The Undisputed 2â€â€A Rivalry Beyond Dominance Created by IITs and NITs
The vision of Jawaharlal Nehru to develop India as a leader in science and technology led to the foundation of first 14 RECs between 1959 and 1965, which later in 2003 became NITs. However, considering the fact that the history of IITs dates back to India’s pre-independence era, the foundation of 14 major RECs or […]
Suicide Strikes Again in IIT-Roorkee after 2 Yearsâ€â€Death Toll Rises to 4 in IITs since December
Udai Biradare, a second year M.Tech student from IIT-Roorkee, ended his life at the campus by hanging himself with a rope from the ceiling fan of his room on Wednesday morning. He belonged to Latur district in Maharashtra. The death toll of suicides in IITs has risen to 4 since December, 2013, which has once […]
Two IITians and a Management Student from Spain Create “wishpicker.comâ€Â
An unhelpful trolling on the net to find the right gift for the loved ones led three friends to create ‘wishpicker.com’â€â€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 Rushâ€â€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 nameâ€â€An IITianâ€â€which, I also believed had become my caste of sorts. I joined IIT Delhi in the year 2000 after defeating over 1, 18, 000 […]
A Twitter War between IITs and MIT over Satya Nadella’s Recent Appointment at Microsoft
As Satya Nadella made it to the top position at Microsoft a few weeks back, students, teachers, and other staff at his alma-mater Manipal Institute of Technology turned to Twitter to express their happiness over the news.  They believe that Satya Nadella has proven the conventional notion of only IITians can make it to the […]
IIT-Bombay Confers the Best Team Award to EDC during E-Summit, 2014
A group of 18 students of University Institute of Engineering (UIET) from Punjab University has won the best team award during the “Entrepreneurship Summit 2014†hosted by IIT-Bombay. The Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) team from UIET competed against 99 other teams with over 2,000 team members at the Entrepreneurship Summit at IIT-Bombay before bagging the […]
Believe It or Not!! Reservation Haunts the Lower Castes not The Students of General Category
Most arguments over reservation in education system in IIT are highly tilted to the plight of students from general category. But, in reality, major crisis faced by students from lower castes (SC/ST/OBC), which have forced them to take extreme steps in the recent past, were also driven by reservation in our education system. Hence, it […]