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From preparing for engineering entrance exams inside a jail, to securing a rank of 453 in IIT JEE – 18-year-old Piyush Goyal’s journey has been one of hard work and determination.

From the tiny village of Paroria in Bihar comes this incredible story of the bond between two brothers who fought poverty and disability to crack the IIT entrance exam this year.

Meet the topper of the JEE advanced examination for 2016, Aman Bansal, and learn all about his motivations and aspirations.

Over 75 students from different engineering streams of IIT Bombay have developed a racing car named ORCA, which is now going to compete against similar cars at the Formula Student UK competition.

This move comes after half a dozen students committed suicide in Kota, which is known as the coaching capital of India.

In a bid to stem the rising number of student suicides, the District Collector of Kota writes to parents, urges them to stop pressurising kids during exams.

A device that converts pollutants to ink, a driverless bicycle for the disabled, a solar lamp the size of your palm: the IItians of India have come up with many inventions that make our lives simpler.

He is the 23-year-old blind CEO of the Rs. 50 crore Hyderabad-based Bollant Industries. The company employs disabled and uneducated people to manufacture eco-friendly disposable packaging products.

IIT-Madras student, Avisek Barla, has invented a new milk adulteration detector: a paper strip that changes colour when it comes in contact with adulterants.

India’s higher education system is in a crisis — it is broken on all fronts that matter and is disconnected from the needs and aspirations of its people, society and industry. But here are six ways in which it can be developed with the help of a revolution.