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IITs should encourage students to do research: Kakodkar


Every student should have a choice of concurrent education in all learning domains, said eminent nuc...

President rues no Indian varsity in world`s top 200


Welcoming IIT-Kharagpur`s `Vision 2020` - to be in top 20 global education institutes by the year 20...

PM `pained` by high cut-offs in admissions


PM Manmohan Singh expressed dissatisfaction over the high cut-offs in admissions to centres of highe...

Sibal to meet IIT directors tomorrow


HRD Minister Kapil Sibal will meet IIT directors tomorrow to resolve the common entrance exam row as...

Common test: HRD Ministry to write to jt admission IIT boards


Unfazed by the resistance from the IIT faculty as well as the alumni, government would soon write to...

Sibal hands a bonanza to coaching centres


The new exam model laid out by the HRD Ministry led by Kapil Sibal is leading to more stress.

Kapil Sibal rules out rollback of common IIT test


Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal virtually ruled out going back on the controversial ...

‘Engg entrance test be conducted twice a year’


Ahead of the crucial joint council meeting of IITs and NITs, Super-30 founder Anand Kumar has sugges...

‘Higher percentage of OBC students in IIMs, IITs’


The percentage of OBC students among new entrants in IIMs, IITs and Central universities has increas...

IITs to post answer keys of entrance exam on web


IITs have decided to post on websites the answer keys of the JEE 2012 as well as the answer copies o...

Rajya Sabha passes to key education bills


The RS on Monday passed two key bills to enable students of Indian Institutes of Science Education a...

7-day vacation for IITs in Kashmir due to snowfall


J&K government ordered a week-long vacation for Industrial Training Institutes in Kashmir Valley an...

`Govt ready to give more autonomy to IIMs, IITs`


Kapil Sibal is holding talks with all premier institutes on the autonomy issue, Union Minister of St...

35% faculty posts in IITs lying vacant: Govt


About 35 percent of teachers` posts are currently lying vacant in 15 IITs and efforts are on to look...

No Indian university makes it to world`s top 200?


Not a single Indian university - not even the celebrated IITs and IIMs - figure in the latest rank...

Poor quality of students entering IITs: Murthy


Infosys chairman emeritus NR Narayana Murthy has voiced his displeasure over the quality of enginee...

From Punjab to Bihar to IIT, three `super` stories


One is the son of a grocer, one`s father sells chole-kulche from a cycle cart and the third`s runs a...

IITs get thumbs up from Microsoft`s Steve Ballmer


Prestigious IITs on Thursday got a thumbs up from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who hailed contributio...

Thrust in IITs was not on research, but things changing: Sibal


Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said so far the thrust in IITs had not been on research, but things ...

Sibal backs Ramesh on IIT-IIM faculty remarks


Jairam Ramesh had said the IITs and IIMs didn`t have world class faculty.

Govt panel suggests free research at PhD level in IITs


The Kakodkar committee, set up to suggest broad areas of reforms in IITs and bring research to the...

IITs to offer medical courses: Sibal


IITs could also recruit foreign nationals as faculty and students from abroad at the PG level.

Help individuals in marketing ideas: Prez to IITs


Exhorting premier technical institutes to support new ideas and discoveries that could be the solu...

Kapil Sibal allays fears of faculty exodus from IITs


HRD Minister Kapil Sibal on Friday sought to dispel fears about IIT faculties joining foreign instit...

Law Ministry not keen on HRD`s plan for MBBS course in IITs


A proposal to allow IITs to start courses in medicine will be delayed with the Law Ministry sending ...

IITs prepare remedial measures for errors in JEE


In the wake of several errors in the IIT-JEE papers this year, the elite institutes today devised m...

IITs, IIMs, CUs, Pvt Institutes hail foreign varsity bill


Higher educational institutions, including IITs and IIMs, on Tuesday hailed the government`s go ahea...

IITs set up committee for incentive scheme to faculty


The IITs have set up a committee to evolve a performance-related incentive scheme (PRIS) to encour...

Larger the IITs, larger the funds: Sibal


IITs having large number of students can now get higher amount of non-plan grants from the governm...

Anil Kakodkar to head panel for reforms in IITs


To bring research to the forefront in the IITs and increase its role in national development proje...

Studying at IIMs, IITs to get costlier with fee revision


The austerity measures taken by the govt could lead to increase in tuition fee, withdrawal of hostel...

Austerity measures may hit students hard


The austerity measures taken by the government could lead to increase in tuition fee, withdrawal of...

‘SC, ST students merit special treatment in IITs, IIMs’


Supreme Court on Wednesday said the government has a constitutional duty to provide special care to ...

Less campus recruitment at IITs, IIMs this year: Govt


The number of students recruited by Multi National Companies (MNCs) through campus selection has gon...

IITs, IIMs may open campuses abroad


The govt on Tuesday indicated that it may allow the IITs and IIMs to open campuses in foreign countr...