‘Avishkar Hyperloop’ project team is in initial stages of demonstrating a hyperloop rail model that can ease inter-city travel in India in future and cost a fraction of an air ticket.
Aghalayam, who taught at IIT-Madras for 25 years, has been appointed director in-charge of its Zanzibar-Tanzania campus as well as dean of its School of Science and Engineering.
Institute's 1st international campus to open in Tanzania in October. It will have separate entrance test with 70 seats on offer. Programmes will be open to students of all nationalities.
V Kamakoti says IIT-M has identified areas in which new-age courses will aid India's development. He also speaks about recent spate of suicides in IITs & how they're helping students cope.
Second-year student from Maharashtra found hanging in campus as suicide continues to plague India's top institutes; Parliament was informed in March that 33 IIT learners had taken their lives since 2018.
In a letter to IIT-M director, Bhavesh Jain has sought a probe into his brother Sachin Kumar’s suicide, saying he had been under mental duress but was still subjected to 'inhuman behaviour'.
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.
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.
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