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Thursday, April 25, 2024
TopicIIT Delhi

Topic: IIT Delhi

What’s happening in Chintels collapse case — demolition likely, families want ‘a home for a home’

Two women died last February when a portion of a tower in Gurugram's Chintels Paradiso housing complex came crashing down. CBI has taken over & booked Ashok Solomon of Chintels group.

After red tape, Covid hit funding, IISc & 2 IITs to get central aid for two more years

Institutes had complained that flow of funds under Institutions of Eminence (IoE) scheme was patchy from 2019 to 2021. Pending portion of aid is for infrastructural development.

Armed with science & tech solutions, govt & IIT-Delhi come together to fight air pollution

Office of Principal Scientific Advisor and IIT are working with tech & industry partners to monitor the city's AQI. Their pilot project will run in Delhi NCR from Nov '22 to Feb '23.

Mining courses in Tanzania, energy systems in Nepal — IITs see interest in offshore campuses

Offshore campuses are part of the central government’s plan to ‘internationalise’ education as discussed in the new National Education Policy 2020.

SOS wand for trekkers & robot for flood aid — teen ‘change-makers’ make waves at IIT bootcamp

SOS wand for trekkers & robot for flood aid — teen ‘change-makers’ make waves at IIT bootcamp

Where do founders of 100 Indian unicorns come from? IIT Delhi tops list, IIMs nurtured many too

More than 50% of founders of start-ups worth over $1 billion are IIT graduates. IIT Delhi conducive to start-ups thanks to networking & academic support, says alumni alumni association ex-chief.

Nearly 1,000 drones by IIT-Delhi startup to feature during Beating Retreat ceremony

Defence ministry officials claimed that India will be the 4th country to put up an indigenously designed and conceptualised drone show of this size after China, Russia & US.

IIT Delhi gets record 1,250 job offers this year, average salaries up by 20%

There has been a 45 per cent increase in the number of job offers to graduates, as compared to last year. 

IIT Delhi beats UC Berkeley & University of Chicago in Times employability rankings, ranks 27th

The other institutes that made it to the top 100 are IISc, Bengaluru and IIT Bombay. IIT Delhi & Bombay also ranked among the top 150 in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings.

US-based software entrepreneur Anant Yardi donates $10 million to alma mater IIT Delhi

IIT Delhi director Ramagopal Rao says donation is meant for AI school established last year, calls it a 'generous gift' that'll help build better solutions.

On Camera

BJP has a problem of plenty in Phase 2. It can only go down from that

BJP’s fate in the second phase of 2024 Lok Sabha election will be decided in Karnataka, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra, where it performed very well in 2019 but faces a stiff competition now.

Kotak Mahindra Bank shares drop 10% after RBI bans it from taking new customers via digital channels

The private lender's shares tumbled to be top Nifty 50 loser after India's central bank barred it from taking on new customers through online and mobile banking channels.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.