The IIT admission process has been revamped, giving importance to the board results. Will coaching classes help anymore? ...
11:00 PM, Jul 06, 2012
Agartala: The Ministry of Human Resource Development has approved a proposal for setting up an Indian Institute of Information Technology(IIIT) in Tripura. "Though no formal letter has been received by the state government yet, we came to know that the MHRD issued a notification clearing the proposal for establishing the IIIT, Special Secretary to Higher Education Kishore Ambuly said. "We are happy the state will have an institute like IIIT,"...
04:06 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Chennai: IIT-Madras on Wednesday admitted it had ignored government norms on reservation in faculty recruitment and agreed to fill up the backlog in vacancies for OBC, SC and ST staff, during a hearing here by the National Commission for Scheduled Castes. According to E Muralidharan, an alumnus of IIT-M on whose petition the hearing was held at the commissions State office in Sastri Bhavan, IIT dean C Sriram, who represented...
11:31 AM, Jun 28, 2012
The IIT council and the HRD Ministry agreed upon a new formulae for admissions and it would be implemented from 2013. ...
12:05 AM, Jun 28, 2012
New Delhi: The prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have agreed on a compromise formula on the common entrance exam for undergraduate courses after several weeks of face off with the Central Government, particularly HRD Minister Kapil Sibal. At a meeting of IIT Council in New Delhi on Wednesday the directors of all the 15 IITs agreed to implement the new admission format from 2013. The entire process will consists...
05:48 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Wednesday skipped the meeting with IIT Council to resolve the common entrance exam controversy even as an IIT Faculty Federation member claimed that a compromise formula has been worked out. Sources say Sibal was not present as he wanted to show that the IITs are autonomous and there is no government interference. Sibal, who is also the IIT Council Chairperson, instead sent a...
03:43 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: The IITs and the HRD Ministry have agreed to a compromise formula over the joint entrance test row. IIT Faculty Federation member, Professor SK Das told CNN-IBN they have proposed that top 20 per cent students of each board and advanced exam marks will be qualifying standard for preparing IIT merit list. "We have worked out a compromise formula. We have proposed that main exam be entirely conducted...
02:10 PM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: After weeks of uncertainty, the IIT admission row could be resolved on Wednesday. The IIT Council members will meet HRD ministry officials on Wednesday to try and resolve the issue. Two alternatives are on the table: -Letting only the top 20 percentile of each board appear for the advanced test. This would essentially be the entrance test for the IITs and will be under their control. -The other...
08:37 AM, Jun 27, 2012
New Delhi: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal will meet IIT directors tomorrow to resolve the common entrance exam row as the government proposal is being resisted by some of the IITs. Sibal will chair the meeting of the IIT council, the highest decision making body of these elite institutes comprising IIT directors and heads of other educational bodies, deliberating on a resolution adopted by the IIT Joint Admission Board(JAB) which met...
04:04 PM, Jun 26, 2012
New Delhi: Knowing the exact location of a train was never so easy as one can now track it on a mobile phone. A joint team of railways and IIT-Kanpur has developed a technology - the real-time train running information system - which enables a mobile user to access information about the exact location of a train. One has to type the train number and SMS it to 09415139139 or...
01:00 PM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: After facing opposition from the IITs, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal is trying to seek support from deemed universities on his controversial common entrance test. Sibal will meet the representatives of 130 universities on Monday to get them on board for his one nation, one test plan. Earlier, the IIT directors on Saturday discussed a compromise formula which includes a proposal to take top 20-30 students based on percentile...
09:50 AM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of next week's meeting called by the government on the single entrance exam row, IIT directors on Saturday discussed a compromise formula which include a proposal to take top 20-30 students based on percentile ranking of respective boards for preparing the merit list. Indications are that the percentile criterion replacing the proposed format of giving weightage to board results were deliberated at the Joint Admission Board meeting,...
09:01 PM, Jun 23, 2012
As the admission season begins across the country, CNN-IBN's show Campus Calling 2012 answers your queries related to the what, where, how and when of it. ...
05:51 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: The government has called a special meeting of the IIT Council next week to address the concerns of students after IIT Delhi and Kanpur rejected the proposed single entrance test. According to sources in the HRD Ministry, the special meeting has been convened on June 27 after the developments on Thursday in IIT Delhi, where the Senate adopted a resolution rejecting the proposed test and deciding to conduct...
04:33 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: Union Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday called a special meeting of IIT Council on June 27 to discuss the impasse over the new entrance exam format. In a press release, Sibal said, "The uncertainty faced by the student community, consequent to the resolutions of the Senates of IIT Kanpur and IIT Delhi, requires to be addressed. Consequently, a special meeting of the IIT Council is...
02:36 PM, Jun 22, 2012
New Delhi: IIT Delhi on Thursday rejected government's single entrance test proposal and decided to conduct separate test. Officials said that the IIT Delhi will conduct the exam in association with the IIT Kanpur. The IIT Senate took the decision in this regard on Thursday evening. HRD Minister Kapil Sibal had told CNN-IBN on Wednesday that the new joint entrance exam will start in 2013. Sibal made it clear that...
06:59 PM, Jun 21, 2012
Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal has made it clear that there is no going back on the new entrance test format for all the engineering institutes including the IITs. In an interview with CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, he defended the new format saying it would help improve the declining school standards and will also help more girl students get into the IITs considering they do well in...
09:30 AM, Jun 21, 2012
Kapil Sibal said the autonomy of the IITs is not being challenged and if the IIT Council can come up with a better system then he is willing to listen and change the format. ...
11:58 PM, Jun 20, 2012
IIT Delhi Senate member Prof Sanjiv Sanghi said on Wednesday they they can move the court against the new common entrance test format after Thursday's meeting. Sanghi said the new test format is a big blow to their autonomy. ...
02:36 PM, Jun 20, 2012
New Delhi: Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal, in an exclusive interview to CNN-IBN Deputy Editor Sagarika Ghose, said there is no going back on the new IIT entrance test format. Sibal said the autonomy of the IITs is not being challenged and if the IIT Council can come up with a better system then he is willing to listen and change the format. "I am not bothered about...
01:39 PM, Jun 20, 2012
