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After ISRO, IIT Kharagpur might soon join hands with NASA too

New Delhi: IIT Kharagpur has successfully partnered with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) over the last four years on much publicized projects like Chandrayaan, Mangalyaan and Scatterometer which is a radar designed to measure oceanic winds. Now, two scientists from the premier research agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have visited IIT Kharagpur […]

Google offers pre-placement offer of Rs 75 LPA at IIT KGP

New Delhi: Pre-placement offers (PPOs) at IITs spell out a successful campus placement season, according to the exampus. Google has made an offer of $120,000 (Rs 75 lakh) per annum to students of IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati. These students have been invited to work at its US Headquarters. Last year, the highest offer made […]

Dates of all Engineering Entrance Exams to be held in 2014

Most of the engineering entrance exams will be held in May and June. The first step of JEE admission process or JEE Main will take place in April. List of Engineering Entrance 2014 exam dates as announced yet:               Most board exams will be conducted in late February and […]

Plum offers for talented B.Tech students this placement season too

New Delhi: Despite economy slowdown and dampening of spirits due to no-show of Facebook and Twitter at many engineering institutes, many B.Tech students have fared quite well in this placement season too. Big companies who showed up at campus placements are on the lookout for talented engineering graduates to make their workforce richer and they […]

IIT KGP to miss majors like Facebook and Mitsubishi this year

  New Delhi: Placement season at IIT Kharagpur is about to start from December 1, 2013. Twitter never came to IIT Kharagpur but Facebook is sorely going to be missed at IIT KGP campus placements this year. Last year, Facebook had picked up four students here and had offered them lucrative packages. Most of the […]

IIT Delhi Alumni UNIITE to discuss entrepreneurship and start-ups

New Delhi: As the first semester at IIT Delhi is about to complete, an entrepreneurial talk series and product showcase event called UNIITE was organized in collaboration with IIT Delhi Alumni Association (IITDAA). With 1,70,000 inventions being registered in India in the last two years, the entrepreneurship is rapidly becoming the preferred road taken by […]

10 Best Colleges for Aerospace Engineering in India

Aerospace engineering is about designing and construction of different types of aircrafts – including jets, rockets and missiles. Engineers who work with defense systems, aviation technology and space exploration are often aerospace engineers. Aerospace engineering may lead to jobs with space research organizations like NASA and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) or with large aviation […]

A glimpse of the top 10 colleges for Tech CEOs

A bulk of the top technology companies in India are being managed by the graduates from various elite institutes. Though, it is an accepted fact that the technology companies may result from anywhere but the figures have been quite affirmative for graduates from top-notch institutes and that too the engineering and the IT domains. Huge […]

India faces the dearth of iPhone 5s!

IPhone 5s is out of stock in almost all prominent retail outlets like UniverCell Telecom, PlanetM Retail, Future Group and Videocon Group’s Digiworld and the MobileStore. After about three weeks of its launch, there is an acute shortage of the apple product mainly due to its huge demand and limited supply. The waiting list for […]