Many IIT grads quitting high-profile jobs to start their own cos in the $48-billion food sector

MUMBAI: Prasoon Gupta, Manish Goyal, Badal Goel — all graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology, all with high-paying corporate jobs. Then they gave it all up to get into the food business, setting up individual ventures that form part of the burgeoning $48 billion food service business in India. In February, IIT Roorkee graduate Gupta quit his five-year-old venture Tech Buddy Consulting and founded a new eating concept in Delhi that caters to more than 300 people daily. Sattviko is inspired by the sattvik way of life that emphasises purity...

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IIT-Delhi students bag best innovation award

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A group of students from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi (IIT-Delhi) bagged the best project at the ninth National Innovation Contest — TechTop 2014 which concluded here on Saturday. An affordable refreshable Braille display got the best project award. Ankit Kumar, Dhruv Gupta and Pulkit Sapra from the mechanical engineering department, showcased a facility that will help more usage of the Braille display among visually challenged. The students got a cash prize of Rs.one lakh. The two-day event was held at the Mar Baselios...

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They can crack anything except Hindi at IIT, says survey

The IIT Bombay campus, supposed to be cosmopolitan in nature, is Hindi-centric, feel more than half the students. So, those from the southern states find it difficult to mingle with others and end up forming their own social groups and sticking to them throughout their stay in the institute. These are some of the findings of an extensive survey conducted by IIT Bombay students. They have compiled it in a report, "We don't need no segregation", published in the latest issue of the campus newspaper "Insight". The survey finds that 83% students in...

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