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Thursday, November 6, 2025
TopicEngineering colleges

Topic: Engineering colleges

Use books by Indian authors to promote PM’s Atmanirbhar Bharat mission — AICTE to colleges

In a letter to technical institutes, the AICTE says such high-quality and cost-effective books will aid students and simultaneously fulfill the PM’s vision of self-reliant India.

Modi govt’s HEC can’t just be UGC with new label. Engineering still needs its own regulator

The Modi govt plans to merge higher education regulators into one body called Higher Education Commission, but medicine and law institutes have been left out.

More colleges could offer engineering courses in emerging fields like robotics, AI from 2021

The AICTE has invited colleges to submit a list of such courses already on offer to add to the approval handbook next year.

Only non-serious aspirants, Modi-baiters want JEE-NEET postponed: ex Kota student

Most of those speaking against the JEE NEET schedule have no locus standi to comment on the matter, having never appeared for either of these exams themselves.

IITs could change pattern for JEE Advanced this year, to also discuss syllabus reduction

IITs have received requests to make Joint Entrance Examination Advanced easier this year. Matter to be discussed in next Joint Admission Board meeting.

Classes in engineering, pharmacy, management colleges to start from 16 August, says AICTE

Classes for the new batch will start from 16 September. This apart, the number of counselling sessions for engineering & technical colleges has been reduced to 2.

JEE Mains application forms available again, students can apply until 24 May

The special window has been opened by the HRD ministry to help students who had to drop their plans to study abroad in the wake of the Covid pandemic. 

Date for JEE Mains and NEET expected to be announced on 5 May

HRD Minster Ramesh Pokhriyal is expected to announce the dates of the JEE and NEET exam during a scheduled live interaction with students.

AICTE will punish colleges if they give wrong information in prospectus

New AICTE rules ask engineering, management colleges to now upload prospectus on website with correct information, and sell printed copies at reasonable price.

IIT fixation fades? 29% of students who cleared JEE Mains opted out of JEE Advanced in 2019

Admissions to the 23 IITs are determined by the joint entrance exam (JEE), which has two stages, Mains and Advanced.

On Camera

Indians have a complicated relationship with Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani’s politics feels unusual compared to India’s current climate. He unapologetically foregrounds Muslim identity at a time when doing so in India invites scrutiny.

What does NCLAT order mean for data-sharing ban, penalty imposed by CCI on Meta & WhatsApp

On 4 November 2025, NCLAT bench, comprising Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan and Member Arun Baroka, noted that WhatsApp and Meta are distinct legal entities.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.