Articles in IIT Ropar
IIT Roorkee (IITR) has re-introduced the e-rickshaw inside the campus from today, February 15, 2016. Their services were suspended some four months ago because most e-rickshaw drivers were found to be plying without proper documents and licenses. IITR authorities did not want to be caught on the wrong side of the law and hence terminated […]
India being the largest democratic nation in the world, witnesses about 80 crore citizens exercising their right of vote on the day of elections. However, these 80 crore people make up for only 60% of the eligible voting population in the nation. Adding to this distressing fact, is that, more than 18 crore people deemed […]
List the number of things you can do with your used answer sheet. IIT Guwahati can give you ten and that too, palpable worthwhile stuff. To name a few, classy envelopes and gorgeous writing pads. Dr Ramgopal Uppaluri who is the Professor-in-Charge of Green Office at IIT Guwahati is the brain behind IIT Guwahati’s rather […]
The queen of crime fiction once wrote: “Everybody said, “Follow your heart”. I did, it got broken.” This might hold true for many, but not in Ashutosh Agarwal’s case. Ashutosh, a young 21 year old, engineering student of IIT Patna, who loves Agatha Christie, bagged an annual salary package of Rs. 1.8 crores, which is, […]
Cognitive science, a term that brings a blank and perplexed look on a lot of people, in simple terms, is the study of mental processes. It is, therefore, a branch of science that is trying to unravel the mysteries of the black box, commonly known as the ‘brain’. Cognitive Science is one of the emerging […]
Clicked by Sarfaraz Jelil: A band performing at Alcheringa 2016, IIT Guwahati January 28, 2016 marked the beginning of Alcheringa Gamescape, the four-day-long annual cultural fest hosted by IIT Guwahati. It is eagerly anticipated and widely loved by the students of IIT G (Guwahati) and all other colleges in the country, especially that of the […]
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 […]