From the next academic year, IIT Kharagpur to start a two-year fully residential MBA programme for the defence personnel of all the three forces.
A gamechanger for offices and factories, Shycocan, claims to be able to clear an area of 1000 square feet from coronavirus.
'If unchecked, by 2017, the global volume of discarded e-waste will weigh almost equivalent to 200 Empire State buildings.'
It will now be possible to surmise the height of a tsunami at any given place along the coast.
India Today's annual list ranks the top 100 colleges in the country.
From 26-year-old Rakhi Birla to 41-year-old Manish Sisodia, the soon-to-be Delhi Cabinet is not just going to be the youngest ever but also probably the first in which all members, including the chief minister, are debutant members of Legislative Assembly.
Cloned journals have become more rampant in the post-pandemic world.
IITs anticipate COVID-19 restrictions to impact international offers being extended by global recruiters.
In the recently released EDU-RAND 2015 rankings, IIT Delhi is at the top of the list, followed by other IITs in Kharagpur, Mumbai, Chennai, Guwahati and Kanpur.
With 2,269 vacancies, the IITs currently have one teacher for every 16 students.
Among these, IIT Madras and IIT Gandhinagar run structured programmes where applications are invited from candidates outside campus.Vinay Umarji reports
While there is a shortage of testing kits, manpower and capacities, India does not have other scalable testing options.
On his three-day trip, the Microsoft CEO will meet governments and businesses to get them to use the company's platforms.
Swachh Bharat Mission could focus on using technological innovation to eradicate the problem of open defecation, says R Gopalakrishnan.
The new hires will work in cutting-edge domains of artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, natural language processing, camera technology and 5G networks.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's image of holding the World Cup trophy at Wankhede has been immortalised in cricketing folklore but not many know that Indian cricket's poster boy was once a ticket collector at the Kharagpur railway station.
For the new millennium generation, slowly and at an accelerating pace, it is attractive to harbour a start-up ambition, says R Gopalakrishnan.
IMD has decided to increasingly use cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in forecasting, both to avoid such glitches and to counter the disruption of normal seasonal patterns as a result of climate change. It has formed various internal sub-groups of senior officials and meteorologists to decide on how best to use AI and ML in predicting cyclone intensity, and in making short-range weather forecasts (those valid for up to three hours) as well as long-range forecasts.
Here are some interesting facts you may not know about the AAP chief.
With Sundar Pichai becoming the CEO of Google, India has one more reason to cheer its prowess in the global IT sector.
'I want to leave behind the bank stronger and better than when I took over.'
On the last day of the competition, Yash Vardhan and Shreya Agrawal bagged three gold medals each.
15 per cent of startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indians.
Decoding the JEE Main Paper 2.
The number of offers per recruiter has come down by anywhere between 10 and 20 per cent at different IITs.
The annual fee has been hiked from Rs 90,000 to Rs two lakh.
They are asking TRAI to reject the plan in the interest of protecting the citizens' right to use Internet
Asking Indian Institute of Technology Bombay to adopt a humanitarian approach, the Supreme Court on Monday directed the premier engineering institute to allocate within 48 hours a seat to a young Dalit boy, who missed out, as he could not deposit his fees due to the non-functioning of his credit card.
Day 1 saw Microsoft make the highest number of offers while Intel emerged as one of the top recruiters on Day 2.
Some of the second-generation IITs have seen more job offers from the start of the first phase of final placements to date than compared to the previous year.
This year, campuses placed most number of students in the first phase compared to past few years.
From early graduation to flexible grading, Gunjan Sharma reports on how the IITs will help their graduating students.
Third of faculty positions vacant. One per cent seats empty. New institutes lag in infrastructure, research.
Public sector firms presented interesting offers on Day Zero placements at the IITs.
Experts believe modifying the placement model is a good decision given the changes that campus recruitment has undergone globally, says Vinay Umarji.
Being a start-up backed by marquee funds will no longer be enough to seek a placement slot at the Indian Institutes of Technology.
"The reasons for dropouts may be attributed to shifting to other colleges/institutions, personal reasons, medical reasons, getting jobs during PG courses, inability to cope with academic stress etc," Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani informed the Lok Sabha during Question Hour.
Three Indian-American researchers have shown that the fingerprint-based security systems used in smartphones and other gadgets are way more vulnerable to hacking than we imagined.
'Sergey and I have been super excited about his progress and dedication to the company. And it is clear to us and our board that it is time for Sundar to be CEO of Google,' Lary Page said.
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