New Delhi: Even as confusion reigns over the HRD Ministry's proposed common entrance test for all IITs, with some institutions backing it and others opposing it, it is the aspiring engineering students who are suffering the most. Kshitij is one of the lakhs of students every year who dream of joining the prestigious IITs. But with the deadlock persisting between the HRD minister's proposal and the senates of different IITs,...
06:40 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Ranchi: An Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) engineer has been arrested for sending a threat mail to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P. Chidambaram, police said on Sunday. Anurag Kashyap was arrested on Saturday from Hazaribagh district in Jharkhand. "Anurag has been arrested for sending a threat mail, he send the mail by creating an account in name of his neighbour Manish Sharma," a police official said. The...
12:08 AM, Jun 11, 2012
New Delhi: After Kanpur, now IIT Delhi has raised questions on the proposed joint entrance exam for the IITs and all centrally-aided engineering colleges. The Delhi Senate may oppose the entrance exam proposal. IIT Kanpur has already taken on Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal, rejecting his proposal. IIT Kanpur has said it will conduct its own entrance examination in 2013 and will co-ordinate with those IITs who choose to join...
07:01 AM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur on Friday rejected Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal's 'one nation, one test' proposal and has decided to conduct its own entrance test for undergraduate programmes from 2013. The decision was taken at a meeting of the institute's 210-member senate. Upset with no action on their demand to recall the decision on a common engineering entrance test, IIT Kanpur has gone...
09:18 AM, Jun 09, 2012
Kanpur: Rejecting Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal's 'one-nation one-test' proposal, IIT-Kanpur on Friday decided to conduct its own entrance exam from 2013. This decision was taken at a meeting of the institute's 210-member senate. Terming it as a very important development, IIT-Delhi alumni president Somnath Bharti said "other senates are likely to follow the suit". The Senate of IIT-Kanpur said that the recent IIT Council proposal on...
10:01 PM, Jun 08, 2012
New Delhi: Almost all the states on Tuesday opposed the Centre's proposal to allow flexibility to prestigious IITs according to which they can adopt a methodology for selection and admission of students which is different from the same in NITs and IIITs. Led by Bihar, Education Ministers of the states almost unanimously said they could not agree with a provision in the Centre's proposal that the selection criteria for candidates...
08:28 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: Strongly opposing the new format for admission to IITs and other central institutes from 2013, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni association have decided to take the Union Human Resource Development(HRD) ministry to court. The association will be moving the Delhi High Court on Monday. In a meeting on Friday, the alumni and faculty members of institutions like the IIT, NIT and IIIT have decided to file...
08:59 AM, Jun 02, 2012
New Delhi: The joint council of the IITs and NITs will meet on Monday to discuss the government's move to hold a single entrance test for undergraduate technical courses. Sources say that the IITs, by and large, have opted to retain the existing format of JEE for 2013. Ahead of Monday's crucial meeting, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Sunday met the IIT faculty federation and is understood to have sought...
09:01 AM, May 28, 2012
New Delhi: The IITs (Indian institutes of technology) have decided to post on websites the answer keys of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2012 as well as the answer copies of students, in a move which is expected to bring immense benefit to engineering aspirants. According to IIT-Delhi director R K Shevgaonkar, answer keys of the exam will be displayed on May 3 and the evaluated optical response sheets (ORS)...
04:44 PM, May 02, 2012
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed two key bills to enable students of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research get their degrees and give 8 new IITs their status through an Act of Parliament. The Institutes of Technology (Amendment) Bill, 2011, already passed by the Lok Sabha, seeks to set up eight new Indian Institutes of Technology in Bhubaneshwar, Gandhinagar, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Mandi, Patna and Ropar...
06:56 PM, Apr 30, 2012
New Delhi: It's D-day for lakhs of IIT aspirants all across India. The IIT-Joint Entrance Exam will be held on Sunday and 5.6 Lakh candidates are expected to take the exams for admission to 9,618 IIT seats. The candidates are vying for nearly 10,000 seats across the country in 15 Indian Institute of Technology (IITs), Institute of Technology at Banaras Hindu University, and Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. This year...
07:49 AM, Apr 08, 2012
New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi is the country's highest ranking institution in the world with a global rank of 218, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday. Minister of state for HRD D Purandeswari said during Question Hour that as per the Quacquarelli Symonds global system of ranking of higher education institutions for 2011, IIT-Delhi is the overall highest ranking institution in India at serial number 218. "As per...
02:25 PM, Mar 30, 2012
A former director of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, professor MS Ananth, recollects a dinner table conversation with an Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer. The IAS officer firmly believed that the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) could easily be replaced by any other exam in India. Like what, asked Ananth? Perhaps, the UPSC examination, argued the officer. It is fair, tough and can pick the best minds in...
11:32 AM, Feb 23, 2012
New Delhi: Around 35 per cent of teaching posts are lying vacant in 15 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) with 212 faculty members taking early retirement in the last decade, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Friday. "Approximately 35 per cent of the teaching posts are presently vacant in 15 IITs... a total of 212 faculty members have taken early retirement during the last decade," Minister of State for Human...
06:44 PM, Dec 02, 2011
Mumbai: A new software platform, developed by French scientists, which was demonstrated at a tech fest at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) here allows individuals to control computer commands by just a 'thought'. Acting as an interface designed to translate what happens in the brain into a computer command, this software -- 'OpenViBE'-- is the outcome of a project initiated in 2005 and has a multitude of potential applications....
12:50 PM, Jan 08, 2011
Minister wants eligibility criteria for entrance test to be toughened. ...
05:56 PM, Oct 19, 2009
Over 1,300 teachers of the 14 institutes are part of the protest. ...
05:16 PM, Sep 24, 2009
The student has been allegedly involved in online credit card frauds. ...
05:40 PM, May 09, 2009
Johannesburg: After their not so memorable outing in the just-concluded ICC World T20 in Sri Lanka, it will be a test of character for the Indian boys in the Champions League Twenty20 which enters the business end on Saturday. There are four Indian Premier League teams in the fray in the cash-rich tournament, including defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) and this season's IPL winners Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The other...
02:26 PM, Jul 06, 2008
Bridgetown, Barbados: Rohit Sharma led the mid-innings rescue effort after a top-order collapse as India 'A' managed to take a slender 25-run lead against the West Indies 'A' on the second day of their first four-day Test on Sunday. At the draw of stumps, West Indies 'A' were 3 for no loss after bowling out India 'A' for 277. Rohit missed out on a century, falling for 94, but his...
07:32 AM, May 29, 2008
