Darshan Solanki, who hailed from Ahmedabad in Gujarat and was a first-year student of B Tech (Chemical) course at the IITB, allegedly died by suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building located on the campus on February 12.
The Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences. The Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. Vinay Umarji explains why these two universities have made India proud.
The Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT, Mumbai, is organising the Entrepreneurship Summit '09 on February 7
IIT-Bombay and the National University of Singapore will launch joint Master's and Doctoral degree programmes.
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.
'Before you work on your business plan, before you build your team, you should have a clear idea about what your product is, who your customer is, how valuable the product is, and whether the market is deep and wide.'
The likes of Microsoft and Cohesity have offered crore plus salaries to some students.
Project Vivaan won big at the Solar Decathlon, placing second overall (and missing the first position by a whisker). Members of the award-winning Team Shunya tell Mrigank Warrier how they built a carbon-neutral, water-neutral, energy-positive home for a family of four.
'There is a difference between a politician and leader.' 'A politician will have his pound of flesh first and do everything else later.' 'A leader will sacrifice everything to help people.'
Institutions have been employing suitable strategies to attract and retain quality faculty
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.
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The process will start in December, but response from companies is very good.
Alert: The Common Entrance Examination for Design conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
President Pratibha Patil has asked Indian Institutes of Technology to address the problems of rural areas by producing cutting-edge solutions for them.
IIT Bombay and Infineon Technologies on Wednesday said they had jointly achieved a major breakthrough in integration of high voltage functionality for advanced CMOS technologies.
The rankings listed Asia's top 200 universities, where 12 Indian institutions figure, including seven IITs and five universities.
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.
'I talk to college friends who are not in the creative industry. They are running start-ups and companies.' 'They're going through similar things. There is a lot of competition and stress for people.'
Donald Trump is catering to the basest fears and prejudice of unenlightened Americans -- yes, there are those too, in sizeable enough numbers to elect one of their own as president. That would most certainly not Make America Great Again, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
The seven IITs are Kharagpur, Bombay, Madras, Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati and Roorkee and the consortium is headed by IIT Bombay director Devang Khakhar.
Alumni and directors of all IITs have proposed a virtual centre at IIT-Bombay for Climate Change Science, which would co-ordinate work of all environment related faculty across these premier technology institutions through a holistic approach.
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.
Twelve universities from India feature in the top 100 of QS Rankings by Subject 2021.
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.
IIT-ians share some common values -- even those from different IITs demonstrate these similarities. These are basically a down-to-earth approach, good work ethics and an application of our mind to problems and challenges.
IIT Bombay's gold medallist, Sheerang Chhatre, discusses academics and studies with Get Ahead readers.
'For 40 years, India valued only technical skills. IITs, coding -- that became everything.' 'Soft skills were sidelined. But those are the skills that will keep you employable now, not technical skills.'
International pay packages have soared 10-30 per cent at IITs.
IIT Roorkee has so far seen the highest domestic salary rise Rs 80 lakh, up by a third from Rs 60 lakh last year.
Faced with growing demand from students for admission to prestigious engineering institutions, the government has decided to start new courses in three leading Indian Institutes of Technology from 2005-06 academic session.
A procession in Kolkata, here and below, commemorating the anniversary of Swami Vivekananda's return from Chicago after delivering his historic speech at the World Parliament of Religions.
Aiming at merging technology with education, IL&FS Education & Technology Services along with IIT-Bombay has developed an integrated system with built-in computer, monitor, DVD player, projector and stereo system.
An interview with Shripad Dharmadhikary,an IIT-ian who walked off the beaten track.
The annual Reuters ranking of Asia Pacific's Most Innovative Universities for 2018 is out.
The Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), an IT business incubator supported by IIT Bombay is set to open its doors for more innovators sand entrepreneurs.
The Congress leader from Gujarat said the Dalit community has given a call for a nationwide candle march on February 19 in support of Solanki, who was a first-year student of B.Tech (chemical) course.
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