How Researchers Are Optimising Indian Railways—Without Touching Train or Track
Railway tracks in India, with one track occupied

Here’s how IIT Bombay and Indian Railway researchers are making Indian railways more efficient by grouping non-daily trains together for the timetabling process

Ankush Banerjee
Mumbai/ Mar 18, 2025

DU

The art of crafting insect-specific pesticides using machine learning

New Delhi
4 Jun 2019
The art of crafting insect-specific pesticides using machine learning

Researchers from the IIITD, CSIR-IMT and DU designed NeuroPIpred, a web-based tool that uses machine learning techniques to craft insect-specific pesticides.

General, Science, Technology, Ecology, Deep-dive

Researchers discover four new species of horned frogs in the Northeast, solve 150 years of identity crisis

New Delhi
5 Dec 2018
Credits: Top left: Megophrys periosa, Systematics Lab, DU; Top right: Megophrys flavipunctata, S.D. Biju; Bottom left: Megophrys himalayana, Systematics Lab, DU; Bottom right: Megophrys oreocrypta, Systematics Lab, DU

A team of Irish and Indian biologists from the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, the Natural History Museum (NHM), UK, and the University of Delhi (DU), India, have provided detailed descriptions of these newly discovered frogs.

General, Science, Ecology, Deep-dive
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