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  Minority sub-quota in IITs put on hold

  India | June 01, 2012 11:23 IST

  New Delhi, June 1 : The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) on Thursday decided to put the 4.5 per cent minority sub-quota on hold after the Andhra Pradesh High Court judgment scrapping the sub-quota, putting

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  IITs Suggest All India Screening Test Followed By Subjective Admission Test

  India | April 10, 2012 10:43 IST

  Mumbai, Apr 10 : A central committee that visited the IIT-Bombay campus on Monday found it difficult to counter various arguments posed by the faculty against considering Class XII marks, Times of India reported.The human

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  More Than 5.6 Lakh Candidates Appear For IIT-JEE

  India | April 08, 2012 15:38 IST

  New Delhi, Apr 8: More than 5.6 lakh candidates appeared today for the IIT Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) as compared to 4.6 lakh who took the exam last year.The exam was held at 1,067 centres

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  IIT, CIT To Develop Early Earthquake Warning System

  India | October 03, 2011 13:59 IST

  Ahmedabad, Oct 3 :Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar(IIT-GN) have undertaken a project to develop a “slight early” earthquake warning system.  The institute has teamed up with California Institute of Technology (CIT), Pasadena,

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  Four Fold Hike In IIT Fees Soon

  India | September 15, 2011 15:02 IST

  New Delhi, Sept 15: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Council on Wednesday decided on a four fould hike in fees from 2013 onwards for students who are not from economically and socially backward classes.

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  After Flaying Faculty, Ramesh Addresses IIT Convocation

  India | May 27, 2011 17:40 IST

  Guwahati, May 27: Environment minister Jairam Ramesh, who recently stirred up a controversy for his comment on IITs and IIMs, today appeared relieved at the 13th convocation of IIT, Guwahati saying he was ‘half expecting'

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  IIT, IIM Faculties Are World Class, Says Sibal

  India | May 26, 2011 19:35 IST

  New Delhi, May 25: HRD Minister Kapil Sibal today disagreed with his ministerial colleague Jairam Ramesh's remarks on IITs and IIMs, saying the faculties of these institutions are “world class”.He said if the IITs have

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  IITs: Thrust Was Not On Research, But Things Are Changing, Says Sibal

  India | May 26, 2011 16:06 IST

  Ahmedabad, May 26: Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said on Wednesday the thrust in IITs so far had not been on research, but things were changing now.His comments came in the backdrop of Environment Minister

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  13,602 Out Of 4.68 Lakh Students Crack IIT-JEE

  India | May 25, 2011 16:07 IST

  Kanpur, May 25: Results of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admissions into prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) were declared here today with 13,602 students passing the examination.Announcing the results, Director of IIT-Kanpur Prof

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  IIT, IIMs Faculty Are Not World Class, Students Are World Class: Jairam

  India | May 23, 2011 19:06 IST

  New Delhi, May 23: Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today slammed the faculty of the prestigious IITs and IIMs, saying these educational institutions are "not world class" but are "excellent" because of the quality of students."There

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  Lipstick Competition At IIT-R Fest: Govt Orders Probe

  India | October 30, 2010 13:39 IST

  Roorkee: A competition during IIT-Roorkee's annual festival whereby boys holding lipsticks in their mouth applied them on girls has sparked a controversy with saffron groups staging a protest and the BJP government in Uttarakhand ordering

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  IITs To Offer Medical Courses, Have Foreign Faculty, Students

  India | September 10, 2010 20:36 IST

  NEW DELHI: The prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology would now offer courses in medicine with foreign nationals on permanent faculty positions and students from abroad at the post graduate level. A decision to this effect

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  AIIMS, PGIMER Faculty To Get Salaries Like IIM, IIT

  India | December 30, 2009 8:51 IST

  Government approved revised pay scales for faculty of autonomous medical institutions like the AIIMS and PGIMER, Chandigarh, bringing them at par with their counterparts in IITs and IIMs. The faculty at these institutes had refused

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  IIT Delhi Student Held For Attempted Rape, Murder

  India | October 26, 2009 10:51 IST

  A teenaged Naga girl was strangled and later burnt to death in South Delhi allegedly by an IIT Phd scholar who attempted to rape her, Delhi police said on Sunday night. The incident was reported

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  Nitish Urges Sibal To Reconsider New Criterion For IIT-JEE

  India | October 20, 2009 13:34 IST

  Urging union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal to reconsider his move to change the existing eligibility criteria in the IIT joint entrance test, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday  proposal will discriminate against students with

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  IIT Faculty Reach Agreement With Govt

  India | October 02, 2009 9:37 IST

  The month-long standoff between the government and the IIT faculty over pay structure was "resolved" on Friday with the HRD Ministry agreeing to revisit the contentious norms, including 40 per cent cap on promotion of