A section of Auroville residents had protested the MoU signing 100 acres of Auroville to IIT-Madras saying it would displace Annapurna Farm, the community’s central granary.
IIT Kharagpur’s director reached out to boy’s father soon after Supreme Court issued notice on student’s petition challenging the denial of his transfer, ThePrint has learnt.
Calls were made on social media last week to scrap humanities & social sciences depts in IITs after circulation of a controversial flyer for a workshop on ‘South Asian Capitalism(s)’.
Auroville Governing Board signed MoU with IIT Madras 8 July to establish a campus focussed on sustainability & aimed at achieving global excellence in sustainable technologies.
IIT-Madras has put out a call for Rs 200 crore venture capital fund to support start-ups incubated at the institute, whether it's space-tech or medtech.
RTI data accessed & reviewed by ThePrint shows 5 IITs set up in 2015-16 in Palakkad, Bhilai, Jammu, Dharwad & Tirupati face challenges even as Centre plans administrative, academic expansion.
Revealing that half of 23 IITs saw average drop of 10 percentage points in placements, parliamentary panel has urged dept of higher education to take measures to enhance employability.
Several IITs acknowledge the strong rebound in recruitments this yr with more participation by PSUs as well in the initial phase. However, students say median salaries are largely stagnant.
IIT Kharagpur teachers’ association wrote to education ministry in September levelling allegations of ‘nepotism’ against director VK Tiwari. In turn, they were served show-cause notices.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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