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Freefalling GOCE satellite burns up high in the sky

New Delhi: The European Space Agency (ESA) predicted that the one-tonne GOCE satellite was freefalling towards Earth on a crash course from an altitude of about 160 km. The descending orbit extended across Siberia, western Pacific Ocean, eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica. The Twittersphere was abuzz with speculations about where the satellite will hit and […]

What’s in a name: Cyclone, Hurricane or Typhoon?

New Delhi: Haiyan has been found to be the world’s most powerful typhoon of the year. It hit the Philippines on Friday and moved onwards to the South China Sea. Do you wonder why some storms are called hurricanes, others as typhoons and still others as cyclones? All the three names point to the same […]

IITian who turned a musician and then a bureaucrat

New Delhi: An electrical engineering graduate from IIT Delhi – Kaushik Mukherjee – is the new Chief Secretary of Karnataka. But if he had not made it to the position, he would have been playing harmonica in an international event in Germany. A man of many talents, Mukherjee did his M.Tech from New York. But […]

IIT-BHU will research on superconductors to save power during transmission

New Delhi: In a unique three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by IIT-BHU and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), it has been decided that the institute will research to explore how high temperature super conductors can be used for transmission as well as bulk storage of electricity.Only one of its kinds, hardly anything […]

Entrepreneurship Awareness a huge ‘hit’ at IIT Kharagpur

New Delhi: At IIT Kharagpur, Entrepreneurship Cell is a non-profit student organization that conducts guest lectures, business plan competitions and workshops to foster entrepreneurial spirit in the college students of India. They also provide them with mentors and incubation support. In the month of October every year, it organizes a flagship event called the Entrepreneurship […]

Cheated in Class X, jailed 15 years later

New Delhi: In 1998, Asif asked another boy to impersonate him the Social Science paper in Class X board exams conducted by CBSE at Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Kailash Nagar. The boy was caught writing his test and the case was forwarded to the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB).Since last 15 years, Asif and his co-accused has […]

IIT-Kanpur felicitates its alumni

New Delhi: IIT Kanpur felicitated seven of its graduates with distinguished alumnus awards. These included Kamal K Sharma of 1969 batch, Amit Gupta of 2000 batch, Abhay Singhal, Naveen Tiwari of 2001 batch, Bhadresh K Shah of 1975 batch, Sumant Singh of 1978 batch and Keshav K Pingali of 1979 batch. The last three could […]

PM and President push NITs to increase their research output

New Delhi: Despite the fact that India has the second largest population in the world, its research output is quite low. For every million people in the country, the number of researches in science and technology in the US is 715; in China, it is 468. India is far behind with only 119 researchers for […]

Super 30 aggrieved by fee rise for offline JEE Main 2014 exam

New Delhi: Super 30, the well-known coaching provider who help poor students to crack IIT entrance exam, is deeply agitated by the fee rise for JEE Main 2014 exam which will be conducted in the offline mode or the pen and paper based format. It has even petitioned the Union HRD Ministry against the move. […]

IIT-BHU gears up to make its students more employable

New Delhi:Indian Institute of Technology of Banaras Hindu University, also known as IIT-BHU, has decided to restructure its academic curriculum of its undergraduate courses to make its students more employable. Under the new system, students will study in an environment which will be similar to their future workplace. The curriculum will be more project-oriented and […]