Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The registrations for this year’s Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2018) have started today and will continue till October 5. Students willing to take admission into PG engineering courses such as MTech and ME at all the IITs, NITs, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), other GFTIs as well as private institutions have […]
New Delhi: The Joint Entrance Examination (JEE-Advanced) for the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) will be conducted online from 2018. The joint admission board, policymaking body on IIT admissions, took the decision at a meeting in New Delhi on Sunday. In a statement, IIT Madras director and JAB 2017 chairman Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi said: […]
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The Centre is mulling to increase the number of seats in National Institute of Technology (NIT) for female students as only 2,500 female students have taken admission to the NITs across the country this year as compared to 3,900 last year. Taking cognizance of the declining trend of female students taking admission in […]
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: The third round of counselling for admissions to IITs, ISM (Indian School of Mines), NITs (National Institutes of Technology), IIITs and other government-funded technical institutes began today. The process is being carried out by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA). Earlier on Monday, availability status and seat allocation for the third round counselling […]
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Admissions to most engineering colleges across the country, including IITs and NITs have been put on hold on Friday by the Supreme Court over bonus marks in JEE. The apex court gave the order based on a petition filed by two students seeking revision of the list of students who cracked IIT after […]
Cuttack: Success has come knocking on the doors of Srinivas Nandi, a student from Maniabandh in Cuttack district, who has now cracked IIT. Coming from a modest background with his father being a weaver, Srinivas scored nearly 88 percent in the Plus II Science but pursuing higher education emerged as a major hurdle for him. […]
Bhubaneswar: IIT aspirants from economically weaker sections of the society have good news as the ‘Super 30’ programme, an initiative by well known mathematician Anand Kumar of Bihar, is going to be launched in the city to train 30 meritorious students for IIT-JEE. Super 30 founder Anand Kumar has announced today that he has plans […]
Bhubaneswar: Intake for the B.Tech course at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar, has been increased to 350 this year from 260 in 2016, informed the institute’s director RV Rajkumar on Wednesday. Initially, the number of seats for B.Tech course at the institute was 180 in 2015. The director added intake for the Ph.D is […]
Bhubaneswar: The results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2017 were announced on Sunday on the JEE official website. Students can log on to www. jeeadv.ac.in to check their results. Of the total 2,20,000 students who had appeared for the test held on May 21, as many as 2700 aspirants are from Odisha. Out […]
Bhubaneswar: Four educational institutions from Odisha have made it to the top 100 list of institutes announced by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD). According to the ministry’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings for higher educational institutions in India, in overall ranking; Sikha ‘O’ Anusandhan University in the State capital has secured 33rd rank […]
Bhubaneswar: The all India Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main-2017 for admission into engineering disciplines in top level institutes like IITs, NITs, IIITs, other Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs) and state level engineering colleges will be held today. Sources said, in Odisha nearly 45,000 students are likely to take the test at 82 centres in six cities […]
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government is all set to introduce new rules in line with the format followed by IITs and NITs for the counselling process in engineering admissions. The new guidelines will be implemented for admissions into the current academic session, informed Chief Secretary, Aditya Padhi today. As per the new guidelines, the final list […]
Bhubaneswar: Researchers in climate science are studying coastal inundation for developing a Land-Ocean-Atmospheric Modeling System to make prediction in case of extreme weather events, Prof UC Mohanty, Professor of Earth, Ocean and Climate Sciences at IIT, Bhubaneswar said. As climate change and global warming had been triggering erratic and extreme weather events, the coastal states […]
Bhubaneswar: Funnel shaped and shallow, the Bay of Bengal has witnessed around 500 cyclones in 125 years since 1891 of which 107 had targeted Odisha causing immense devastation. “However, compared to hurricanes inthe west pacific, cyclones originating in the Bay of Bengal are less intense and much weaker but ironically cause more death and destruction. […]
Bhubaneswar: To facilitate the students of the state having no Aadhaar card which has been made mandatory by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) for the JEE Main examinations scheduled on April 2, the Odisha government had made elaborate arrangements. “CBSE has made Aadhaar card mandatory for students at the time of their registration […]