Tag: IIT Roorkee

NIRF Ranking 2023: IIT Madras top institution, Miranda House best college

The rankings covered 13 categories, including overall, university, colleges, engineering, management, pharmacy, law, medical, architecture, dental, research, agriculture, and innovation.

June 5, 2023

IIT Roorkee identifies new antibacterial molecule to fight superbugs

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee have identified a new antibacterial small molecule that could help in the fight against drug-resistant infections.

March 12, 2023

NMCG asks IIT Roorkee to seek ways to stop soil erosion along Ganga basin

The Executive Committee of NMCG has asked the IIT Roorkee to identify the critical soil erosion prone areas in the NMCG project and explore best management practices to conserve soil and water.

October 29, 2021

IIT Roorkee commemorates World Mental Health Day with Olympics silver medalist Ravi Kumar Dahiya

The event was presided over by the General Secretary, Wellness Centre, Abhishek Kumar, who opened the session with a video clip of Dahiya showing his Olympic semi-final bout, which stunned everyone in the audience.

October 16, 2021

IIT Roorkee, Shoolini University sign MoU to find solutions for issues concerning HP

The MoU will also work towards contributing to smart agriculture, smart cities, digital medicine and EduTech to make the world way better place through the power of technology.

September 15, 2021

IIT Roorkee launches India’s first Earthquake Early Warning Mobile App, ‘Uttarakhand Bhookamp Alert’

It is a path-breaking achievement for the institute as it is the country's first application for notifying people about earthquake alerts.

August 7, 2021

Seven new academic programmes at IIT Roorkee

"New initiatives of this kind separate the leaders from followers, and I am delighted to hear about the outlines and philosophy of the programmes. I hope these programmes would help students and working professionals add value to their respective fields," said Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, while inaugurating the new programmes.

August 2, 2021

Divyasampark I-Hub a reality at IIT Roorkee

It is being spearheaded by Manish Anand in his capacity as the CEO of the Company.

July 1, 2021

IIT Roorkee and IMU Visakhapatnam develop fuel-efficient maritime transportation solution

India’s broad coastline witnesses the development of several new ports even as existing ports are expanded to meet increased volumes of marine traffic and facilitate future maritime trade.

June 19, 2021

IIT Roorkee holds interaction program with P Iyer on sanitation mission in India

Mr. Iyer led the Swachh Bharat Mission program, a flagship program of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, 2016 to 2020.

May 22, 2021

NIUA with Indian Institute of Technology- Roorkee holds Public Consultation meetings to build accessible, safe and inclusive cities

The meetings were held with persons with disabilities, elderly and their caregivers on 22nd April, 2021 and women, children (With or without disabilities) and their caregivers on 24th April, 2021, on virtual platform.

May 8, 2021

IIT Roorkee collaborates with Great Learning to offer high-quality tech programs for freshers and young professionals

The programs, offered under the aegis of IIT Roorkee, are of two types - Advanced Certificate Program in Full Stack Software Development spanning 10 months with specialization in either Cloud Computing or Python for Data Science, and Shorter Duration Certificate Programs in Front End Software Development, Back End Software Development, Cloud Computing & Python for Data Science.

May 5, 2021

IIT Roorkee launches online certificate programs in Data Science and Machine Learning on Coursera

“We are happy to announce two certificate courses in data science, machine learning, and AI in partnership with Coursera. This will enable a large number of aspirants to acquire these relevant areas for their professional growth,” said Prof Ajit K Chaturvedi, Director, IIT Roorkee.

April 20, 2021

IIT Roorkee celebrates National Science Day

The Institute had also organized an Online Debate competition held on February 20, 2021 in which a total 06 schools participated in the two different categories (Category I- Class IX-XII and Category II- ClassVI-VIII).

February 28, 2021

IIT Roorkee inaugurates state-of-the-art Centre for Drone Research

This Centre is envisaged to evolve as a unique facility at the national level wherein state-of-the-art and frontier research would be conducted on several aspects of Drone technology, including Drone development, Drone applications and Anti-Drone technology.

February 21, 2021

IIT Roorkee organizes virtual workshop on water issues

The workshop identified issues, problems and projects to explore synergies among various institutes to conduct in-depth research in this direction.

February 15, 2021

Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and IIT Roorkee sign MoU

In this direction, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 22 January 2021, in New Delhi for the continuation of MoRTH Professorial Chair focusing on research and development, teaching and training in the area of Development of Highway Infrastructure.

January 23, 2021