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Top 10 Tips to clear AIPMT 2016: What you Need to Know and Do

So, you want to be a Doctor and AIPMT 2016 seems to be the biggest obstacle in success. Like a good doctor, study your problems, tackle them methodically and with precision – and you are sure to fulfill your dreams. Here are some AIPMT study tips all medical aspirants must know: 1.       Important Topics for […]

Top Colleges in India with Top CEOs as their Alumni

We live in the Age of Startups! Young and dynamic Indians are trading hefty salaries and big job titles for starting a venture of their own – and many have been successful in creating brands that have become quite famous. Many-a-times, the founder of the company himself or herself acts as the CEO of their […]

IIT Hyderabad Topper Committed Suicide in US due to Bad Grades

New Delhi: Being an IITian carries a heavy burden of expectations from family, friends and society and it seems that 25-year old Shiva Kiran fell victim to the stress and depression it can whip up. The topper of IIT Hyderabad, Shiva went to the US for higher studies in August 2015. Reportedly, he hanged himself […]

BITSAT 2016 Application Form expected to be Available Soon

Application for BITSAT 2016 is expected to be released in the last week of December, 2015 and the deadline for submission of BITSAT application form 2016 is likely to be around last week of February, 2016. Here are some things to remember when you apply for BITSAT 2016: Eligibility Criteria Candidates should have cleared Class […]

JEE Advanced 2016: Eligibility Criteria

We all know that only Top 1,50,000 rank holders in the JEE Main 2016 exam are eligible to sit for the JEE Advanced 2016 exam. Here is the eligibility criteria that you need to fulfill to appear for the JEE Advanced 2016 exam: Age Limit General and OBC category students born on or after October […]

Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella to visit India later in December 2015

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai were to visit India on December 4, 2015. But now, they might land in New Delhi a little later. Pichai’s visit is said to be his first international visit after taking over the top job at Google. It has to be an official trip and he […]

5 Tips to Avoid Negative Marking in JEE Exams

Competitive exams like JEE often have multiple choice question format – where you have to pick and choose correct answer out of 4 given options. It is not uncommon for students to pick random answers in such exams – which may lead to ‘chance’ success in exams. Hence, JEE exams employ negative marking to discourage […]

JEE Main 2016: You can appear for the Entrance Exam Thrice

JEE Main 2016 Exam is scheduled in April next year. Offline JEE Main exam will be conducted on April 3, 2016 while the Online JEE Main Exam is schedule for April 9 and 10, 2016. According to the latest JEE Mains 2016 notification, the number of attempts for the engineering entrance exam has been increased […]

Google offers 2 crore to IIT boy from Pune, 1.27 crore to DTU student

New Delhi: Abhishek Pant, a final year student of Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, is from Pune. The 22-year old bagged a job worth Rs 2 crore per annum plus stock options at Google Inc. Chetan Kakkar, the final year student of Information Technology at Delhi Technological University (DTU),bagged a job […]

IAAC to hold Fast Unto Death for IIT in Raichur

New Delhi: Raichur is in Karnataka – 409 km from the state capital Bengaluru. The IIT Allotment Action Committee (IAAC) is demanding an IIT for the district and has announced to ‘Fast Unto Death’ from today – November 16, 2015 for it. PM Modi led Union Government has announced setting up of several new IITs […]