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HRD Ministry Denies another Term to Two IIT Directors

IIT-Bhubaneswar director, Madhusudan Chakraborty, and IIT-Patna director, Anil K. Bhowmick, have been denied another term in IITs by the HRD ministry. There are 6 IIT directors, including Mr. Chakraborty and Mr. Bhowmick, whose applications for another term were being reviewed by the ministry. Their term ends in June 2014. Mr. Chakraborty was denied another term […]

IIT KGP Professor Develops a Contraceptive That Adds Life to Your Hair

New Delhi: Sujoy K. Guha, a professor at IIT-Kharagpur, has led his team to develop an amazing male contraceptive – one that can prevent baldness and prostrate cancer, helps in regeneration of new hair, and remains active for more than 10 years. Funded by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and coordinated by Indian […]

IIT Bombay to Get a New Entrepreneurship Centre for Emerging Technologies

New Delhi: Syntel co-founders Bharat Desai and Neerja Sethi have donated $1 million to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to establish a new entrepreneurship centre in its premises. Established under the aegis of the Desai Sethi Family Foundation (DS Foundation), this new centre will foster innovation and entrepreneurship in emerging technology areas such as […]

How Indian Institutions can Mount Top World University Rankings?

Just a decade old, the concept of World University Rankings has raised to the status of a well-accepted yardstick which measures quality of higher education institutions across the world. Shanghai Jio Tong University of China was the first one to launch its ‘Academic Ranking of World Universities’ in 2003. Other international rankings that have found […]

Indian-American Student Develops Print-Out a Loudspeaker Technology

New Delhi: Indian-American student Apoorva Kiran led a team of scientists at Cornell University to develop a technology which allows anyone to produce a functional loudspeaker straight out of a 3D printer. Kiran is a graduate student of Mechanical Engineering at Cornell and developed this unique technique along with his batch mate Robert MacCurdy under […]

Girls from Kashmir Have Come Up with Mobile App for Paper-Free Campus!

New Delhi: Rumaisa, Zeenat, Sadiya are Yusra are Kashmiri girls studying B.Tech at the Aryans College of Engineering, Chandigarh. But this is not why they have become talk-of-the town. They have come up with a mobile app under the guidance of Manpreet Mann, HOD (Projects) which will contribute in making their campus paper-free. The app […]

Biotech Popular in Girls, More Boys for Engineering Courses

New Delhi: Skewed gender ratio in IITs & IIMs has garnered much controversy in the past. But engineering colleges in the Tamil Nadu reflect the same scenario. University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE) of Bangalore has all boys in the first year of its Mechanical Engineering class. In PES Institute of Technology, there are only […]

The Fair Game of Taking Admission in IITs

The undisputed reputation of Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) goes beyond borders and to prove it we have a study, conducted in 2004, that states that over 70% of the companies in Silicon Valley are run by Indian engineers, mostly from IITs. In fact, we don’t have to go too far to acknowledge the dominance […]