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12 IIT students getting offers from global giants Facebook and Samsung

  Recently, the world leaders, Samsung Korea and Facebook have recruited 12 IIT-B students in the current year placement season. Last year Facebook didn’t recruit any candidates but this year it has already offered jobs to two students. It is notable that present year placements have rose up in the IIT-B, Powai campus up to […]

Increasing number of PPOs in IITs: Good Trends for Placements This Year

Pre-placement offers in this academic session at some of the premier engineering institutes have increased to a great extent in comparison to last year and it seems to be an indication of better times for the placements this season. This year Pre-placement offers at IIT-B has increased to 25% of what it was last year. […]

JEE Advanced-2015: Registration Procedure

IIT Bombay, which is the conducting body for JEE Advanced 2015 has declared the dates for the online registration for Joint Entrance Examination 2015. The registration process is going to begin from May 02 and will last till May 07, 2015. Joint Entrance Exam Advanced (JEE Advanced 2015) is an under graduate national level exam […]

More girls can now clear IIT-JEE with 'Udaan', a CBSE's initiative

With a goal of enabling more number of girls joining the engineering colleges, CBSE has now come forward to help 1,000 girl students per year to prepare for the IIT-JEE. Girls from all boards, and not just CBSE are to be benefited with this initiative of CBSE, which is known as Udaan. Girl students from various boards of class […]

Last Date Extended For Registration of Students of Class 9-12

Keeping the demands of various schools across the country CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) has extended the dates for registration of class 9-12 students for the 2014-15. As per the official sources it is known that the registration is now mandatory for the students of class 9-12 to appear the final examinations. The final date […]

JEE Main 2015: Application Notification

Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main 2015 is being conducted for the admissions into various undergraduate engineering courses for the session 2015-16. JEE main is one of the major engineering entrances in the country, for admissions into some of the most reputed institutes. Candidates clearing the JEE Main are only eligible to appear for the JEE […]

NaMo likely to Keep His Promise: ISM-Dhanbad might Get IIT Status

This could be very early for the student community and teachers of ISM-Dhanbad to celebrate, but there are high hopes still for the institute to upgrade itself with IIT status. In a report presented by a panel of experts which was formed to look into the plea of the ISM-Dhanbad up-gradation, has rejected it, but […]

JEE Advanced 2015

IIT JEE Advanced to be held on 24th May, 2015

The Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Advanced 2015 is scheduled to be held on 24th May, 2015. IIT-Bombay has released the exam dates on its official website. JEE Advanced shall be held in two papers with time duration of 3 hours each. A per the schedule declared, the Paper I shall take place between 9 am […]

Contribution of IITians and NITians in #Mangalyan!

ISRO is undoubtedly one of the major space research organizations across the world but when it comes to the employees at ISRO, hardly 2% of its total engineers are from IITs and NITs, according to the details gathered through a recently drawn RTI. The satellite launch and several other space exploration programs run by ISRO […]