Transport department employee is first Covid casualty of IIT-Bombay; campus sanitised
May 30, 2020IIT-B administration swung into action on Friday after the first Covid-19 death was reported on the campus.
'Efforts to prevent suicides remain ineffective at IITs'
May 4, 2015Despite taking several initiatives in the past few years to help students deal with their academic-related stress, the frequency of suicides in IITs across the country seems to have remained unaffected.
Global team with two TIFR scientists develops novel way to ‘detect’ 1st stars
Jul 22, 2022mumbai an international team of 40 researchers including two from tifr have developed a unique methodology to detect light from the first stars and galaxies from the early universe the technique is significant claim the researchers as it is their best chance to detect the cosmological signals coming from the first stars’ the collaboration under the reach radio experiment for the analysis of cosmic hydrogen project also will complement global efforts in studying the formation of the cosmic hydrogen project.
CAT top 10 get 100 percentile, all of them are male engineers
Jan 5, 2020Yet another year witnessed male engineers dominate the toppers’ list of CAT — the entrance test for IIMs — with 10 of them bagging 100 percentile. Six of the toppers are IITians, two are from NITs, and one each from Jadavpur University and a deemed university in Karnataka, said an official from IIM-Kozhikode, which conducted CAT 2019.
Credit system results in high failure rate in BCom 1st semester
Dec 6, 2011After Mumbai University introduced the credit and grading systems from this academic session, 70% students of many colleges have reportedly failed to clear the first semester exams of first-year BCom.
Mumbai: St Xavier’s selects AI, others hunt for online admission solutions
Jun 26, 2020Students sitting at home can appear for entrance exams for mass media (BMM), management (BMS) and four masters’ programmes offered at St Xavier’s College (Mumbai). For the first time, it will conduct an artificial intelligence-proctored test, that will allow aspirants to give it from anywhere in India.
Nandan Nilekani gives IIT-B Rs 3 15 crore, highest university grant in India
Jun 21, 2023Marking 50 years of his association with the institute, Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani announced a donation of Rs 315 crore (US$ 38.5 million) to IIT-Bombay on Tuesday. Nilekani joined the institute in 1973 for a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. The endowment takes Nilekani's total contribution to Rs 400 crore adding up on his previous grant of Rs 85 crore, which was partly used to build hostel facilities.
Mumbai: ‘No entrance, spike in 90% scorers to push up cut-offs’
Aug 11, 2021With no Common Entrance Test (CET) for first-year junior college (FYJC) admissions and boards recording a jump in their 90%-plus scorers this year, city college principals expect the cut-offs to go north.
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