Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis | Photo Credit: PTI Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Wednesday (November 26, 2025) said his government will write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Union Education Ministry, seeking to rename the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) as IIT Mumbai. The announcement follows a political storm triggered by Union Minister … Read more
RAIPUR: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Raipur hosted a masterclass on Technology Interventions in Healthcare, in collaboration with the DRISHTI CPS Foundation, an initiative by IIT Indore. The event focused on how technology and artificial intelligence (AI) can be integrated into healthcare services. A team from the Foundation visited AIIMS Raipur and … Read more
In a recent panel at IIT Madras, directors of five IITs warned of the growing “herd mentality” amongst students and parents fixated on Computer Science Engineering (CSE). They stressed that India urgently needs talent across other critical sectors to fuel growth and innovation. The trend is driven by lucrative starting salaries in software roles, noted … Read more
New Delhi: With a focus on developing AI-based solutions that support key national health programmes in the country, IIT Delhi and AIIMS Delhi signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to establish a Centre of Excellence for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AI-CoE). The two premier institutions were awarded a ₹330 crore grant last year … Read more
Image for representative purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto A third-year student of IIT Patna and a resident of Telangana allegedly ended his life on the campus by jumping from the seventh floor of the building on Tuesday (February 25, 2025). According to the police, the student is identified as Rahul Lavari.He was dead … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) on Tuesday released the most detailed 3D High-Resolution images of the fetal brain. This pioneering work from the Sudha Gopalakrishnan Brain Centre of IIT Madras pushes the frontiers of Brain Mapping Technology and places India in the global league of brain mapping science as this is first-of-its-kind … Read more
New Delhi: AIIMS New Delhi, IIT Delhi, and University College London (UCL) on Friday signed a trilateral agreement to advance medical technology through joint research, collaborative degrees, staff exchanges, and global industry partnerships. The initiative aims to develop affordable healthcare innovations to address pressing global health challenges. “For the first time, the three institutions will … Read more
An IIT Madras professor and a respected voice in financial education has raised concerns about a common misconception taking root in Indian households. Speaking on a podcast hosted by Financially Free, Dr. M. Pattabiraman stressed on what he considers a dangerous money myth: the belief that increasing equity exposure guarantees higher returns. “People are acting … Read more
Experts from IIT-Madras and IIT-Hyderabad will visit Amaravati on August 2 (Friday) and 3 (Saturday) to assess the conditions of the government buildings, whose construction works were stopped midway. The State government has asked the IIT-Madras and IIT-Hyderabad teams to study the technical issues relating buildings in Amaravati. While works on some buildings were stopped … Read more
The first day of the Budget Session saw a face-off between the Opposition and the government in the Lok Sabha over anomalies in the NEET examination process, with Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday asserting that there had been no evidence of paper leak in the last seven years and the government had nothing … Read more