The Bombay High Court has refused to regularise a contractual legal officer at IIT Bombay who had served nearly a decade, ruling that converting his temporary role into permanent employment would amount to a “backdoor entry” in public service, as the post was never sanctioned or intended to be permanent. Court Rejects Demand for Regularisation…
IIT Madras’ “100 Startups a Year” mission has incubated 567 deep‑tech ventures, a quarter of which have women co‑founders, revealing a strong push toward diversity and inclusive entrepreneurship across India.
IIT Guwahati inaugurates the 44th Astronomical Society of India Annual Meeting, bringing over 600 astronomers, students, and science communicators together for five days of collaboration and outreach.
IIT Ropar’s AI‑powered ANNAM.AI platform helps farmers mitigate climate‑linked losses while building interdisciplinary expertise in agriculture, engineering, and artificial intelligence.
ScaNxt Scientific Technologies signs an agreement to commercialise India’s first indigenously developed 100% electric compact tractor, tailored for small and marginal farmers.
IIT Madras demonstrates a method to manufacture silicon carbide from simulated lunar soil and methane, enabling in‑situ production of electronics and structural materials on the Moon.
IIT Roorkee launches INDRA‑CMIP6, a fine‑scale, open‑access dataset of daily rainfall and temperature projections to support regional climate adaptation and risk assessment in India.
IIT Hyderabad, DMRL, and Innomet launch a project to indigenously develop a 100‑kg inert gas atomiser facility for high‑purity metal powders for aerospace, defence, and additive manufacturing.
IIT Madras hosts a major AI and Data Science research exhibition on 18 May, featuring more than 100 projects from the Wadhwani School of Data Science and AI.
After a storm shook IIT Kharagpur, hostel students collected fallen raw mangoes and turned them into aromatic homemade pickle, turning campus life into a viral social‑media story.
