The iconic Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has received an overwhelming number of applicants for its maiden four-year undergraduate programme to be rolled out this August, showing an hitherto unseen interest in studying science.The 101-year-old in ..

IIT Delhi professor SK Dubey's attempt to become a whistleblower in the corruption case in the Supreme Court is proving costly for him. First, the Supreme Court bench of Justices B Sudershan Reddy and SS Nijjar made adverse remarks against him an ..

The Shiv Nadar Foundation today said it will establish a university in Greater Noida to offer undergraduate, postgraduate and professional degrees across a number of disciplines.The Uttar Pradesh government has enacted the necessary legislation for t ..

Despite the government making adaptation and implementation of e-Suvidha in all universities in the state mandatory, only 10 universities in the state have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited  ..

Police on Tuesday arrested eight persons, including four out-sourced employees, and four engineering students for their involvement in an exam fraud. The B Tech students of second and third year with the connivance of the employees swapped their answ ..

Teachers of Delhi University are a dejected lot. The honours courses have always been the USP of DU, but the university is hell bent on demolishing these courses. They have cited various discrepancies in the half-baked courses passed by the standing  ..

In this age of stiff competition among higher education institutions, some engineering colleges and deemed universities in the state are using innovative methods to attract students by sending them SMS and advertising with email service providers inf ..

CBI has made Damodar Acharya, director of IIT, Kharagpur, as an accused in the scam involving the All India Council for Technical Education. Acharya was the chairperson of AICTE when approval to many existing technical institutions was granted.In its ..

IIT Madras has embroiled itself in controversy with gold coins distributed to 1,500 of its employees from it Corpus fund as golden jubilee souvenirs.A faculty member pointed out that at the 39th meeting of the IIT Council held in January 2009 where t ..

While experts across the country are busy churning out ways to reduce stress among students, students from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Bombay have come up with a unique idea of using humour to beat stress.Engineering students Ritika Goya ..

From now onwards, there will be two teachers from associated degree colleges on Lucknow University's board of studies. The order already issued by the university is only applicable in the science, commerce and education faculties.Welcoming the mo ..

From a simple clothes drying machine and an aloe vera extractor to a friction-based page-turning machine and a single-seed sower - there was something for every one at this year's open house show at IIT Delhi . Students from all disciplines showc ..

A vehicle that looks like a car, runs at 50 km per hour, but does not require petrol or diesel. Seven students from IIT-Bombay, have developed a three-wheeled vehicle that runs on ‘human power’ derived by pedalling in a recumbent position ..

Six teams from different engineering colleges of India were awarded in a competition organised by international space agency NASA, for designing a lunar vehicle for future expeditions to the moon. The competition - Great Moonbuggy Race competition ch ..

Taking former President APJ Abdul Kalam Azad's sermon of being "job creators and not job seekers" to heart, a few IIT alumni have joined hands to create job opportunities for the rural poor in Gumla.Pan-IIT Alumni, Reach for India, an o ..

Students and parents in the state are voicing their protest over the admission process into engineering colleges in the state through All-India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE).Three institutions in the state, Nirma University, Pandit Deenday ..

9am to 3pm in a college classroom, staring at theorems on the blackboard. 5pm to 8pm in a tutorial breaking his head over some complex problem combining mechanical and electrical concepts. The rest of the time stuck in a traffic jam commuting between ..

The pilot run of the online All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination (AIEEE) has received a lukewarm response with only 4,904 students registering themselves for the Net version while over 11 lakh aspirants will still be going for the  ..

Karnataka High Court on Tuesday admitted a writ petition filed by R L Jalappa Institute of Technology requesting the court to direct the fee regulatory committee to provide them the fee structure determined by the committee headed by Justice Padmaraj ..

A few hours of part-time work in the morning, CAT coaching or whatever floats your boat, say cricket, before making it in time for the classroom. If this is what GenY wants, colleges are game for it as well. The increasing popularity of second-shift  ..