An inquiry has been ordered after R Sooraj, associated with the Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle, was assaulted by some students who claimed to be Sangh Parivar supporters.
Narendra Modi addressed the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras' graduating class of 2019.
The Delhi airport, the country's busiest airport, on Friday early morning witnessed the collapse of a roof at Terminal 1 amid heavy rains that killed one person, prompting the government to order a detailed probe and an inspection of the structural strength of all airports.
There are reports that the government will soon cut income taxes by about Rs 50,000 crore to boost consumption.
Prime Minister Modi, I suggest that, instead, you distribute about one lakh crore rupees per year to the 80 crore poor, which will boost both consumption and economic growth, suggests Kalyan Singhal, McCurdy Professor of Business at the University of Baltimore.
IIT-Bombay and the National University of Singapore will launch joint Master's and Doctoral degree programmes.
rediffGURU Mayank Chandel offers advice to students interested in a careers in science or engineering after class 10 and 12.
IIT Delhi is the first academic institute to have obtained the ICMR approval for a real-time PCR- based diagnostic assay. The development also comes against the backdrop of the Indian Council of Medical Research halting the testing for COVID-19 cases through China-made test kits because of massive variation in test results, compounding the challenge to check and contain the pandemic.
Former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer M G Devasahayam, who was one of the signatories to the representation on the credibility of electronic voting machines (EVMs), voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) and the vote-counting process, had filed an application with the poll panel under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, seeking details of the action taken on it.
The management was open to attracting qualified people from the US for either short-term or long-term assignments in Roorkee, reports Manu Shah.
The reason behind the suicide was yet to be ascertained as no suicide note was found, police said.
Victor Menezes, former senior vice-chairman of Citigroup, who last month donated $3 million to IIT Bombay Heritage Fund, speaks about his alma mater.
Public sector firms presented interesting offers on Day Zero placements at the IITs.
The fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India may start around June 22 and peak from mid to late August, a modelling study by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur suggests.
According to the petition, Shyam Singh, who joined IIT Indore in 2015 as a PhD student, has been repeatedly asked to resign by his guide.
'I do not think the scam is limited to 1,563 students. The number is too low to have caused such an inflation in the marks'
The scheme is open candidates with BTech/ BE/ MTech/ MBA/ MA/ MCom/ MSc/ MBBS or equivalent degree for research activities at IIT Bombay.
PanIIT extends invitations to IIT alumni to come and be a part of the PanIIT Global Conference in December.
Amid a raging controversy over saffronisation of education, IIT Delhi's decision to invite yoga guru Ramdev and an Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh affiliate for deliberations on a programme to leverage the technical strength of the IITs for development of rural areas has raised eyebrows.
'Looking back, there is every chance that I would not have opted for Kota.'' 'The biggest flaw is that your personality gets blocked.' 'It took me two years to get back to 'being human' again.'
The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT, Mumbai, is organising the Entrepreneurship Summit '09 on February 7
Top global brands such as Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Microsoft, Facebook and Texas Instruments visited the campus.
After IIT-Kanpur rejected the Centre's 'one-nation one-test' proposal and decided to conduct its own entrance exam from next year, the IIT-Delhi Alumni Association is pushing IIT-Delhi to follow the suit. A decision is expected to be taken next week when the Senate of IIT-Delhi meets.
'Sundar's achievement doesn't surprise us at all,' IIT-Kharagpur Director Professor Partha Partim Chakrabarti tells Rediff.com
Having dominated the summer placement scene at IIMs, companies like McKinsey, Boston Consultancy Group and UBS showed up for the first time for placements at IIT Bombay.
'Parents, students and coaching institutes will find alternatives to cater to the demand.'
'Most students find it difficult to cope with the way they are expected to learn at the IITs.' 'So, all the students face the same stress.' 'But those students who are mentally weak are more affected.'
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh recently stirred the hornet's nest when he suggested that the faculty members of IITs and IIMs were not 'world class' and that the institutes were 'excellent' because of the quality of students. Jeeva V an IIT Bombay alumnus reacts.
India and the US on Friday said they have started talks to put in place a strategic framework for human space flight by year-end as they plan to send an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station in 2024.
The student union of TISS denied that any protest is being organised.
Are faulty design, hurried construction and private ownership to be blamed for the incidents of airport roofs crashing?
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The sustainable impact of this process is under scrutiny, Tripathi added.
A unique initiative launched by IIT Bombay now makes IIT lectures available at the click of a mouse -- and for free!
With Indian Institutes of Management hiking their fees, the Indian Institutes of Technology too have proposed a similar step to augment their resources. "There is a proposal to hike the fee. But the final decision will come from the government," Prof Surendra Prasad, director, IIT Delhi, told PTI on Tuesday. The students in all the seven IITs are now paying Rs 25,000 per annum as fees. It could be increased up to Rs 50,000, he said.
'After toiling in the field and selling vegetables in the local market, we don't make more than Rs 1,500 a week.' 'That is just enough for the five of us to survive.' 'My family cannot afford to pay for private coaching for IIT-JEE.'
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India has also become the fourth best represented nation in the 2024 rankings, up from sixth last year.
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