Articles in IIT Kanpur
Alok Kumar Pandey, a PhD student in the Material Sciences programme at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT-K) died yesterday, August 8, alleged due to medical negligence. This incident has shocked the student community of IIT-K. Students held a protest in the campus today demanding a probe into the incident. A meeting between […]
The recent IIT fee hike from Rs 90,000 to Rs 2,00,000 had definitely raised a lot of eyebrows. Here is your chance to reduce the burden of your hefty tuition fees for a degree in an IIT. And it will be shared by none other than the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development, and the Institute […]
It’s a universal pass time at IIT Kanpur – checking out birds. And why not, some 103 varieties of them have made the campus their home. Thankfully, a big bunch of students and professors are not only bird enthusiasts but also keen photographers and many of the rare birds photos have been shot and saved for […]
More than a decade ago, IIT Kanpur (IIT-K) issued an advisory rule prohibiting first-year students from carrying their laptops to the institute. The rule that was introduced in the academic year 2003-04 was backed by the recommendations of the counselling cell at IIT Kanpur. The management of the institute was of the opinion that laptops […]
Some 4500 students of the 6,000 odd, at IIT Kanpur were in for a rude shock when they were asked to cough up approximately Rs 1,500 to Rs 2,000 each as electricity bill for January 2016. This is a far cry from the odd Rs 2,000 they used to individually pay up per semester. 2016 onwards, IIT-K […]
The admissions of some students at IIT Kanpur (IITK) were terminated recently when they failed to score the minimum grade required to qualify for the next semester. These Students were expelled after the results of various undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes were announced earlier this month. The disqualified students are left with no recourse as […]
Techkriti was started in 1995. But in 2016, for the first time, students of class 9th to 12th will be allowed to participate in Techkriti . ‘Techkriti’, the annual technical and enterpreneur festival of IIT-Kanpur will be held from March 3 to March 6 2016. Competitions in various fields such as Robotics, Electronics, Business, Design, […]
It has been more than two months since we arrived here at IITK. But somehow, the last few weeks (takneek and midsems) seem to have been the longest. Opinions forged before coming to IITK (Ha!) have already given way to new ones. In the “Disneyland of everything under the Sun”, life is pretty fast and […]
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 […]
I interned at the Bangalore office of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social networking service. This internship provided a great learning experience with a lot of fun. Selection Procedure Let’s walk through the only dull and boring part of this internship experience, the selection phase. It involved a coding round for short-listing, followed by an interview. The problems […]