The Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi has invited applications for the post of Junior Research Fellow. The details of the vacancies are as follows: No. of vacancies: 01 Essential Qualifications: Candidates must possess a First class M.Sc. in Mathematics (Preferably Applied Mathematics) from a recognized university or institute. Candidates should also be NET/ GATE qualified. […]

In a quiet move in parallel to the ongoing stories rotating around the MHRD, the IITs, and NITs & other institutes, IIT-Guwahati has gone ahead and launched the JEE (Advanced) 2016 website already. While much of the information is still pending given official notifications and even the dates are not yet out, especially JEE (Main) […]

ORM. Sounds like a fluid replacement therapy or an operating system developed by a techie doesn’t it? It’s not. It is a social welfare initiative started by IIT Indore’s social welfare club, Avana. ‘One Rupee Miracle’ (ORM) is an initiative where students of IITI donate one rupee a day, whose collection is later used by […]

As already covered, the gravitational field strength at a point in space is given by the force experienced by a unit mass placed at that point, and gravitational field strength due to a point mass can be easily calculated by the ratio of the force experienced by a test mass placed at that point. In […]

IIT Gandhinagar (IITGN) is the most recent of all IIT to adopt a Deferred Placement Policy. In fact, it is also the only one amongst the newer IITs to have implemented this change. The idea behind this initiative is to encourage the start-up culture among IITGN students as well as to provide them leeway to […]

On Tuesday, we discussed how the MHRD was finding it difficult to intervene in a tussle between NIT Rourkela’s Director and the Chairperson of the Board of Governors. Over the last few days, reports of the MHRD interfering with IITs and NITs have been pouring out. First, it was an article in the Telegraph that mentioned […]

At 8 in the evening you realise that an assignment is  due tomorrow and you don’t have blank assignment sheets to write on. There is no stationery shop in a radius of 10 km near your hostel and there is no transport facility to take you to college, which is again 10 km away. What […]

Rajveer Singh Meena (26), a resident of Mohacha village, Sawai Madhopur district, Rajasthan, entered the Guinness Book of World Records by reciting 70,000 digits of the value of Pi, the mathematical constant that starts with 3.14 and defines the ratio between a circle’s circumference & its diameter. Rajveer is an alumnus of Allen Career Institute, […]

When two or more gravitational forces act on a body then the resulting effect on this body is analysed by principle of superposition of forces which is stated as the effect is considered by resultant force on the body calculated by vector sum of all independent gravitational forces acting on the body. See the video […]

UG Freshers’ orientation videos, artists that tell women to roll chapatis, transgender rights, and Deepika Padukone’s video about choice – the Institute (at least just as much as the world outside of it) has seen spurts of discussion about gender over the past few months. While critiques of both patriarchy and feminism are well abound […]