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The weekly roundup, every Sunday. All 23 IITs checked by hand, every claim linked to its source.
News THE World University Rankings 2027: Only 5 IITs Made It
THE ranked 143 Indian universities this week and only five are IITs; the seven oldest are still boycotting and NIRF 2026 is a month late. Plus: an IIT Kharagpur rocket founder on TIME100 Next, IIT Bombay's director questioned, two IITians cleared to run HDFC Bank and Kotak, and all 23 IITs checked.
News22 Companies Broke 150 IIT Offers. The IITs Shut the Door.
Twenty-two companies made job offers to the IIT Class of 2026 and did not honour them. The IITs, acting together, will not work with them for two placement seasons. Oracle, per campus sources, is one. The committee won't name the rest, won't call it a blacklist, and the last ban lasted a season. Plus: IIT Bombay's probe in week two, IIT Madras's ₹450 crore fund, and all 23 IITs checked.
NewsA Professor Is in the FIR. IIT Students Won in Norway and Taiwan.
A second-year student died at IIT Bombay hours after being found with a phone in a mid-sem; by Saturday the invigilating professor was named in an FIR under the SC/ST Act and the Crime Branch had the case. The same week, IIT Madras won an autonomous-ship competition in Norway, four IIT Hyderabad first-years took an award home from Taiwan, and a Dhanbad scholar received his team's chip from the Prime Minister. Plus: IIT Delhi's inquiry slips to 30 September, IIT Kanpur will grant medical degrees before an MBBS, JAM 2027 quietly moved its deadline, NIRF is 16 days late, and all 23 IITs checked one by one.
NewsAll 23 IITs Have a Director. A Quarter of India's Institutes Don't.
A Hindustan Times count found 37 of India's 155 national institutes running on interim heads — and zero of them are IITs. Plus: JAM 2027 opened (a day earlier than most outlets reported), IIT Kharagpur's ₹90,000-a-month fellowships, a ₹200 crore quantum round with IIT Madras as investor, the IIT Mandi poster inquiry, and every one of the 23 IITs checked one by one.
NewsIIT-BHU Sent Adobe a CEO. The Supreme Court Sent IITs a Deadline.
An IIT-BHU electrical engineer was named Adobe's next CEO. GATE 2027 finally opened with a new Robotics paper. The Supreme Court set 31 October for the student-suicide task force's final report, IIT Delhi's protest paused for an external panel, and IIT Kanpur spent the week defending an ISKCON MoU — plus every one of the 23 IITs checked, one by one.
NewsIIT Delhi Protested. IIT Bombay Locked the Balconies.
IIT Delhi suspended classes over a student's death. IIT Bombay locked three hostels' terraces and started fitting grills. IIT Indore ran a national workshop on student mental health. Three answers to one question, and only one of them is a policy — plus a second GATE 2027 delay, 68.75 acres for IIT Mandi, and every one of the 23 IITs checked.
NewsIndia'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.