1) Second phase of the Feed the Future-India Triangular Training Programme launched a) Second phase of the Feed the Future-India Triangular Training Programme was launched on 25 July 2016 in New Delhi by the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare and the U.S Agency for International Development (USAID). b) The...
Read MoreThe on-going unrest in Kashmir, has forced the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Srinagar to post-pone the beginning the current academic session to August 19, 2016.Their academic sessions were scheduled to begin from August 1, 2016. This delay has been attributed to the fragile situation in the state ever since...
Read MoreThe Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has declared opening and closing ranks for various undergraduate programs in Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). IIT Madras was ranked No.1 engineering college in India by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) according to a ranking survey conducted in April this year. Following are...
Read MoreThe much awaited CAT 2016 notification is finally out. Registration for the exam will begin on August 8 and end on September 22, 2016 at 5 pm. Admit Cards will be available from October 18 till the day of the exam. This year IIM Bangalore is conducting the exam and...
Read MoreThe Central Admission Process (CAP) Round 4 seat allocation list was scheduled to be released today, July 30, at 11am. Since then, the release time has been postponed twice to 2pm and 3pm consecutively. However, there is no link or PDF of the list on the official website as yet. At around 5pm, this...
Read MoreDivyansh Garg bagged a silver medal for the country in the final round of the International Physics Olympiad held in Zurich, Switzerland on 11 July 17, 2016. Divyansh, who is taking coaching at the coaching capital of India, Kota, was selected as part of a 5 member team to represent...
Read MoreIn a recent declaration, the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, has notified that the seat allotment result for Centralised Admission Process (CAP) Round 4 will be displayed by 2 pm today. The results for seat allotment of CAP Round 4 for first year engineering courses, were to be displayed...
Read MoreSOIL has a great focus on Leadership Skills and its impact on student development both inwards and outwards helping shape leaders of Consequence. Leadership at SOIL is taught and practiced through the following unique practices: Self-Leadership Module At SOIL every student goes through a module on Self Leadership, as part...
Read MoreBeing a student at the School of Inspired Leadership is a one-year journey inwards. It begins with the unique admission process that allows students to discover their gifts and talents. Supported by robust one to one mentoring program with corporate leaders and faculty, students discover their journey to work-readiness. Unmatched...
Read More1) East Bengal to honour Milkha Singh with Bharat Gaurav Award a) East Bengal will confer its Bharat Gaurav Award (Pride of India) upon the Legendary athlete Milkha Singh. b) He will be honoured with the prestigious award on the East Bengal Foundation Day (1 August 2016). Along with the...
Read MoreThe fresh option form filling for CAP (Central Admission Process) Round 4 link has been available on the DTE website way past the scheduled deadline. Candidates were instructed to fill and submit the form by July 28, 5pm (See image below). Shri Dayanand Meshram, Joint Director, DTE and in-charge of handling...
Read MorePraveen Manwar (39), a alumni of IIT Kharagpur has been sentenced to life imprisonment by the trial court in Multai on the charge of murder. According to the Betul Police report, he killed his wife Shilpa and two children when he set his car ablaze on March 3, 2015, because of fears of being HIV infected. A...
Read MoreThe deadline for filling fresh option forms for CAP (Centralised Admission Process) Round 4 was today, July 28, 5pm. Students were given 3 days since July 26 to submit fresh forms. However, it seems that the deadline has been extended without intimation. The official DTE (Directorate of Technical Education) website...
Read MoreI still remember the day I went paperless; it was three years ago and the reason was a device named ‘Kindle.’ It was a pretty new concept back then. Amazon had launched a limited-edition Kindle carved in graphite. It was an advanced version with fewer buttons since the alphanumeric keypad...
Read MoreKota’s Ankita Vijay (32) has won the ‘Grignard Research Award 2015 in Photocatalysis’ by International Agency for Standards and Ratings (IASR) for her research work. While the award was declared in 2015, Ankita only recently received the official certificate. She was also named among the World’s 500 Most Influential Chemists...
Read MoreIn a recent declaration by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), Maharashtra, around 60,000 engineering seats are up for grabs in the fourth round of the Centralised Admission Process (CAP) conducted by the Maharashtra State Common Entrance Test 2016 (MHT-CET) . DTE has allotted around 15% seats for admissions in...
Read MoreThe four top engineering colleges in Telangana have moved the Hyderabad High Court against the fee structure fixed by the Telangana Admission Fee Regulatory Committee (TAFRC) for the block period 2016 to 2019. The list includes Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology (CBIT), Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Sreenidhi Institute of Science...
Read MoreEver since news of JEE being conducted in foreign countries spread, the MHRD released notifications of the co-ordinating institute for the programme, and the fee structure for foreign students. It was also stated in a recent notification that IIT teams, headed by IIT Bombay (the co-ordinating institute) will be travelling...
Read More1) Kerala Tourism wins gold at PATA Awards a) Kerala Tourism has bagged a gold medal at the Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) awards for its trend-setting marketing initiatives that have boosted the tourism in the state. b) The two gold gongs for ‘Marketing Media’ are in the categories of...
Read MoreThe global phenomenon, ‘Pokemania’ has gripped India’s premier engineering institutes, Indian Institutes of Technology. Students who might appear to be wandering aimlessly around the IITs, are actually exploring their campuses, desperately looking for Pokemon. Usually gathering around Poke Stops, they reload on supplies of Poke balls, an essential tool for catching Pokemon. While...
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