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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (abbreviated IIT Roorkee) is a technical university located in Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India. It is the oldest engineering institution in India, [3] and was founded as the College of Civil Engineering in North-Western Provinces in 1847 by the Lieutenant-Governor, James Thomason, in order to train officers ...
Sudhir K. Jain (born 1959), Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University. Nilmani Mitra (1828–1894), 19th century architect, designer of several palaces in Kolkata [4] Henry Benedict Medlicott (1829–1905), Irish geologist and professor of geology. John Underwood Bateman-Champain (1835–1887), British army officer and engineer in India ...
Establishment of IIT Guwahati and IIT Roorkee. After the establishment of IIT in Delhi, there was a long gap in any notable development in the history of IITs. However, in the beginning of the 1990s, widespread student agitations in Assam led to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi promising another IIT in Assam. Rajiv Gandhi agreed to it on the spot ...
Joint Entrance Examination – Advanced ( JEE-Advanced) (formerly the Indian Institute of Technology – Joint Entrance Examination ( IIT-JEE )), is an academic examination held annually in India that tests the skills and knowledge of the applicants in physics, chemistry and maths. It is organised by one of the seven zonal IITs ( IIT Roorkee ...
In 2019 QS World University Ranking, IIT Bombay ranked highest at 162, followed by IIT Delhi (172), IIT Madras (264), IIT Kanpur (283), IIT Kharagpur (295), IIT Roorkee (381) and IIT Guwahati (472). In the 2022 NIRF rankings published by Ministry of Education, India , IIT Madras has been ranked 1st for seven consecutive years in the Engineering ...
Thomso is the annual cultural fest of Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. [1] [2] Established in 1982, the festival is held over a span of three days at the end of October and the beginning of November. The 2018 edition consisted of over 150+ events and hosted 9000+ guest students from 200 colleges across India, in addition to more than ...
Director, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Doctoral advisor. Anil K. Chopra. Pradipta Banerji is a former director of Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), a post he held from October 2011 to October 2017. He also was professor of Civil Engineering at IIT Bombay [1] and at IIT Roorkee. [2]
Sex ratio. 1.12 [1] ♂ / ♀. Roorkee (Rūṛkī) is a city and a municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is 31 km (19 mi) from Haridwar city, the district headquarter. It was a part of Landhaura Princely State of Panwar Gurjar 's till 1824 when the British occupied it by defeating first freedom ...