Admissions and scholarships
IIIT Delhi invites applications for its Ph.D. programme in Computational Biology, Computer Science and Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Human-Centered Design, Mathematics, and Social Sciences and Humanities. Scholarships are available. The deadline to register is November 15. For further details, visit https://tinyurl.com/3h8fxz9y
PwC India launched the Aspiring Women Leaders Scholarship to support female students from IIT Bombay, IIT-Kharagpur, NIT-Tiruchi, BITS-Pilani, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, and other empanelled institutes.
Eligibility: Students entering their second year of BTech or BE programmes
Rewards: Entire academic fees, laptops, and continued mentorship opportunities, technical workshops, voluntary internships, and pre-placement opportunities.
Deadline: November 6
Details at https://tinyurl.com/2puzb4bh
Amity University Online has partnered with universities in France, Germany, Switzerland and Spain to offer flexible pathways to global degrees, with options including test waivers, credit transfers and Indian fees for the initial study phase. Some programmes also offer study and work opportunities abroad. Course details and eligibility at https://tinyurl.com/yw7923ms
Events
Improving Schools with Social Emotional and Ecological Knowledge (SEEK), an initiative by OmniActive Improving Lives Foundation in partnership with Rangeet, is expanding to 180 Mumbai schools this academic year, with support from Nirlon Ltd. and OmniActive Health Technologies.
Xavier School of Management has completed summer internship placements for the 2026–28 batch across its Business Management and Human Resource Management programmes at the Jamshedpur and Delhi-NCR campuses. Recruiters included Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Amazon, Bain and Company, among others.
The theme of the 36th Elets World Education Summit 2026 was Building a Future-Ready Global Education Ecosystem. Speakers included Prof. Gobardhan Das, Member, NITI Aayog, Shashank Shah, Senior Specialist, Higher Education Division, NITI Aayog; Poonam Singh Jamwal, Chief Business Officer, Extramarks Education; Prof. Bharat Bhasker, Director, IIM-Ahmedabad, among others. Galgotias University received the Excellence in Industry-Aligned Curriculum and Employability award at the event.
The National Institute of Securities Markets has partnered with Computer Age Management Services (CAMS) to integrate CAMS Lens into its Compliance and RegTech Lab so that students and faculty get hands-on experience in regulatory research and compliance for India’s capital markets.
Bharti Real Estate hosted students from Indira Gandhi Delhi Technical University for Women under its Abhigyan initiative, offering practical insights into architectural design, urban planning, structural systems, and building engineering at a large-scale commercial development.
The University of Liverpool, the U.K., welcomed an inaugural batch of 300 students at its Bengaluru campus. The campus launch showcased its research ties with NIMHANS and a new seed fund with the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru.
IIT Kanpur concluded the third edition of IITK Samanvay, bringing industry and academia together to explore research and innovation partnerships. Dr. Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, was the chief guest. A partnership with the Gates Foundation to advance affordable, locally developed diagnostics was also announced.
Jai Hind College, Mumbai, has launched an undergraduate Marketing Lab where students will analyse real consumer data to study established marketing laws across Indian markets. Dr. Saumik Paul, Associate Professor at the University of Manchester, the U.K., was present at the launch.
IIM Sambalpur celebrated its 12th Foundation Day and hosted Marmagya 11.0, its annual business conclave, on the theme The Human Advantage in an AI Age. Ambassador Raj Kumar Srivastava, Dean of the Sushma Swaraj Institute of Foreign Service, was the chief guest.
VIT Bhopal University’s School of Advanced Sciences and Languages concluded IBCD 2026, a conference on business intelligence, computational mathematics and data analytics. Raj Shekhar Singh, DRDO Technology Director, was the chief guest.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, the U.S., and IIHMR University, Jaipur, inaugurated the 2026-28 cohort of the joint Master of Public Health programme. Meghan Davis, MPH Programme Chair at Johns Hopkins, delivered the inaugural address.
