Articles in Engineering 2025
‘Beauty’ has not just fascinated the common people but also philosophers and great thinkers since antiquity. It has also been one of the most debated words, owing to its varied connotations and subjective nature. Although it was never a standalone discourse in itself, it was studied under the broad umbrella of aesthetics in arts and […]
1. How is your experience in VIT? I should say it has been very good so far. As Director/Dean of the fledgling Business School at VIT Chennai, during 2011-14, we could quickly scale up the operations, improve admission quality and placements and organized a lot of events, chief among them being The Weekend Leader event, […]
Indian Institute of Science (IISc), the organising institute for Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2016, is refunding multiple payments made by the applicants in October last year. In order to apply for GATE, students need to pay an amount of Rs 1,500 through online banking or e-challan. However, sometimes due to network issues, online […]
JEE Main multiple choice questions require aspirants to pick the correct answer from a set of options. There are generally four options to every question, out of which one, or more than one option is correct. It is usually seen that candidates consider objective questions easy as compared to subjective. Despite the wide spread liking towards MCQs […]
The second day of Tryst, the extravagant technical fest of IIT Delhi went on with great enthusiasm shown by the participants and the audience alike. The prime event scheduled for day 2 that attracted the maximum audience was the Q&A session with Sachin and Binny Bansal, founders of the Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart. The success […]
The third day of Pragyan kick-started with several guest lectures that were a major crowd-puller. Lectures by Sudhir Kumar Mishra, CEO and MD of India’s premier missile programme, BRAHMOS and by Gianni Di Caro, a senior researcher at IDSIA, the Swiss Artificial Intelligence lab, both witnessed a packed auditorium. The latter’s presentations covered the various aspects about the same, […]
Some 4500 students of the 6,000 odd, at IIT Kanpur were in for a rude shock when they were asked to cough up approximately Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 each as electricity bill for January 2016. This is a far cry from the odd Rs 2,000 they used to individually pay up per semester. 2016 onwards, IIT-K […]
S. Selvakumar (21), a final year Electrical and Electronics Engineering student at OAS Institute of Technology and Management in Thiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu committed suicide in his hostel room on Friday. The student took the extreme step after his room-mate, Shanmugavel, discovered that the former had stolen his mobile phone and laptop. They shared […]
It was an atmosphere of zeal and curiosity as the inauguration ceremony of TRYST went underway at IIT Delhi on Friday, February 26. The much anticipated evening was a packed house as the technical minds from institutes across India flocked to the Dogra Hall to witness the event. The event started off with the launch […]
1. Railway budget 2016-17 tabled in Parliament (i) On February 25th, the Union Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu tabled the Railway Budget, 2016-17 in the Parliament. In his address Prabhu said, this Budget owes inspiration to the vision of PM Narendra Modi — to make railways backbone of India’s progress & economic development’. (ii) There was […]
