Roorkee, India News

IIT Roorkee is one of the oldest engineering institutes in India. Founded in 1847, it is located close to the Himalayas.

Is converting NITs to IITs the best solution to engineer the future of the country? The Indian academia is still divided for an answer Thursday, December 17, 2009 "The demographic advantage India has in terms of a large percentage of young population needs to be converted into a dynamic economic advantage by providing them the right education and ...

Soon, cellular service providers will not be able to erect cell phone towers in residential areas in the city.

The premier Indian Institutes of Technology are gearing up to complete the implemention of the scheduled caste , scheduled tribe and other backward classes quota requirement for faculty positions from next year.

The autonomic nervous system regulates the heart rate through two routes -- the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.

There are many graduates in civil engineering who would like to do a master's in architecture.

Braj Rakshak Dal, an NGO fighting illegal mining by organised gangs in the area for the past several years, has demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the mining scam worth hundreds of crores of rupees in Deeg and Kaman in Bharatpur district.

Heart rate variability, a sign of a healthy heart, has been shown to be higher in yoga practitioners than in non-practitioners, according to research to be published in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics .

NEW DELHI: A software engineer allegedly poisoned his newly wedded wife in the house of a relative at Shakarpur in the trans-Yamuna area on Tuesday.

New Delhi India today said it had conveyed to China that a dam or a water-diversion project on its side of the Brahmaputra may have 'significant impact' on the socio-economic condition of the population downstream on the Indian side and expressed hope that Beijing would 'not undertake' such a large-scale project.

The state government is set to change the route/alignment of the proposed eight-lane expressway, by aligning it with the Upper Ganga Canal instead of Hindon river.

Three-day International Workshop on Climate Change, Glacial Retreat and Livelihoods-Access Regionally, Act locally is being organized at by J&K Government in collaboration with the University of Kashmir and The Energy and Resources Institute from October 12 to 14, 2009.

Manu A B They are young, passionate, hard working and have a big dream. For them, stories of sibling rivalry are a joke.

The suspected ISI agent, Sudhanshu Sudhakar, arrested by the Special Task Force in Patna on Tuesday, had collected vital information about deployment of different units of the Indian Army in the country, including Pathankot and Jammu and Kashmir.

The next Joint Management Entrance Test will be held on December 13 across the country for admission to the two-year fulltime PG programme in management including MBA conducted by the Indian Institutes of Technology at Madras ; Bombay ; Delhi ; Kanpur ; Kharagpur and Roorkee .

Faculty at the premier Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institutes of Management are irked at the new pay scale that was approved by the Cabinet on August 7, prompting many professors in the IITs to go on casual leave as a token protest today.

Mr. Kothari has published 611 research papers in various national and international journals and conferences D.P. Kothari VELLORE: The University Grants Commission has bestowed the UGC National Swami Pranavananda Saraswati Award for 2005 on D.P. Kothari, Vice-Chancellor of VIT University, Vellore, in recognition of his outstanding scholarly ...

New Delhi, Aug 6 : Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy has said the Taj Mahal is in a good state of preservation.

New Delhi, Aug 6 : Minister of State for Planning and Parliamentary Affairs V Narayanasamy has said the Taj Mahal is in a good state of preservation.

PUDUCHERRY: The President of India has nominated S.A. Abbasi, senior professor and coordinator of Centre for Pollution Control and Energy Technology of Pondicherry University as member of the court of Banaras Hindu University .