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Look, IIT Kanpur is Beaming with Freshers Walking-in!

IIT Kanpur is bustling these days! Though the academic session for new students at IIT Kanpur is yet to commence from the 28th of this month, but they had started reporting on Wednesday itself. The students had come from places far off places like Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, and other states of the […]

Life of top 10 JEE rankers – Should they do what they do?

Shubham Tulsiani, AIR-2 in JEE 2009, answers this question for all of us in an interesting way. He poses some question that the society raises to JEE top rankers and responds to them in a sarcastic yet real way..  “If the toppers were so intelligent why they didn’t start some company and earned a lot […]

Best 15 Paying Jobs for Recent Graduates

According to a recent survey report published by Business Insider Payscale, graduates in the field of electrical engineering earn more than computer science graduates. This report is based on median pay of employees with two years of experience or less who shared salary data on the Payscale site. The pay includes base annual salary or […]

In The Outlook Survey 2014, the 1st Prize Goes to NIT Trichy among all NITs!

So which are the best NITs of India? According to the Top Engineering Colleges of India list published by Outlook as a result of its “India’s Top Professional Colleges 2014” survey NITs of Tiruchirapalli, Surathkal, Warangal, Rourkela, and Hamirpur are the top 5 NITs of India,. IITs and BITS Pilani grabbed the top 8 ranks […]

Interesting Tales of Great People Who are as Ordinary as Us!

Someone asked me about some great Indians. I didn’t take me even a minute to recall the names of  cricketers, freedom fighters, film stars, politicians and billionaires easily. I am sure it must have happened with you too in some point of time. But have you heard of a certain Annadurai who rides an auto […]

Virtual IIT Degree: Soon a Reality!

Seven IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology), and IISc (Indian Institute of Science) are coming up with India’s first virtual technology university. The idea of Virtual Tech University is expected to become a reality in the next 2 to 3 years. IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Madras, IIT Roorkee, IIT Kharagpur and […]

Student Found Hanging in Residence: Another IIT Suicide Case!

IITs are becoming institutions of suicide day by day. Where on one hand they are supposed to be nation’s pride, but in the other hand how is it possible to ignore these gruesome incidences? This time the news is from IIT Delhi. A second year student of the institute, Ridam Kumar Singh, aged 19, committed […]

CBSE Students to Visit Japan to Boost Cross-Cultural Bonding

To make the Indian students and teachers engaged in cross-cultural understanding with their Japanese counterparts, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has asked the principals of all schools to encourage student to participate in the students exchange programme with Japan is starting this October. As per the letter issued by the Ministry of Human […]