Directors of IIT across the country seems united in the need to safeguard the autonomy of the institutions.

THE Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been a symbol of progress, technologically and otherwise.

There is nothing great in being an IITian, says Raj Varadarajan, one of the early graduates of the premier institute.

It's 2 p.m. and organisers of the Pan IIT 2008, a global conference of IIT alumni, are getting together for a late lunch at the alumni office in IIT-Madras' sylvan campus.

Fat pay cheques or promising careers do not seem to attract engineers anymore, this is reflected by the IITans.

The more you think about it, the weirder it gets - this rule is applicable to a section of modern youth that is constantly stuck in relationships.

Marketing the entertainment quotient of the annual IIT alumni Global Conference.

PanIIT, an umbrella organization of all seven IITs has organized a three-day conference of IIT alumni at Chennai from December 19, 2008.

During the summer of 2001, Ram Krishnan, an IIT Madras alumnus living in Minnesota, learnt that the institution was closed for four months instead of the regular two.

The best bands from IITs across India will compete against each other for the IIT Idol 2008.

'IIT Idol' will see the best bands from IIT campuses battle it out.

The country's most celebrated geeks, students of the Indian Institute of Technology, are braced up to show they aren't just bookworms.

Do IITians really contribute to nation building? How important is their role in multinational corporations and is there any effort to quantify their value in pushing forward the global economy?

Raging debates over the societal contribution made by the IITians on whom the government has invested millions of rupees over the past 50 plus years.

Alumni of seven Indian Institutes of Technology(IIT). when measured across industry, government, entrepreneurial activity and scientific/ technological innovations.

IIT alumni in senior positions in industry and government across the globe have budgetary responsibility for over Rs 40 lakh crore ($885 billion) annually, says IIT alumni impact study 2008.

The first IIT alumni impact study has oulined the rich contribution made by IITians to economic value addition, job creation and managing huge budgets in the last 50 years in India and abroad.