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"The Man of the Millennium Receives Recognition from UNO"

Mr. Kalayanasundaram, a 30 year old librarian from South India, has been honored for his outstanding services in social causes recently by United Nations Organizations. Being the first person who has donated his lifetime earnings (about Rs 10 lakhs) for social causes, UNO has included him in its list of the Outstanding People of the […]

BITS Pilani cultural fest at Goa to host Femina Miss India 2014 auditions

New Delhi: Waves, the annual cultural fest of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) held at its K. K. Birla Goa Campus, saw participation of about 6,300 students from 95 colleges across India. It has joined hands with Femina to hold pre-regional elimination round of the Femina Miss India 2014 auditions. […]

At 19, Boyan invents way to plastic-free oceans

New Delhi: Boyan Slat is not just another 19-year Aerospace Engineering student of Delft University of Technology. He has invented the Ocean Cleanup Array that will combine long floating booms with anchored processing platforms to filter plastics from the oceans of the world. The angle of the booms will act as a giant funnel to […]

"IITians Can Tickle Your Bones!"

If you also think that the IITians are blessed with the worst sense of humor, then you would have guessed it absolutely correct until yesterday. According to the latest buzz in the air, IITians are new funny guys, at least that’s what the jokes cracked below suggest to us. Q: What does an IITian present […]

Corporate Mind Games IIT-style!

New Delhi: The Technology Alumni Association (TAA) of IIT Kharagpur recently organised the second edition of their interesting Olympics for corporate intellectuals – Mind Trigger – this year. Inspired by the institute’s annual cultural fest called Spring Fest, Mind Trigger was well-organised but fun and informal in nature. Infosys team emerged as the ‘winner’ of […]

IIT Kanpur and Madras , IISc to offer joint PhD scholarship programme with Aus Univ

New Delhi: The famous Australian University – University of Melbourne – is quite popular with the most prestigious institutions of India. IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (IISc) are all partnering it to offer new joint PhD scholarship programme from 2014.The University of Melbourne has been ranked at #28 by […]

Angel Investors Network springs from IIT Bombay

New Delhi:  Lead Angels (LA) is a newly found angel investors network founded by three members from IIT Bombay (IIT-B) – Professor C Amarnath, who has just retired from the IIT-B faculty position where he was teaching Mechanical Engineering; Sushanto Mitra who is an ex-CEO of Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and now is the […]

GATE 2014 Admit Card to be available from December 18, 2013

New Delhi: According to the latest GATE 2014 notification, admit cards for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014, conducted jointly by the seven zonal IITs and IISc for admission to their Master-level and postgraduate courses in engineering disciplines, will be available on its official website (http://gate.iitkgp.ac.in/gate2014/admitcard.php) from December 18, 2013 The seven zonal […]