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He once scored 51 marks in Maths, now owns a space company worth $1.1 billion. Meet 35-year-old rocket man who gave up ISRO jobPawan Kumar Chandana, once a struggling student, now leads Skyroot Aerospace. This company achieved India's first private rocket launch. Ch...
Best friend with IIT-IIM degrees, leave high-paying job, shares reason in viral post: ‘One bowl changed everything…’Two IIT Kharagpur and IIM Bangalore alumni, Rishav Ranjan and Akash Kyal, left lucrative corporate careers at Boston Consulting Group to la...
Start-up wave rises beyond metros as Patna emerges as an unlikely hub of innovationEducated youth are now creating jobs in Patna, Bihar, instead of seeking them in metros. Initiatives like Start-up India are driving this c...
From rejecting Rs 4 cr job offer to founding a Rs 570 cr startup: How this IIT alumnus from a poor background convinced parents to make a big betAn IIT-Kharagpur graduate rejected a ₹4.3 crore job and Stanford PhD to co-found Giga, an AI startup that recently raised $61 million. Desp...
IIT Kharagpur partners with z21 Ventures to launch ‘KGP Forge’ a startup accelerator program for final-year studentsIIT Kharagpur and z21 Ventures have joined forces to launch a startup accelerator program for final-year students. The program, backed by a...
Placement season: At IITs, startups score advantage pointsIITs like Kanpur and BHU are seeing about a 30-40% jump in the number of startups compared to last year, placement sources told ET.
IITs are helping India win the Covid battleIIT Kanpur is developing a vaccine against Covid-19, while researchers at Madras and Kanpur have built desi drones for surveillance and IIT...
Digital lending startup, RevFin, teams up with IIT (K) to create advanced loan underwriting processTo develop one of its kinds of technology to underwrite financial loans based on holistic human behavior.
Omnivore invests in AgNext TechnologiesOmnivore, which had announced making the first close of its Fund II at $46 million earlier this year, is targetting the final close at $75 ...
Startups visit IIT Kharagpur to hire internsSupervasi, an organization that works towards improving the lives of tribals is looking at over 1000 engineers to intern for a year, accord...
Sundar Pichai is back in his campus after 23 yearsGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai is at his alma mater, IIT Kharagpur, after 23 years -- this is his first visit to the campus since he passed out. ...
IITs eyeing finance, core sector, analytics for placements"From last year, we have been focusing on core sector companies and this year the focus has only increased," said an official at IIT Bombay.
IITs change placement course after Flipkart fiascoIITs are also trying to rope in the HRD Ministry to persuade the so-called Maharatna and Navratna companies to participate in campus placem...
IITs to scrutinise job placements by startups, PSU jobs make a comebackWhile scrutiny of startups has been intensified like never before at most institutes, some are insisting on knowing companies' joining date...
Inshorts acquires app startup BetaGlideInshorts has acquired Palo Alto/Bengalurubased BetaGlide, a startup that builds technology to optimise mobile applications.
Jobs swing in: Pre-placement offers up 50% at IITs; highest compensation tops Rs 1 croreThat’s good news for students at the premier engineering schools — more of them will have jobs in hand even before final placements kick of...
Now, IITs become fertile ground for faculty startupsDozens of faculty members from IITs in Bombay, Delhi, Madras, Kharagpur and Hyderabad are working on startups either by themselves or with ...
IIT Kharagpur bags maximum jobs compared to other IITsThis was achieved despite academic institutions and PSUs reducing their hiring numbers from the IIT campuses compared to the previous year.
IIT-Kharagpur students offered 20% increase in salaries this yearFinal placements are set to begin on December 1 in all the IITs before which a 50% increase in the number of pre-placement offer is expecte...
Get ready for more Flipkarts and Snapdeals as IITs gear up to teach entrepreneurshipIITs in Delhi, Kharagpur and Hyderabad are planning to bring entrepreneurship at the forefront of their BTech curriculum.