Articles in IIT Gandhinagar
Students at IIT Guwahati were shocked as well as amused to see a question on Sonam Gupta Bewafa Hai, staring at them from their exam paper. Okay, Sonam Bewafa has had an iconic run post the demonetisation in the country but to find her in an Electronics and Electrical paper was quite something else. Third […]
Students across 23 IITs (Indian Institutes of Technology) have come together to formalise an Inter IIT Tech Meet. For the last four years, IITians were organising the Inter IIT Tech Meet unofficially by clubbing it with cultural festivals. IIT Madras and IIT Kharagpur (Kgp) have collectively started an online survey, asking all IITians to share […]
The organising institute for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) – the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R) – released mock tests for each of the 23 branches of the exam. Candidates can visit the official portal to take the test. Though the website asks for ‘login ID and password’, candidates can just click ‘Sign […]
Photo:The Fifth Estate Research is often just a long series of never ending experiments. What starts off as ‘I am done’ after every experiment eventually becomes ‘maybe after this one, I will be done?’ And finally, at the end when you write a 300-page thesis, it’s just a paper, and not a book, let alone a bestseller. […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R), the organising institute for GATE 2017 (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) released the examination schedule on the official GATE portal. The test will be conducted on February 4, 5, 11, and 12, 2017; i.e. first and second weekend of that month. GATE 2017 examination schedule February 4, 2017 (Saturday): Session 1 – […]
According to recently published reports, IIT Directors are opposed to the idea of non-resident students. However, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Council said otherwise, in a meeting with the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), on August 23, 2016. PaGaLGuY spoke to IITians, to know what they have to say about it. Mohit Goel, an alumnus […]
Students from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) are developing a satellite that will predict earthquakes from space. Akshay Gulati, Project head, started developing IITMSAT way back in 2009, while he was pursuing a five-year integrated M Tech from IIT-M. Gulati said, “IITMSAT took a long time to finish, just some minor fixes are […]
Recently, on September 22, 2016, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment released Rs 1,08,95,000 for the construction of a hostel for OBC students at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore (IIT-I). Some published sources speculated that IIT-I will now have a reservation system in hostels as well. PaGaLGuY spoke to Prof Nirmala Menon, Faculty […]
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) is about 3.5 kilometres away from Gole Bazar, which has been a hotbed for communal tensions over the past week. This has led to an acute short-supply of essential food items such as milk, curd, vegetables, and bread to the mess in IIT-Kgp. “The police isn’t allowing […]
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-M) launched the official portal for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2017. IIT-M, the organising institute for JEE Advanced 2017, released the list of important dates, eligibility criteria, academic programmes, etc on the portal. Datesheet for JEE 2017 April 2, 2017 – JEE Main exam April 27, 2017 – […]