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The corona virus shocked and seriously disturbed everyone including the educational institutions. The autonomous, undergraduate-dominated, national, and primarily-residential institutions – including IITs, IIITs, NITs, etc. – had to necessarily close down the hostels and send their students home to all

Prof. P J Narayanan, "My suggestion to the IITs for admitting B.Tech students this year is that they use the JEE-Main to admit students and cancel the JEE-Advanced in the light of the pandemic. This would not only reduce stress

Gone are the days of purists, today’s engineering and science education have to be interdisciplinary, says Prof Jayanthi Sivaswamy, dean of academics at IIIT Hyderabad. She notes that with the phenomenal rise in computing power, for instance, the long-drawn boundaries

“In my understanding, Aaroga Setu app is trying to accomplish two roles - one, is to enforce social distancing using Bluetooth-enabled app-installed devices coming in proximity of each other; and two, a post-facto contact tracing (over say, the last one

Every morning at 9am, a community kitchen slowly begins humming on the campus of the International Institute of Information Technology-Hyderabad. A few individuals walk in and begin chopping vegetables. These are handed over to mess workers who then start the