'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.'
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.
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.
On January 26, some testing was done by airing a programme. On March 6, recordings were done for a programme.
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.
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.
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.
The prime minister was spotted in a Swasa N95 mask created by the IIT-Kanpur start-up and incubator team.
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.
Institutions have been employing suitable strategies to attract and retain quality faculty
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.
While some researchers are developing prototypes for ventilators to overcome their shortage, others have teamed up to develop testing kits.
Students of the Vinod Gupta School of Management of IIT Kharagpur learnt the six-Sigma dabbawallah doctrine.
With 2,269 vacancies, the IITs currently have one teacher for every 16 students.
Reader Faran Shakeel sends us a picture.
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 rankings listed Asia's top 200 universities, where 12 Indian institutions figure, including seven IITs and five universities.
At a time when corporate slowdown is hitting headlines, IITians are happy that the effect of the weakening dollar has not made any impact on their pay packets.
In an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN, Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal explains how the Joint entrance exam has led to the decline of school education, why the new format will stay for 2013 and why he is unfazed about the autonomy of IIT-Kanpur.
Alert: The Common Entrance Examination for Design conducted by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
Sharat Pradhan journeys to one of India's poorest neighborhoods to meet a young man whose success has made headlines.
The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay is the top Indian institute as per the Quacquarelli Symonds Graduate Employability Rankings 2022.
The IIT has already developed the prototype of such biometric equipment which can recognise people based upon five intrinsic physical traits. These traits are face, iris, ear, palm and fingerprint.
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced on Wednesday that the government has decided to set up five more Indian Institutes of Technology
'Last week, a complaint was filed by a girl student against a faculty member for inappropriate conduct,' the premier institution said in a statement in Kanpur.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, which is placed 33rd this year.
Adding another feather to its cap, the prestigious IIT-Kanpur is all set to sign an MoU with the Malaysian government to provide technical and academic assistance in setting up an electronic hub in that country.
Offers, high ones, are coming in before placements officially start.
In predicting that the active cases would go up by about 10 lakh by mid-May before sliding, scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and Hyderabad applied the 'Susceptible, Undetected, Tested (positive), and Removed Approach' (SUTRA) model.
For the first time, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT), Bombay and Delhi were ranked among QS top 50 engineering colleges in the world.
'Focus. Give every subject equal importance. Keep a basic but flexible schedule,' says this year's IIT topper.
'The Northeast is the biodiversity saviour of the country,' says Sikkim MP Prem Das Rai. 'Thirty to 40 per cent of the biodiversity of the country is housed in the Northeast. It is the battery of India. Not only oil and gas but it has a hydroelectricity capacity of 70,000 MW. It has so much colour and diversity within itself.'
International pay packages have soared 10-30 per cent at IITs.
'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.'
The government said it looks at such studies with due respect but it is yet to examine whether this particular report has a scientific worth or not.
IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said that inducing artificial rain can only be attempted when there are clouds or moisture available.
A 2014 study had ranked IITs as fourth among the top 50 universities globally, whose graduates were entrepreneurial.
Public sector firms presented interesting offers on Day Zero placements at the IITs.
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.
