Corporate Mind Games IIT-style!
New Delhi: The Technology Alumni Association (TAA) of IIT Kharagpur recently organised the second edition of their interesting Olympics for corporate intellectuals – Mind Trigger – this year. Inspired by…
IIT Kanpur and Madras , IISc to offer joint PhD scholarship programme with Aus Univ
New Delhi: The famous Australian University – University of Melbourne – is quite popular with the most prestigious institutions of India. IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and the Indian Institute of…
Angel Investors Network springs from IIT Bombay
New Delhi: Lead Angels (LA) is a newly found angel investors network founded by three members from IIT Bombay (IIT-B) – Professor C Amarnath, who has just retired from the…
GATE 2014 Admit Card to be available from December 18, 2013
New Delhi: According to the latest GATE 2014 notification, admit cards for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2014, conducted jointly by the seven zonal IITs and IISc for…
Freefalling GOCE satellite burns up high in the sky
New Delhi: The European Space Agency (ESA) predicted that the one-tonne GOCE satellite was freefalling towards Earth on a crash course from an altitude of about 160 km. The descending…
What’s in a name: Cyclone, Hurricane or Typhoon?
Haiyan typhoon that hit the Phillippines On Friday New Delhi: Haiyan has been found to be the world’s most powerful typhoon of the year. It hit the Philippines on Friday…
IITian who turned a musician and then a bureaucrat
New Delhi: An electrical engineering graduate from IIT Delhi – Kaushik Mukherjee – is the new Chief Secretary of Karnataka. But if he had not made it to the position,…
IIT-BHU will research on superconductors to save power during transmission
New Delhi: In a unique three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by IIT-BHU and Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), it has been decided that the institute will research…
Entrepreneurship Awareness a huge ‘hit’ at IIT Kharagpur
New Delhi: At IIT Kharagpur, Entrepreneurship Cell is a non-profit student organization that conducts guest lectures, business plan competitions and workshops to foster entrepreneurial spirit in the college students of…
Cheated in Class X, jailed 15 years later
New Delhi: In 1998, Asif asked another boy to impersonate him the Social Science paper in Class X board exams conducted by CBSE at Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Kailash Nagar. The…