The Union education ministry has sanctioned Rs 129 crore for the IIEST to build a 10-storey hostel, addressing a long-standing grievance of the Shibpur tech school that has been missing out on many br...

Two octogenarians did not think about their health and stepped out of their homes amidst the pandemic to reach IIEST Shibpur on Tuesday evening and hand over cheques of Rs 50 lakh each to the institut...

The IIEST director has appealed to the Union education ministry for immediate sanction of funds for building hostels on the Shibpur campus, where the authorities struggle to accommodate students. Par...

A young man who could not study engineering because of financial constraints wanted to do something so that an engineering student did not have to quit studies for want of money. On his death, he lef...

The pandemic has tested life, thrown up challenges and gifted some enduring takeaways. One such happy outcome is an animal welfare club that has been formed to take care of Bullet, Tiny, Blacky, Shiro...

The IIEST director has appealed to the education ministry for a waiver of tuition fee for some students who have written to the Shibpur institute that they are in no position to pay because of the Cov...

Final-year BTech students of IIEST Shibpur will take the final-semester supplementary exams on the campus. The institute took the decision after a survey showed many students might not be able to tak...

All shops, including four canteens, on the campus of IIEST Shibpur will be allowed to reopen in phases from November 1 as the institute is preparing to recall PhD and postgraduate students after Octob...

The board of governors at IIEST has expressed concern over the delay in the construction of a hostel and an academic complex six years after the Shibpur tech school was upgraded to its present status,...

Some students at IIEST Shibpur have requested the authorities to waive their tuition fees because “family earnings have been hit” by the pandemic. The board of governors, the highest-deci...