All 10 JEE toppers pick Computer Science at IIT-BombayIIT-Bombay was the most sought-after tech college the previous two years too, with Delhi and Madras a distant second and third.
01 Jul, 2023, 11.35 AM IST
Top tech schools make progress in bridging gender gapAt least two in 10 students in first-year undergraduate batches at top engineering colleges including Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs...
29 Mar, 2022, 08.53 AM IST
IIT Bombay: Breeding geniuses by the lakesideThe earliest IITs got the benefit of material assistance and academic cooperation from certain developed countries -- IIT-B from USSR, IIT-...
07 Dec, 2021, 10.08 AM IST
IIT Guwahati has surpassed the target of female enrolment in undergraduate coursesA total number of 829 students were admitted to IIT Guwahati this year in B.Tech courses, out of which 153 are girls and 676 are boys as co...
22 Aug, 2019, 06.36 PM IST
Women leaders are still missing at top institutesIndian Institutes of Technology (IITs), IIMs and other premier institutes are adopting aggressive strategies to attract more female student...
31 Dec, 2018, 08.21 AM IST
Entry of female students into IIMs dropsCompanies are willing to induct more women, as they too try to fix their diversity ratio and want the institutes to produce quality female ...
03 Aug, 2018, 07.40 AM IST
IIT-Delhi tops MHRD mandate, enrols 16% girls in all its coursesIn 2016, IIT-D admitted 70 girls, which increased by over 30% to 93 in 2017 and this year it is likely to reach 150 out of a total 851 seat...
05 Jul, 2018, 09.21 AM IST
IIT: Cut-off for 2018 reduced to ensure fair chance for allIITs had earlier decided against lowering the original cutoff and dilute the list. They changed the stand after an emergency meeting on Thu...
16 Jun, 2018, 09.03 PM IST
31 National Institutes of Technology set to admit more womenThis follows a directive from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) sent to NITs and the Indian Institute of Engineering Scienc...
03 Feb, 2018, 12.35 PM IST
IITs creating extra seats for women to lift gender ratioAn abysmally small number of women join IITs — it was one in every 10 admissions last year — despite them faring better than men at the hig...
18 Jan, 2018, 07.29 AM IST
Women students at centre of IITs' balancing actIIT Mandi took the lead earlier this week by approving a fee waiver along with a monthly scholarship of Rs 1,000 for all women students sta...
17 Jun, 2017, 12.42 AM IST
Only 6.67% Indian institutes headed by women: ReportIn 1950-51, India's female enrollment ratio was 14 females per 100 males. By 2013-2014, it has improved to 80 females per 100 males, the re...
17 Dec, 2015, 04.50 PM IST
Race to IITs just got tougher; number of candidates who qualified in JEE advanced 6,360 more than last yearChitrang Murdia who studied in Kota scored 334 out of a total of 360 marks, emerging as the topper of JEE(Advanced) 2014. Aditi from IIT Ro...
20 Jun, 2014, 03.00 AM IST
- IIM Ranchi recruits female students to bridge gender gap
In an attempt to ensure gender diversity, IIM Ranchi has admitted a total of 42 girl candidates to its PGDM and PGDHRM programmes for the a...
06 Jul, 2012, 02.36 PM IST
- IIMs, IITs fail to impress India Inc on gender diversity; recruiters complain of lesser women graduates
India's top business and technology schools are struggling to keep pace with the growing gender diversity aspirations of big employers in I...
06 Mar, 2012, 01.09 AM IST
- Over 4.5 lakh students to take IIT-JEE this year
Over 4.5 lakh students from across the country will appear for the IIT-JEE examination scheduled to be held on April 10.
22 Feb, 2011, 03.26 PM IST
IITs will have to live with faculty quota: SibalThere would be a need of nearly 10,000 teachers as the government has opened eight new IITs.
02 Jul, 2009, 06.53 AM IST