Forget CS or AI? This once-overlooked engineering stream quietly becomes the surprise choice among IIT aspirantsCivil engineering has surprisingly surged in popularity among top-ranked students for IIT admissions in 2026, with significant rank improve...
15 Jun, 2026, 12.54 PM IST
CBSE OSM row: Pradhan 'incompetent', continuation in office insult to lakhs of students: CongCongress criticizes Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan for CBSE on-screen marking system failures. The party alleges incompetence and in...
06 Jun, 2026, 06.23 PM IST
IIT Roorkee: JEE-Advanced data breach claims misleading, factually incorrectIIT Roorkee has refuted claims of a data breach impacting JEE (Advanced) aspirants. The institute stated that a temporary cloud storage mis...
05 Jun, 2026, 05.34 PM IST
CBSE re-evaluation portal keeps lakhs of students guessingOver four lakh students are awaiting the portal's activation amid serious doubts over their Class 12 board mark evaluation through the new ...
02 Jun, 2026, 12.37 AM IST
JEE Advanced Topper List 2026: Shubham Kumar from IIT Delhi zone tops, check best performers, qualifying marks and moreJEE Advanced Topper List 2026 Out: JEE Advanced 2026 results are out! Shubham Kumar from IIT Delhi zone secured the top rank. Over 56,000 c...
01 Jun, 2026, 08.08 AM IST
NEET-UG paper leak case: parliamentary panel summons NTA Chief for review of exam reforms on ThursdayA Parliamentary panel is set to review the National Testing Agency’s (NTA) reforms alongside the NEET-UG 2026 paper leak issue, with top ed...
18 May, 2026, 04.24 PM IST
IITs to soon let students cross campuses for a semesterFrom this academic year, IITs will allow students to take select courses at other campuses and even spend a semester away from their home i...
15 Feb, 2026, 10.54 AM IST
Every 4th IIT student this year was preparing from Kota: IIT-Kanpur report showsA recent analysis by IIT-Kanpur reveals Kota's significant influence on IIT admissions. The Delhi zone, boosted by Kota's coaching centers,...
27 Aug, 2025, 08.54 PM IST
IIT-Bombay teachers protest HRD ministry's 'interference' in academic and administrative affairsIIT-Bombay professors are aghast at the level of 'interference; in academic and administrative affairs by the HRD ministry.
29 Oct, 2015, 11.42 AM IST
Filling up seats in IITs, NITs: Delhi High Court reserves order on pleaThe court was hearing an interim application, filed in a pending PIL, by Rajeev Kumar through lawyer Prashant Bhushan.
23 Jul, 2014, 09.58 PM IST
Discrepancy hits IIT admission process, 80 aspirants failed to get entryTalking to reporters, he said some states which included Andhra Pradesh could have made calculations inconsistent with the one adopted by t...
17 Jul, 2013, 08.44 PM IST
IIT-Delhi accepts common test based on percentile rankingIIT-Delhi today accepted the common entrance test for admission to the undergraduate programme for 2013 based on percentile ranking.
03 Aug, 2012, 08.50 PM IST
- Compromise formula for IIT admissions may get tweaked
There is some concern among the IIT faculty about limiting admission to only those students who score in the top-20 percentile.
03 Jul, 2012, 07.23 AM IST
- Two-step common entrance examination for IIT admissions from 2013
Kapil Sibal was able to forge this consensus only after conceding to the demand by the IITs that they would have a different formulation fo...
29 May, 2012, 05.49 AM IST
- IIT reforms leave problems of vacant seats unaddressed
IITs started a third round of admission this year, but still a policy has not evolved to fill seats that remain vacant after a student opts...
27 Nov, 2011, 07.39 AM IST
- IITs to scrap joint management entrance test for MBAs
Admissions to PG management programmes in six IITs (Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Roorkee, Kharagpur and Madras) will be based on CAT scores.
24 Aug, 2011, 06.04 AM IST
- Govt mulling common counselling system for IIT and NIT
To smoothen the admission into IITs and NITs, the government is considering a common counselling system for both the sets of institutes.
03 Sep, 2009, 05.13 PM IST