IIT Bombay

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay is organising one of Asia’s largest cultural events, ‘Mood Indigo’. IIT expects a footfall of 1,46,000 students to the festival. Participants stand a chance to win rewards such as internships from top firms like Upgrad, PETA India, Skill-Lynx, Stoodnt, free courses curated by top educators, free merchandises and accommodation, and more. To be a part of the program, click here. 

Pune-based Yash Mandhana made his parents proud by securing the 99.99 percentile in the CAT 2021 examination at the first attempt. The 22-year-old is doing a Mechanical Engineering course at IIT Bombay and wants to join IIM to understand ''how businesses make money''. Mandhana said that it is important to take up the mock tests and be consistent in the preparation, instead of coaching.

Manoj Gopalkrishnan, a professor at Indian Institute of Technology- Bombay, has invented 'Tapestry', a cheap and time-saving COVID testing tool. However, the professor had earlier thought about this invention during the swine flu pandemic in 2009. In a collaboration with 10 of his colleagues, the professor developed it in two months. Recently, Tapestry got its approval from Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI) for commercial usage.

An IIT-Bombay startup named 'NanoSniff Technologies' has unveiled world's first micro-sensor based explosive trace detector (ETD). Called 'NanoSniffer', the fully indigenous device can detect explosives within 10 seconds and even classify all military, conventional and homemade explosives. Developed using micro-electromechanical system (MEMS), the device can detect even nano-gram unit of explosives. Moreover, marketed by IIT-Delhi incubated… read-more

Celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021, the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) has conferred four young women fellows of National Science Academies with a prestigious one-time honour. Dubbed the SERB Women Excellence Award, the prize entails a three-year-long research grant of Rs 15 lakh for women scientists under the age of 40, who have earned recognition from one or more national academies. The… read-more