Articles in IIT Kharagpur
Every year IITs come up with off-beat electives that haven’t been offered in other engineering colleges, like the introduction of Odissi dance as a subject in IIT Bhubaneswar. For an IIT student, pursuing hobbies like film making, designing, basketball, etc. may be a secondary activity. Many of these students aren’t even aware of their extra academic […]
The 51st Inter-IIT Sports Meet 2015 will be hosted by IIT Madras this year. As a part of their infrastructural preparations for the Meet, IIT-M has decided to lay down a synthetic sports track with a funding of Rs 6 crore. This track, which is meant to increase stability and smoothness in running, shall also […]
Students entering IITs come with the perception of studying core engineering subjects and foresee the next four years of their life as a tedious journey of learning. Many of these students are often baffled to see the variety of extracurricular activities IITs have to offer. Most of the IITs today have established clubs for students […]
While India celebrates Sundar Pichai taking over as CEO of Google, and as his alma mater IIT Kharagpur waves the flag of their rewarded efforts, there are many current engineering students not inclined towards their fields of study at all. An Economic Survey Report released in early 2015 by a National Committee has ranked India 48th in the world in terms of […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ( IIT Bombay) is a public engineering institution located in Powai,Mumbai, India. In global rankings, IIT Bombay has emerged as India’s top university. It is the second-oldest (after Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) institute of the Indian Institutes of Technology system. IIT Bombay has invited candidates for the various […]
This year a lot changed in the system for the engineering aspirants. The Joint allocation process was the biggest change. However, there is one other change that has been introduced. Not a ‘change’ per say, but a modification to the already existing system. The one year preparatory course conducted in the IITs. The change is that this […]
As a student, one’s learning blackboard consists of only two choices: take it or leave it. It is an established fact that most aspiring engineers wish to pursue their degree from an IIT. Yet, during the first round of JoSAA allocations, atleast a dozen students gave up their IIT seat for an opportunity in another […]
This year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced in his budget speech that Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad, will be converted to a full-fledged IIT. Once it does, IIT Dhanbad will become the 3rd oldest IIT institute, after IIT Roorkee (founded as Thomason College of Engineering in 1847, converted to an IIT in 2001) and […]
One of the oldest in the elite group of engineering colleges, IIT- Kharagpur, has received the highest number of applications this year. According to JoSAA records, IIT-Kharagpur received around 2.5 lakh applications which is the highest among all IITs. This, according to IIT Kharagpur officials is because, one, a wide variety of courses and specialisations […]
Written by Amal Kumar Mandal, who passed out from the IIT Kharagpur batch of 1965. This story was written for the souvenir of their 2015 Alumni Meet, where their batch celebrated its Golden Jubilee. It was long ago on the time scale, but is still nearest to my heartbeat: the vivid reverberations of the daily […]