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IIT Placements Now in 2 Crore League: Good Days for IITians!

Oracle has offered a package of Rs 2.03 crore to an IIT BHU student. Facebook offered Rs 2.1 crore to a girl from IIT Bombay as well as extended 8 offers of Rs 1.55 crore each. Google doled out an offer of Rs 1.7 crore to IIT Indore student and Rs 1.63 crore to another […]

Guide to IIT: Tips to Prepare for IIT-JEE 2015 with Élan

Sumit Majumdar from askIITians and Keshav Pratap from Collegepedia offered some simple time-tested guidelines on ‘How to Prepare for IIT- JEE’. Here are some of the highlights of IIT JEE tips that they offered to engineering aspirants: How to prepare for the new JEE format? We need to be methodical in our approach. To reach […]

IITs: Potpourri of Talents that Lead to Various Careers!

Over-a-crore placements, especially the Facebook pre-placement offer of more than Rs 2 crore, have been quite in news this year. Multi-national companies from all over the world are vying to get their share of Indian talent. Naturally, for most people, IITs are passports to success. However, a ‘career’ is not only about money. It is […]

IIT Guwahati Dean Arrested on Rape Charges

New Delhi: Aloke Kumar Ghosal (A K Ghosal), Professor of Department of Chemical Engineering and Dean of Academic affairs at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, has been arrested on charges of rape and sexual harassment of a junior employee at the institute. IIT-G has removed him from all the responsibilities after the police […]

IIT Lingo Series: Know Engineers’ Slangs

While some may turn it down as a techie’s jargon or students’ gobbledygook, JEE aspirants are eager to learn the campus lingo of the IITs. Here are some of the most interesting IIT vocabs that can infuse a dash of fun to your language skills: IIT Vocabs for New Entrants ‘AIR’ is ‘All India Rank’. […]

IITs, IIMs to offer MOOC: New Hopes for Brighter Future

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is soon planning to launch the SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds) Bharat Programme. Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) have decided to back up the programme by offering the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) way. IIT Bombay (IIT-B) and IIM Bangalore have […]