JUNE’10: The Central Information Commission (CIC) has taken a decision that the IIT Joint Entrance Examination process will be more transparent. The details of candidates such as registration number, name, parents’ name, category, and marks secured should be open to public scrutiny. Information Commissioner Shailesh Ghandhi overruled the objections by IIT Guwahati which organized the [...]
JUNE’10: Students appearing for the next Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission to IITs will get performance cards specifying marks and the ranks secured by them in the test. However, as per the new provision, they cannot seek regrading or re-totalling. For the first time, the JEE Board would issue performance cards which can be [...]
JUNE’10: The faculty and the student community of IIT-Ropar are still at the budding stage. In the coming years they are all set to rule the academic affairs of this region. They also expect that the establishment of a esteemed institute like IIT will certainly bring Ropar in league of tier-I cities of the countries. [...]
JUNE’10: In order to accommodate the quota for backward classes, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi will increase its students intake by 27 percent this year. In all, the institute will admit 850 students at the B-Tech level. In an interview to IANS, IIT-Delhi director Surendra Prasad said, “We are adding 27 percent students more [...]
JUNE’10: As per a MoU signed recently between IIT Kharagpur and Railway Ministry, the former will carry out extensive research on developing cutting edge technologies , including highspeed trains and better security mechanisms for Indian Railways. As per media reports, 12 areas have been identified by the institute and the ministry in which research will [...]
MAY’10: Terminated for “bad performance”, 38 students of IIT Kanpur have taken the issue to President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with a plea that the institute reconsider the decision. The students have written to Prime Minister and the PMO has forwarded the matter to the HRD Ministry for “appropriate action”. The Ministry [...]
MAY’10: The consortium members will research the wind energy challenges identified in the U.S. Department of Energy’s “20% Wind Energy by 2030″ report, including wind technology, grid system integration, and workforce challenges. The consortium’s plan relies on IIT experts in electrical and computer engineering; mechanical, materials, and aerospace engineering; architecture; business; and members of the [...]
MAY’10: IIT Kharagpur announces the fourth edition of Nina Saxena Excellence in Technology Award to invite entries of this year in areas of technical innovations. Nominations for entries to the award are open until April 30, 2010. Entries can be submitted either by post to the Director, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal,PIN – 721302, India or [...]
MAY’10: The project, named LOCUS which stands for Localised Operation of Bio-cells Using Sewage, can achieve chemical oxygen demand (COD) reduction levels in waste water to about 60-80 per cent.
MAY’10: Waste water management is a big issue world wide and specially in India where there is acute shortage of the precious resource in many places but a 23-year-old student of IIT Kharagpur claims he has found a solution. Apart from finding solutions management of waste water he has also demonstrated producing electricity from it, [...]