A 32-year-old PhD student at IIT-Kanpur allegedly died by suicide in his hostel room, the police said on Wednesday, while in the south a 23-year-old IIT-Hyderabad student allegedly died by suicide on Wednesday at a lodge near the institute where he was staying.
IIT Madras secured the top position out of the 10,885 institutes that took part in the NIRF's ninth edition.
India not only lost its top place as the most represented higher-education system to China, several of its marquee institutions saw a significant drop.
A PhD scholar from Kerala pursuing doctoral studies at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur allegedly committed suicide by consuming cyanide.
IIT Kanpur has announced a breakthrough in stealth technology, which would make tanks and fighter aircraft invisible, or near-invisible to enemy radar.
On Friday, March 28, 2025, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, inaugurated Techkriti 2025, Asia's largest intercollegiate technical and entrepreneurial festival, at IIT Kanpur.
Aiming at checking corruption and speed up the process of issuing passports for students of Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, district police have asked the institute director to appoint a nodal officer to oversee the procedure.
'Once bitten, twice shy, I didn't take up the challenge this time...' 'I realised I had failed to follow my karma because I feared failure.'
A pass-out from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur and currently pursuing MBA from the elite Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow has been taken into custody by the Central Bureau of Investigation as a key suspect in the killing of his own friend Aadesh Bajpai, who went missing some three years ago.
'I can sanction projects worth Rs 20 trillion annually as of today.' 'But my system is only capable of executing projects worth Rs 3 trillion to Rs 4 trillion.'
Amid Delhi's worsening air quality, which has plunged into the severe plus category with an AQI consistently above 450, Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Tuesday called for immediate intervention from the central government.
Day 1 saw Microsoft make the highest number of offers while Intel emerged as one of the top recruiters on Day 2.
'Saudi-Pak defence pact is to anchor the defence and security of Saudi Arabia and not Pakistan, per se, with Islamabad being the junior partner.'
Nine Indian universities and institutions have secured a place among the world's top 50 in the QS subject-wise rankings, with the Indian School of Mines (ISM) Dhanbad claiming the highest position at 20th globally for Engineering-Mineral and Mining. Despite the success, some top institutions, including three IITs, two IIMs and JNU, have experienced a drop in their rankings. The QS World University Rankings by Subject, in its 15th edition, highlight India's growing higher education ecosystem in terms of both size and quality.
According to the Department of Pharmaceuticals' annual report for 2024-25, India imported medical devices worth $8.1 billion, while exports stood at $3.7 billion in the financial year 2023-24 (FY24)
'The Bhashini Mission has delivered a working technology at large scale, which is as good as or better than the one with MNC tech giants.'
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.
While the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur may have attracted among the highest donations by an individual (former student and IndiGo Airlines co-founder Rakesh Gangwal) at Rs 100 crore last week, IITs have largely seen such contributions rise over recent years, despite the Covid pandemic. According to Mahesh Panchagnula, dean, Alumni and Corporate Relations, IIT Madras, in the last five years, the premier institute has raised more than Rs 135 crore under the endowment category of education alone. Despite the pandemic, there has been an increasing trend in endowment funding received at IIT Madras, with an average increase of about 20 per cent year-on-year across the last five years.
After IIT-Bombay, IITs at Madras, Kanpur and Kharagpur are evaluating options to move some or most of their courses online.
Nearly 40 per cent of IITians sitting for placements in 2024 are yet to receive job offers, showing a doubling of the 'unplaced' in the last three years from 19 per cent in 2021-2022 to 38 per cent in 2023-2024.
The course comprises 36 weeks of classroom study, which includes lectures, case studies, tutorials, lab sessions, videos, individual and team assignments, guest lectures from the Japanese faculty, industry experts and business leaders, totalling 1,173 interaction hours.
Announcing the results, Director of IIT Kanpur Prof Sanjay Govind Dhande said that IIT Madras zone aspirant Immadi Purudhavi Tej topped the prestigious examination followed by Shubham Mehta of IIT Bombay zone who got the second rank.
The lack of right attitude towards understanding engineering has become a major concern today, says Prof Indranil Manna, Director, IIT Kanpur.
Seven Indian Institutes of Technology -- IIT-Madras, IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Kharagpur, IIT-Roorkee and IIT-Guwahati -- figured in the top 10 in the overall rankings.
Kumar, who played a key role in implementing decisions following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution in Jammu and Kashmir during his stint in the Union home ministry, took charge as an election commissioner on March 15, 2024.
Gyanesh Kumar, a 1988-batch Kerala Cadre IAS officer, has been appointed as the next Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India. Kumar, who was previously an Election Commissioner, will serve until January 26, 2029. His appointment comes amidst controversy as the Congress party demanded the government defer its decision until the Supreme Court concludes its hearing on a petition challenging the composition of the selection panel. Kumar's tenure will see him oversee several state assembly elections, including Bihar, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal.
The prime minister was spotted in a Swasa N95 mask created by the IIT-Kanpur start-up and incubator team.
The hunger strike by the students of IIT, Kanpur, entered the third day on Monday with a group of students from the Kanpur University joining them in their protest against the passage of reservation in higher education bill in the Lok Sabha.
On January 26, some testing was done by airing a programme. On March 6, recordings were done for a programme.
The panel will examine the reasons behind the emergence of dummy schools and their role in encouraging full-time coaching at the cost of formal schooling, and will suggest ways to mitigate the issue.
The IIT-Kanpur and Railways have jointly developed a device which could help detect any damage to or uprooting of the rail track and excess load in wagons of goods trains.
Mystery shrouds the suicide by a first year student of Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur where eight students have ended their lives over the past five years.
While some researchers are developing prototypes for ventilators to overcome their shortage, others have teamed up to develop testing kits.
Institutions have been employing suitable strategies to attract and retain quality faculty
With 2,269 vacancies, the IITs currently have one teacher for every 16 students.
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Students of the Vinod Gupta School of Management of IIT Kharagpur learnt the six-Sigma dabbawallah doctrine.
The rankings listed Asia's top 200 universities, where 12 Indian institutions figure, including seven IITs and five universities.
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