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IIT JEE online coaching is effective, practical, flexible and affordable!

Do you look down upon online coaching as impassive video lectures you can play online? It’s time to have a re-look. Today, online exam preparation for IIT JEE is becoming quite popular as it is effective, flexible and affordable. Here are a few reasons why IIT JEE online coaching offered by askIITians is showing a […]

Karnataka welcomes partners for establishing an IIT

The centre has declined the proposal of establishing an IIT in Karnataka and post this the state government is searching for other options to sidestep the situation. The higher education department of the state is working on a proposal of public-private partnership (PPP) model in Chikballapur district which demands a huge investment by a private […]

A device to read emotions discovered by an IIT- Indore professor

Signals from heart (ECG) have often been used to spot the problems. Now science has further progressed and the problems can be predicted through signals from brain. The brain signals cannot be easily affected and hence the results derived from them are bound to be more precise. Dr Ram Bilas Pachori, an associate professor at […]

Open book exam by CBSE will test Higher Order Thinking Skills!

Open book exam by CBSE will test Higher Order Thinking Skills!

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has improvised its examination system for Class IX and Class XI students from next year. It will introduce a new innovative component in the final exams of these classes which will be conducted in March 2014 and will be called the ‘open book’ section. For Class […]

Winners of National Science Exhibition announced!

 New Delhi: Winners of the 10th National Science Exhibition organized by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) have been announced. The theme of the science exhibition was ‘Science and Society’. The three-day exhibition was organised at the Salwan Public School, Rajendra Nagar, New Delhi. 524 students from 262 schools from India and overseas participated […]

First ever career counselling centre by CBSE at Lakhimpur Kheri!

New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched its first ever Career Counselling and Guidance Centre in India at Lakhimpur Kheri, a part of Lucknow division in Uttar Pradesh. This centre will assist students in choosing the right career for themselves. It will especially target students from rural areas who do not […]

5 IITs Feature in the top 400 QS World University Rankings

Massachussets Institute of Technology sustains its top rank in the recently declared QS World University Rankings 2013-14. While the second position was grabbed by the Harvard University, the University of Cambridge tumbled down to the third spot. A different picture was visible this year in terms of UK institutions. Though of the top 20, six […]

38 students to be honored by NIF for bagging the IGNITE award

IGNITE is a national level competition that is organized by the National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) besides various state education boards and others. It basically aims at awarding the unique, first hand technological ideas and inventions of the school children. Encouraging the creativity and originality of children is […]

A mobile app for summit proposed by IIT-Gandhinagar

  IIT Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) is planning its annual technical summit, Amalthea on October 19 and 20. Three students of the institute have developed a novel and innovative mobile application for android phones. This peculiar application will have the quality of acquainting the visitors with a to z information of the two-day summit. The mechanical and […]