IISc-Bangalore: News

26 Jun 2022

Education

GATE 2023: Format, eligibility criteria, fees, and more details

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is conducted jointly by the IISc Bangalore and seven IITs on behalf of the National Coordination Board (NCB)-GATE that functions under the Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education.

09 Sep 2021

NIRF

NIRF Rankings 2021: IITs dominate top positions; IIT-Madras #1

IIT-Madras, IISc-Bangalore, and IIT-Bombay have emerged as the country's top three higher education institutions in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings 2021, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan announced today.

16 Jul 2021

COVID-19 Vaccine

IISc's 'warm' COVID-19 vaccine effective against all major variants: Study

A heat-tolerant COVID-19 vaccine formulation developed by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru has proven effective against all current SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, according to a study in animals.

24 Jun 2018

Navi Mumbai

Hackathon-2018: Students present RFID-tech to locate lost baggage at airports

Students of three engineering colleges have come up with tagging technology that will use RFID chips to track luggage real-time at every stage of transfer, a concept that may bring an end to baggage being lost or their delivery delayed at Indian airports.

15 May 2018

Mumbai

ICSE, ISC results: 13 Mumbai students grabbed top 3 spots

Mumbai students performed brilliantly in ICSE and ISC board exams this year, with a total of 13 toppers from the city, both classes combined.

Bengaluru to become uninhabitable by 2030: IISc study

The country's IT city, Bengaluru, might become inhabitable by 2030, as per IISc.

23 Nov 2017

India

IIT-Bombay, IISc-Bangalore among the top-10 institutions in BRICS University Rankings

In a first, the prestigious IIT-Bombay has bagged the 9th position in the list of top 10 universities in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).

05 Sep 2017

Japan

Meet this extraordinary Bengaluru teacher who crowdfunded students' robot-building dream

This Teacher's Day, meet P Sridhar, an extraordinary robotics teacher at Bengaluru's Seva Bharti Government Higher Primary School.

23 Mar 2017

Sasikala Natarajan

Hate mails for VK Sasikala in jail

Convicted AIADMK leader Sasikala has reportedly received numerous letters from the people in TN accusing her for the death of Jayalalithaa.

21 Mar 2017

Karnataka

Karnataka witnessed non-PAN transactions worth Rs. 2,710 crore post demonetization

Post demonetization, numerous jewellers, petrol bunk owners, real-estate developers and contractors from Karnataka deposited more than Rs. 2.5lakh in their bank accounts till 30th December, 2016.

07 Nov 2016

Bengaluru

IISC Bengaluru develops 'salt' to combat microbial infections

A team from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru has designed a solid in the form of a salt - a combination of two known drugs - to combat microbial infections.