Rajya Sabha passes to key education bills

Last Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012, 18:22

The RS on Monday passed two key bills to enable students of Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research get their degrees and give 8 new IITs their status.

7-day vacation for IITs in Kashmir due to snowfall

Last Updated: Monday, January 16, 2012, 18:43

J&K government ordered a week-long vacation for Industrial Training Institutes in Kashmir Valley and Jammu region due toheavy snowfall.

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

Last Updated: Friday, January 6, 2012, 18:31

Kapil Sibal is holding talks with all premier institutes on the autonomy issue, Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development said.

35% faculty posts in IITs lying vacant: Govt

Last Updated: Friday, December 2, 2011, 22:09

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

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

Last Updated: Thursday, October 6, 2011, 19:13

Not a single Indian university - not even the celebrated IITs and IIMs - figure in the latest ranking of the world`s top 200 universities.

Poor quality of students entering IITs: Murthy

Last Updated: Monday, October 3, 2011, 18:22

Infosys chairman emeritus NR Narayana Murthy has voiced his displeasure over the quality of engineers that pass out of the IITs.

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

Last Updated: Sunday, May 29, 2011, 14:08

One is the son of a grocer, one`s father sells chole-kulche from a cycle cart and the third`s runs a mobile repair shop - but all three have risen from these humble surroundings to crack the IIT entrance exam.

IITs get thumbs up from Microsoft`s Steve Ballmer

Last Updated: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 22:17

Prestigious IITs on Thursday got a thumbs up from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer who hailed contributions of the students of these institutes and wanted to see some of the "finest and brightest" Indian minds with him at his office.

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

Last Updated: Wednesday, May 25, 2011, 23:18

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

Sibal backs Ramesh on IIT-IIM faculty remarks

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 16:28

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

Govt panel suggests free research at PhD level in IITs

Last Updated: Thursday, May 12, 2011, 23:42

The Kakodkar committee, set up to suggest broad areas of reforms in IITs and bring research to the forefront in these elite institutes, is believed to have suggested free research and studies at the PhD level.