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The weekly roundup, every Sunday. All 23 IITs checked by hand, every claim linked to its source.
News India's Oldest IIT Turned 75. Its Youngest Got an Astronaut.
IIT Kharagpur marked 75 years since Hijli, IIT Tirupati handed 457 degrees with Shubhanshu Shukla on stage, and IIT Palakkad opened a DGCA-approved drone school that Kerala's press never covered.
NewsGATE 2027 Needs a Verified DigiLocker: What It Actually Pulls
GATE 2027 registration opens 27 August 2026 and IIT Madras has put a verified DigiLocker account in front of the form for every Indian national. It pulls seven identity fields, and not one of them is your degree. The thing that can actually block you is a name mismatch, and that runs on UIDAI's clock.
NewsThe Week the Other 18 IITs Ran the News Cycle
IIT Dhanbad signed a rare-earths MoU with Andhra Pradesh, IIT Bhubaneswar landed in Nano Letters and IIT Indore filed a patent, while Bombay, Delhi and Madras managed one press release each.
NewsParam Pragya Switched On, Two Hostel Messes Switched Off
IIT Weekly Roundup for 3–9 August 2026. The Prime Minister inaugurated the Param Pragya AI supercomputer at IIT Delhi's Sonipat campus on Saturday. Four days earlier, Maharashtra's FDA ordered two IIT Bombay hostel messes to stop serving. IIT Ropar graduated 761, six IIT Madras professors won ₹25-lakh-a-year grants, and IIT Guwahati built a water-toxicant detector for ₹3,500. All 23 IITs covered.
NewsThe IIT Week: NPCIL, 500 Placements, and Grief on Three Campuses
IIT Weekly Roundup for July 26 – August 2, 2026. IIT Bombay signed three MoUs in 48 hours (NPCIL nuclear, NPCIL AI, NSDL/BharatGen cybersecurity). IIT Bhubaneswar broke its own placement record with 500+ offers. IIT Madras shipped a cooling breakthrough plus a Tamil Nadu MSME AI partnership plus the first BIMSTEC hackathon. And three IIT campuses grieved.
NewsIIT Madras Heat Pipe Cools Electronics 30% Better
IIT Madras Mechanical Engineering announced a novel antiparallel flat-plate pulsating heat pipe on 27 July 2026 that cuts electronics thermal resistance three ways: 16% from an O-ring seal, 20% from switching copper to aluminium, and another 16% from a superhydrophilic surface. DRDO-funded, peer-reviewed, and arriving as AI GPU racks push past 100 kW.
NewsGATE 2027 Adds Robotics Paper in First Overhaul in 5 Years
IIT Madras dropped the GATE 2027 schedule on 20 July 2026 with a brand-new Robotics & Automation paper, big CS revisions, and the first syllabus refresh since 2022. Here is what changed, when to register, and why it matters.
NewsIIT Week: Pradhan Out, ePlane Flies, GATE 2027 Drops
Pradhan resigns as Education Minister over NEET-UG, Pralhad Joshi takes additional charge, IIT Madras spinout ePlane unveils India's first full-scale eVTOL, GATE 2027 syllabus overhaul lands with a new Robotics paper, and Groww's INV.ENT cohort launches at IIT Bombay. A working file on the week the ministry rotated.
NewsPradhan Resigns, Pralhad Joshi Takes the Education Ministry
Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on 25 July 2026 amid NEET-UG paper-leak protests. Pralhad Joshi — the BJP MP from Dharwad, already carrying three portfolios — took additional charge on 26 July. He has no prior stint in a technical-education portfolio.
NewsIIT Week: JoSAA Round 5, a Nature Paper, an ISO 45001 First
IIT news for the week of 13-19 July 2026 across all 23 IITs: JoSAA Round 5 closed the 2026 IIT cycle, Sudha Murty received IIT Dharwad's first honorary doctorate, IIT Bhubaneswar co-authored a Nature Nanotechnology spintronic breakthrough, IIT Madras became first CFTI with ISO 45001, plus IIT Dhanbad nuclear symposium, IIT Palakkad convocation, IIT Gandhinagar SAMARTH ₹190 Cr semiconductor hub, and full round-block covering every IIT.
NewsThe Week the Top-6 IIT CSE Froze — and Japan Joined BharatGen
JoSAA Rounds 3 & 4 freeze top-6 IIT CSE. Japan × India × BharatGen sign trilateral LLM MoU. IIT Delhi-Abu Dhabi opens UAE bootcamp. Renault picks IIT Kanpur wind tunnel. Vaishnaw floats AI Data Trust at IIT Hyderabad. Plus: new Careers Watch section tracking IIT-founded companies raising this week.
NewsKharagpur's Platinum Class, Bombay Goes Nuclear, Delhi Flies
Seven of the 23 IITs made real news this week — Kharagpur's Platinum Jubilee convocation, Bombay's Nuclear Engineering programme, Delhi's Aerostat demo, IITM Pravartak's five-year mark, plus JoSAA Round 2 and four alumni-founder raises. What actually shipped between 29 June and 5 July.