Articles in IIT Bhubaneswar
IIT’s undeniably enjoy their autonomy! The varied internship opportunities provided by them happen to be a major outcome of this independence. Two months ago, IIT Delhi revised its internship programme and made it optional. In other words, students from IIT Delhi can now avail the internship anytime after the second year upto the final year. […]
IIT BombayX, the institute’s very own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider has completed its first year in offering online courses on its online portal. Taking cue from the Harvard-MIT initiative edX, the concept of IIT BombayX was pioneered by Prof. DB Phatak of the CSE department, to help students all over India get access to top quality […]
IITs introduce off-beat electives in their core curriculum to provide experience, recreation, or alternative education to their students. Although most of the IITs have now accepted the relevance of such subjects, the mentality in some of the top institutes is surprisingly contradictory. IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay are two such institutes that do not allocate […]
A couple of days back, there was news that IIT-Bhubaneshwar was the first among all IITs to introduce Odissi dance form as an extra academic subject for first year students. What was the motive behind this decision? Is Odissi, which is the seventh most popular classical dance form in India, a fading or a reviving […]
In this article, we are not going to compare Stanford and Palo Alto with IITB at Powai, Mumbai. But yes, we are definitely going to introduce the fast emerging start-up hub – Powai here. According to newspaper reports and official records, approximately 20 new ventures have been established by IIT-B students and alumni in the […]
The 51st Inter-IIT Sports Meet 2015 will be hosted by IIT Madras this year. As a part of their infrastructural preparations for the Meet, IIT-M has decided to lay down a synthetic sports track with a funding of Rs 6 crore. This track, which is meant to increase stability and smoothness in running, shall also […]
The winning teams from Allen Career Institute, Kota The seventeenth edition of ‘Techniche’ at IIT Guwahati concluded on the 7th Sept 2015. There were around 50 teams which had participated in the first level. Out of these teams, 15 teams were from Allen Career Institute, who got selected for the second level. “There were 5 […]
The arrest of the two professors of civil engineering department in IIT Roorkee has created quite a buzz. The reports so far have mentioned the collapse of the bridge and how two of the professors, Vipul Kumar and Vijay Kumar Gupta, have been arrested. When PaGaLGuY contacted IIT- Roorkee, here is what they had to say: […]
The Entrepreneurship Summit, IIT Kanpur organised by the E-Cell witnesses distinguished founders, businessmen, VCs and journalists each year. This year new records were set when Rahul Yadav, founder and ex-CEO of the hottest Indian start-up, Housing.com, addressed the enthusiastic junta at this annual event. Devin and I got the opportunity to squeeze out a short […]
Every year, hundreds of students entering IIT Bombay anticipate a chance to build things from scratch, tinker with machines and look for avenues to explore the much-vaunted “T of IIT”. With the Institute Technical Summer Projects, also known as ITSP, STAB (the Student’ Technical Activities Body) looks to help freshers begin doing “tech” here. Since […]