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Make Your Dream of Being an Entrepreneur Come True—Take Part in the Entrepreneurship Summit 2014!!

Innovative ideas in the business world are the key deciding factors for any business firm, and to encourage more such innovative ideas among new age entrepreneurs for businesses IIT-Bombay has come up with a really innovative way. IIT-Bombay has launched the Entrepreneurship Summit 2014 for all new age entrepreneurs where they can share their innovative […]

Ex-BITSian brings ground breaking change in online purchases: Gharpay!

Abhishek Nayak is one of those exceptional students who don’t believe in following others in the race of getting cushy jobs. Instead, he chose not to sit for campus interviews at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani as he had some other plan for his future. Due to his distinct interests and […]

The Dark Disgraced Alleys of IITs

The news of an IIT-Kharagpur student uploading nude pictures of a woman on the internet, takes us through the dark alleys of terror ridden tales of engineering institutions in India. Adding to such horrors are suicide cases reported from IITs, including the one committed by an IIT-Roorkee student this Wednesday that has taken the total […]

Two IITians and a Management Student from Spain Create “wishpicker.com”

An unhelpful trolling on the net to find the right gift for the loved ones led three friends to create ‘wishpicker.com’—one stop solution for everyone’s quest for a perfect gift. Apurv Bansal, an ex-IITian, Tajendra Singh, a B.Tech student from IIT-Patna, and Prateek Rathore, a management student from Spain are the three brains behind this […]

Registration Process for BITSAT Underway

As applications for BITSAT are currently open for integrated programs at the Pilani’s Goa and Hyderabad Campuses, BITS Pilani aspirants have a golden opportunity to enroll into the programs of their choices. The integrated programs for which registrations are open include BE (Hons), Chemical, Civil, Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics, Mechanical, BPham (Hons), and MSC […]

IIT-Kharagpur Crosses 1000 Mark in the First Placement Season

With over 350 companies registering for the placement in phase 1 at the campus of IIT Kharagpur, the campus placement season has quickly crossed the mark of 1000. IIT-Kharagpur has received rave reviews from its recruiters for representing highly skilled students with strong persona and determined frame of mind. All these traits found in students […]

IIT-Madras Receives 906 Placement Offers in the First Placement Season

In the first phase of placement season at IIT-Madras, 231 companies that visited the campus made 906 offers to students out of which 786 students were placed. According to official reports, the number of jobs secured by students at IIT-Madras this placement season is more than half the number of eligible IIT-Madras students. $ 210,000 […]

The Blind Rush—the Life at IITs

I was called by my first name, Abhimanyu, by most of my friends at IIT but my close relatives had already started introducing me to others with a unique second name—An IITian—which, I also believed had become my caste of sorts. I joined IIT Delhi in the year 2000 after defeating over 1, 18, 000 […]