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Topic: IIT Bombay

Dalit student’s death at IIT-B ignites caste discrimination row. ‘First-yrs face most harassment’

Darshan Solanki's father says 18-yr-old had confided in relatives about students from ‘lower’ castes being harassed. Student group claims ‘institutional murder’, IIT-B denies charge.

IIT Bombay team is creating a model to study evolution of glacial lakes, predict breaking point

Using the available meteorological data the researchers were able to estimate how the lake will grow and arrive at a conclusion that the lake will reach its maximum length by 2030. 

After protests, IIT Delhi partially rolls back 115% fee hike. MTech students say it’s not enough

PhD scholars also faced fee hike before partial rollback was announced Friday. Students says they've already paid increased fees and no refund has been announced.

How IIT Bombay managed to award record 400+ PhDs in a single year

Number of students pursuing doctoral degrees at IIT Bombay almost doubled over past 10 years, from 1,895 in 2011-12 to 3,534 in 2020-21, says annual director's report released Saturday.

Who is Parag Agrawal, IIT-Bombay & Stanford graduate taking over as Twitter CEO

Agrawal, the youngest person to run a company in the S&P 500, is still a relative unknown who has spent no time in the limelight at the controversial social media company.

Allot seat to Dalit boy who couldn’t pay fee due to tech error: SC asks IIT Bombay

SC invokes Article 142 of the Constitution, says it would be 'great travesty of justice' if boy, Prince Jaibir Singh, is denied admission for non-payment despite having tried.

IIT-Bombay professor comes up with new tool for Covid testing. It cuts time and cost

Tapestry is a single-round quantitative pooling algorithm used with the RT-PCR test. The Drugs Controller General of India cleared it for commercial use this week.

Efforts underway to ensure more Indian institutions scale global excellence, says PM Modi

Prime Minister Modi also congratulated institutions like IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IISc Bengaluru for appearing in the top-200 positions in QS World University Rankings 2022.

IISc world’s top research university in QS World Rankings, is 1st Indian varsity to score a 100

Overall, IISc has been ranked third best institution in India, with IIT Bombay and Delhi ranking first & second, respectively.

How two IIT-Bombay professors modelled Covid spread by studying coughs

IIT-Bombay professors Rajneesh Bhardwaj & Amit Agrawal used their knowledge in thermal and fluid engineering to study spread of cough clouds.

On Camera

Defence, tech, education—Modi’s visit will boost India-UK ties

Given the immediate challenges on India’s borders, cooperation in the defence sector with partners such as the UK has achieved greater importance.

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.