Festivals are always an integral part of college life. They are like cherries on a vanilla cake, the double cheese burst of pizzas, the citric effect of a lemonade, the touch of autumnal zephyr, the sunlight of winter morning, the first showers of monsoon………………………………zada curled ho gaya , I know. Okay, let’s not make it [...]
Aakash tablet- the government’s ambitious project will now be handled by three more IITs. According to reports, the government plans to rope in IIT Madras, IIT Mumbai and IIT Kanpur to make the tablet PC project more indigenous and reduce its price. IIT Rajasthan is already supervising its development. A meeting was held in New [...]
Expansion seems to be the keyword for IITs and institutes related to it. After the expansion of IITs now it is the turn of Super 30 to expand itself to Super 50. Anand Kumar, mathematician and the man behind the phenomenon called Super 30, plans to reach out to other Hindi speaking states. It has [...]
IIT-Hyderabad is witnessing a frenzy for a particular fractional credit course these days. Reason: The august presence of Missile man and former President Dr.Abdul Kalam as the faculty member. Dr. Kalam is teaching the course which goes by the name “Empowering 3 billion”. He took his first class on Tuesday. It was a big hit [...]
Chetan Bhagat once remarked that life of a student transforms totally at IITs and leaves permanent changes on it. His “Five Point Someone” describes that experience vividly. IITs are famed for producing wizards. In fact, those who get there are no less than wizards themselves. Most of them for sure! Nothing can be more oft-repeated [...]
In a bid to make their MBA programme more sought-after and attractive the IITs are thinking of ways that would make the admission process hassle-free. According to reports, the current reform that is foremost on their minds is the merger of the application process. The IITs are planning to follow a common online portal for [...]
The core engineering firms are having a field day at the IITs’ (Indian Institutes of Technology) campus as students are skipping the hitherto most-sought-after jobs of the finance sector for core jobs. Reason: they offer job security and good pay. The current situation of the finance sector is not very upbeat and many are considering [...]
I was always a brilliant student right from my childhood. One who always scored 100 in Maths. One who proudly referred to it as ‘1 gola gola’ whenever anyone enquired about my mathematical prowess. My parents always thought that I would become an engineer and that became my natural career choice. The passing years at [...]
Technical Festivals of various hues and names mark the academic itinerary of IITs every year. From lectures to stunt shows, the festivals have all kinds of events that attract students from all over the country. The objective of such events is to give a platform to the students to showcase their innovations and visions. Here [...]