The Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has allotted six supernumerary seats so far, two in Computer Science and Engineering branch at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mumbai and IIT Delhi each, one in Mathematics and Computing at IIT Kharagpur and one in Chemical Engineering at IIT Patna. When the allotted seats are more than […]

1) Second phase of Haritha Haram programme launched in Telangana a) The two-week long Haritha Haram programme of Telangana government aimed to plant 46 crore plants to improve the green belt has recently begun. b) Chief Minister Chandrasekhar Rao participated in the plantation programme at Gundrampally near Chityal in Nalgonda district by planting a Neem […]

A total of 175 seats remain vacant in the National Institute of Technology (NITs) after the fourth round of seat allocation were released today by Joint Seat Allocation Authority 2016 (JoSAA). The number of vacant seats has increased from 156 to 175 since the third round of allocation was released. Around 173 seats are vacant from […]

There is good news for engineering aspirants in Telangana planning to get a seat under the management quota as the government has put an end to heavy tuition fee charged by private unaided colleges by issuing a fresh set of guidelines this year. For years now, private unaided colleges in Telangana have been charging as high […]

Two women were found hanging in their respective campus accommodations at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-M) on July 13, 2016. Police suspect that 47-year old Vijaya Lakshmi, wife of a professor from the Physics department at IIT-M, and 34-year-old post-doctoral scholar P Maheshwari, committed suicide because of depression. A senior official from the J4 […]

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 […]

The recent string of suicides among engineering aspirants sent alarm bells ringing all over India’s coaching capital. Experts and social organisations are hoping that meditation, music concerts, movies and counselling will help students cope with the high pressure of preparing for the Joint Entrance Exams (JEE), which opens the doors to India’s premier engineering institutes, […]

Of all the IITs and ISM, only IIT Kharagpur (IIT-Kgp) and IIT Roorkee (IIT-R) will provide transportation facility to the new entrants from city’s railway station and bus stand to the institute. Date of Reporting for both, IIT-Kgp, and IIT-R is July 21, 2016, and both the institutes will provide transportation from July 20. The […]

The registration process for the new entrants at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) is scheduled to be held on Thursday, July 21, 2016. Students must reach the institute by 2 p.m. on Thursday to complete the process. If a student fails to report for registration by 6 p.m. on July 21, it will […]

After imparting free coaching to meritorious but poor engineering aspirants from the states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi, Super 30 is now set to increase the number of intakes. Yes, you heard it right, after providing free coaching for economically underprivileged pupils from a limited number of states, students from other states can […]