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  Five new IITs likely to start functioning from next session

  India | August 28, 2014 19:24 IST

  New Delhi: Five new IITs the Centre proposed in this year's Union Budget are likely to start functioning from the next academic session, officials in the HRD Ministry said.While the Ministry has sent letters to

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  President Pranab Mukherjee asks IITs to develop new cutting edge technologies

  India | August 23, 2014 16:41 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee has asked the IITs to develop newer, cutting edge technologies and utilise them for creating a variety of in-house solutions for India's domestic requirements and export them to developing countries

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  Kerala will not allow river linking project: Oommen Chandy

  Politics | July 17, 2014 15:31 IST

  Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala today categorically stated it would not allow the proposed inter-linking of its rivers Pampa-Achenkovil with Tamil Nadu's Vaipar river, holding that the project would not only result in drying up of rivers, but

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  Omar engaging in doublespeak over IIT issue: PDP

  Politics | July 13, 2014 19:00 IST

  Srinagar: Opposition Jammu and Kashmir PDP today hit out at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, accusing him of doublespeak over the issue of central government planning to set up an IIT in Jammu region of the

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  India should focus on innovation, not outsourcing: V K Singh

  India | July 13, 2014 17:42 IST

  Guwahati: India should focus more on innovation to make it a centre of industrial activities instead of just becoming a mere destination of outsourcing, DONER Minister Gen (retd) Vijay Kumar Singh said today.  “Technology development

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  Omar hits at Centre over allotment of IIT only to Jammu

  India | July 12, 2014 19:58 IST

  Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today accused the Centre of “brazenly discriminating” against Kashmir by allotting IIT only to the Jammu region, and alleged that PDP was hand in gloves with the

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  Raman Singh thanks centre for 'IIT gift'

  Politics | July 11, 2014 12:28 IST

  Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Thursday thanked both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley for doling out the "much-needed" Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to his state in the union budget

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  Budget 2014: Five more IIMs, IITs to come up, says Arun Jaitley

  July 10, 2014 12:15 IST

   New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Thursday said that five new IITs and IIMs will be set up across the country."...I also intend to set up five more IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) in Jammu,

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  Open IIT in Jammu: Jitendra Singh to Irani

  Politics | June 27, 2014 11:37 IST

  New Delhi: A campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) should be set up in Jammu and Kashmir as the state has tremendous potential to produce meritorious students, Union Minister Jitendra Singh today urged

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  Government will set up IITs and IIMs in every state: President

  India | June 09, 2014 12:18 IST

  New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee Monday said the government will set up IITs and IIMs in every state of the country."My government will set up IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) and IIMs (Indian Institutes of

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  HRD Ministry okays IIT, IIM, 3 central universities for Seemandhra

  India | November 05, 2013 23:53 IST

  New Delhi: The HRD Ministry has given its nod for an IIT, an IIM and three central universities among other institutes for the Seemandhra region which has witnessed widespread resentment over the Centre's decision to

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  IIT entrance exam result on June 23

  India | June 11, 2013 6:27 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 11: The results for IIT (advanced) examination for the prestigious technical institutes would be announced on June 23.The Joint Entrance Exam for admissions to the undergraduate programmes at all IITs and Indian

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  IIT coaching centre told to refund Rs.75,000 to student

  India | April 18, 2013 15:05 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 18: An IIT aspirant who quit a private coaching centre because of alleged poor facilities has got relief from Delhi's top consumer court, which has ordered the institute to refund the Rs.75,000

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  JEE Mains under new format on April 7

  India | September 20, 2012 22:16 IST

  New Delhi, Sep 20: The JEE Mains exam for admission to undergraduate engineering programmes next year under the new format will be held on April 7 and the online format will be held between April

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  IIT Bombay gives nod to new format of common entrance

  India | July 26, 2012 10:01 IST

  New Delhi, Jul 25: IIT Bombay today gave its nod to the common entrance for admission to the undergraduate programme from 2013 under a format which will admit students having top 20 percentile of their

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  Govt, IIT row over entrance test resolved

  India | June 28, 2012 11:54 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 27: The row between government and IITs over entrance test was resolved today with a compromise agreement being reached over holding the common exams from next year.Under the new format, an advance

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  Autonomy of IITs will remain intact, PM assures Federation

  India | June 15, 2012 17:40 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 15: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today gave an assurance that the autonomy of IITs will remain “intact”, the IIT faculty federation, opposing the proposed common entrance to these institutes, said after meeting

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  No intent to infringe on the autonomy of IIT, says Sibal

  India | June 11, 2012 23:06 IST

  Washington, Jun 11: Rejecting criticism and virtually ruling out going back on the new proposal, the Union Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal today said the government has no intent to impinge on the autonomy

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  IITs divided over 'one-nation one-test' proposal

  India | June 09, 2012 20:33 IST

  New Delhi, Jun 9: IITs appeared to be divided today over HRD ministry's ‘one-nation one-test' proposal with the prestigious engineering institutions at Guwahati and Kharagpur opposing IIT-Kanpur's decision to conduct its own entrance exam from

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  IITs may go to court against joint engineering test move

  India | June 02, 2012 9:05 IST

  New Delhi, June 2 : IIT alumni members and faculty members have decided to file PILs (public interest litigations)  in court against the move by HRD ministry to introduce joint engineering test next year with