Kota: The journey of polio-stricken Krishan and his younger sibling Basant from a poor family in Bihar to cracking the IIT entrance has been arduous and inspirational. For many years, Basant Kumar ...

In 1986, Kota came in the IIT limelight when local boy Sanjeev Arora topped the entrance exam. Bansal says 13 of his students cracked the entrance test in 1990.

Rachna Chaudhary (18), who is taking coaching in Kota, secured all-India rank (AIR) 2072 in the persons with disabilities (PwD) category in JEE Mains, the results of which were declared on April 27.

An IIT aspirant named Kushagra Rastogi (18) from Uttar Pradesh died under mysterious conditions in Kota on Monday. Rastogi was found in an unconscious state in the bathroom and was rushed to the ...

Seventeen-year-old Tuhin Dey is wheelchair-bound. He holds the pen with his mouth to write and operates gadgets using his chin. The boy from West Bengal is in Kota for coaching for engineering ...

Kota’s coaching centres produce JEE toppers, but many students face despair, ... Beyond the IIT dream. In Kota, for every student who cracks the JEE, there are dozens who don’t.

An upper caste student at IIT Gandhinagar said, “I secured Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) rank 100, but there are students who came in at 1,000. I have a better IQ, and they will have to work ...

Aspiring to be engineers, the brothers moved to Kota 3 years ago and took admission in a coaching centre to prepare for IIT entrance test.

Moving to Kota for coaching, over 1,400km away, in 2013 was a daunting idea for the two as they had never travelled so far before. Two years later, they returned home as their father could no ...

Rs 120 crore was spent on the Indian Institute Science, Bangalore, while Rs 463 crore was spent on 19 IIMs and Rs 550 crore on 6 Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research. (PTI) The ...