Inside India's political backrooms: Unraveling the booming business of campaign consultancy firmsThe political consultancy business in India has experienced significant growth, both in size and influence, within the internal workings of...
06 Nov, 2023, 12.13 AM IST
IIT-Madras engineer leaves job in Dubai, becomes a thief to make his nightclub dancer girlfriend happyAn IIT graduate has been arrested for stealing $3,000 to express his love for his nightclub dancer girlfriend in Bihar. Hemant Kumar Raghu ...
22 Apr, 2023, 11.48 AM IST
Annual packages, a walker for Desdemona & other IIT nightmaresThe documentary (Alma Matters) deglamorizes the IIT dream (and the hostel). The mattress without a bed-sheet, the walk to the community bat...
12 Jun, 2021, 10.19 PM IST
Bihar elections: JDU entrusts 3 party men for poll strategy, sets up war roomWith a team of party workers and volunteers, state water resources minister Sanjay Jha, building construction minister Ashok Choudhary and ...
10 Sep, 2020, 08.05 AM IST
What made 50 IITians give up their cushy, white-collar jobs to form a political partyBAP has been formed to fight for the rights of the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes. The party is awaiting EC'...
25 Apr, 2018, 11.16 AM IST
How a village of weavers in Bihar became a factory of IITiansIn the past two and a half decades, small waevers' village Patwa Toli in Bihar has produced more than 300 engineering graduates. A third of...
27 Jun, 2017, 10.47 AM IST
Education is strongest software to fight naxalism: IITianEducation is the "strongest software" to combat the problem of naxalism in the country says IITian Vatsalya Chauhan, a computer professiona...
01 Mar, 2016, 03.43 PM IST
Ex-IITians come up with open-school learning startupRitesh Singh and Akshat Goel wanted to provide innovative solutions for effective knowledge transfer in our ecosystem.
22 Dec, 2015, 02.54 PM IST
New survey predicts landslide victory for NDA in Bihar pollsA new pre-poll survey has predicted landslide victory for the BJP-led NDA in Bihar with the alliance projected to win 162 seats and the JD(...
09 Oct, 2015, 10.52 PM IST
Bihar polls: How Nitish Kumar is trying to ward off a high octane NDA that's taking the state by stormThe BJP-led NDA has embarked on a door-to-door campaign, but the larger focus is to counter the Grand Alliance with the might of its star c...
04 Oct, 2015, 10.25 AM IST
Super30 mathematician Anand Kumar honoured in CanadaThe Legislature of British Columbia has honoured Kumar for his rare achievements to the students from India's underprivileged sections.
29 May, 2015, 04.39 PM IST
'Smart Farmers of Bihar' use technology to deal with climate changeAbout 95% of farmers from Nayanagar village in Samastipur in Bihar decided not to plant paddy last year as the India Meteorology Department...
02 Feb, 2015, 06.51 PM IST
- NR Narayana Murthy's comment stirs up debate among academicians
An entry into the coveted Indian Institutes of Technology got a snub on Monday from the Infosys chairman emeritus NR Narayana Murthy.
05 Oct, 2011, 02.18 AM IST
- Brokers trade IIT-JEE toppers in race for credit
There is also a cottage industry that feeds off IIT coaching classes, one that deals with the buying and selling of top rankers at the join...
20 Feb, 2011, 05.42 AM IST
- Ex-IITian starts world-class school in Bihar village
Situated about 30 km from Gopalganj, Chaitanya Gurukul Public School, was founded in 2009 by an ex-IITian, Chandrakant Singh, now based in ...
04 Feb, 2011, 12.34 AM IST
- Ex-IITians help poor crack IIT-JEE
The former IITians have been funding I-Desire, which provides free coaching and counselling by IITians.
07 Jun, 2007, 12.15 AM IST
- City that ‘study hard’
The once biggest industrial hub, Kota, has now donned the face of educational city.
13 Mar, 2007, 02.04 AM IST