New Delhi |ย The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the decks for postgraduate medical counselling and admissions, including the Other Backward Classes (OBC) and economically weaker sections (EWS) reservations for the current academic year, 2021-22. A bench headed by Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and A.S. Bopanna upheld the constitutional validity of 27 per cent reservation for OBC […]
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IIT-K convocation to be held in bio-bubble, PM Modi will be chief guest
Kanpur (UP) |ย IIT Kanpur (IIT-K) has created a bio-bubble for its students, faculty and staff members to ward off Covid contamination during the convocation ceremony on December 28. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the event as the chief guest. While all the attendees from IIT-K will undergo RT-PCR tests on Monday, all of them […]
Rs 2.15 crore package for IIT Roorkee student
New Delhi |ย A student of IIT (Roorkee) has bagged Rs 2.15 crore package per annum offer from a multinational firm in the placement drive. Three students of the institute have bagged annual cost offer of Rs 1.30 crore to Rs 1.8 crore from domestic companies. Around 1,243 students have bagged job offers in the placement […]
IIT-Kanpur gets 49 offers above Rs 1 crore
Kanpur (UP) |ย In the ongoing campus placement season in the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT Kanpur), a total of 49 offers above Rs 1 crore were received in the first eight days. “In the first eight days, the institute received 47 international offers. This is a big jump of 150 per cent over last year […]
IIT Delhi Students Receive Record Number of Job Offers In Placement Drive 2021
New Delhi |ย A record number of over 1,250 jobs have been offered to IIT-Delhi students in the first two weeks of campus placements this year. The students have received job offers from several reputed multinational companies of which Microsoft has provided 60 job offers. Among the firms that hired the students are Microsoft, HCL Tech, […]
IITKanpur alumni come on board to support institute’s School of Medical Research and Technology
Kanpur |ย The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur on Thursday announced the signing of MoUs with two of its distinguished Alumni Dr Dev Joneja and Hemant Jalan to support the establishment of the School of Medical Research and Technology (SMRT) at IIT Kanpur. Dr Dev Joneja and his wife Terri Musson donated an amount of US$2.5 […]
IIT-D develops kit that tests Omicron in 90 minutes
New Delhi |ย Researchers at IIT Delhi’s Kusuma School of Biological Sciences have developed an RT-PCR based assay for the specific detection of the Omicron (B.1.1.529.1) variant of SARS-CoV-2. The assay is based on detecting specific mutations, which are present in the Omicron variant and absent in other currently circulating variants of SARS-CoV-2. Primer sets targeting […]
IIT-K develops device to detect soil health in 90 seconds
Kanpur |ย The Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K) has developed a portable soil testing device that can detect soil health in just 90 seconds through an embedded mobile application. The technology titled Portable Soil Testing Device or BhuParikshak will assist individual farmers for obtaining soil health parameters of agricultural fields with recommended dose of fertilisers. The […]
Sonia slams govt in LS over ‘regressive’ question paper, seeks apology from CBSE
New Delhi |ย The Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday slammed the government over the CBSE Class 10 English question paper and described it as ‘extremely poor’ standards of education and testing. Raising this issue during the ‘Zero Hour’, she said that a ‘shockingly regressive passage’ on the women published in the Class 10 CBSE Examination […]
NEET PG: Health Ministry requests SC to expedite matter, medicos continue stir
New Delhi |ย The Union Health Ministry has requested the Supreme Court for early listing and hearing of the matter on the EWS quota so that counselling for the NEET PG could start, as the resident doctors’ strike protesting against the delay entered its 11th day on Tuesday. The NEET PG counselling will not start until […]