FEBRUARY’10: India’s premier technological institutes, Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has reportedly been given a nod by the central government to set up their first offshore campus in Qatar. The new institute to be set up in Quatar will be called the International Institute of Technology and this will be set up all the IITs [...]
FEBRUARU’10: With the economic recession taking backstage, top IT companies are quite happy to offer huge salaries to the IIT graduates . Training and Placement head at IIT Kharagpur, Suneel Srivastava, said that the highest number of offers (13) and the highest salary package of Rs 22 lakh was offered by Barclays Singapore. The institute [...]
FEBRUARY’10: Under the chairmanship of HRD minister Kapil Sibal, the first IIT Council is eyeing for more foreign admissions at the PG level by framing a policy that includes introducing scholarships for studying at IIT and fee reduction for PG students in the IITs. Permitting IITs to create extra seats for foreign PG students to [...]
FEBRUARY’10: IIT Kanpur is going to organize its annual festival Techkriti on 11-14 February 2010. One of the flagship events of Techkriti will be ‘Ideas 10’, the international business plan competition. The event will witness participation from leading MBA schools, such as IIMs and XLRI as well as IITs and many international institutes like Stanford [...]
JANUARY’10: When the campus placements happen in 2011 at IIT Kharagpur, these five students will give it a miss. They would have by then started their own company. They have developed a bio cell’ (battery) that can not only treat sewage water but also generate electricity a that could offer a onestop solution to the [...]
JANUARY’10: The “first ever” gathering of the alumni of IIT-Madras (IITM) will be held here on December 26. According to a release here, more than 32,000 students have graduated from the institute in the past 50 years and most were expected to attend the reunion, co-organised by the Office of Alumni Affairs (OAA) and IIT-M [...]
JANUARY’10: JODHPUR: In what can be referred to as one step further towards shifting the IIT-R from Kanpur to Jodhpur, a team comprising administrative in-charge of IIT-R (Kanpur) Niraj Gupta and two others, visited the MBM Engineering College here on Friday. Sources said they discussed the make-shift requirements and took stock of the facilities available [...]
JANUARY’10: Even as the process for applying to the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) 2010 of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has begun, figures from JEE 2009 reveal that 137 seats meant for candidates with physical disabilities (PD), got wasted. The reason is that not enough disabled candidates qualify, and these seats cannot be converted [...]
JANUARY’10: Technology changes have helped Indian Railway enhance its productivity to meet the increase in demand for rail traffic, Sudesh Kumar, member (Electrical) Railway Board has said. Speaking at the 52nd Annual Day celerations of the Indian Railways Institute of Signal Engineering and Telecommunications (IRISET) here today, he said signalling has evolved from an ordinary [...]
JANUARY’10: Bangalore: One of the most discussed issues when it came to developing applications for mobile phones was the lack of any reasonable returns on apps made for popular platforms like the iPhone. A lot of developers said they hardly made any money from developing apps for these high-end phones. Turns out they have got [...]