Articles in IIT Roorkee
March 2017, I was discussing with my mentor, a possibility of having a platform where a mentee could be connected to a prospective mentor, who would guide him in achieving mentee’s dream. Little did I know that it was going to be my project. One of the wonderful periods of my life when I got […]
“Being passionate about operations, my internship at DTDC Courier Cargo Ltd set me up for 2 months of work in supply chain management. DTDC, with a presence in 16 countries, is amongst top courier and cargo service providers in our country. My key task here is process optimization in the supply chain as well as […]
It finally came down to doing a well-settled bank job against an MBA from the prestigious DoMS, IIT Roorkee. And that too during these turbulent times for the Indian market after GST and Demonetisation. However, MBA was a dream in the backburner and I felt it was the time I go for it after […]
The Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) in 2014, realized the need for a national ranking framework for all the institutes of higher education in the country. The 16-member committee established for this purpose identified a set of measurable parameters that could be used as metrics for ranking institutions. The National Institutional Ranking Framework […]
‘MBA from IIT Roorkee? Since when did IITs start offering MBA courses? Did you write the CAT exam to get into here?’ These are just some of the many questions I have been asked, ever since I made the decision of choosing IIT Roorkee over some other reputed B-schools. You may also have your questions […]
The Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, has filled all the vacant seats after the second round of seat allotment concluded by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA), today on July 7, 2017. Earlier there were 14 seats vacant in different engineering streams at the premiere institute. Not only IIT Bombay, but other institutes like IIT […]
Hoards of aspiring filmmakers and actors travel miles to the dream city Mumbai every year, however, very few can grasp the essence of the bustling city and enjoy living along with it. When third-year electrical engineering student Pulkit Goyal travelled to Mumbai from a small city in Chattisgarh, he did not have the faintest idea […]
Image: A screenshot of the viral video. Students of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IITR) have made a video on Ed Sheeran’s popular song ‘Shape of You’. The video shows four boys courting a girl. “It was uploaded on February 14, in about three days the video has received close to 20 lakh views on […]
The Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R), the organising institute for the Graduate Aptitude of Test in Engineering (GATE) 2017, released a list of candidates that are ineligible to take the exam in February next year. Candidates were disqualified as they did not have the requisite educational qualification to appear in GATE 2017. Candidates can […]
Prof Pradipta Banerji from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT-R), recently finished his term as the Director, and is currently at IIT Bombay, in the Civil Engineering department. In a candid interview with IIT-R’s student news body, Prof Banerji expressed his views about the institute, and his idea of how the institute should be. […]