In the university category, IISc stood first, followed by JNU and BHU.
The Centre has notified new norms for the appointment of directors of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), making it mandatory for applicants to have first class degrees in both Bachelor's and Master's, along with a PhD or equivalent from a reputed institute.
IIT-M plans to meet the next milestone of its earth satellite project by the end of this year.
Over 1,500 teachers of the elite institutes have gone on a hunger strike today as the HRD ministry has not responded to their demands, including withdrawal of 40 per cent cap on promotion of professors to senior grade.
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.
Seeking to take forward reforms in education, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday asked the IITs to expand into new areas like medicine and law and evolve a framework in this regard.
SmartLearn presents video tutorials on how to crack the Chemistry section of IIT JEE 2010.
As Modi spoke, two Cabinet ministers sat behind him as did senior diplomats and civil servants. National Security Adviser Ajit K Doval -- a regular attendee alongside Modi at such international gatherings -- was intriguingly seated behind the Cabinet ministers and the PM's principal secretary.
The 7th global conference with the theme, entreprenurship and innovation in a global economy, took place from October 9 to October 11. The graduates from the Indian Institute of Technology are spread across the globe but nowhere have they made as much name and and impact as in the US.
Being a start-up backed by marquee funds will no longer be enough to seek a placement slot at the Indian Institutes of Technology.
Will the creation of more IITs -- which have spawned some of the best brains in the world -- add to India's technological prowess? Or will they dilute their exclusiveness?
The fight between Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal and BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for supremacy in this temple town has divided students of IIT, Varanasi into two camps who will campaign for their chosen candidate in their own ways.
Reacting to a petition filed by the organising chairman of Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) (advanced) 2013, IIT-Delhi, the Supreme Court ordered the transfer of all petitions related to the IIT admissions that were pending in the Andhra Pradesh High Court to itself.
After achieving 100-per cent success for two consecutive years, the founder of the revolutionary 'Super-30' concept for training economically backward students to crack the IIT selection process, wants his model to be replicated in other streams of education.
'Whenever I felt like giving up, I'd think about my father.' 'I think about all the hardships he'd undergone to put me in a good school and give me the best of coaching.'
Venkataraman Ramakrishnan won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 but decades ago, he failed to clear the entrance tests for both the IITs and a reputed medical college. At a public lecture at the Indian Institute of Science campus in Bengaluru, he recalled his journey from Baroda, where he went to school and college, before moving to Ohio University for his PhD. He shifted to Baroda from Chidambaram in Tamil Nadu when he was three.
Chat with Ram Krishnan on the Pan-IIT 2008 event.
As India is largely a technology importer, Ramadorai said the trend needs to be reversed with the close interaction IITs and Indian industry.
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.
Sudhakar V Shenoy, founder, chairman and CEO, Information Management Consultants, Inc, says 'if we do not pull up the next generation, we would have failed.'
A report submitted by the consortium of seven Indian Institutes of Technology on way to rejuvenate the Ganga river is at heart of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ambitious plan to restore the glory of the river.
There will be work today, there will be work tomorrow, there will be work the day after, but nothing will make up for the eternal regret of not seeing a friend when he was dying.
The Centre has agreed to consider the Kerala government's request for establishing an Indian Institute of Technology centre in the state, Chief Minister, Oommen Chandy told the assembly on Monday.
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.
Garima Lohia, Uma Harathi N and Smriti Mishra secured the second, third and fourth ranks respectively in the examination, results of which were declared on Tuesday.
Pravin Bhagwat, a member of the team which developed the technology, said that after the Ahmedabad bomb blasts where terrorists hacked the wi-fi system of an American in Mumbai, security agencies did not think of securing government and business organisations where a large number of wi-fi systems were installed. A terror e-mail claiming responsibility for the Ahmedabad bomb blasts was sent to some private new channels on July 27 from US national Haywood's computer.
Farhang has alleged that IIT-K breached a 2003 contract it signed with her and her affiliate MA Mobile Limited by allegedly passing the technology, relating to a new platform for mobile computing, to others.
Jaipur's first IIT-JEE topper Aman Bansal shares his success mantra.
They are of the view that calling the new institutes "IITs" would dilute the brand image of the existing premier institutes, which figure among the world's 100 best technology universities and are compared with the likes of MIT, California University and Berkeley. The seven IITs are located in Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati and Roorkee.
A senior official of the premier Central technical institute told reporters that the students had "violated" defined guidelines of IIT-Madras.
The new IITs would come up in Bihar, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Orissa, Gujarat, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Indore in Madhya Pradesh at an estimated cost of Rs 6,080 crore (Rs 60.80 billion), Finance Minister P Chidambaram said after a meeting of the Union Cabinet.
Supreme Court judge Justice DY Chandrachud has said that the decriminalisation of Section 377 of IPC by the apex court has enabled queer people to emerge as legally empowered citizens.
K Ananth Krishnan, an M Tech in Computer Science and an M.Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, hosted a chat on rediff.com on Tuesday.
All India IIT Faculty Federation secretary AK Mittal made the announcement after meeting prime minister Manmohan Singh to discuss the new common engineering entrance examination.
The programme commencing January 2015 will be offered in collaboration with the Olin School of Business, WUSTL
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