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  IIT, IIM and ISI to offer a joint course

  India | March 26, 2015 15:52 IST

  Kolkata: Three premier institutions of IIT Kharagpur, IIM Kolkata and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata, have come together for the first time to offer a joint course in business analytics.Starting from this session, the Post

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  9 news development you don't want to miss on March 19th

  India | March 19, 2015 10:00 IST

  1) India v/s Bangladesh, second quarter-final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on March 19India will face Bangladesh in the second quarter-final of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on

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  Anil Kakodkar quits IIT-B board after disagreement with HRD Ministry

  India | March 18, 2015 16:01 IST

  New Delhi: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT-B) Board of Governors chairman and nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar has resigned from his post after a reported 'disagreement' with the Ministry of Human Resource Development.Kakodkar, whose tenure

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  Increasing engineering institutes affecting quality: Pranab Mukherjee

  India | March 15, 2015 15:14 IST

  Mandi: The proliferation of engineering Institutes in the country is growing because of burgeoning demand taking a toll on quality of education and physical infrastructure, President Pranab Mukherjee said today.  His speech which was read

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  As Delhi air thickens, govt still awaits study on pollution to draft policy

  India | March 12, 2015 21:31 IST

  New Delhi: Amid the debate around the highly polluted Delhi air, the government is waiting for a study it had commissioned IIT Kanpur to conduct in 2013. The project, titled, “Source Apportionment Study of PM2.5

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  Arvind Kejriwal's remarkable journey: From IIT to Delhi CM's chair

  Politics | February 14, 2015 23:11 IST

  New Delhi: For Arvind Kejriwal, who assumed charge as Delhi's eighth Chief Minister today, it has been a remarkable journey since AAP's drubbing in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls as he led the party to

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  Know the team that planned AAP's Delhi poll campaign

  India | February 09, 2015 12:14 IST

  New Delhi: Social Media campaigns to road rallies, everything played a very important role building an impactful image of AAP. Have you ever thought that a group of students would have planned strategies for AAP

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  Ronnie Screwvala ventures into online education space

  January 16, 2015 14:11 IST

  New Delhi: Media industry veteran Ronnie Screwvala, who has turned into an entrepreneur cum private investor after selling UTV to Disney, has entered the education sector with the launch of UEducation, an online portal focusing

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  IIT centre on bullet train technology to be ready this year

  India | January 09, 2015 13:12 IST

  Kolkata: A research centre on developing bullet train technology will be ready at IIT-Kharagpur by the end of this year.Funded by the Indian Railway Board, the new building of the Centre for Railway Research (CRR)

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  Aspirants for JEE falls; Interest in Engineering fading away?

  India | January 07, 2015 9:51 IST

  Mumbai: The number of aspirants for the all India engineering entrance examination JEE has dropped from 13.03 lakh students who have registered this year against last year's number of 13.56 lakh. JEE is also the first

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  IIT-Kharagpur to create new cadre of environmental engineers

  India | December 31, 2014 12:12 IST

  Kolkata: As environment clearance has turned out to be a major roadblock for growth of industry, IIT, Kharagpur has decided to build an army of environmental engineers to help tackle the challenge.The new School of

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  2.5L litres of fuel wasted every day in Delhi due to vehicle idling

  India | December 13, 2014 18:48 IST

  New Delhi: Delhi wastes upto 2.5 lakh litres of fuel every day due to vehicle idling, according to a recent research released by IIT Delhi and US-based Desert Research Institute.The study says that the vehicles

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  Non-Veg food in IIT stopped during UPA rule, Smriti Irani tells parliament

  Politics | December 04, 2014 11:26 IST

  New Delhi: Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani today rejected allegations that she was promoting vegetarian food in IITs, contending that it such meals were stopped during UPA rule, much before she assumed charge following

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  Jayant Sinha: From IIT to Harvard to Modi's ministry

  Politics | November 09, 2014 16:54 IST

  New Delhi: He went to IIT Delhi and came out with flying colours, and from there he went to the Harvard Business school to enter the corporate world.Today, Jayant Sinha, son of BJP veteran and

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  There is no substitute for teachers; says Super 30 founder Anand Kumar

  World | October 07, 2014 12:13 IST

  Washington: Asserting that there is ‘no substitute' for teachers, Indian mathematician and founder of well-known Super 30 tutorial programme has said that there is a need to create an atmosphere in which teachers get respect

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  IIT's Mauritius campus to start from November

  World | September 26, 2014 9:27 IST

  Port Louis: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will start its overseas campus in Mauritius from November.IIT-Delhi is setting-up an International Institute of Technology Research Academy (IITRA) in the island nation. The new institute is

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  IIT eases norm, allows board exam marks; 20 percentile to stay

  India | September 22, 2014 21:26 IST

  Chennai: In a significant decision which is set to benefit students aspiring to enter IITs, the Council meet of the prestigious institutions here today decided to consider the aggregate marks secured in Class 12 Board

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  IITs, others to develop technologies for rural development

  India | September 12, 2014 7:19 IST

  New Delhi: A network of IITs and other institutes will evolve appropriate technologies for rural development under the 'Unnat Bharat Abhiyan' scheme, it was announced Thursday.The venture is coordinated by the Indian Institute of Technology

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  Chandrababu wants to transform AP into a œdigital state

  Politics | September 05, 2014 17:41 IST

  Guntur: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu today said he wants the state to be a “digital AP”.“Our Prime Minister Modi has an ambition to make the country a ‘Digital India'.Now I am thinking

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  Super-30 mathematician Anand Kumar disfavours JEE exam online

  India | August 28, 2014 20:22 IST

  Patna: Noted mathematician and founder of Super 30, Anand Kumar, today expressed concern over the plan to take the much sought after Joint Engineering Examination (JEE) online, saying the move would be disadvantageous for students