The Maharashtra government had announced last year there would be ceiling on the number of attempts one can make for clearing Maharashtra Health and Technology Common Entrance Examination ( MHTCET).It had also proposed a cap on the age of aspirants a ..

District administration has sought help of the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee for restoration work of Satkhanda and Hussainabad Clock Tower. Prof NM Bhandari, of IIT Roorkee's structural engineering division would come to Lucknow on Febr ..

The minutes of meetings for the preparations of IIT Joint Entrance Examination cannot be provided under the Right to Information Act as their disclosure could result in "breakdown" of the examination system, the Central Information Commissi ..

Family members of a Computer Science student of IIT Roorkee who fell to his death from a multi-storey hostel building on Sunday have alleged a caste angle to the incident even though prima facie it appears he committed suicide in a disturbed mental s ..

Students studying at Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) will not feel homesick any more.To give students a homely atmosphere, the institute is designing their two new hostels with separate residential blocks.Each block will be shared by si ..

The family of a Dalit student of IIT-Roorkee, who had allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of his hostel, has alleged that some other students had made "casteist" remarks against him. Manish Kumar, a resident of Muzaf ..

The chief proctor's office investigating the pornographic MMS episode at Jawaharlal Nehru University questioned more students on Tuesday. The questioning took place even as the university administration went into overdrive, calling meetings of st ..

The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay could soon have a second address — in New York.The New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) has invited IIT-B to submit a proposal to set up a campus in the Big Apple for applied science  ..

National Fire Service College (NFSC) will restart the an expanded bachelor of engineering course from 2013-14 academic year. The course was shut down five years ago for want of proper infrastructural facilities with the college.It used to be of three ..

The NIT, previously known as the Bihar College of Engineering (BCE), on Sunday held its Alumni Meet in which the students who passed out half a century ago in 1961, were felicitated.Chief minister Nitish Kumar, who also studied in this institution, w ..

A shooting at a university fraternity party in Ohio left one student dead and 11 others wounded, officials said.Coroners identified the dead victim as 25-year-old Youngstown State University senior Jamail Johnson and local media said the shooting occ ..

Three Punjab University students sitting on indefinite hunger strike had to be shifted to Government Multi-specialty Hospital, Sector 16, after their condition deteriorated on Sunday.There was high drama at PU when dean student welfare Naval Kishore  ..

One of the two tuskers that have terrorised Kharagpur for the last two days entered IIT-Kharagpur on Sunday evening, triggering panic and a lockdown the institute has never seen in its history.All the lights were switched off and the campus was shut  ..

In a round table conference hosted by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, the alumni and directors of the five IITs have decided to address the urgent need to take action against the challenge of climate change.Even as all the IITs are  ..

Pavan and Rakesh Thata just added another laurel to their business plan — they stood second in Eureka, Asia’s largest B-plan writing competition, organised by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) as part of its Entrepreneursh ..

An official of the education department was allegedly shot dead near his residence in the capital by unidentified bike-borne assailants in south Delhi. The incident was reported from Khanpur at around 10.30pm when the victim was reportedly returning  ..

Frequent changes in the age criteria in school admissions for the coming session by the education department has now come under the scanner of Punjab and Haryana High Court.Acting on a writ petition filed by some children seeking directions from Chan ..

Former Indian Space Research Organization chairman Padma Vibhushan G Madhavan Nair has pleaded for increased remuneration to scientists and researchers if the zeal for academics has to be maintained across the country.Nair made the plea while inaugur ..

Canada's world-famous Carleton University is set to sign memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with various Indian educational institutions during the visit of it president and vice-chancellor to India next week.Ottawa-based Carleton is the only un ..

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is one of the elite technical institutes in India. It is going to host an independently organized TED event, TEDxIITKgp on 6th February, 2011. TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to “ideas worth sp ..