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Forget CS or AI? This once-overlooked engineering stream quietly becomes the surprise choice among IIT aspirants

Civil engineering has surprisingly surged in popularity among top-ranked students for IIT admissions in 2026, with significant rank improvements at IIT Bombay and Delhi. This shift, driven by AI concerns and infrastructure growth, sees students seeking stability in core branches, though computer science remains the most sought-after choice.

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JEE Advanced Result 2026 declared: Check direct link for registration, JoSAA Counselling, AAT Schedule dates and more

JEE Advanced Result 2026 out at jeeadv.ac.in: IIT Roorkee announced JEE Advanced 2026 results on May 31st. Qualified students can now register for JoSAA counselling starting June 2nd for admissions to IITs, NITs, and other institutes. Architecture aspirants can also register for the AAT 2026. Class 12th scores are not…

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After mass layoffs, Oracle pulls campus offers at IITs & NITs

US tech giant Oracle has rescinded dozens of job offers extended to students at premier Indian engineering institutes, including IITs and NITs. This development, impacting both full-time and internship roles, has caused major anxiety among students as the placement season nears its end amidst a slow tech hiring market.

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Jobless engineers, MBAs: The hidden army of Indian election ‘consultants’

These ‘politically neutral problem solvers’ do short stints in political campaigns and are valued for their data skills.

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Lok Sabha Polls: Priyanka raps BJP, asks for how long will you keep blaming Congress?

"If nothing has happened, how have such skills developed in Uttarakhand, from where IITs, IIMs, and AIIMSs came into the country?”, said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Rohith Vemula’s memory lives on, but promise of casteism-free campuses forgotten

Rohith Vemula would be celebrating his 35th birthday had he been truly cared for, loved and treated well by the caste-privileged rulers of Indian academia. He was desperate to start a life without pain and emptiness but eight years ago in this month, Rohith was institutionally murdered.

Newslaundry

Centre to prepare textbooks in regional languages in three years

The Union Education Ministry has directed all school and higher education regulators such as the University Grants Commission, the NCERT, and the Indira Gandhi National Open University and the heads of IITs, Central Universities, and the National Institutes of Technologies to make study material in regional languages available for all…

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IITs open doors for students studying in Tier-2, Tier-3 town colleges

Five IITs — Ropar, Guwahati, Mandi, Patna and Kanpur — are now set to change this notion.

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IIT Hyderabad to host Ministry of Education’s flagship event, IInvenTiv-2024

Ministry of Education’s flagship event IInvenTiv-2024 will be organised at IIT-Hyderabad. It brings together participants from 23 IITs, NITs, IISERs, IISc & top 50 NIRF-ranked engineering institutions to showcase top 120 innovations.

The Hindu

Over 13.5K SC, ST, OBC students dropped out of Central universities, IITs, IIMs in past 5 years: Education Ministry

13,500+ SC/ST/OBC students dropped out of Central Universities, IITs, and IIMs in past 5 yrs. Govt. insists it's taking measures to ensure marginalised students find place at these institutes, but IITs lack SC/ST cells & those that exist lack authority & space to function effectively.

The Hindu

IIT-Kanpur looking into complaint of recruitment bias against SC, ST, OBC students

IIT-Kanpur is looking into complaints that companies recruiting from the campus were discriminating against students hailing from a reserved category.

The Hindu

IIT-Kanpur accused of facilitating discrimination by recruiters

A complaint has been filed alleging that the Placements Office at IIT-Kanpur was allowing recruiting companies to discriminate against prospective candidates based on their caste or socio-economic category

The Hindu

Engineers from colleges in tier 2 and 3 cities driving start-up ecosystem in India, AICTE chairman

Engineers from Tier 2 and 3 cities driving India's start-up ecosystem, observed AICTE chairman T.G. Sitharam. Most of ISRO's Chandrayaan 3 engineers were from Tier 2/3 cities. AICTE has embarked on a programme to provide engineering books in mother tongues. Need to change teaching methods to experiential and hands-on learning.…

The Hindu

The IITs are overcommitted, in crisis

Expanding the system domestically may not have been a wise idea and building overseas branch campuses is highly problematical as far as the Indian Indian Institutes are concerned

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Bengaluru start-up’s exposure visits to IITs aims to prevent student suicides

Start-up Edvizo, formed by IIT & AIIMS alumni, initiated NLCEE programme to address student suicides by providing career clarity through exposure visits to IITs.

The Hindu

Intermediate marks memos will be issued by October 10, says official

BIE to issue physical copies of Inter marks memos in a week. DigiLocker platform used to provide student services. 45.53 lakh records pushed to digital platform in last two months. DigiLocker-enabled certificate accepted by all Universities, JEE & NEET colleges. Digital platform promoted to generate documents without hassle. Students &…

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U.K. keen on welcoming IIT offshore campus, universities already in talks: British officials

Several universities from the U.K. are also interested in setting up their branch campuses in India and are waiting for the final regulatory framework from the UGC to move formally in this regard.

The Hindu

IIT Delhi drops one set of mid-semester exams to reduce student stress, says Director Rangan Banerjee

IIT Delhi revamps evaluation system, drops mid-semester exams to reduce student stress. Institute Director Banerjee says decision based on feedback from students and faculty. 39 out of 98 student suicides in top higher educational institutions in India from 2018-2023 at IITs.

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Central University launches B.Tech in Mathematics and Computing

Central Univ. of Karnataka launches B.Tech in Maths & Computing. VC stresses importance of maths & its role in AI, ML & IoT. Course designed to meet industry needs & higher edu. opps. at IITs. Registration process open, last date July 26. Visit www.cuk.ac.in for more info.

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Women still minority at IITs, efforts on to achieve gender parity, says IIT director Preeti Aghalayam

IIT-Madras, set up in 1959, has become the first IIT in the country to launch an international campus

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Explained | How are universities assessed under the National Institutional Ranking Framework?

The Hindu explains the takeaways from this year’s NIRF rankings, the methodology used to rank Indian universities, colleges and other higher education institutes, and why it faces criticism from some quarters

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Agriculture, horticulture universities will be developed on lines of IITs, says Andhra Pradesh Agriculture Minster

The horticulture and agriculture universities in Andhra Pradesh will be developed on par with the IITs and NITs, Agriculture Minister Kakani Govardhan Reddy has said. The Minister was addressing the students, faculty, and farmers after inaugurating the new academic blocks, hostels, and dormitories for boys and girls on the campus…

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Stress, dropouts, suicides: Unravelling IIT’s casteism problem

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The Times of India

Youth at the centre of Modi sarkar’s good governance schemes: BJYM chief Tejasvi Surya

Tejasvi Surya contested the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Bangalore South on a BJP ticket and won when he was just 28. In 2020, he took over as the national president of the party’s youth wing Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He leads the Morcha at a time when the…

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Several IITs boycott Times Higher Education World University Rankings, IISc only entry in top 300

Seventy-five Indian institutes were part of the rankings in 2023 as compared to 56 in 2020 and just 31 in 2017

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