Articles in IIT Indore
It’s the time of the year when most coaching institutes in Hyderabad schedule entrance tests to admit new batches of IIT aspirants. With admission tests lined up from today onwards, students can enrol themselves for academic year 2016-17 in order to seek admissions in some of the premier engineering institutes across the country. The admission […]
A DeTect device installed to check pipeline health An IIT Madras graduate, Tarun Mishra, along with his mentor, Dr. Krishnan Balasubramanian, has manufactured a device which can detect pipeline defects and damages. Tarun, the brain behind the ‘DeTect’ sensor, gave up on his admission to Yale University to develop a programme to prevent industrial disasters […]
The ‘India ki Khoj’ is a unique module at Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IITGn) which aims to introduce engineering students to an academic life beyond numbers and entrepreneurship. India ki Khoj is a ten day module through which students explore different facets of India’s diversity. Apart from students of IITGn, those from universities in […]
On January 10, 2016, a female student of IIT Madras (IITM) was sexually assaulted by a male security guard in the institute’s campus. An article published by the IITM students in The Fifth Estate, their in-house magazine has brought to light the lapses in recruitment of security hired by the institute. PaGaLGuY spoke to CISS […]
(This is a representational photo) Prathyusha Purushothamam (26), a second year MSc student at IIT Madras who was reported missing on January 18, 2016 has been located in Dehradun. After investigating Prathyusha’s mobile phone details the Kotturpuram Police station, Chennai, tracked her down in Dehradun. A police official of the Kotturpuram police station was then […]
The recent suicide incident at IIT Hyderabad had triggered a few questions. Does caste-based discrimination still exists? Does this mean that intolerance in India is indeed increasing? When I asked these questions to myself, I thought it is unfair to generalize the whole country on the basis of a few incidents. So, as a student […]
January with its origin deep rooted in the Greek mythology reminds us of the Greek God Janus, bestowed with the ability to look at the past and the future. Janus being the God of gates, bridges and doors, symbolises our ingrained habit of learning from the past, and the endemic hankering for deciding and knowing […]
It was night already and the deadline for the submission of the assignment was the very next day. The assignment was a big one and no one in the entire third year Computer Science and Engineering department had finished it yet. But there was not even an iota of anxiety in anyone’s mind. After all, […]
The Republic day celebrations at IIT Tirupati began at 8:00 AM on January 26 with a parade by the students. The Professor-in-charge hoisted the Tricolour, followed by the National Anthem. A group photo session with students and faculty was taken, after which the celebrations shifted to the classrooms. The faculty spoke a few words of […]
The 17th edition of IIT Madras’ Annual Technical Festival, Shaastra, started on January 23 with a plethora of professional shows, competitions and lectures where everybody has something for everybody. It is a prestigious techno-management fest of the nation’s sharp minds. Shaastra is the first ISO certified festival of its kind, whose vision is to promote […]