Cabinet approves expansion of academic and infrastructure capacity of 5 IITsThe Union Cabinet has approved a significant expansion of five IITs in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Chhattisgarh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Karnataka...
07 May, 2025, 01.32 PM IST
5 new IITs to add about 200 BTech seats per year, centre mulls timelinesThe five newer IITs are set to increase their undergraduate seats by 200 each annually over the next five years, doubling their current int...
10 Mar, 2025, 11.44 PM IST
IIT researchers develop marine robot for real-time underwater surveillance, reducing human life riskThe research which was partially funded by the Naval Research Board (NRB) of Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) has been ...
03 Mar, 2024, 05.43 PM IST
Cleaning of 6 major river basins on cards, govt ropes in 12 institutes to conduct studyFollowing the success of the Ganga River Basin Management Plan framed by a consortium of seven IITs led by IIT Kanpur, the government on We...
28 Feb, 2024, 10.58 PM IST
President Droupadi Murmu approves appointment of new directors at 8 IITs: Education ministryWhile Venkayappaya R Desai from IIT Kharagpur's Department of Civil Engineering has been appointed as the Director of IIT Dhardwad, the ins...
20 Sep, 2022, 12.53 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
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
IIT-M projects aim to reduce dropouts, improve learningResearchers are working on projects that use AI to detect and improve learning patterns.
26 Nov, 2019, 12.44 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
Around 35 per cent shortfall of teachers in 23 IITs: RTIIn old IITs, 30% posts of teachers are lying vacant at IIT Bombay, Delhi (35%), Guwahati (27%), Kanpur (37%), Kharagpur (46%), Madras (28%)...
14 Feb, 2017, 06.54 PM 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
Should there be space for more seats at IITs?When IIT results come out, around two lakh students will know whether they are among the 10,000-odd who have made it to the 23 coveted inst...
12 Jun, 2016, 12.07 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
Kerala's first IIT starts functioning at PalakkadThe IIT-P campus was opened at a function here with Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani addressing the students through video conferencing.
03 Aug, 2015, 06.30 PM IST
Tirupati and Palakkad IITs ready to roll from AugustTwo of the five newly announced IITs, IIT-Tirupati and IIT- Palakkad, are ready to start classes from the first week of August, 2015
24 Jun, 2015, 08.05 PM IST