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On the cards at IITs: Reforms in MTech & PhD programmes, making JEE-Advanced ‘more student friendly’

IIT Kanpur to outline roadmap to transition JEE Advanced to adaptive testing, which dynamically adjusts question difficulty to better assess student skills while reducing stress.

‘Tremendous raw talent’: IITs see opportunity in Trump’s H-1B curbs

Faculty and students say the country’s brightest engineers no longer see US jobs as essential for success.

In last 3 decades, Ganga dried up at highest rate in 1,000 yrs. ‘It’s not just climate change’

Through streamflow reconstructions for 1,300 yrs using instrumental data & hydrological modelling, IIT Gandhinagar study shows Ganga 'drying from 1991-2020 is unmatched in past millennium'.

‘Will Indian job market absorb us?’ Mood at IIT Delhi after Trump H-1B visa order

Hours after President Trump ordered a hike in the H-1B visa fee to $100,000, a wave of anxiety swept across the IIT Delhi campus.

QS Rankings: IIT-Madras breaks into top 200, but Indian institutes behind in foreign student intake

6 of India’s 11 Institutions of Eminence (IoEs), both public & private, improved positions this year, while 8 new Indian universities debuted on QS World University Rankings 2026.

IITs, IISc roll out semiconductor courses. Army of engineers needed for India’s chip dream

To meet India’s goal of becoming a semiconductor powerhouse, IITs and IISc are rejigging curricula, launching short courses, and hosting online classes. Focus is on fabrication, not just design.

JEE Advanced 2025 results: IIT cutoffs drop to three-year low

While IIT Kanpur officials declined to comment on reasons behind this year’s drop, teachers & experts attributed decrease to perceived difficulty of JEE Advanced 2025.

IIT-Gandhinagar students slam Right-wing swipes at humanities dept—’attack on integrity of our work’

In several posts going viral on X, accounts have alleged that the department has been trying to promote 'Islamisation' and 'minority practices' on the campus.

56% professor positions at IITs, IIMs, NITs, IISERs lying vacant, says parliamentary panel report

Report on higher education institutions also highlights substantial number of unfilled reserved faculty positions in central universities. 1,521 of 3,652 posts for OBCs remain vacant.

Haryana govt says Centre has approved plans for state’s 1st IIT, MPs lobby for their constituencies

BJP MP Naveen Jindal was the first to raise a demand for an IIT in his parliamentary constituency, Kurukshetra, during Zero Hour in the Lok Sabha last week.

On Camera

Pig politicisation isn’t unique to Delhi’s Tri Nagar. It’s a worldwide anti-Muslim strategy

The funniest part about pig politicisation is that it is based on ignorance. Hindus and Christians can eat all the pork they want and keep pigs as pets—that does not bother Muslims.

India bond yields rise as RBI moves to drain liquidity, lift overnight rates

New Delhi: India’s sovereign bond yields rose after the central bank announced its first step this year to drain cash from the banking system,...

Army promotes Col Purohit, acquitted in 2008 Malegaon blast case, to Brigadier; to not retire yet

This means he will serve Indian Army for a minimum of another 2 years as Brigadier, unless he picks up the next rank of Major General.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.