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New Delhi: KPIT Sparkle is an innovation and entrepreneurship platform that encourages students from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) domains to develop and incubate transformative solutions for automotive and energy industries.
The teams with 20 best ideas, shortlisted from over 2,700 entries across India, successfully presented prototypes virtually.
Team Nano-Fluid from ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute, Bengaluru, won the platinum award of INR 10 lakhs.
Team 3D Printer from the Pimpri Chinchwad College of Engineering, Pune, won the gold award of INR 5 lakhs. Projects from Team Sand Bird, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore; KCG College of Technology, Kancheepuram; and Team AI-Air Battery, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai; won the silver awards of INR. 2.5 lakh each.
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THE National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), a pioneering institute working in the field of dairy research and education since 1923, has again bagged the top position in the country in the Indian Council of Agricultural Research’s (ICAR) Agricultural Universities Ranking. It is the fourth time in a row that the NDRI has achieved this distinction. The institute had received the Sardar Patel Outstanding Institute Award in the dairy sector in 2014.
Originally started as Imperial Institute of Animal Husbandry and Dairying in Bangalore in 1923, the institute was named NDRI after Independence. It was shifted to Karnal in 1955. In 1989, it got the status of a deemed university. National icons like Mahatma Gandhi and Madan Mohan Malaviya received training from this institute when it was based in Bangalore. The NDRI has two regional stations: southern (Bengaluru) and eastern (Kalyani).
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Top 20 Agricultural Universities in India
Updated 11 December, 2020 3:41 PM IST
The demand for skilled professionals in agriculture sector is growing day by day. After completing graduation or post-graduation degree in agriculture, you can get a good job in private as well as government sector. You can work as an Agriculture Officer, Research Scientist, Agri expert, Production Manager, Farm Manager etc.
Now that you have planned to build a career in agriculture, the next important step is to take admission in a reputed university or college so as to gain maximum benefits in the form of best education, good faculty, well-equipped libraries & placement cell.