IIT Madras gets two extra seats in UG courses for students excelling in national, international OlympiadsIndian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) launches Science Olympiad Excellence (ScOpE) for undergraduate admissions outside the JEE (A...
10 Mar, 2025, 02.38 PM IST
IIT-Madras introduces Cultural Excellence admission initiativeIIT Madras introduces FACE admissions for students excelling in fine arts. Two extra seats per program are reserved. One seat is gender-neu...
17 Dec, 2024, 01.01 PM IST
IIT Delhi's Abu Dhabi campus to offer undergraduate courses from Sept: Director Rangan BanerjeeIIT Delhi's Abu Dhabi campus will introduce two undergraduate courses, Computer Science Engineering and Energy Engineering, from September ...
08 Aug, 2024, 07.39 PM IST
IIT Madras becomes first IIT to introduce sports quota; 2 seats to be created in each UG courseIIT Madras becomes the first IIT to introduce a sports quota for undergraduate admissions. Two supernumerary seats will be created in each ...
02 Feb, 2024, 08.00 PM IST
2022: CUET's rocky debut, delayed academic session, return to single term board exams few education sector highlightsWhile the CBSE and CISCE board exams returned to the format of one single exam in a year rather than split terms, the NCERT dropped portion...
31 Dec, 2022, 01.38 PM IST
Over 10K seats across courses in IITs remained vacant in last 2 years, 8,700 in NITsAccording to the data, 5,484 seats remained unfilled in IITs in 2020-21. Of them, 476 seats were vacant in undergraduate courses (BTech), 3...
09 Feb, 2022, 11.47 PM IST
Just over 18,000 candidates qualified for 2018 IIT-JEE (Advance): Prakash JavadekarThe minister said in Rajya Sabha that the percentage of girl students in the undergraduate programmes of these premier institutions had als...
02 Aug, 2018, 05.31 PM IST
IITs to create extra seats to improve gender ratioThe creation of supernumerary seats would take up the girls ratio from the current (approximately) 8% to 14% in 2018-19
24 Jan, 2018, 08.44 PM IST
Karnataka to reserve 50 per cent of National Law School's seats for local studentsBJP members in the house demanded that the reservation be in creased to 50 per cent and the domicile brought down to minimum seven years, r...
21 Jun, 2017, 12.41 PM IST
Only half UG and PG engg seats filled in 2015-16The information was provided by Minister of State for HRD Mahendra Nath Pandey in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.
06 Feb, 2017, 10.31 PM IST
IIT council approves student intake of 1 Lakh by 2020The Council has given a go ahead for an Aptitude Test to be conducted on trial basis for students at Class 11 to assess their inclination a...
24 Aug, 2016, 04.37 AM IST
IITs to have non-resident students soonAccording to senior officials, in a meeting of the IIT Council headed by HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today, "in-principle" approval was ...
23 Aug, 2016, 11.11 PM IST
IITs plan entrance test in SAARC, UAE but not in PakistanOfficials had held that seats to be offered to foreign nationals would be additional in nature and would not reduce those available to Indi...
29 Jun, 2016, 07.40 PM IST
More girls now make it to IITsThe number of girls admitted to IITs has gone up marginally this year too, from 8 per cent last year to 9 per cent in the current batch.
20 Aug, 2015, 12.18 PM IST
Joint seat acceptance committee not to be implemented this yearThe decision would have ensured that there is no blocking of seats and no seat goes vacant in IITs after the counselling process is over.
09 Jul, 2013, 10.21 PM IST
- IIT Delhi to set up its first overseas campus in Mauritius
The institute which will offer courses in research and development will be called the International Institute of Technology (IIT).
11 May, 2012, 03.57 PM IST
- IIT Kharagpur to set up new campus at New Town
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, would develop a new campus at New Town in Rajarhat here at a cost of Rs 250 crore and ...
13 Jul, 2006, 09.40 PM IST