Education analysts caution that the recent attacks in Kashmir’s Pahalgam will hit a number of students who plan to take admission in Jammu and Kashmir’s top institutes such as IIM Jammu, IIT Jammu, NIT Srinagar, etc., in the coming years. “It (the attack) is definitely bad news for admissions in institutions in the region. People…
Placements at India’s top engineering colleges, including at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are off to an uncertain start with recruiters taking a cautious approach. Mint explains why the batch of 2025 have reasons to be worried. How’s it going on the hiring front? Of the 23 IITs, the first-generation schools—in Kharagpur, Chennai (called…
While recruiters from information technology and related services, core industries, manufacturing and banking sectors have started registering with the Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs), the companies haven’t disclosed their targets for the batch of 2025, according to a placement officer at one of the new IITs. They are yet to get hiring numbers from their…
The Indian Institute of Technology Madras has announced the official list of IIT Joint Admission Test 2024, on its official website at jam.iitm.ac.in. IIT Madras, the organising body released the list of all India rankers, who secured the highest scores and ranked number 1 (AIR 1) across different papers.The IIT JAM 2024 exam was held…
The central government recently announced that the trials of the home-grown Direct-to-Mobile (D2M) technology, developed by Saankhya Labs and IIT Kanpur, will soon be held in 19 cities. This tech will enable mobile users to stream videos on their smartphones without an active internet connection. In June last year, IIT-Kanpur released a white paper on…
RAIPUR: The department of Liberal Arts at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai hosted Professor Pritee Sharma, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Indore, for a talk on Sustainable Development: Dimensions and Intersections on Monday.Professor Sharma foregrounded the intricate interconnections between economic, social, and environmental aspects of sustainable development and provided valuable insights into…
NEW DELHI: Self-learning through free courses offered by top institutions like IITs and IIMs and earning credits, certificates and diplomas in specialised areas by appearing for an examination for as low as Rs 750 per course is becoming an emerging trend among students and young professionals. An indication of the growing popularity of self-learning, is…
Vernacular skill-gaming platform, WinZO has taken a leap towards addressing a longstanding challenge in the gaming industry. The industry lacks a transparent, unbiased methodology that can distinguish between games of skill from games of chance. The company has collaborated with professors from technology institutions and statistics departments of institutes such as the Indian Institutes of…
MUMBAI : It has been a tepid student placements season so far at India’s engineering colleges, and a similar lull is expected in business schools, particularly in the small cities. But for some, there’s a bigger worry: without a job straight out of college, or jobs at lower salaries than expected, students who’ve borrowed lakhs…
BharOS, an indigenously developed mobile operating system, is reportedly considering providing its technology for routers. The mobile operating system claimed to be focused on privacy and security, BharOS is an Indian government-funded project to develop a free and open-source operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems to reduce dependence on foreign OS…
