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Indian Express
30-05-2025
- Science
- Indian Express
IIT Jammu introduces BTech programme in Engineering Physics, admission through JEE Advanced
The Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, (IIT Jammu) has introduced a BTech course in Engineering Physics. With 25 seats, admission will be completed through the JEE Advanced 2025 scores, via JoSAA counselling. The curriculum of IIT Jammu covers semiconductors, quantum sensors, quantum computers, batteries, and solar cells, other than theoretical, experimental, and computational coursework, including nano and micro-fabrication and computational materials design. –Semiconductor fabrication –VLSI chip design –Photonic Device Design –Quantum Computing & communication –Design Quantum Algorithms Students who join the IIT Jammu course will get access to opportunities in academia, industry, and government research organisations. Meanwhile, the Joint Seat Allocation Authority (JoSAA) has released the detailed schedule for the 2025 counselling process. Candidates who have cleared either JEE Main 2025 or will clear JEE Advanced 2025 are eligible to participate. Only candidates who have cleared JEE Main 2025 or JEE Advanced 2025 are eligible to take part in JoSAA counselling and seat allocation. This year's counselling will be conducted in five rounds, with a special final round exclusively for IIT and NIT+ institutes. Students qualifying the Architecture Aptitude Test (AAT) will be allowed to select architecture-specific options from June 8, once the AAT results are released. To help candidates make informed choices, JoSAA will publish two mock seat allotments, the first on June 9 and the second on June 11. This will be based on the preferences entered up to those dates. Candidates must lock their final choices by June 12. The seat allotment results for the first round will be declared on June 14, after necessary verification and data reconciliation. Additionally, the results of JEE Advanced 2025 will be declared by IIT Kanpur on June 2, 2025, through the official website Students aiming for architecture programs must also qualify for the AAT to be eligible for those specific seats. This year, a total of 8,33,536 candidates appeared for JEE Main 2025 across both Session 1 and Session 2, out of which 7,75,383 candidates passed.
New Indian Express
11-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Telangana Bhavan emerges a sanctuary for the stranded
HYDERABAD: The Telangana Bhavan in New Delhi has emerged as a safe sanctuary for the hundreds of Telangana-origin people who are presently in regions within range of Pakistani missiles. On the directions of Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy, the Telangana Bhavan was designated as the nodal centre for coordination and relief operations for citizens stranded or returning from the affected areas. A 24x7 control room was established to receive distress calls and coordinate rescue and support efforts. On Saturday, Telangana Bhavan was sheltering 30 citizens, including students from Lovely Professional University (LPU), Jalandhar, and other individuals from Jammu, while five have safely returned to their home towns. The Bhavan has arranged accommodation, food and transportation for them. Resident Commissioner Gaurav Uppal has been proactive, interacting with the evacuees and collecting their details to further facilitate support. In addition, a medical camp has been set up at Telangana Bhavan to ensure immediate health check-ups and necessary care. Uppal stated that close liaison is being maintained with district administrations in the border regions from where distress calls are being received. Requesting anonymity, a scholar from IIT Jammu described the recent drone attacks to TNIE as 'horrible'. 'I was on the terrace talking to my mother when I saw lights in the sky. Within minutes, there was a loud sound and then blackout,' he recalled.
New Indian Express
11-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Kerala students face panic during drone attack amid tensions in Jammu and Punjab
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Aleena Manoj, an MTech student at IIT Jammu, was having dinner with her friends at the hostel canteen around 8.30 pm on May 8 when the lights suddenly went out. During a mock security drill conducted on the campus earlier in the day, the students were informed that there would be a blackout after 10 pm. This was owing to the possibility of a retaliatory strike by Pakistan after India launched Operation Sindoor. But the sudden blackout caught them unawares. A few hours later, amid the pitch darkness, the students heard heavy firing in the vicinity. They huddled together inside the hostel, fearing the worst. Little were they aware that the air defence system stationed in Jammu was busy shooting down Pakistani drones that came in by the dozens. After a few minutes, the explosions subsided, but a sleepless night lay ahead for the students. 'It was a first-time experience for us. Due to the loud firing, we couldn't sleep anymore. With the curtains drawn up, we were following the latest news updates on our mobile phones' Aleena, who hails from Kasaragod, told TNIE. She added that Pakistan's flagrant act of choosing civilian centres for attacks was shocking and unheard of.
