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
Assam Inspector General of Police (IGP) Partha Sarathi Mahanta in a press conference after ISIS India head and one of his associates were arrested in Dhubri district, in Guwahati on March 21, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI An IIT-Guwahati student who had allegedly pledged allegiance to ISIS and was travelling to join the terror group … Read more
Chennai: The Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has developed India’s most customisable electric standing wheelchair, which has been developed indigenously for the benefit of wheelchair users. The ‘NeoStand’ was launched at the campus in the presence of Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, eminent dignitaries, generous supporters of this project, faculty, researchers and … Read more
New Delhi: The All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, in collaboration with IIT Delhi, has designed AI-based simulators to train and evaluate budding neurosurgeons for minimally invasive microscopic and endoscopic surgical skills. According to experts, this is aimed at changing the way neurosurgical skills especially precise actions that make a huge difference in brain surgery — … Read more
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) and IIT Mandi researchers have metabolically engineered the plant cells of Nothapodytes nimmoniana to increase the production of Camptothecin, which is used to treat cancer. The researchers from the Plant Cell Technology Lab of IIT Madras have developed a genome-scale metabolic model for N nimmoniana plant cells … Read more