of
budge budge institute of technology. I
am studying B.Tech in electrical engineering. At first I want to thank you
for giving me a chance to write something in our newspaper.in this letter I
am writing my short query about our
college..
In every engineering college they have
a T-shirt in their student’s uniform.In
our college we also have a proper college uniform. And I also agree that it is
To,
Whomever it may concern,
I am a student of B.Tech second year
(lateral). I am studying in this college
for the last three and half years, during
this time I have applied for many times
for issuing a Railway Concession form
from the office. Every time they had
said, that it is not presently available
with them, they will provide me with
the form very soon. But even today I
haven't received it. Haven’t they yet
got hold of the said form? The to and
fro train fare is 30 rupees per day,
which adds up to 270 rupees per
We may not like the food
at campus canteens or may not be able
to afford it. We can't go out to eat
something else for a change or something more affordable.
nice for me but only in winter because
we have full shirt. In summer full
shirts are not comfortable for us. So I
want toll you that if our college agree
with this post and give us a permission
of a t-shirt during summer, we will be
very much thankful.
Thanking you
Name and Other details withheld,
B.TECH, 1ST YEAR
month. It is really difficult for me to
pay that amount .
I would be highly obliged if the concerned authorities look into this matter at their earliest.
Thanking you,
Anonymous,
A Distressed BBITian
This Newsletter, is an initiative taken by the students of Budge Budge Institute of Technology under the
able guidance of Prof. Dr. C. V. Reddy ( Director, BBIT ), Prof. Dr. Shiladitya Bandyopadhay ( Dean of
Students, BBIT), Prof. Priyanka Chatterjee ( HOD, Department of Humanities, BBIT).
SOME OF THE STUDENTS WHO WORKED ON THE NEWSLETTER AND THEIR AREAS OF WORK
EDITORIAL( IMAGINERIUM): MRIGANKA MONDAL,4TH YEAR, ME, B.TECH
GENERAL NEWS: TANMOY BANERJEE, 4TH YEAR, ME, B.TECH
MRIGANKA MONDAL, 4TH YEAR , ME, B.TECH
TECHNICAL SECTION: AYAN MAJUMDER, 4TH YEAR, CSE, B.TECH
SPORTS SECTION: SRIJIT SINHA ROY, 4TH YEAR, ME, B.TECH
TRIVIA SECTION: PARTHA SARATHI SARKAR, CSE, B.TECH
DESISN & ART: AYAN MAJUMDER, 4TH YEAR, CSE, B.TECH
ARUNIMA BHATTACHARYA, 3RD YEAR, CST, DIPLOMA
CHIEF CORRESPONDENT (DIPLOMA): LAHARY MITRA,2ND YEAR, EE,DIPLOMA
JUNIOR CORRESPONDENTS: ANIKET MONDAL, 4TH YEAR, CSE, B.TECH
DEBOJYOTI CHAKRABORTY, 3RD YEAR, CSE , B.TECH
To send us your entries, valuable suggestions, grievances, or
feedback , write to us at [email protected]
We would eagerly wait to hear from you...
BBITIMES
FALL ISSUE (DECEMBER, 2016)
Published by Budge Budge Institute of Technology, Budge Budge
BUDGE BUDGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NISCHINTAPUR, BUDGE BUDGE
KOLKATA: 700137
 Chairman’s Message
As Chairman of JGFT (Jagannath Gupta Family Trust), it is my privilege
to inform you that we have fulfilled our ambition of establishing
Engineering (Degree & Diploma level programme) and Management
Institute par excellence equipped with state-of-the art laboratories,
computer centers and excellent building infrastructure with lush green
landscape. This young academic institution has been created to provide
all the required facilities to the students.
Sri Jagannath Gupta
Chairman
“Change is the end result of all
true learning.”- Leo Buscaglia
“GIVE A MAN A FISH;YOU HAVE FED HIM FOR TODAY.TEACH A MAN HOW
TO CATCH A FISH AND YOU HAVE FED HIM FOR A LIFE TIME”ANONYMOUS.
It gives me great pleasure to share a simple thought process of doing good job
for the benefit of our future generations.All the teachers have to put in
their
best to make our students learn better.On the part of students,invest ypur time
and effort to learn better and become a “Successful Profetional”.
ALL THE BEST.
The Editorial Board is glad to publish bbItimes December, 2016 Volume. The volume
place between July and December, 2016. It is a proud moment for us BBITians that
BBIT has been accreditated by NAAC, and therefore,we congratulate all who are
associated with BBIT for this achievement.
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NAAC PEER TEAM VISITED OUR CAMPUS ON 8TH -10TH AUGUST, 2016.
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Students’ Achievements
 Ritika Mohata (current 4th year) has been offered 2 jobs with Rs. 2.64L p.a.
package in “Promact
InfoTech” and “Think and Learn “ with package of Rs.6 L.
p.a. in September 2016.
 Madhurupa Moitra of CSE Department. cracked GRE.
 In this year, the students of Budge Budge Institute Technology have hit good
placement Record. Electrical Department’s student had the highest package of Rs
6L p.a.
 4th year ECE student Bandana Sharma has secured with a grade point of 9.42,
she also has the record of scoring a grade point above 9 in all the
semesters
throughout her B.Tech ECE course.
The great aim of education
is not knowledge but action”.“
Herbert Spencer
 Conferment of Doctoral Degrees
 Dr. Pinku Debnath and Dr. Sumit Chabri of Mechanical Engineering
department were awarded Ph.D degrees.
 Social Initiatives & Care
Towards the Environment
As part of the NSS program students of our institute carried out certain activities
like organizing a blood donation camp, plantation of trees and as a part of the
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college premises as well as the area surrounding the institute.
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“SWACHH BHARAT ABHIYAN”, the students engaged themselves in cleaning the
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 Interaction with national &
International societies

