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IIT Patna Shatters Placement Records with 413 Students Securing Offers

The Indian Organization of Innovation Patna (IIT Patna) has accomplished an exceptional achievement in its situation history, with a record-breaking 413 understudies getting positions during the new grounds enlistment drive. This achievement mirrors the foundation’s obligation to greatness as well as features the developing interest for IIT Patna graduates in the gig market.
The establishment’s Situation Cell worked indefatigably to guarantee that a huge number of understudies got bids for employment from first rate organizations, including eminent global enterprises and new companies. This accomplishment comes as a demonstration of the commitment and difficult work of both the understudies and the position group at IIT Patna.
Talking on this noteworthy accomplishment, Teacher V. Ramgopal Rao, Head of IIT Patna, communicated his joy, saying, “This is an earth shattering event for IIT Patna. Yet again our understudies have demonstrated their guts, and we are glad for their achievements. We are focused on giving quality training and cultivating a climate where our understudies can succeed scholastically and expertly.”
The grounds situation drive at IIT Patna saw a great many scouts from different areas, including data innovation, designing, counseling, and money. The most noteworthy bundle presented during this situation season was a great ₹1.8 crore for each annum.
Featuring the outcome of the situation drive, Dr. Pushpak Bhattacharyya, Top of the Preparation and Position Cell at IIT Patna, remarked, “The reliable expansion in the quantity of situations and the nature of bids for employment is a demonstration of the skill and devotion of our understudies and staff. We have seen an upsurge in the interest for our alumni, which is an impression of the exclusive expectations we keep up with at IIT Patna.”
Understudies at IIT Patna have reliably shown their greatness in the two scholastics and extracurricular exercises, making them profoundly pursued by scouts. The organization’s thorough educational plan, combined with an emphasis on comprehensive turn of events, furnishes understudies with the abilities and information expected to succeed in their picked professions.
The position season at IIT Patna is supposed to progress forward with a vertical direction, with a developing number of organizations communicating interest in enrolling from the establishment. This achievement further cements IIT Patna’s standing as a chief designing establishment in India and highlights its obligation to supporting the up and coming age of ability.
The accomplishment of getting positions for 413 understudies, including the record-breaking most noteworthy bundle, shows IIT Patna’s devotion to scholarly greatness and its capacity to get ready understudies for effective professions in a serious work market.

August 28, 2023
IIT Kharagpur ‘suicide’: Calcutta HC orders second autopsy of body buried 6 months ago

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Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered exhumation and a second post-mortem examination of IIT Kharagpur student Faizan Ahmed’s body, which was buried in his home state Assam six months ago, saying that it is necessary to bring out the truth behind his death.
The father of the third-year student had moved the court seeking formation of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe into the death of Ahmed. His body was found in his hostel room at IIT Kharagpur in West Bengal’s Paschim Medinipur district on October 14, 2022.
“The body of the victim Faizan Ahmed is ordered to be exhumed,” Justice Rajasekhar Mantha directed, holding that a second post-mortem examination is “vital and necessary for arriving at the truth behind his death.”

He directed that the second post-mortem of the body of Ahmed, a mechanical engineering student who hailed from Tinsukia in Assam, be conducted at the state-run Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, after exhumation.
Noting that an affidavit of Ahmed’s parents consenting to the exhumation and a second post-mortem has been filed in court, Justice Mantha directed the investigating officer to coordinate with Assam Police for the exhumation and ordered that the West Bengal police will bring the body to Kolkata.
Justice Mantha directed that Dr Ajoy Kumar Gupta, a forensic expert appointed by the court for his opinion on the likely cause of death of Ahmed, will conduct the post-mortem examination in the presence of doctors who conducted the previous autopsy.
Adjourning the hearing in the matter till June 13, the court directed that the exercise be completed within one month from the date of order.
Gupta, a retired forensic expert of the state CID, stated in a preliminary report filed before the court that two injury marks on the back of the head of the victim were not mentioned in the first post-mortem examination report.

