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Shashank Agrawal grew up in a family earning ₹3,000 monthly in rural Rajasthan, and his mother couldn't believe it when he told her about his ₹1.2 crore salary offer. His journey from playing mobile games in Class 11 to ranking 20th in India's toughest engineering exam shows what persistence can do.
When teachers called her nursery student "stupid" and threatened removal, one Indian mother abandoned strict parenting for moon gazing, dancing, and deep conversations. Her son just graduated from IIT Bombay.
Scientists at IIT Bombay have cracked a ceiling that's limited solar panels for decades by stacking two different materials to capture more sunlight. Their breakthrough could make clean energy cheaper and more powerful.
A team at IIT Bombay has cracked the code on making carbon capture profitable by turning factory emissions into valuable minerals instead of just burying the gas. Their company UrjanovaC won a national climate innovation challenge and could help heavy industries finally afford to go green.
Researchers at IIT Bombay just solved a decades-old chemistry puzzle that could make life-saving drugs faster, cheaper, and more accessible. Their breakthrough turns common fatty acids into complex molecules in a fraction of the time it used to take.
Scientists in Mumbai have cracked a way to make antibiotic-resistant bacteria vulnerable again using specially designed DNA sequences. The breakthrough could restore the power of older antibiotics that bacteria learned to defeat.
Farmers across India no longer have to wait weeks for lab results to know what their soil needs. A pocket-sized device invented at IIT Bombay now delivers complete soil health reports in just five minutes, right in the field.