Indian companies announce $1.1 billion investment in US, to create 1,500 jobsTwelve Indian companies announced over USD 1.1 billion in US investments across aerospace, defense, energy, and AI sectors at the SelectUSA...
06 May, 2026, 07.19 AM IST
'You are replaceable': IIT and ISB graduate reveals the career lesson that set him freeSiddharth Maheshwari, an IIT and ISB graduate, shared a pivotal moment. His boss told him he was replaceable. This realization shifted his ...
05 May, 2026, 10.44 AM IST
Enough with mythologies: India needs new state-sponsored AI entities to create essential strategic capabilityA new AI model called Mythos can find software flaws. Its restricted release raises concerns about misuse by hackers or foreign governments...
29 Apr, 2026, 11.20 PM IST
'No GPS, no pilot, no cloud': How an Indian drone startup using 'physical AI' reached 'Sam Altman-led' Y Combinator after Shark Tank India crashTwo years after their dramatic Shark Tank India pitch where their drone nearly crashed, Vecros founders Prem Sai and Rajashree Devta have m...
21 Apr, 2026, 03.08 PM IST
Give 1% of earnings to Alma Mater, IITs to tell studentsThe members said this will be in the nature of appeal to outgoing students, asking them to contribute to their institute.
30 Sep, 2019, 11.40 AM IST
IIT council approves ‘honourable’ exit plan for ‘weak’ studentsThe council for IITs has approved 'exit option' for weak students in a bid to arrest dropout rate.
28 Sep, 2019, 08.08 AM IST
IIT-Delhi to put PhD projects on display to impress 300 ‘employers’IIT-D — one of the three government institutions to get the Institution of Eminence status last month — also plans to execute major expansi...
18 Aug, 2018, 10.32 AM IST
No encroachment on IITs autonomy: UGC"Each and every degree awarding institution has full autonomy to offer the kind of program that their statutory bodies deem fit," the UGC s...
26 Aug, 2014, 10.23 PM IST
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal for hiring best scientists at desired pay scalePushing for creation of Intellectual Property Rights in field of technology, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal today said institutions involved ...
05 Jun, 2013, 07.54 PM IST
IIT-Delhi revolts Kapil Sibal's common examination, to hold own entrance testThe IIT Delhi senate on Thursday rejected Kapil Sibal's new common entrance examination and decided to hold its own entrance test from 2013.
22 Jun, 2012, 11.51 AM IST
Common entrance test: HRD Ministry to write to joint admission IIT boardsUnfazed by the resistance from the IIT faculty as well as the alumni, government would soon write to the joint admission board.
19 Jun, 2012, 11.25 PM IST
- Autonomy of IITs will remain intact: Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has assured the IIT faculty that the institutes’ autonomy will remain “intact”.
15 Jun, 2012, 09.17 PM IST
- Autonomy of IITs will remain intact: Manmohan Singh to IIT faculty federation
The federation has contended that the common entrance test for admission to the undergraduate programme to the IITs and other Centrally-fun...
15 Jun, 2012, 04.55 PM IST
Kapil Sibal rules out rollback of common exam, no intent to impact IIT system’s autonomyEven as members of the IIT faculty and alumni continue to protest over the common entrance exam, Sibal virtually ruled out a rollback.
13 Jun, 2012, 08.42 AM IST
No intent to infringe on the autonomy of IIT: Kapil SibalKapil Sibal today said the government has no intent to impinge on the autonomy of the Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs).
11 Jun, 2012, 11.13 PM IST
- Sibal rejects proposal for four-fold hike in IIT fees
The proposed four-fold fee hike for undergraduate programmes at the IITs as a way to ensure financial autonomy has been turned down by the ...
22 Jan, 2011, 01.12 AM IST
- IIT directors pitch in to solve pay structure issue
IIT directors pitched in to resolve the stand-off between teachers and the government over pay issue by holding consultations with the facu...
25 Sep, 2009, 07.17 PM IST