The premier Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are gearing up to complete the implemention of the scheduled caste (SC), scheduled tribe (ST) and other backward classes (OBC) quota requirement for faculty positions from next year.
The process will start in December, but response from companies is very good.
International pay packages have soared 10-30 per cent at IITs.
If IIT-Bombay Chairman Anil Kakodkar has his way, studying at any of the 15 IITs across the country will now cost Rs 250,000 every year against the current Rs 50,000. Is this hike justified?
If the IIT Council has its way, fees for the most prestigious engineering institute will shoot up fivefold.
D Udaya Kumar made history when his design was selected as the symbol for the Rupee. Manu A B profiles the brilliant creator.
Greater autonomy, freedom to recruit faculty and government funding are just some of the perks these institutes will enjoy.
IIT Bombay, for instance, recently joined hands with Intellectual Ventures to seek support in marketing and licensing patents the institute holds.
Institutions have been employing suitable strategies to attract and retain quality faculty
Avenues 2009, the annual two-day business festival of the Shailesh J Mehta, School of Management, IIT Bombay, based on the theme 'People, planet and profit' reflected the creative and intellectual spirit of the management students.
The IIT-Bombay features on number 53 the top 100 for engineering while IIM-Bangalore finds a spot in the 101-150 category.
A look at the annual design degree show from the IIT Bombay's Industrial Design Centre
The rankings listed Asia's top 200 universities, where 12 Indian institutions figure, including seven IITs and five universities.
IITian and JAM master Sushant Arora gives you tips on how to become a star at your local college fest by saying funny things.
If you don't bribe your work will not be done and you will suffer. To make the government servant suffer what you must do is bribe and have him arrested. Only then will your work be done and next time they will respect you, said Shailesh Gandhi
Computer science student Deepali Adlakha who recently secured a job at Facebook talks about the various interview stages and tells us how she cracked it.
Over 200 professors of IIT-Bombay on Monday went on mass leave demanding pay parity with government scientists.The salary hike demand is also to attract faculties to join IITs, he said, adding the government has announced setting up of eight new IITs across the country and 8,000 professors are needed for that.
President Pratibha Patil has asked Indian Institutes of Technology to address the problems of rural areas by producing cutting-edge solutions for them.
One fine morning in 2006, Dhiraj Kacker received a phone call that changed his life as an employee with a successful start-up in the Silicon Valley. At the other end was his buddy Peeyush Rai coaxing him to come back to India to start their own business. And, Kacker didn't think twice. In 2007, Kacker and Rai, who used to play for the IIT Bombay cricket team, launched Canvera, an online digital photography company that offers solutions in imaging and photography.
Three readers share why the rains hold a special place in their hearts.
I think instead of waiting for leaders, each of us can resolve to be a leader in his or her own right, in whatever area we chose to do.
An alumnus of IIT Bombay intends to start an NGO to help create awareness about the degrading quality of environment and needs volunteers.
Driven by a burning desire to make her mother proud, Pragya Verma overcame financial difficulty to reach IIT.
On the back of a global meltdown, big-ticket firms may not be flocking at the premier Indian Institute of Technology campuses. IITians, however, have not lost all hope. Many are looking at start-ups for their first jobs.
Patrick Turner, Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise at INSEAD, offers some solid advice to budding entrepreneurs.
Karuna Jain, head of the Shailesh J Mehta School of Management at IIT-Bombay, believes India is competitive in terms of imparting quality education.
The Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) announces a fellowship programme to connect the best engineering talent to credible social enterprises.
Picsquare is a portal where one can print one's photographs and can even get them embossed on mugs, T-shirts, calendars, scrap books and have them delivered at home.
With tambourines and guitars in their hands and songs of revolution on their lips, people protested against the attack on Jawaharlal Nehru University students throughout the night in front of the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in south Mumbai. People, including students and women, in large numbers had gathered in front of the Gateway of India in South Mumbai's Colaba on Sunday midnight.
The Common Entrance Examination for Design 2006, an all India examination conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, on behalf of the ministry of human resources development, department of education, government of India, will be held on
In the results announced Friday, April 5, as many as 759 candidates including 577 men and 182 women have been selected.
Rediff.com India Ltd on Wednesday announced that it has invested an undisclosed sum in Vakow.com, a fast growing SMS content sharing social community started by IIT Bombay alumni Rahul Gupta and Amit Upadhyay.
Gavin DSouza who scored 99.49 percentile in CAT 2013 tells us how he cracked the test.
Qualifying examination for admission to Master of Design (M.Des.) Programmes at IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati and IIT Kanpur, and PhD Programmes in Design for the academic year 2008- 2009.
'We are trying to empower teachers in the entire country because online teaching is very, very, complicated.'
Sathe had suffered multiple injuries on his skull in that incident, but due to his strong will power and passion he cleared the test and started flying again, his cousin said.
The content discovery platform designed to help you discover content and services in the language of your choice recently turned profitable. It has delivered 1 billion application installs and updates in the past 12 months, says Samreen Ahmad.
E-Cell IIT Bombay's 'The Pan IIT Business Ideas Challenge' where brains across all the IITs come together in a clash of ideas. It's about an idea for an enterprise at its inception. Ideas of products, services, innovations, changes that very possibly are the trends of tomorrow.
The annual Reuters ranking of Asia Pacific's Most Innovative Universities for 2018 is out.
IIT Bombay's alumni raised a whopping $7 million for their alma mater at a function to celebrate 50 years of the premier institution to set up a bioscience centre.
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