Govt says students want JEE, NEET; cites admit card downloads

The government on Thursday defended its move to go ahead with National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) and Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) exams despite mounting pressure to defer them,......

The innovations India is coming up with to fight COVID-19

From low cost portable ventilators to drones for sanitising, robots for delivery of food and medicines to special stethoscope for examining patients from a distance and a UV technology fitted trunk......

Over 2,000 students have dropped out of IITs in three years!

Over 4,400 students dropped out of IITs and NITs in the last three years due to various reasons including "academic stress", the government said on Wednesday and assured that corrective actions......

IIT-Bombay chairman quits post after 'tiff' with HRD ministry

The Human Resource Development ministry was hit by yet another controversy with chairman of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay's board of governors and nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar resigning......

New IITs get regular directors

Functioning under temporary arrangement for over a year, the newly-created six IITs have now got their regular directors. Prof U B Desai, Prof M K Surappa, Prof Sudhir Kumar Jain, Prof Prem Kumar......