The following article was contributed by Prof. Debasis Mishra of the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi as part of a campus recruitment initiative for an Master of Science programme in Quantitative Economics. For a very well written paper on the subject by Prof. Mishra with illustrative examples from the real world, click here. What is Quantitative...

UPDATE: Click here to read Ankik’s Obituary written by Mithun Madhusudhan ( Ankik’s batchmate, 5th Year Undergraduate Student, Patel Hall ) Ankik Dhar, a ’09 graduate of the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering and ex BTDS Governor, passed away yesterday as an unfortunate victim of the recent Terrorist strike on a...

Mithun Madhusudan, 5th Year Undergraduate Student, Patel Hall, shares his sense of grief  on the unfortunate death of a friend in the following words. I am not one given to extreme displays of emotion, but memories of Ankik Dhar cannot be penned down without it, for that was the kind of person he was. It’s always hard to deal with death. Each of us has our...

Dr Muthuraman, the Chairman of Board of Governers of IIT Kharagpur will be visiting the campus on 12th February.He is interested in having an interaction with student representatives and discussing several ongoing issues related to academics, students’ life, living standard in hostels, infrastructure support which is already available, those which are in...

CRY – Child Rights and You exists today – to amplify the voice of children. We believe that children are citizens in their own right, entitled to the full spectrum of human rights. At CRY, we do not believe in charity. Nor do we run schools, orphanages or dispensaries. Instead we partner grassroots-level NGOs working with children, their parents and...