IIT Roorkee Snippets
 
October 2022
 

Prof. K.K. Pant, has been appointed as the new Director of IIT Roorkee
 
IIT Roorkee is delighted to welcome its new Director, Prof. Kamal Kishore Pant. IIT Roorkee looks forward to scaling greater heights under his leadership.
Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi hands over charge and congratulates Prof. K.K. Pant. We thank Prof. Chaturvedi for his leadership and guidance through his tenure as Director and wish him good health and success in his career ahead.


Former IIT Director's vision on reaching milestone of 175 years of IIT Roorkee
 
Prof. Ajit Kumar Chaturvedi, the former Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, points out some of the strengths of IIT Roorkee. On reaching the milestone of 175 years, he states IIT Roorkee is readying itself for a glorious future.


IIT Roorkee Alumni appointed as Director General, DRI, Delhi
 
Shri. Mohan Kumar Singh (BE- Civil- 1987), Chief Commissioner, Mumbai Customs Zone II, has been appointed as Director General, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), New Delhi.


IIT Roorkee celebrated annual cultural fest “Thomso 2022”
 
The annual youth festival, "Thomso 2022" was celebrated at IIT Roorkee campus from October 14th to 16th. During the three-day event, the institute hosted various events like a fashion parade, rock show, professional night, and lectures by key personalities from various fields. Live performances were also conducted where singer Sanam Puri and his band performed on October 14th, 15th and 16th of October respectively.


IIT Roorkee – “Reunion Celebrations” Oct-Nov 2022
 
At IIT Roorkee, the Emerald Jubilee Reunion celebration of the 1967 Batch (Including 1968 B.Arch.) was held during Oct 28-30, 2022.
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IIT Roorkee team scales Friendship Peak in Pir Panjal in Himachal Pradesh
 
In an expedition conducted by the Himalayan Explorers Club (HEC) of IIT Roorkee, eighteen students completed Friendship Peak (5289 m) expedition from September 21-25, 2022. Located near Manali in Himachal Pradesh, the crew was led by Ankit Dudi and Omkar Tiwari, graduate students at IIT Roorkee.


IIT-Roorkee develops a "cancer detector" and transfers its technology to Tata Steel
 
A team of researchers at IIT-Roorkee has developed an easy-to-use breath-based cancer detector (BLO). It will be used for early detection of cancer and will work on the principles of colorimetry.
According to the researchers, this device will be able to detect the presence of breast, lung, and oral cancer.


IIT-Roorkee’s state-of-the-art ‘Rock & Fluid Multiphysics Laboratory’
 
IIT-Roorkee has come up with a state-of-the-art laboratory—'Rock & Fluid Multiphysics'— which will contribute to the petroleum engineering profession, groundwater exploration and resource characterisation. The lab was inaugurated by Padma Bhushan awardee Shri Vijay Kumar Saraswat, a member of Niti Aayog on October 3rd, 2022.


ET Startup Awards 2022: Razorpay wins Startup of the Year award
 
Razorpay was voted as The Economic Times Startup of the Year 2022 in what was arguably the most contested category.


IIT Roorkee Based Startup Wins DRDO's “Dare to Dream 3.0" Contest
 
The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee) startup Indigenous Energy Storage Technologies Pvt Ltd (Indienergy) has been declared the winner of the Defence Research and Development Organisations (DRDO's) "Dare to Dream 3.0" innovation contest for battery development.