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Megathon 2025 (11 and 12 October 2025)

Get Ready to Innovate: Megathon is Back!

Prepare for a weekend of intense creativity as E-Cell, IIIT Hyderabad proudly presents its flagship event, Megathon 2025: The Deccan Edition – powered by CHUBB, in association with Qualcomm and Bhashini. Mark your calendars for October 11th and 12th for Hyderabad’s largest student-run hackathon. This year’s event celebrates the spirit of building in Hyderabad with an impact that extends to the world, bringing together the brightest student minds from across the country to solve real-world challenges.

Since its launch in 2016, Megathon has become the ultimate breeding ground for entrepreneurial spirit at IIIT Hyderabad and beyond. It’s more than just a coding competition; it’s a 24-hour immersion into collaborative problem-solving and entrepreneurial thinking. Building on the momentum of last year’s event, which saw over 650 innovators compete for a ₹4 lakh prize pool, this year promises to be even bigger, offering a record-breaking ₹6.5 lakh prize pool alongside invaluable opportunities for mentorship, networking, and hands-on learning.

Whether you’re a seasoned coder, a design enthusiast, or a business visionary, Megathon is the platform to transform your ideas into reality. Participants will have the chance to tackle compelling problem statements, develop prototypes, and pitch their solutions to a panel of industry experts. Join us to Meet, Ideate, and Hack. For more information, visit https://megathon.in/

IIIT Hyderabad’s Pivotal Role in BharatGen: Leading India’s Push for Sovereign AI and Indic LLMs

IIIT Hyderabad is driving BharatGen’s sovereign AI mission with Indic Vision-Language Models like Patram and eVikrAI, backed by Rs. 988.6 crore from MeitY to build multi-language AI for India. India’s sovereign AI efforts received a major boost with the government-backed BharatGen initiative, supported by Rs. 988.6 crore from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). Among the academic partners in the consortium, the International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) is playing a central role in advancing Indic Vision-Language Models (VLMs).BharatGen is led by IIT Bombay under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS). It brings together institutions including IIITH, IIT Mandi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Hyderabad, IIM Indore, and IIT Madras. The initiative is designed to build India-specific solutions that make AI accessible across multiple Indian languages, addressing the country’s linguistic diversity.

Sahithi Kukkala, MS student, supervised by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla and co-supervised by Dr. Mitesh Khapra, IIT Madras – AI4Bhāra and Oikantik Nath, Ph.D scholar, IIT Madras received the Best Student Paper  Runner-Up Award at ICDAR 2025 for their research on IndicDLP: A Foundational Dataset for Multi-Lingual and Multi-Domain Document Layout Parsing. ICDAR, the flagship document understanding conference, was held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September. 

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0 Team India won a gold and a bronze and several honourable mentions at the international linguistics Olympiad held in China. The Indian team was trained by LTRC through  various rounds.    Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0

Rohan Kumar, B.Tech, alumni and Jyothi Swaroopa Jinka, MS student  supervised by Dr. Ravi Kiran Sarvadevabhatla received the Best Student Paper Award at ICDAR 2025 for their research on TexTAR – Textual Attribute Recognition in Multi-domain and Multi-lingual Document Images. ICDAR, the flagship document understanding conference, was held in Wuhan, Hubei, China, from 16 – 21 September 2025.

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0 Team India won a gold and a bronze and several honourable mentions at the international linguistics Olympiad held in China. The Indian team was trained by LTRC through  various rounds.    Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/live/gItdSUJCiX0

NAMS–IIITH Orientation Course on AI for Medical Professionals Concludes Successfully

The 2nd Edition of the Orientation Course on AI for Medical Professionals, jointly organized by NAMS, iHub-Data, and IIITH, concluded on September 21 with a day-long offline valedictory session held simultaneously in Delhi and Hyderabad. Launched on June 15, this 12-week program introduced 110 participants from India, the U.S., the U.K., Romania, Cambodia, and the UAE to the fundamentals and applications of AI in healthcare. Delivered through pre-recorded lectures, live Q&A sessions, tutorials, and no-code AI demonstrations, the course simplified complex AI concepts for medical professionals from non-technical backgrounds. The valedictory session featured the Course Report by Prof. Bapi Raju, closing remarks by Prof. Sandeep Shukla, Director, IIIT Hyderabad, and Padma Shri Dr. D. Behera, President, NAMS, along with addresses by Padma Shri Dr. Yogesh Chawla and Prof. Y.K. Gupta, Principal Advisor, GARDP. Certificates will be jointly issued by NAMS, iHub-Data, and IIIT Hyderabad.