DR. Santanu Koley,Associate Professor,CSE, presented paper in IEEE
conference CAST -2016 in Pune.
“Education is not preparation for
life; education is life itself”- John
Dewey

Mr. Sudipto Dhar,Assistant Professor,CSE, presented paper on IEEE
conference December 2016(ICCIC-2016) in Chennai.

Mrs. Nibedita Mukherjee, Assistant Professor,ECE attended a week-long
workshop on RF, Microwave and Terahertz Imaging Technique organized by
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur from 5th to 9th November, 2016.

Dr. Rishabh Dev Shukla of Electrical Department Chaired a technical
session in IEEE Sponsored International Conference (ICCCCM-2016) during
21st – 22nd October, 2016 jointly Organized by United Group of Institutions,
Allahabad and Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok Technically sponsored by
IEEE UP Section. He also delivered an expert talk in a Faculty Development
Programme on Recent Advances in Renewable Energy Technologies and Smart
Micro-grids (RARETSM-16)
organized by the Department of Electrical
Engineering, Kamla Nehru Institute of Technology (KNIT), Sultanpur during
September 13-17, 2016.

Ms.
Priyanka
Chatterjee,HOD,Humanities,Assistant
Professor
BSH
Department was invited as a speaker in the panel discussion on “JURA
SOYFER AND IMAGES-in Jura Soyfer Symposion held at Viena,Austria in
November,2016.

Mr. Pradip Kumar Mandal, Assistant Professor, BSH Department. and
Ms. Mili Mitra Roy, Assistant Professor, BSH Department presented papers
at the 69th All India Commerce Conference of Indian Commerce Association
(ICA) organized by University of Lucknow from 11 – 13 November, 2016.

Mr. Pradip Kumar Mandal, Assistant Professor, BSH Department and
Ms. Mili Mitra
Roy, Assistant Professor, BSH Department attended a
“Financial Research Workshop – 2016” organized by the Financial Research
and Trading Laboratory, IIM Calcutta” in November, 2016.

Ms. Rajashi Sengupta Mothey, Assistant Professor,BSH Department
attended an FDP on “ The Art of Paper Writing and Publishing” at International
Management Institute, Kolkata in September, 2016.

Dr. Sounak Datta was associated with a collaborative research project for
one month in July, 2016 under the supervision of Prof. Boris Rybtchinski,
Department of Organic Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.He
also attended a UGC-Sponsored National Seminar on “Modern Trends in Chemical
Sciences (MTCS-2016)” from 25-26th November, 2016, at Prasanta Chandra
Mahalanobis Mahavidyalaya, Kolkata.He had presented a poster on “Hybrid
materials developed from Organic crystals and polymers”.

Mr. Sourav Sadhukhan attended a workshop on “Extend the performance
and capability of your existing Gatan CL and GIF systems: Come and have a new
user experience” in November, 2016, at CRNN, Calcutta University, Kolkata.
A Faculty Development Programme on Entrepreneurship was held in the
organised by Webcon Consulting (India) Ltd under DST-NIMAT Project. The
programme emphasized on the scope and future of entrepreneurship and
about governmental schemes to encourage and support the same.
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campus from 02nd December, 2016 to 15th December, 2016.It was
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 Cultural programme
The faculty members and staff celebrated the onset of the spirit of Durga Puja
through
“AGAMANI”
by organizing a cultural programme followed by a Grand
Lunch in October, 2016.
“The roots of education are bitter,
but the fruit is sweet” - Aristotle
IndIa’s MIssIon to Mars
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan is a space probe orbiting Mars since 24
September 2014. It was launched on 5
Organisation (ISRO). It
is India's
first
November 2013 by the Indian Space Research
interplanetary
mission
and
ISRO
has
become
the
fourth space agency to reach Mars, after the Soviet space program, NASA, and the European
Space Agency. It is the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world
to do so in its first attempt. The Mars Orbiter Mission probe lifted-off from the First Launch
Pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Andhra Pradesh, using a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV)
rocket C25 at 09:08 UTC on 5 November 2013. The launch window was approximately 20 days long
and started on 28 October 2013.The MOM probe spent about a month in Earth orbit, where it
November 2013. After a 298-day transit to Mars, it was successfully inserted into Mars orbit on
24 September 2014.After ISRO's successful launch and orbit of Mars by its first probe,
the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), ISRO announced the second mission on 28 October 2014 at the
Engineers Conclave 2014 conference held in Bangalore. The agency hopes to have its heavy lift
launcher GSLV III fully operational by 2016 or 2017. It plans to use the GSLV III for
the Chandrayaan 2 mission to the Moon in 2018, and later use it to launch Mangalyaan 2. In
January 2016, India and France signed a letter of intent for ISRO and CNES to jointly
build Mangalyaan 2 by 2020.
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made a series of seven apogee-raising orbital man oeuvres before trans-Mars injection on 30
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