It said that some cut marks on the arms of the body were inflicted after the student’s death.
The police had mentioned seizure of a chemical called Emplura (sodium nitrate) in a bottle from the student’s hostel room.
Court-appointed amicus curiae Sandip Bhattacharya submitted that sodium nitrate, a yellowish powder, is normally used to preserve meat.
There was some yellowish residue in a bucket found by Gupta and Bhattacharya during their visit to the room, the report stated.
It was stated before the court that when a body decomposes, it is impossible that the fellow inmates of the hostel would not be able to detect it, but there was mysteriously no smell from the body for three days.
“The presence of this chemical Emplura opens up serious questions as regards the time of death and whether it may have been used to preserve the body after the death of the victim,” Justice Mantha observed.
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April 26, 2023
Suicide suspected as student dies at IIT Madras, 4th incident in 3 months

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Chennai: A second-year B Tech student, hailing from Madhya Pradesh, was found dead in his hostel room at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, police said on Friday.
The suspicious death, allegedly by suicide, makes it the fourth such incident occurring at the prestigious institution over the last three months.
The incident came to light on Friday when the deceased student’s friends suspected something amiss when he did not open his hostel room door. They informed the warden who contacted the Kotturpuram police station.

On breaking open the door, police found the dead body and sent it for post-mortem after registering a case.
Earlier this month, on April 2, a PhD student of IIT Madras had died by suicide. Sachin Kumar Jain from West Bengal had died by suicide in his room in Tamil Nadu’s Velachery, triggering protests on campus by students who demanded a probe into the matter.
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April 21, 2023
New Zealand inks pact with IIT Delhi

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New Delhi: Demonstrating its overall commitment to India, New Zealand on Tuesday announced an investment of 400K NZ dollars towards internationalisation and student mobility initiatives. These include further engagement with the New Zealand Centre at IIT Delhi to include fellowship grants and the re-launch of the partial scholarships under the New Zealand Excellence Awards. Around 10 different projects are currently going on at the IIT Delhi’s New Zealand centre.
The announcements were made at a roundtable session hosted at the New Zealand High Commission in the presence of David Pine, the New Zealand High Commissioner to India.
Speaking about the several initiatives taken to strengthen the educational ties between India and New Zealand, Pine said, “New Zealand and India share a longstanding relationship that has been growing through various mutually beneficial initiatives.

“The New Zealand-India Education Week, which started on April 17, allows us to lay our ear to the ground and hear the key stakeholders so that New Zealand can continue its varied partnership and collaboration in India’s leading institutions.”
According to Pine, over 3,000 visa applications from India have been approved recently by New Zealand and most of these applications came from students. Over 90 per cent visa applications seeking higher education opportunity in New Zealand have been approved, the official said.
Education experts from New Zealand said that the educational ties between New Zealand and India are set to strengthen following one of Education New Zealand’s biggest events of the year, the India-New Zealand Education Week.
It will encourage a dialogue on research while fostering innovation and cultural exchange and cooperation in the context of international education.
Also, the New Zealand Excellence Awards (NZEA) is a unique scholarship scheme designed exclusively for Indian students. The awards are jointly funded by Education New Zealand and all the eight New Zealand universities. Since the launch of the scholarship in 2016, it has supported over 200 Indian students to pursue overseas study at the world-class universities in New Zealand.

Education New Zealand’s Chief Executive, Grant McPherson, said, “New Zealand’s education system is future focussed and multicultural, offering the students an opportunity to earn work-ready degrees.”
“India is one of New Zealand’s priority partner countries for collaborations, exchanges and student mobility. We are excited that today’s announcements around the New Zealand Centre and the launch of the New Zealand Excellence Award scholarships demonstrate our commitment to India as an education partner,” said McPherson.
IIT Delhi’s James Gomes, Dean International, said, “The New Zealand Centre embodies IIT Delhi’s efforts to embrace internationalisation, providing opportunities for new research collaborations and global exposure to our students. The first round of jointly-funded research collaboration, awarded in 2022, has helped foster collaborative, sustainable and self-supporting research programmes.
“Today’s MoU has further enhanced the partnership and cooperation in research, teaching and fellowships between India and New Zealand and provides an opportunity to explore other innovative ventures.”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 19, 2023
DRDO’s Centre of Excellence inaugurated at IIT Hyderabad
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Hyderabad: Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Industry Academia Centre of Excellence (DIA-CoE), the biggest yet in the country, was inaugurated at the Indian Institutes of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H) on Sunday.
“DIA CoE IITH is the largest centre among all 15 DIA-CoEs in the country. DRDO team will work with IIT-H to identify the target projects in each of these domains and execute to complete in a period of 3-5 years,” said the chairman of DRDO Dr Samir V Kamat at the inauguration.
The centre will take up futuristic projects towards long-term directed research needed for DRDO.

