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  IIT Madras has reported an additional 79 Covid-19 positive cases taking the total to 183 infected persons - mostly students - at the premier engineering institute. On Monday, over 100 people had tested positive for Covid-19 at the institute. Those who have tested positive include research scholars, staff members and students who are admitted to the Kings Institute.   Speaking to reporters J Radhakrishnan, Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare said that 79 people including students have tested positive for coronavirus in IIT-M thereby taking the total number of to 183. He said coronavirus tests will be done at all the Universities and educational institutions. IIT-M had decided to shut down all its departments on Monday. The post graduate students, research scholars and others have been asked to be confined to their rooms with arrangements made to deliver food to them. Read More

Job offers for students of Indian Institute of Technology , Madras (IITM) during the first phase of placements for 2018-19 has gone up by nearly 30 per cent compared to last year, the institute said. The number includes pre-placement offers (PPO) as well. IITM said the first in three days of placements (1-3 December 2018) 133 companies arrived at the campus and extended 680 offers to the students. “When combined with 136 PPOs, the total number of offers stands at 816 at the end of Day Three," said IIT Madras authorities. According to IITM, 13 international job offers have also been extended. As many as 20 startups have made 78 offers at the end of Day 3. During the academic year 2017-18, 106 companies made 526 offers (643 including PPOs) at the end of third day of phase I of campus placements. Prof Manu Santhanam, Advisor (Placements), IITM said, “We had a great start to this year’s placements. We hope the strong trend continues over the next four days as