IIT Kharagpur plays down FB 'hurt'
With less than a fortnight to go for placements to begin at the IITs, the most talked-about thing on the campuses is perhaps the fact that Facebook and Twitter are not coming for this year's placements. And IIT Kharagpur is no exception. The administration is, however, putting up a brave face. Since Twitter never recruited from IIT-Kgp, it only has to lick the Facebook hurt. Last year, the social media site had recruited four students from here. The rest of the recruiters have confirmed their participation to IIT-Kgp, though the number of students that will finally get picked up at the end of placements might be sizeably lower than last year. Last year, 131 students got selected. Perhaps more than Facebook, the campus is ruing the fact that Rio Tinto , the mining major from Australia, will not participate in placements this year. It has wound up its India operations after completing its contract here, said the institute's placement cell...