Articles in IIT Madras
The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSSA) has declared the second round of seat allotment for the candidates who have cleared JEE Main/Advanced 2017. Of over 10,000 seats in different engineering streams in the 22 IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) and ISM (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad across the country, 397 has been left vacant after […]
The country woke up to yet another absurd beef-slaugher-ban case. This time, the victim was a Phd student from IIT Madras, Sooraj R. Typically, he was beaten up by people who support the beef ban – at least so screamed most newspapers today. But was it really an extension of the beef-ban or no-ban hysteria? […]
The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar unveiled the ranking of higher educational institutes today on April 3, 2017 in a press conference. The National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) presented an overall and category wise ranking today. Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore has topped the overall ranking. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) […]
Image: A screenshot of the viral video. Students of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR) have made a video on Ed Sheeran’s popular song ‘Shape of You’. The video shows four boys courting a girl. “It was uploaded on February 14, in about three days the video has received close to 20 lakh views on […]
This is a cricket ground at IIT Kanpur at 5.30 pm! Students from 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are participating in the 51 Inter IIT Sports meet at IIT Kanpur (IIT-K) from December 12 to 19, 2016. And students from IIT-M who are to participate in the cricket event reached IIT-K on December 9, […]
Prof Pradipta Banerji from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT-R), recently finished his term as the Director, and is currently at IIT Bombay, in the Civil Engineering department. In a candid interview with IIT-R’s student news body, Prof Banerji expressed his views about the institute, and his idea of how the institute should be. […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K), is hosting the 51st Inter-IIT Sports Meet from December 12 to 19, 2016. The games will officially begin from today, December 12, in the presence of KK Sharma, Delhi’s Chief Secretary, and former IAS officer; Devendra Jhajharia, Paralympic Javelin thrower, only Indian to win two Paralympic gold medals; and […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) holds placement activities due to demise of Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. Prof Manu Santhanam, Training and Placement Advisor, IIT-M, said, “We don’t want to do any activity in the institute at this point in time. Companies which are travelling from other places are also a little bit concerned. […]
Students across 23 IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) have come together to formalise an Inter IIT Tech Meet. For the last four years, IITians were organising the Inter IIT Tech Meet unofficially by clubbing it with cultural festivals. IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur (Kgp) have collectively started an online survey, asking all IITians to share […]
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