Articles in IIT Madras

The Joint Admission Board (JAB) director Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi told PaGaLGuY that there was no discussion in the recently JAB meeting about the format of questions in the entrance examination. In a recent media report, it was mentioned that the MCQ questions for JEE Advanced will be changed to ‘Short Answer’ questions instead. “I don’t know […]

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras director Prof Bhaskar Ramamurthi has announced that the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2018 will be conducted online. In a meeting held today on August 20, 2017 at IIT Madras, the decision was taken by the director of JAB (Joint Admission Board) and IIT Madras Prof Ramamurthi.  “The apex […]

After the brief halt at the engineering counselling imposed by Supreme Court, JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority) has released the number of seats up for grabs in the fourth round. A total of 2,272 seats in the 93 participating institutes are still vacant. Out of them 42 are from various IITs across the country.  Although […]

The apex court has removed the stay in IIT JEE counselling today on July 10, 2017 for admission of engineering aspirants in 93 institutes conducted by JoSAA (Joint Seat Allocation Authority).  The anxious candidates will be relieved as the court passed an order after staying the counselling procedure on July 7. Almost 30,000 engineering aspirants […]

The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has filled all the vacant seats after the second round of seat allotment concluded by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), today on July 7, 2017. Earlier there were 14 seats vacant in different engineering streams at the premiere institute. Not only IIT Bombay, but other institutes like IIT […]

In a hearing passed today on July 7, the Supreme Court has stayed the ongoing counselling of engineering aspirants across the country. The bench of two judges Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar, who were hearing the petition filed by an IIT aspirant regarding the additional marks provided to the aspirants who had taken JEE […]

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 […]