New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested IIM Lucknow student Rahul Verma, who has been charged with the murder of fashion designer Adesh Vajpayee. Rahul was produced in court on Wednesday and has been sent to a three-day custody. Rahul has been charged with the murder of his friend Adesh Vajpayee. The incident occurred in 2010 in IIT Kanpur. Rahul was a student of IIT Kanpur...
06:17 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: The successful launch of Jugnu, a loaf-sized nano satellite designed by IIT-Kanpur, on October 12 marks a watershed in Indian space technology for miniaturisation and an indigenously designed ejection system that ends dependence on imports. Jugnu, placed into orbit by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle C18 (PSLV-C18) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), miniaturises communication capabilities, power source and a control system, comprising the basic functions of...
05:31 PM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched four big satellites on Wednesday from theSatish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. Two of the satellites have been made by the students of IIT Kanpur and SRM University. Guruditya Sinha, Student, SRM-SAT Project, said, "The main objective is to measure carbon dioxide and water vapour in the cities above India. To check how much Indian cities are contributing to climate change."...
08:42 AM, Oct 12, 2011
Kanpur: IIT-Kanpur's indigenously built nano satellite Jugnu is likely to be launched by the end of September from Sriharikota, an official of the institute said on Monday. ISRO scientists have given the green signal to the engineering model, while the flight model is being assembled in Banglore, IIT-K Registrar Sanjeev Kashalkar said. Over 62 students and faculty members of the institute worked hard to built Jugnu weighing 3 kg, he...
03:28 PM, Aug 29, 2011
New Delhi: The results of the IIT Joint Entrance Examination will be declared on Wednesday. Over 4 lakh candidates had appeared for the examination in over a 1000 centres across India this year. IIT Kanpur, the nodal agency conducting the exams this year has declared that all candidates will get full marks for two questions that had an error in the mathematics paper. The institute has also decided to withhold...
09:23 AM, May 25, 2011
Kanpur: Over 4.85 aspirants will appear for IIT-JEE, to be held at 1,051 centres in 131 cities across the country on Sunday. "A total of 4,85,262 candidates will fight it out for roughly 10,000 seats in 16 IITs and Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad," IIT-K director SG Dhande said. This year IIT-K is the conducting body of the entrance test, the result of which will be out on May...
08:50 AM, Apr 10, 2011
New Delhi: A total of 13,104 candidates on Wednesday cleared the prestigious IIT-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) 2010 with Anumula Jithendar Reddy from Madras zone topping the test. These students will be eligible for admission in 15 IITs, ISM Dhanbad and IT-BHU. There are 9,509 seats in these institutions. Over 4.5 lakh candidates had appeared in JEE-2010 which was conducted by seven of the IITs on April 11. The number of...
08:39 AM, May 26, 2010
New Delhi: With pollution levels rising across the country, India on Wednesday revised the national ambient air quality standards after 15 years, bringing about uniform standards for residential and industrial areas. "We have notified the ambient air quality standards in India which is equivalent to the European level and exceeds the standard prevalent in the US," said Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh. The revised ambient air...
09:10 PM, Nov 18, 2009
Kanpur: Upset over not getting a job through campus recruitment, a post graduate IIT student on Saturday allegedly committed suicide in Kanpur by hanging himself. G Suman, a second year M-tech student hailing from Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, was found hanging from a ceiling fan in his hostel room this afternoon, Sanjay Govind Panday, Director of IIT Kanpur. Suman, who was pursuing electrical engineering, was upset after he failed...
08:47 PM, Jan 03, 2009
The assailant was unarmed and made no resistance at the time of arrest. ...
10:43 AM, Nov 16, 2008
Cops suspect the skeleton is of a designer who went missing after visiting the institute. ...
09:00 PM, Oct 23, 2008
CNN-IBN's cricket experts discuss the possibility of India playing five bowlers against Australia in their first World T20 Super Eight game. ...
07:46 PM, Jul 01, 2008
Kabul: Former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson will assist the Afghanistan team as consultant during the Under-19 Cricket World Cup in Queensland August 11-26. Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) spokesman Nusratullah Wafa, while releasing the 15-member squad, said that Lawson will work with the players on arrival in Australia for the event, almost three weeks ahead of the event that features 16 teams, divided into four groups, reports
Xinhua. The 15-member...
03:02 PM, Jun 08, 2008
Hamilton (Bermuda): West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has admitted he considered quitting international cricket recently but says he now intends to fight for his spot in the regional side. For the stylish Guyanese right-hander the last year has been a turbulent one, starting when he was overlooked by the West Indies Cricket Board for a central contract last September and then axed for the ensuing Test tour of Sri Lanka. ...
08:53 PM, Feb 17, 2008
IIT invents adhesive that never 'tires' out like the footpads of frogs, lizards. ...
12:50 PM, Oct 12, 2007
The course was promised by Japan PM Shinzo Abe on his recent visit to Kolkata. ...
09:56 AM, Sep 01, 2007
