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IITs should pay attention to problems faced by farmers, rural India: Naidu

IITs should start major research programmes to boost the rural economy through the development of sustainable technologies, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said on Monday.

Covid-19: IIT Ropar develops remote controlled room disinfection device

The device ensures 360-degree disinfection through its prismatic body and foldable wings, it said

Centre grants Rs 110 crore for setting up technology hub at IIT Ropar

The central government has approved Rs 110 crore to set up a technology innovation hub at IIT, Ropar, the premier engineering institute said

PFC ties up with IIT-Kanpur for research, training in smart grid technology

State-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) on Wednesday said it has signed an agreement with the Indian Institute of Technology- Kanpur for training, research, and entrepreneurship development in smart grid technology. As per the memorandum of association, the PFC will provide financial assistance of Rs 2.38 crore (Rs 2,38,97,000) to IIT-K under its CSR initiative. The objective of the pact is to provide support to IIT-K in developing infrastructure for research and development on smart grid technology, R Murahari, Executive Director (CSR&SD), PFC, said. As part of the project, the IIT-K will also provide training on smart grid technology to 90 participants and provide fellowship to nine selected candidates for development of ideas on smart grid technology. The fellows will be assisted by startup Innovation and Incubation Centre (SIIC) of IIT-K and encouraged to take up entrepreneurial activities.

IITs to relax admission criterion of 75% marks in class 12: HRD Minister

"Qualified candidates who have passed class XII examinations will now be eligible for admissions irrespective of marks obtained," the minister said in a series of tweets

Learning to grow

India has a lot of catching up to do in higher education

IIT Delhi breaks previous years' record of campus placements amid pandemic

Earlier, IIT-Delhi had to re-conduct the second phase of its placement drive as several companies rescinded their offers

IITs, other institutes develop innovative devices to fight coronavirus

IIT Bhubaneswar has designed a safe and multi-surface sanitiser using UVC light for the disinfection of devices

No tuition fee hike in IITs, IIITs for academic year 2020-21: HRD minister

"On similar lines, I have requested the IIITs run in the public-private partnership mode not to increase the tuition fee for the coming academic year for any of their courses," the HRD minister added.

Job offers revoked, IIT students find takers in IT and biotech firms

IITs have collectively written to all recruiters asking them to honour their offers

Help stranded students, juniors: IITs appeal to alumni in foreign countries

Several IIT students, who were on semester exchange, internships and short term projects in various countries, are stranded due to lockdown restrictions

'GoCoronaGo' to 'Sampark-o-Meter': How IISc, IITs are battling Covid-19

The app "GoCoronaGo" has been developed by a team at IISc which can help identify people who may have crossed paths with Covid-19 suspects.

Hiring of IT freshers by firms may be delayed amid coronavirus outbreak

Since most IT firms anticipate a demand slowdown in the coming quarters, hiring from tier-III and IV engineering colleges through walk-in interviews is going take a massive hit in 2020

IIT Guwahati develops robots to deliver food, medicines to Covid-19 wards

The team from IIT Guwahati's Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering departments believes the move will reduce human intervention in isolation wards.

GATE 2020: Answer key released on gate.iitd.ac.in, result announced

GATE 2020: IIT Delhi has declared the final answer key. GATE 2020 result is expected to be announced soon

IIT-KGP 2nd among Indian higher education institutes in Times ranking

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc), ranked 16th globally, is India's top-ranked institution

CAA protests: Calling Faiz 'anti-Hindu' absurd and funny, says Javed Akhtar

Earlier on Thursday, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has set up a committee to look into the issue

How a leaderless anti-CAA stir is mobilising volunteers, doctors & lawyers

Everything from a stage microphone to speakers to posters has been crowd-sourced

IIT Madras to scale up pre-incubation centre for 100 student start-ups

Institute to tap public and private sector to raise CSR funding to support the budding enterprises

Intellectual property filings up 20% at IIT Delhi, highest ever in a year

Total filings reach 150-mark, institute's revenues from IP licensing up four-fold