A recent video by the popular YouTube channel Real Engineering, titled “The Unlikely Rise of the Indian Space Program”, has sparked major backlash in India. While the video lauded Isro’s achievements, it featured a distorted map of India, excluding territories which are integral parts of the nation. The omission triggered accusations that the channel was…
A New Jersey transit train pulls into the Secaucus Junction station (Image: AP) New Jersey Transit train engineers went on strike Friday, leaving an estimated 350,000 commuters in New Jersey and New York City to seek other means to reach their destinations or consider staying home. The walkout comes after the latest round of negotiations…
HPCL Junior Executive Recruitment 2025: Apply by 30 April for 63 Diploma Engineer Vacancies HPCL Junior Executive Recruitment 2025: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), a renowned Maharatna Public Sector Undertaking (PSU), has announced the recruitment for Junior Executive positions in 2025. This recruitment drive is specifically targeting diploma holders in various engineering disciplines, offering an…
They handled the secure transport of nuclear materials — dangerous, demanding work that requires rigorous training. Four of them took the Trump administration’s offer of a buyout and left the National Nuclear Security Administration. A half-dozen staff members left a unit in the agency that builds reactors for nuclear submarines. And a biochemist and engineer…
NEW DELHI: IIT-Kharagpur alumnus Varun Vummadi, CEO of the US-based tech company Giga ML, ignited a debate on work ethic and work-life balance in the tech industry after he claimed in a post on X that many Indian engineers are unwilling to work hard despite being offered high salaries. “I’ve noticed a pattern in hiring…
Budget 2025: A New Era for IITs with AI Investment, Fellowship Boost, and Infrastructure Growth. (Representative Image) Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Education Budget 2025 today, unveiling a series of strategic initiatives aimed at transforming India’s engineering education and research landscape. The budget outlines ambitious plans to expand the Indian Institutes of Technology…
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff emphasised that Agentforce, their primary AI offering, has become the company’s central focus. (AI image) Salesforce, the San Francisco-based software giant, has announced that it will not be hiring any more engineers this year, citing substantial productivity improvements from artificial intelligence. During the 20VC with Harry Stebbings podcast, Salesforce CEO Marc…
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta announced the much-anticipated Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 results on December 19, 2024. CAT is one of India’s most prestigious management entrance exams, attracting lakhs of aspirants each year who aim to secure admission to postgraduate management programs at IIMs and other top business schools nationwide.While students from…
MUMBAI: Fourteen candidates, including one female student, scored the perfect score in Common Admission Test (CAT) 2024 for admissions to premier Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). Engineering students dominate the list of toppers, with only one non-engineering student bagging 100 percentile. The number of toppers is the same as last year. IIM-Calcutta, the convening body…
A German aerospace engineer has chosen an extraordinary mission to set a world record by living in a submersible capsule 11 meters (36 feet) beneath the sea off Panama’s coast.Rudiger Koch, 59, has already spent two months underwater and has two more months to go. His ambitions extend beyond record-setting. He believes this experiment as…