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Tuesday, July 22, 2025
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Topic: IIT

Panel scraps shortlist for top colleges of India, will assess all 114 applications again

Shortlist dropped as changed screening criteria was not being seen as ‘fair’ and prominent institutes were left out.

Indian engineers are about to become even more employable abroad

Govt to give accreditation to 1,000 programmes at Indian institutions. Under 'Washington Accord', this will improve graduates’ chances of foreign placement.

IISc Bengaluru and IITs are India’s top institutes for the third year running

Not many changes in govt’s National Institutional Ranking Framework list, Delhi’s AIIMS and Bengaluru's NLSIU are No.1 in new medical and law categories.

As Trump tightens H-1B visa norms, how will all the Modi-loving IIT-ians cope now?

These IIT & IIM degree holders settled in the US often support aggressive Hindutva, hate Muslims, support Trump & Modi, and lord over other Indians in the US.

Former CEC N. Gopalaswami to head committee to choose India’s 20 ‘Institutes of Eminence’

Also on board- Harvard’s Prof Tarun Khanna, Houston Univ’s Renu Khator and former IIM Lucknow Director Pritam Singh.

India has 42 universities in Asia rankings but widening gender gap is a matter of concern

IIT-Kanpur has the worst female-male ratio at 14:86, says report; HRD ministry asked IITs to create 550 extra seats exclusively for women.

IITs may have to sign agreements with govt & become ‘accountable’ to get funds

The proposed move faced reservations from some IITs in the initial rounds of discussions; Centre gives about Rs 500 cr per year to the...

The IIT graduate and RSS man who is now in the middle of Punjab’s latest financial fraud

Rajneesh Arora belongs to a family of teachers in Amritsar with close links to the RSS. He himself rose to state vice-president of the Sangh.

IIT-Bombay jumps into top 10 of BRICS university rankings, IISC Bangalore falls four spots

QS rankings gives greater weight to universities with focus on hard-sciences, Chinese universities emerge on top again.

Modi govt’s 2022 agenda: 33 per cent of IIT students must be women

Department of Science and Technology to hold camps at district level to coach 50,000 senior secondary girls for IIT JEE, as well as convince...

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

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.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

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.