The research cell, which marked the beginning of the collaboration between DRDO and IITH in 2020 has now been transformed into a Centre of Excellence.
The are seven verticals of technology projects that will be undertaken at DIA-CoE at IITH:
Ultra-High Temperature materials
Additive manufacturing,
Space Technologies,
AI for defence,
Image processing,
Seekers and Homing Technologies,
Nano-ornithopter Technologies
IITH director, Professor B S Murty said, “This centre is a major step towards Atmabibhar Bharat in the Defence sector. I am looking forward to the faculty of IITH working together with industry on DRDO problems to make India a global leader in each of the verticals assigned to the CoE.”
Further, he said that IITH has a young faculty base with an average age of 38 years, and hence the DRDO projects are a good challenge for them.
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April 16, 2023
IIT Bombay student’s death: Note naming hostel mate recovered

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Mumbai: The special investigation team (SIT) of Mumbai police probing the death of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay student Darshan Solanki has recovered a note that mentions the name of his hostel mate, an official said on Monday.
The purported suicide note, written on a piece of paper, was recovered from Solanki’s hostel room some days ago, he added.
Solanki, a resident of Ahmedabad in Gujarat, had allegedly committed suicide on February 12 by jumping off the seventh floor of the hostel building.
The official said the note mentions harassment meted out by the engineering student who has been named.
This student stays on the same floor of the hostel and had allegedly threatened Solanki after a dispute, the official said quoting the note.
The process of registering an abetment of suicide case was underway, he added.
Solanki’s parents and some student organisations had alleged caste discrimination as the cause of his death.
The Maharashtra government had formed an SIT headed by Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Lakhmi Gautam to probe the case.

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March 27, 2023
Reduced socialising during COVID main reason for suicide cases: IIT Madras Director

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Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras Director Kamakotti on Wednesday claimed that the reduced socialisation during the COVID pandemic is the main reason for the suicide incidents which were reported on the campus.
In view of the three suicide incidents since September last year reported on the campus, Kamakotti said that the institution is preparing ‘Complete Suicide Prevention’ inside the premises.
“We are trying to implement everything fast,” he said.
IIT Madras launched the report on ‘Socio-Economic Costs of Suicides in Tamil Nadu’ which was released by state Health Minister M Subramanian. This report speaks about suicides and reasons for suicides and socio cost of suicides in Tamil Nadu.
While speaking to the media, Health Minister M Subramanian said that Madras IIT has launched the report on ‘Socio-Economic Costs of Suicides in Tamil Nadu’.
“This Report also would help with the going steps taken by the Tamil Nadu government to control suicides and accidents,” he said.
While answering the question on recent suicides in Madras IIT campus Minister Subramanian said, ” IIT Madras Director Kamakotti has mentioned suicides. They are not hiding anything. After September, three suicides occurred in Madras IIT. The IIT Director has pointed out 4 reasons why suicides are taking place in educational institutions. We request everyone that suicide is not a solution for anything. In future, there should be no suicide”.
Kamakotti said that the institution has been impacted by the suicide incidents.

“IIT Madras has also been impacted because of suicides. It is painful. Since September, 3 suicides have happened inside the IIT Madras campus,” he said.
“When we analyse suicide incidents, 4 main reasons we have found for suicides. Health issues, academic pressure, financial issues and personal issues. In each case, any one of these issues would have been there” Kamakotti added.
He said that the administration has taken measures to curb the suicide incidents on campus.
“After each suicide, we analysed to take measures to curb suicide. Each suicide gave us a new angle on such incidents. Specifically, after COVID, the personal touch has reduced among students. Group activities were reduced during the COVID period typically during the lockdown 2020 – 2021. Students who joined that time after their schooling never met their seniors and classrooms and they were alone at that time. This is a big challenge for us,” he said.
Detailing the steps taken to stop the suicide incidents, Kamakotti said that the administration is planning to create complete suicide prevention on the campus.
“Now we have studied the whole problem and we are planning to create complete suicide prevention in Madras IIT. We are trying to implement everything fast. This would help coming batches to completely stops suicide. Faculties, Patents and student committees all should involve and stop this. For sure there is an end to this and very soon we will implement everything. Zero suicide nation is our goal,” he said.
“Socialising is reduced during COVID is the main reason for suicides,” he added.
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

March 15, 2023
IIT Hyd establishes ‘Advanced Darksky Observatory’ for multidisciplinary research

