Tag: Iit

New Delhi: More than a thousand pass-outs from premium institutions including the IITs, NITs and IIITs have been roped in to teach at engineering colleges in backward areas across the country, Union Human Resources Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. “A total of 1,225 candidates have been selected after a rigorous selection process. Each […]

New Delhi: IIT Bombay on Wednesday grabbed the grand finale of the Sweden India Nobel Memorial Quiz 2017, winning an all-expenses paid trip to the Scandinavian country. The IIT-Bombay team of Jibitesh Behera, Kavin Aadithiyan and Soham Dibyachintan answered brain-teasers by Quizmaster Seema Chari to win the finale at Delhi University’s I.P. College in which […]

Mumbai/New Delhi: Mumbai-born IIT graduate-turned Senior Advocate (designated) of Supreme Court Colin Gonsalves has been selected for the prestigious Right Livelihood Award 2017 – often described as the Alternative Nobel Prize. Gonsalves said he is “humbled and privileged” at the honour. The announcement made in Sweden on Tuesday makes Colin the first Indian rights lawyer […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre’s response to a petition challenging the grant of seven extra marks to all candidates who had appeared for the IIT-Joint Entrance examination for advance course. The extra marks were granted in the wake of a printing error in a Hindi language paper. Issuing notice to […]

Kolkata: Envisaging an alternative future, a two-member student team from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur have come up with an innovation of a water tank inserted into walls that could potentially substitute air conditioners and lead to a 50 per cent reduction in cooling cost. The concept is India’s entry in the five finalists of […]

Kolkata: The placement season at IIT-Kharagpur has started on a robust note with more than 300 students bagging jobs on the first two days. Apple Inc. made its debut on the Kharagpur campus on Friday and picked five students for its Bengaluru office.UK-based Halma plc, a group of technology companies that makes products for hazard […]

New Delhi: The IITs have revoked a ban, which they had imposed on 30 companies, mostly start-ups, barring them from participating in their campus placements. The ban was announced after these firms withdrew their offers made to the students last year. The decision to revoke the ban was taken yesterday at a meeting of the […]

New Delhi: The government is mulling a common governing council for all AIIMS in the country, on the lines of that of the IITs, to simplify governance procedures and bring uniformity in the rules of these medical institutes. The move comes after a high-powered committee, constituted to look at the governance structure of all new […]

Kendrapara: In the politically-sensitive Kendrapara district of Odisha, an IIT alumni has quit his job and lucrative career to fight the rural body polls in Dumuka gram panchayat. Nihar Ranjan Beura (50), an alumni of IIT Kharagpur has set his goal to transform the life of the villagers. “I filed nomination papers for member panchayat […]

An alumni of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has set up a dairy farm in his native village in Kendrapara district from where locals can buy pure milk at a cheaper rate than the market price

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has urged IIT-Bhubaneswar to set up a coastal observatory and innovation centre for climate change as the state is vulnerable to natural calamities like flood, cyclone and tsunami. For the purpose, the government has decided to transfer 40 acres of land at Laudigaon in Ganjam district free of cost to IIT, […]

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has decided to engage the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bhubaneswar and National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela for a research report on utilisation of fly ash being generated in the state. While fly ash is being used for brick-making and road construction, the institutes will study the use of fly […]

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has informed that it has decided to grant Autonomy to 62 Universities (5 Central Universities, 21 State Universities, 34 Deemed to be Universities and 2 Private Universities) across the Country. These Universities have been selected on the basis of National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) ratings. The Institutions having a […]

As per the Report of the Sub Committee constituted by the Council of IITs, the estimated average expenditure per student in the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) is Rs 5.2 lakh per year. However, there will be a total fee waiver for the differently-abled and students belonging to the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled Tribes and […]

Chennai: The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) on Friday announced its collaboration with American conglomerate General Electric (GE) to set up a lab that will develop advanced services technology for aircraft engine components. The ‘Cold Spray’ SMART (Surface Modification and Additive Research Technologies) Laboratory is the first-of-its-kind being installed in any academic institute in […]