Single CET for Admissions to Engineering and Medical Colleges in Maharashtra

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The Maharashtra state government has come to a resolution to conduct only one Common Entrance Test, MHT-CET, where students’ scores will be considered for both engineering and medical admission from next session in 2016-2017. The orders for MHT-CET for admissions to 2016-17 academic session were finally issued by the state govt. on August 29, 2015. According to this new … [Read more...]

ISM Dhanbad offers Merit-cum-Means Scholarship 2015

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The prestigious institute, Indian School of Mines (ISM), Dhanbad has come up with scholarships and fellowships program to enable deserving candidates to pursue their education. Students of all years of the B.Tech/Dual Degree/ Integrated M.Tech course and 1st Year, 2nd year M.Sc / M.Sc.Tech, & MBA, can benefit from this Merit-cum-Means Scholarship which is inclusive of … [Read more...]

Scrapping Class 12 Marks for Engineering Admissions: Is It a Good Idea?

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JEE admission woes may come to an end soon. The Central Seat Allocation Board (CSAB) has recently suggested that the marks of class 12 will not be considered as a criteria of granting admission by all the central engineering institutes except the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). The proposal is still subject to approval from the Ministry of Human Resource Development. … [Read more...]

JEE Main 2015: CSAB extends deadline to fill up IIT, NIT seats

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The Central Seat Allotment Board (CSAB) revises the date of filling up the seats through special counselling to get admissions in IITs, NITs and GFTIs through the JEE Main 2015 to August 17. After the seat allotment process conducted by the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) came to a conclusion, more than 3000 seats were still left vacant. This special round of … [Read more...]

IIT Kerala begins its first academic session

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India's 18th IIT commenced its first academic session on August 3, 2015. The institute in Palakkad, Kerala began its first year with a total of 117 students. Surprisingly, only 6 students are from the state itself and a majority are from Uttar Pradesh. IIT-Palakkad currently offers four B.Tech courses - Computer Science and Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical … [Read more...]