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NIRF Rankings 2022: Top 10 research institutes in India
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According to the rankings while IISC Bengaluru bagged the top place as the number one research institute in India, IIT Madras and IIT Delhi named as top 2 and top 3 in the list. This year, IIT Delhi has replaced IIT Bombay to grab the third rank. Here is the complete list of top 10 research institutes in India, as per the NIRF rankings 2022. The NIRF 2022 has released its ranking for rating higher educational institutions across the country.
NIRF Ranking 2022: Five DU colleges among top 10 in India, Jamia Millia Islamia's ranking improves
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As per the NIRF Rankings 2022 released on Friday by the Union Ministry of Education, DU's Miranda House College as well as the Hindu College have been selected as the first and the second top educational institutions respectively across the country. Overall, five colleges from DU are selected among the top 10 colleges across the country.
IIT-Guwahati resumes physical classes after 2 years
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IIT-G officials said that the institute has revoked the Covid restrictions that were earlier imposed as there are no coronavirus cases in the campus, resuming the physical classes for the students. However, all necessary precautions prescribed by the government are in place to be followed. IIT-G was established in 1994 and it completed 25 years of existence in 2019.
IIIT-Agartala student bags Rs 1.15cr package from Amazon
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A final year student pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Agartala (IIIT-Agartala), has bagged Rs 1.15 crore package per annum offer from e-commerce giant Amazon, sources said on Monday. NIT-Agartala Assistant Professor Rajib Mallik said that Subham Raj, who has bagged the offer from Amazon with an annual Package of 1.3 lakh euros (Rs 1.15 crore), would join Amazon's Berlin office in September this year as a Software Development Engineer.
India's 'SHAKTI' microprocessor developer Prof Kamakoti to head IIT Madras
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An alumnus of IITM, Kamakoti, is currently the Associate Dean for Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (ICSR) at the institute. He is also a member of the National Security Advisory Board, Government of India. Kamakoti, who is a faculty in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, led the research team that designed and booted up India's first indigenously-developed microprocessor 'SHAKTI' that can be used in mobile computing devices and networking systems.
IIT-Bombay records highest, most lucrative placements this year
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This year (2021-2022) has seen a total of 1,382 offers accepted compared with 973 last year and 1,172 the year before that, comprising both pre-placement and campus placement offers. The IIT-B has also received the highest domestic CTC package of Rs 1.68 crore annually, the top-most international package is around Rs 2.17 crore per year, and the average CTC of all recruitments this year stands at around Rs 25 lakh per annum.
IIT-Delhi beats top varsities by offering record placements
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Among the firms that hired the students are Microsoft, HCL Tech, Jaguar Land Rover, EXL Analytics and Graviton Research Capital LLP India. With this record number of jobs offered to students, IIT-Delhi has leapt past some big names like the University of Chicago, University of California, Berkeley and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, etc.
From Raghuram Rajan to Sachin and Binny Bansal - IIT-D's power-packed alumnus
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Established in 1961, IIT-D was the fifth such institute after Kharagpur (1951), Bombay (1958), Madras (1959) and Kanpur (1959). IIT-D is known for producing top entrepreneurs, scientists, economists, politicians and lawyers for years, and has always kept a distinct place among the top five IITs, out of the 23 in India.
IIT-Delhi sets up sponsored research parks for research worth Rs 700cr
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Several government institutions have also invested crores for doing collaborative research on a large scale with the IIT-D. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is planning to invest around Rs 500 crore to design and develop defence equipment in collaboration. At the special parks, which is being set up within the college campus, many big NGOs will also participate to promote industry collaboration.
Mridul Agarwal scores highest ever percentage in IIT-JEE exam  
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Mridul obtained AIR-1 in JEE-Main 2021. He scored 300 out of 300 marks and a 100 percentile in the March attempt, while he achieved 100 percentile in the February attempt. "It is important to keep faith in oneself. It is not impossible to create or break a record. For this, one has to prepare a strategy and work accordingly. Also, have the utmost trust in your mentors and institute, he says.
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