Uttar Pradesh 
Captioning Images Automatically
There are about an estimated 750 billion photographs on the internet now – most were uploaded without adequate descriptions. Here is the beginning of a system that can help sort out the mess. The revolution in the realm of images similar to ChatGPT in textual realm.
Tectonic Assessment in Meghalaya: river morphology as proxy
By analysing the drainage of stream networks in Meghalaya, researchers from the Shiv Nadar University deduce tectonic activity in the region and map earthquake hazard zones, suggest caution for people living in areas around Khasi, Jaintia and the Garo Hills.
Detecting Road Damage: Using smartphone images
A smartphone on a vehicle windshield picks up an image of damaged road, geotags and sends them to cloud storage. An algorithm classifies the damage, alerts authorities to take action. Future of road maintenance technology from IIT Roorkee.
Dealing with Dyes: Fungi to the rescue
Lakshmi Tiwari and Barkha Sharma from the G B Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pant Nagar have come up with a cute solution to water pollution by the dangerous dye, Congo red: agar plugs containing mycelia of the fungus, Penicillium crustosum.
Acrobatics of the Indian Roller: A birdbrained ballet!
What in the brains of male Indian roller birds make them fly so high only to shriek and fall rolling while in flight? Researchers from Allahabad University provide an answer: the seasonal changes in a part of the hippocampus in the bird’s brain.
Mint Money from Mint
When should we plant mint? How should it be planted? At what density of plantation? Scientists from CSIR-CIMAP explore the best practices in mint cultivation to maximise farmers income.
Why don’t ants have traffic jams?
Army ants are blind. Yet a few thousands of them behave coherently to create large scale patterns of fast paced raids. Physicists from IIT Kanpur investigate the biosocial phenomenon.
Ashwagandha: Wait for winter or grow in lab?
Ashwagandha sown in winter produces more active ingredients, say scientists from CIMAP Lucknow. Why waste time, produce more active ingredients by hairy root culture, say researchers from Tamilnadu.
Nanotechnology: boosting rice germination and growth
Germination capacity and seedling growth of basmati rice tend reduce with age. Shadma Afzal and Nand K Singh from NIT Allahabad show how easy it is to surmount the problem by priming seeds with iron nanoparticles.
Priming Rice Seeds for Productivity
Researchers from IIT Kharagpur delved into bacterial endophytes that help improve the health, growth and productivity of rice. They have come up with nine species from four bacterial genera for priming rice seeds to improve productivity.
