IIT

"The Indian Institutes of Technology are considering dropping Kota — the coaching capital for IIT aspirants — as an admission test centre amid suspicions of mass cheating in this year’s entrance exam" reports the Telegraph

The Rajasthan town may next year not be allowed to host the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) its coaching classes have mastered, top institute officials said.

Admissions for the academic session 2008-09 to the following Postgraduate(PG) Programmes leading to M.Tech./M. Arch./ MURP will be made on the basis of either GATE score only or GATE score and Interview/Written Test . For Sponsored candidates the admission will be made on the basis of Interview/Written Test and relevant experience.

M.TECH./M.ARCH./M.U.R.P. PROGRAMMES

Department of Architecture and Planning

(i) Architecture
ELIGIBILITY: B.Arch. or its equivalent

(ii) Urban & Rural Planning
ELIGIBILITY: B.Arch. or its equivalent or Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engg.

Young engineers of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are refusing lucrative jobs at Dow Chemicals (which owns Union Carbide) on moral grounds, as the company has been held responsible for the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy that killed over 5,000 people and left thousands permanently disabled.

'IIT students are refusing jobs offered by Dow Chemicals for its wrongdoing. They are writing to their IITs to remove its name from the recruiters' list,' said Mira Shiva of All India Drug Action Network, an NGO.