Younger IITs reap benefits of blockbuster placements this yearIITs including Hyderabad, Patna, Gandhinagar, Ropar and Mandi have seen a sharp uptick in top offers and average salaries, which in some ca...
17 Dec, 2021, 09.50 AM IST
Clash over IIT campus project: Security beefed up in Goa townA police official said security has been stepped up and they have requisitioned additional force, as villagers remained stern on not allowi...
07 Jan, 2021, 02.18 PM IST
Villagers, police clash over proposed IIT campus in Goa"Police lathicharged protesters to control the crowd that had stopped the State Land Survey officers from continuing the demarcation work f...
06 Jan, 2021, 05.41 PM IST
IITs caution against Centre’s decision on teaching tech courses in local languagesDirectors of top IITs have cast doubts over the ‘viability’ of such a move in view of the employment opportunities, industry requirements a...
10 Dec, 2020, 09.56 AM IST
Top academic institutes sign MoUs for establishing supercomputing infrastructure in IndiaThe Rs 4,500-crore mission envisages empowering our national academic and R&D institutions to spread over the country by installing a vast ...
13 Oct, 2020, 05.10 PM IST
Rajnath launches online portal to promote indigenisation in defence productionThe DPSUs, Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) and headquarters of the armed forces (SHQs) can display on SRIJAN those items that are being import...
14 Aug, 2020, 07.33 PM IST
With 208 R&D projects, IITs lead India’s fight against Covid-19IIT-Guwahati has shown the way cornering the biggest pool of projects, followed by IIT-Madras and IIT-Hyderabad. Nearly 50% of the key rese...
26 Apr, 2020, 11.04 AM IST
CBI closes corruption case against IIT-Goa director, says no evidence foundAfter conducting a probe which looked into all aspects of the case, the agency filed its closure report in the Special CBI Court, Bhubanesw...
03 Oct, 2019, 01.21 PM IST
Zero-tolerance policy for states that fail to allot land for Central institutes: HRD ministerThe Indian Institute of Technology-Goa and the National Institute of Technology-Sikkim are functioning out of temporary campuses.
19 Jun, 2019, 10.24 PM IST
Manohar Parrikar for tie-up between DRDO and IITs"We can tie-up with DRDO to get visiting faculty in various subjects which can give proper adoptable technological edge in education," Parr...
11 Jul, 2018, 02.38 PM IST
Vacant seats at IITs touch a 4-year highThe 23 IITs have a total of 10,962 seats and 121 of them remained vacant after completion of the counselling for admission.
02 Aug, 2017, 07.58 AM IST
Bill introduced in Lok Sabha to bring 6 new IITs, ISM under IIT ActHRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, who introduced the bill, in the statement of objects and reasons said the government has set up six new IIT...
19 Jul, 2016, 07.34 PM IST
Chhattisgarh & Goa facing land hurdle for new IIT campusesWhile every state queues up to win an IIT or IIM, finding it a worthy enough campus in another battle altogether.
23 Mar, 2016, 02.02 AM IST
IIT-Goa misses a year as state government dithers on landThe new Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) allotted to Goa by the Union human resources development (HRD) ministry will not admit student...
14 Jun, 2015, 09.38 AM IST
Modi government plans to set up new IITs with foreign helpThe consortium of US institutions to help the proposed IIT in Goa will only be finalised once the two countries sign a joint declaration of...
22 Sep, 2014, 04.00 AM IST