New Delhi: US citizen of Indian origin Pradeep K Khosla, the dean of Carnegie Mellon University's engineering college, has been named as the 8th chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. Khosla, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur's electrical engineering department, will replace Marye Anne Fox in August 2012. "UC San Diego has a bright future ahead, especially with Pradeep Khosla at the helm as the eighth chancellor of this extraordinary...
12:30 PM, May 11, 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: An IIT Professor, who is hoping to us give a clean, green and hopefully inexpensive fuel, has developed an alternative to petrol and diesel. It's a dream Professor L M Das of the Centre for Energy Studies at IIT Delhi nourished for 25 years, using Hydrogen gas as an automobile fuel. "Hydrogen can be made from both renewable and non-renewable sources. It's made from water. On combustion, it...
09:37 AM, Apr 24, 2012
Cyrus Broacha also talks about the Agni-V missile test fire and IIT Madras' attempts at curbing sexual harassment on campus. ...
12:32 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Chennai: A second-year civil engineering student of IIT-Madras (IIT-M) committed suicide by hanging himself inside the campus hostel room in Guindy on Sunday. Police said a vexatious love affair could have been the reason behind the extreme step taken by the youth. It was around 9.45 am and Kuldeep Yadav of Agra in UP had not emerged from his room No 111 in the Narmada Hostel. As repeated knocking did...
01:27 PM, Apr 09, 2012
Chennai: A 19-year-old student of IIT Madras allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room on Monday, police said. Kuldeep Yadav, hailing from Uttar Pradesh, was a second year civil engineering student. Other students in the hostel noticed that Yadav's room had remained closed since morning. On suspicion, they broke open the door and found his body hanging from the ceiling, police said. He was immediately rushed to...
11:44 AM, Apr 09, 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
Madurai: A cross-section of hostellers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras has locked horns with wardens and administrators over restrictions imposed on 'Hostel Night' celebrations. While upset students have dubbed the move 'moral policing', faculty members claim they are only imposing reasonable restrictions. The Hostel Night celebrations are an annual ritual towards the end of academic year when hostellers invite friends to their rooms for an unwinding session that...
09:59 AM, Apr 06, 2012
Vadodara: BJP MP Balkrishna Shukla has appealed to the HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to get the long pending Institute of Technology Bill passed in Rajya Sabha as fate of students at two IITs is hanging in balance. In his letter dated March 26, Shukla urged Sibal to get the bill passed in Rajya Sabha when it resumes on April 24 for second part of Budget session. "The legislative delay has...
04:29 AM, Apr 06, 2012
New Delhi: Leaving an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) course midway or after confirming the admission will now cost students dear as the Delhi High Court has held that this would bar them from reappearing in the entrance test in the following year. Justice Hima Kohli has upheld the decision of IIT authorities that students who leave a course after confirming their admission would not be allowed to appear in...
05:36 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Kolkata: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said until every university in India starts a uniform semester-based system of examination, mobility and choice would not be available to students. "If a semester system is available in every university, then mobility is possible. But if you have some universities offering three-year degree courses while some others having their own system of examination, then mobility and choice is not available to students,"...
08:45 PM, Apr 02, 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
New Delhi: 'Save Ganga' activist GD Aggarwal, also known as Swamy Gyan Swarup Sanand, has been shifted to AIIMS from Benaras hospital after his condition deteriorated. Swarup Sanand has been on fast for the past 10 days against dams being built on the Ganga. Aggarwal, who is a former IIT faculty, has refused administration of intravenous drugs till the government acts on the river issue. ...
03:45 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: In the fifth year of CNN-IBN's Real Hero, we get you the story of Yogeshwar Kumar. In the last three decades, Kumar, an IIT engineer, has set up environmentally friendly micro-hydroelectric plants in villages where no gridline passed through. The community-run powerstation not just powers people but also empowers them. This is the story of Yogeshwar Kumar. A man who had a vision that brought light to the...
10:35 AM, Mar 08, 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: The tendering process for rolling out the improved version of the world's cheapest tablet PC, Aakash, will be handled by the Department of Information Technology, official sources said. The development comes in the wake of differences between IIT Rajasthan and Datawind, the manufacturer of the tablet PC, over the issue of enhanced specification demands. HRD Ministry has entrusted the IIT to develop and procure the tablet. Currently, the...
12:38 PM, Feb 01, 2012
New Delhi: Former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair, who stepped down as the chairman of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology-Patna, on Saturday said that it was a matter of prestige for him and that he was morally bound to leave all government positions. "More than being hurt, it is a matter of prestige for me. I am morally bound to leave all government positions," he said....
05:41 PM, Jan 28, 2012
New Delhi: In the eye of a storm, former ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair has stepped down as Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT-Patna. Nair, who has been barred from holding any government post for his alleged role in the controversial Antirx-Devas deal, was in Patna on Friday to bid farewell to his colleagues. "I went there to say farewell. Though I have not got a copy of...
12:59 PM, Jan 28, 2012
A bus driver ran amok in Pune on Wednesday morning, killing nine people and injuring 27. ...
10:30 PM, Jan 25, 2012
