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Thursday, November 13, 2025
TopicIndian Institute of Technology

Topic: Indian Institute of Technology

After SC nudge, IIT Kharagpur reconsiders transfer plea of student with Borderline Personality Disorder

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.

No place for humanities at IITs? Faculty differs, stresses ‘vital role’ of discipline in shaping engineers

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)’.

What’s fuelling resistance to IIT Madras’ proposed ‘sustainability campus’ in Auroville township

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-M director has a piece of advice for investors—play the long game, deep-tech needs time

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.

Road to expansion clear, but 3rd-gen IITs are caught in loop of low enrolment & falling placements

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.

Older IITs hit hard as House panel flags ‘unusual decline’ in placements between 2021 & 2024

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.

IIT placement season kicks off with more recruiters & international offers versus previous cycle

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.

Show-cause to 86 faculty members: Why teachers at IIT Kharagpur are locked in tussle with admin

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.

IIT-ISM To host State Mining Index workshop in Delhi

The workshop will be part of the efforts made by the Ministry of Mines to develop the State Mining Index.

IIT researchers make leap with new technique for growing resilient, cost-efficient semiconductors

Researchers have developed ultra-wide bandgap compound semiconductors by incorporating gallium oxide with tin. Findings of the study have been published in multiple research papers.

On Camera

Operation Sarp Vinash — the forgotten 2003 campaign that changed India’s fight against terror

Lt Gen Hardev Singh Lidder’s book on Operation Sarp Vinash shows why the Indian Army’s 2003 campaign to clear terrorist strongholds in Rajouri-Poonch still matters today.

Inflation plunges to a 10-yr low of 0.25% in October. Here’s why

Record-low inflation gives RBI room to ease rates. Food prices have something to do with it.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.