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Hyderabad: A 4m modern astronomical observatory, which is the first in-campus astronomical research facility among all IITs, has been established by the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IIT-H).
Primarily designed as a frontier research facility in astronomy, the Advanced Darksky Observatory (ADO), with adaptive imaging and multi-filter spectroscopy, will deliver imaging and spectroscopic data banks, which will be valuable assets for research and modern teaching.
Former Chairman of ISRO, K. Radhakrishnan, on Tuesday inaugurated the Advanced Darksky Observatory (ADO) as part of the National Science Day celebrations in the physics department of IIT-H.
Highlighting the importance of such an observatory, Radhakrishnan said, “It is a wonderful robotic telescope that you have built here. If all engineering science capabilities of this institute are put together to build a new breed of instrumentation for space exploration, you will be a major contributor.”
ADO will host a 0.5 metre robotic optical telescope (largest among small telescope categories) which will have a magnification of ~1000x, capabilities of resolving a structure as small as 25 km on the surface of the moon, individual rings of Saturn, detecting active galaxies up to a distance of 1.5 Giga light-years (1,419 billion kilometres).
Due to its upcoming full robotic capabilities, the observatory will be capable of integrating into the global telescope network system like NASA’s Global Telescope Network (GTN) for urgent alerts to the scientific communities on transient celestial events, asteroids and meteorites. It will also complement ISRO’s current and future space-based astronomical observatories.
B.S. Murty, Director, IIT-H, said, “At IIT-H, we have set up a 14-inch telescope under a special ADO, which can give us a vision of the minor details in space so that one can be able to learn more about them, and ensure that the knowledge about space, in general, get enhanced.”
Apart from leading astronomical and planetary research, the observatory will develop and actively engage in the R&D of advanced imaging equipment.

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March 1, 2023
IIT JEE(Advanced) 2023 Test for Admission Notice.

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IIT JEE(Advanced) 2023 Test for Admission Notice.
IIT JEE(Adanced) 2023 Test for Admission Notice.
Joint Entrance Examination [JEE (Advanced) 2023] for admission to various programs (listed at https://jeeadv.ac.in) of all IITs will be held as per the following schedule:-
Date : Sunday, June 04, 2023
Paper – 1 09:00-12:00 IST
Paper-2 14:30-17:30

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February 20, 2023
Student death: IIT Bombay forms panel for parallel’ investigation

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Mumbai: The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay has formed a panel to conduct a “parallel” probe into the death of a first-year B.Tech student amid allegations of caste bias and has urged its students to come forward if they have “relevant” information.
The panel is headed by Professor Nand Kishore and also has SC/ST Students Cell members, including faculty and students, a few student mentor coordinators and the in-charge chief medical officer of IIT Bombay hospital, said a statement by institute Director Subhasis Chaudhuri on Saturday.
Darshan Solanki (18), who belonged to a Scheduled Caste community, allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building on the Powai campus of the IIT on February 12, but his family suspects foul play in his death and said he faced discrimination.
The Powai police are investigating the matter and have also visited Solanki’s home in Ahmedabad.
Highlighting that Prof. Nand Kishore was the chief vigilance officer of IIT Bombay till recently and is experienced “in these matters”, Chaudhari said that the committee is actively meeting everyone who might have relevant information.
“If you have any information that you believe may be relevant, please reach out to the committee by either meeting any of the committee members, or by emailing Prof. Nand Kishore or to the Powai Police,” Chaudhari appealed through the statement.
IIT Bombay and police are actively investigating the “environment, incidents, and reasons behind Darshan’s tragic death”, it said. The police have interviewed a large number of people, and also taken Solanki’s phone and laptop for forensic analysis, Chaudhari said.
In the statement, Chaudhari said IIT B is working towards changes in their UG curriculum, starting with the batch of 2022, to make it “more relevant and motivating to students, and to reduce some of the stress”.

Calling some media reports about the student’s death “premature”, Chaudhari said that “as the matter is sub-judice so we cannot comment on the causes until either police report or our inquiry committee report is ready”.
According to Chaudhari, IIT Bombay has an SC/ST students cell, where students can reach in case of issues including discrimination.
“We are working actively to create an inclusive campus where all students feel at home,” Chaudhari said.
He said they give strong warnings against any discrimination during new students’ formal orientation and also sensitise all students to not seek proxy information such as ranks in entrance exams. “We have a very strict policy on discrimination by faculty,” Chaudhari said.
Solanki’s family on Wednesday had claimed that he faced discrimination at the IIT B for belonging to an SC community and maintained that there was a strong possibility that he was “murdered”.
According to a police official, his parents had visited Mumbai to collect their son’s body. In their initial statements, they had not raised any objection to the probe or expressed doubt over the cause of their son’s death, said the official had said earlier.
Gujarat Congress MLA and Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani has demanded a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into Solanki’s death.
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February 18, 2023