Time of India
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Telangana students from Punjab, J&K seek to return
Hyderabad: Even as India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire in the wake of Operation Sindoor, more than 100 students from Lovely Professional University in Jalandhar, IIT Jammu, and other institutions in Srinagar reached the control room set up by the state govt at Telangana Bhavan in New Delhi. Officials said they were making arrangements to send the students to Telangana. However, it was not immediately known if the students would alter their plans now that the ceasefire has been agreed students started reaching out to Telangana Bhavan from Friday night, with the first batch being from IIT Jammu and other institutions in Srinagar. On Saturday morning, students from LPU began arriving."They came to New Delhi by rail and road. We are providing accommodation, food, and transport facilities to them to reach their homes in Telangana. Many students booked flight tickets from Delhi. A few others are making plans to travel by car to Telangana. Some of the tickets are not confirmed, and we are trying to get them confirmed. More people are expected to reach out to us," Telangana Bhavan resident commissioner Gaurav Uppal told many students did not come back after the Pahalgam terrorist attack on April 22. However, after Operation Sindoor was launched in the early hours of May 7, parents of the students started calling them back."We too wanted to return to Telangana. We could hear loud sounds during the night. There was no confirmation, but we used to discuss in our hostel rooms that a drone or a missile could have gone over our campus. There are nearly 300 students from Telangana in LPU, and all of us decided to come back. Many have already reached their homes. A final decision was taken after the university postponed our exams," said Ashrith Satya Bitla, a first-year BTech student at Saturday afternoon, the control room at Telangana Bhavan had received nearly 100 calls from students and students and those working in areas that are close to the Pakistan Bhavan helplineLandline: 011-23380556Vandhana, private secretary to the resident commissioner & liaison head – 9871999044Haider Ali Naqvi, personal assistant to the resident commissioner – 9971387500G Rakshith Naik, liaison officer – 9643723157Ch Chakravarthy, public relations officer – 9949351270Free food and lodging facilities are being provided to Telangana citizens returning from bordering states at Telangana Bhavan. Medical camps have been established for health check-upsTelangana residents are being provided transportation assistance to the airport, railway stations, and bus stands.
Mint
24-04-2025
- Business
- Mint
J&K colleges to see fewer admissions in upcoming season due to attack: Analysts
Education analysts caution that the recent attacks in Kashmir's Pahalgam will hit a number of students who plan to take admission in Jammu and Kashmir's top institutes such as IIM Jammu, IIT Jammu, NIT Srinagar, etc., in the coming years. "It (the attack) is definitely bad news for admissions in institutions in the region. People might look for alternatives to institutions in Jammu and Kashmir, because as parents, the first concern would be the safety and wellbeing of their children. All education institutes in Jammu should be worried,' said Narayanan Ramaswamy, partner and head of education and skill development practice at consulting firm KPMG in India. 'Having said that, a swift and definitive action by the Government with visible measures to assuage security concerns will go a long way in positioning J&K institutions as potential destinations,' Ramaswamy added. Faculty members at the institutions in the valley are assuring that campuses are secure and functioning as usual. 'We are working today. All of us are in office and safe. Terrorist attacks can happen anywhere, they have happened in the past in Mumbai too. It won't really affect the education here, so we are not concerned about placements or admissions,' an official at the Indian Institute of Management Jammu told Mint on Wednesday. Registrar of National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, Atikur Rehman, also said, 'There is no law and order situation here. The campus is safe. Our institute is a national-level institute and we are not concerned about admissions or placements at all. Everything is fine.' This is not the first time students in Jammu and Kashmir are facing such a situation. 'Only the Central institutes in J&K have got any substantial number of outside state students in the state. Except NIT Srinagar others are not based in the valley and are considered safe,' highlighted Suchindra Kumar, partner and sector leader for education sector at consulting firm PwC. 'There have been multiple issues during the last decade of local vs non-local issues at NIT campus itself, and the administration has taken agile steps to end the crisis, and bring the focus back on teaching-learning quickly. There have been cases of remote classes, and classes in Jammu for brief periods,' Kumar added. 'While the disruptions do impact the teaching and learning, the quality of students coming through JEE criteria, and the NIT brand has ensured continuity…Even during the 2010s when there was quite some disturbances in the valley, NIT Srinagar has operated on almost 90%+ of the total intake capacity,' Kumar said. State of J&K colleges In NIRF 2024, IIM Jammu ranked 42nd among the country's top management institutes and IIT Jammu and NIT Srinagar ranked 62nd and 79th respectively among the top engineering colleges. In the overall ratings, University of Kashmir was ranked 69th rank while the University of Jammu (JU) was at rank 87. As per the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2020-21, the latest data available on number of students studying in Jammu and Kashmir over 230,966 students are enrolled in under graduation courses and 20,278 post graduation as of 2020-21.