Russian test cosmonaut Nikolai Tikhonov spoke on space nuclear technologies and the physical and psychological demands of human spaceflight at the Science Festival India 2026, organised by the by Autonomous Non-Profit Organisation for Nuclear Inform Centers Development “Energy of the Future”, with support from Russia’s Rosatom and hosted by KCG College of Technology, Chennai
JEET AI has launched an AI Tutor that explains concepts using a virtual board, multimedia, and interactive simulations, allowing students to ask questions and revisit topics freely. Details at www.jeetai.live
Students of Anant National University will develop the design for a pedestrian bridge proposed by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) at Narol Crossroad, Ahmedabad, as part of a collaboration that takes design education beyond the classroom and into a live public infrastructure project.
Studies
A survey of 1000 college students across India by Interio by Godrej found that 77% experience discomfort due to poorly designed classroom seating.
Astronomers from the University of Warwick, the U.K., found that white dwarfs may glow in colours such as green, pink, cyan, yellow and purple, challenging assumptions about the colour patterns of these stellar remnants. The findings were published in RAS Techniques and Instruments.
Researchers from IIT Roorkee have developed HyEco, a platform that models urban flood spread and tracks disease-causing microbes to identify high-risk areas. A paper was published in Science Direct. Another study found that vulnerability to extreme floods and drought has intensified across several parts of the country, with an increasing concentration of districts facing multiple and overlapping pressures. A paper was published in npj Natural Hazards.
Prof. Bhupendra K. Sharma of the Department of Mathematics, BITS Pilani, was a member of a study titled Pathways towards a carbon-free energy system: Technological advances, policy barriers, and integrated decarbonisation strategies led by Prof. Hussein Togun, with contributions from researchers from Iraq, India, Saudi Arabia, and Chile.
BioNTech has opened an mRNA research and manufacturing facility at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, to develop experimental treatments and produce candidates for clinical trials across Asia-Pacific.
A study by researchers from Goa Institute of Management, BITS Pilani’s Hyderabad campus, Nirma University, and FMS Delhi challenges workplace stereotypes, especially about Gen Z’s commitment. The findings appear in the International Journal of Work Innovation.
Awards
Atharva Lele, a third-year student at BITS Design School, Mumbai, was placed third globally in Agorapode’s international AGP Design Contest for automotive design.
Six faculty members from Guwahati University, 56 from Lovely Professional University, and three each from FLAME University and Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Pimpri, Pune, were part of the world’s top 2% of scientists in the 2026 Stanford–Elsevier rankings.
Samsung India announced that QuantHunt from Raebareli, Uttar Pradesh, morphism from Raipur, Chhattisgarh, InnoBotix from New Delhi, and Somatrace from Hyderabad, Telangana, were the winning teams of Samsung Solve for Tomorrow 2026.
Boeing announced the winners of the 11th annual Boeing National Aeromodeling Competition. Team AIR Mavericks from College of Engineering and Technology, came first followed by Team Trydan Aerial from College of Engineering and Technology, and Team Tanish RC from Good Earth Convent School and GGN Institute of Vocational Studies.
Suramrit Singh Kohli, a Class 12 student at Jayshree Periwal International School, developed NanoClear, a magnetic nanoparticle prototype exploring microplastic removal from human blood. He won Gold and the Yale Science and Engineering Association’s Most Outstanding Exhibit in STEM Award at the IRIS National Fair in January, earning a place at ISEF 2026 in Phoenix, where he received a Zydus Special Award. His research paper was published by Springer Nature.
Collaborations
Medhavi Skills University, Sikkim, signed an MoU with the Regional Directorate of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Assam, under the Union Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, to implement Flexi-MoU programmes.
Woxsen University, Hyderabad, has partnered with XPO to strengthen industry-academia ties and offer students practical exposure through internships, live projects, trainee programmes, industry visits and expert interactions.
The Indian School of Business has signed an MoU with its Hyderabad PGP Class of 2015 representatives to launch the PGP Class of 2015 Startup Fellowship to support aspiring entrepreneurs.
The U.K.’s Sheffield Hallam University has partnered with India’s International Institute of Sports and Management for joint research, knowledge exchange, student and staff mobility, and potential academic collaborations.
BITS School of Management and the U.K.’s University of Durham have signed an Engagement Agreement to promote academic collaboration, joint research, and faculty and student exchanges between India and the U.K.