IIT Kharagpur Students Turn Primary School Teachers
New Delhi: Some students of IIT Kharagpur turn primary school teachers every day for poor children nearby. About 100 students from IIT-KGP are part of the Gopali Youth Welfare Society that was started in 2002 by their predecessors. The Society focuses on the development of people in the area. Soon, it was realized that primary […]
IIT Delhi to Organize First-ever Alumni Day on December 29
New Delhi: For the first time, the alumni of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi across batches will come together on December 29 to discuss how to improve the overall ranking and global positioning of IIT Delhi. The first-ever Alumni Day will see IIT-D alumni come together and find ways to how to give back to […]
The secret behind the rise in number of unemployed engineers
India produces about 15 lakh engineers every year. The ugly truth is that no one wants to talk about the fact that most of them remain jobless! Let’s analyze the situation and find how we can combat it: Tug-of-War between Supply and Demand In the late 90s and early 2000s, there was a gaping shortage […]
Comparative Study on Sex Ratio at IITs vs Sex Ratio at US Colleges
New Delhi: We all know about the skewed sex ratio at the IITs. For every eight to fourteen male students in premier engineering colleges in India, there is just one woman who takes admission in undergraduate engineering programs. Aspiring Minds – an initiative of IIT and MIT alumni – has made this low male to […]
Success in IIT JEE on Sale, Fraudsters Nabbed by Their Thumb Prints
New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology is playing sleuth on its students these days. Quietly, they are verifying the identities of the first year students across all the 16 IITs. The move unveiled a shocking truth. Admit cards of successful IIT JEE aspirants are on sale and are being used by the rich and […]
IIT Delhi to Launch Five-Year Integrated B.Tech-MBA Programme
New Delhi: Buoyed by the success of IIM Indore’s Integrated Program in Management (IPM) that targets students who have cleared Class XII, IIT Delhi had decided to launch its own five-year Integrated B.Tech-MBA programme from the next academic year. This should prove immensely helpful for students as many graduating engineers anyways go for MBA after […]
Education Options in India for Students from Middle East
India has the second largest higher education network in the world. Here’s a bird-eye view of the Indian Education System: Universities in India Set up by Central or State Governments only, they can be of following types: Central or State Universities: Central Universities are funded directly by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in […]
How is Christmas Celebrated by Money-Making Pigs and College-Going Kittens
With Christmas just around the corner, we couldn’t help but explore the fact whether the festival of light is celebrated with equal festive spirit by everyone (and every group) or not. And, hence, our curiosity led us to this existing, yet hidden, divide in the society between college goers and corporate alligators (officials) who have […]
Private Universities Heading IT Giant’s Way to Hire at IITs
At the time of urgent need for young professors and research assistants, small private universities have set the ball rolling with their recruitment drive to hire IITs from various parts of the country. IIT recruitment drives, once dominated by IT giants, have recently become the option for private universities, which are leaving no stone unturned […]
IIT Bombay Students Create an Authentic Railway Map for Mumbai
Two students from IIT Bombay have recently developed a commuter-friendly railway map for the Mumbai suburban railway network upon figuring out shortcomings in the existing ones. The students have blamed these particular shortcomings for commuters’ nightmares in Mumbai railways. There is no doubt that the role played by maps in providing travel-related information to commuters […]