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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: IIT Bombay

‘Vegetarians only’ posters in IIT Bombay hostel sparks debate on choice, purity and casteism

Student group APPSC points out that the attempt to create a separate space for eating vegetarian food was to reinforce the superiority of Brahmins.

Our take on Manipur, Uniform Civil Code, Modi’s US visit—in 50 words

ThePrint view on the most important issues this week.

IIT Bombay makes it to world’s top 150 universities in QS rankings, 2nd Indian institute ever to do so

While IIT-B jumped 23 positions from last yr to rank 149 this yr, IISc, which had ranked 147 in 2016 list & 155 last yr, slipped to 255th spot in Quacquarelli Symonds World Rankings 2024.

50 yrs after enrolling at IIT Bombay, Nandan Nilekani donates Rs 315 cr to institute

Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of Infosys & founding chairman of UIDAI, studied electrical engineering at IIT Bombay. Donation will fund research in fields including AI, green energy.

Weeping in bathroom, torn poster, quota jibe—IIT Ambedkar study circles battle to be & belong

Organisations like Ambedkar Periyar Study Circle at IITs help marginalised students cope with systemic caste discrimination. They are the strongest pillar of support for students who are regularly harassed and even pushed into suicide.

‘Suicide note’ found in IIT Bombay student Darshan Solanki’s room indicates ‘caste-based harassment’

Note recovered by SIT probing 1st year student's death last month 'names a batchmate'. Initially, 'poor academic performance' was cited as reason for Solanki's 'death by suicide'.

‘To create a space for ourselves’: Art, identity & hope at IIT Bombay’s first queer fest

The festival was organised on campus over Friday, Saturday and Sunday by the institute’s queer resource group, Saathi, and had ‘40-50 people present at every programme’.

IIT-Delhi among top 50 world institutions for engineering in QS Rankings, DU has most ranked entries

Other IITs to make the list are Kanpur, Kharagpur, & Madras. Overall, 66 Indian universities cumulatively achieved 355 entries of which 44 courses featured in top 100.

Quiz on gender, talks on same-sex marriage & adoption rights: IIT-B to hold its 1st queer fest this weekend

Following in footsteps of its Delhi & Chennai counterparts, IIT-Bombay to organise 'Rangavali', an effort to make campus 'a safe space for students of all genders & sexual identities'.

On Camera

Pakistani accomplices, shootouts, sealed chargesheet—how the 7/11 blasts case fell apart

After 19 years, the Bombay High Court finally held what governments and intelligence services have long known: The men sentenced for their role in the bombings had nothing to do with it.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Indian firm sets up titanium, superalloy plants to meet global need. Safran, Dassault, BAE line up

PTC Industries is investing Rs 1,000 cr in 4 manufacturing plants in UP, has already started supplying titanium parts to BAE Systems for its M-777 howitzers that India also uses.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.