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  HRD Ministry to bring IIT preparation app to curb coaching menace

  Politics | May 19, 2016 10:33 IST

  New Delhi: Aiming to combat the “menace” of coaching, the HRD ministry is coming up with a mobile app and portal containing free lectures from IIT faculty on various subjects and previous years’ question papers

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  JEE Main results 2016 to be declared today

  India | April 27, 2016 11:17 IST

  The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is today all set to announce the Joint Entrance Examinations Mains (JEE Main) results 2016 on its official website jeemain.nic.in

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  Blind Man Rejected By IIT Today Runs A Rs 50 Crore Company

  India | April 09, 2016 16:09 IST

  Andhra Pradesh: Born blind in a remote village in Andhra Pradesh, Srikanth Bolla’s life was nowhere close to normal. From neighbours politely suggesting his parents to abandon him because he was born blind, to one

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  Now students need 75% marks in Class XII to appear for IIT entrance exams

  India | April 08, 2016 8:18 IST

  Class XII marks will not be a factor for determining rankings in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admissions to engineering undergraduate courses from next year. Students seeking to write the JEE will need at least 75% marks in their board ex

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  Panel approves three-fold fee hike in IITs, may cost Rs 3 lakh per year

  India | March 18, 2016 9:32 IST

  Students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) may soon have to shell out more from their pockets to study as a panel, appointed to look into the fee hike issue of the prestigious institution, approved a three-fold hike in annual fees from the

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  IITs to hold entrance exam abroad for foreign students

  India | February 21, 2016 13:28 IST

  New Delhi: In a bid to attract more international talent, the prestigious IITs for the first time are planning hold their entrance tests in Singapore, UAE, Ethiopia and SAARC nations next year to select foreign

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  UP to help poor students prepare for IIT entrance

  India | February 05, 2016 8:31 IST

  Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh government is working on an action plan to facilitate financial assistance and other help to meritorious students of classes 10 and 12 who do not have enough resources to take the

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  Rajat Gupta to finish insider trading sentence at home with ankle bracelet

  January 21, 2016 23:27 IST

  New York: India-born former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta - freed early after receiving credit for good behaviour - will stay confined to his apartment until March with an ankle bracelet that will monitor his

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  IIT Professor M Jagdeesh Kumar set to be new JNU Vice-Chancellor

  India | January 21, 2016 14:34 IST

  New Delhi: IIT Delhi professor M Jagdeesh Kumar is set to be the next Vice Chancellor of the Jawaharlal Nehru University.Mr. Kumar's name has been cleared by President Pranab Mukherjee from a panel of four

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  Awe-inspiring: Hearing impaired IIT engineer excels against all odds

  India | December 04, 2015 14:29 IST

  New Delhi: A majority of people with physical disability feel dejected and lose hopes but there are some who refuse to buckle and conquer all odds to set an example for others.BHEL engineer Ajay Kumar

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  Committee recommends major changes in IIT entrance examination

  India | November 07, 2015 19:14 IST

  New Delhi: A Committee constituted by the IIT council has recommended major changes in entrance examination structure for these prestigious institutes including setting up of a National Testing Service, which would hold tests on the

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  Indian-American professor wins $625,000 MacArthur

  World | September 30, 2015 12:26 IST

  Washington: Kartik Chandran, an Indian-American associate professor of earth and environmental engineering at Columbia Engineering, has been named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow with a "genius grant" of $625,000 with no strings attached.Chandran, an IIT Roorkee

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  IITs mulling going back to single entrance test format

  India | September 30, 2015 7:35 IST

  New Delhi: IITs are considering going back to the old system of a single entrance test for selecting candidates as the existing two-tier format proved "cumbersome" and "time consuming".The JEE Apex Board at a meeting

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  IIT-Guwahati student found dead

  India | September 18, 2015 20:08 IST

  Guwahati:  A final-year student of the Indian Institute of Technology-Guwahati (IIT-G) was on Friday found dead near his hostel, police said.Security guards at the institute found the body near the IIT-G's Brahmaputra Hostel. The staff

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  President Pranab Mukherjee congratulates IISc, IIT-Delhi on global ranking

  India | September 15, 2015 18:09 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee today congratulated the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi for figuring in the top 200 in a global university ranking, and said high rank

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  India must reap demographic dividend: President Pranab Mukherjee

  India | August 08, 2015 8:56 IST

  Bhubaneswar: President Pranab Mukherjee on Friday stressed that India must reap its demographic dividend improving the quality of teaching and honing its youth's latent talents by imparting skill-based training.India is a mine of human resources

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  AAP government launches CM's Super Talented Children Scholarship Scheme

  India | August 08, 2015 8:05 IST

  New Delhi: The AAP government in Delhi on Friday launched “Chief Minister's Super Talented Children Scholarship Scheme 2015-16”.Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said: “Under this scheme, 400 meritorious students of science stream studying in

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  Over 4,400 students drop out of IITs, NITs in three years

  India | August 06, 2015 9:26 IST

  New Delhi: Over 4,400 students dropped out of IITs and NITs in the last three years due to various reasons including "academic stress", the government said on Wednesday and assured that corrective actions have been

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  IITs being used for œanti-India, anti-Hindu activities: RSS mouthpiece

  India | July 19, 2015 17:03 IST

  New Delhi:  After an Organiser article termed as “anti-Hindu” the protests against Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as FTII chairman, another piece in the RSS organ has alleged that prestigious institutes like IITs were being turned into

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  Mathura siblings who craked IIT, get help from DM

  India | July 08, 2015 19:57 IST

  Mathura:  Two siblings, who cracked IIT entrance test but were unable to afford the fees, have been given financial assistance by a university here.Vinita and Sudhir, a resident of Jatpura village under Mant tehsil, had