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IITians Invents a Solar Powered Cold Storage at ZERO Cost !

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When it comes to making news, IITians are always in the race. And needless to say that when it is about new inventions, they just steal the show away. This time the news is about young IIT engineers from IIT Kharagpur. They have come up with an affordable solution to the wastage of agricultural produce by developing a unique solar- powered cold storage system that works at almost zero running cost! Ain’t that a surprise! Established at the STEP (Science and Technology entrepreneurship Park) of IIT Kharagpur by mechanical engineering student Vivek Pandey and his team, this micro cold storage system has been successfully tested in a Karnataka farmland already. Pandey told the media, “It is a first of its kind product developed anywhere in the world as there are no running costs for the farmer. It works on clean and sustainable technology for all 12 months of the year. We have even applied for 4 patents for technologies used in the product.” Underneath the banner of

IIT PAPER LEAK IN 1997

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A private coaching institute in Lucknow secretly called a select group of its students on the evening of May 2, barely 12 hours before the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) for admission into the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), for `valuable suggestions'. Nearly 100 students out of the total 700 reached and were told that the tips should be learnt by rote. The next day, much to the excitement of the students, 70 per cent of the physics and chemistry questions appeared in the examination papers. The father of an examinee told IIT authorities in New Delhi over the telephone about the leak but he was rebuffed. ``Such doubts are normal and are expressed every year by parents whose wards have not done well in their examinations,'' said an IIT official. The same procedure was adopted for the mathematics paper the next day and this time too the coaching institute was bang on target. Most of the questions figured in the actual paper, some with minor change

Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings 2014: Top 14 Indian Universities

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The Indian universities featuring in the QS world university ranking:- 222 50.7 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) 235 48.6 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD) 300 41.6 Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK) 322 40.1 Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) 324 40.0 Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKGP) 421-430 University of Delhi 461-470 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IITR) 551-600 Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG) 551-600 University of Mumbai 601-650 University of Calcutta 701+ Banaras Hindu University 701+ University of Pune NA Indian Institute of Science NA Jawaharlal Nehru University *Ranking along with total score are given Blog