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Ozone Pollution from Urban Sources: A Case Study
Surface ozone levels spiked during the summer of 2019 in Delhi. As ozone is harmful to crops and human health, this peculiar rise in its levels indicates a need to monitor ambient ozone levels over a...
Tropospheric Ozone and Food Productivity
Ozone is life threatening if found to be increasing near the earth’s surface as it is toxic to life when inhaled. Ozone not only damages airways, but also reduces crop yields as well if it increases b...
India Cooling Action Plan 2019
Penetration of airconditioning in the growing economy of India is low whereas the rising cooling requirements are both a challenge and an opportunity.
India's Action to Protect the Ozone Layer
The global community adopted the Vienna Convention and the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer and to phase out ozone depleting substances. India became party to both and complied with all co...
India’s AI Applications in Healthcare
AI comes with a promise of overcoming a majority of healthcare barriers that beleaguer India. This feature explores few AI applications that are currently in use in India and outlines challenges that...
AI for Healthcare in India
The current capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI), which primarily leverage data collection, storage, computing and communication technologies are moving into the territory of science fiction....
AI the Future Enabler for Mining
From exploring potential areas of high volume mineral reserves to deploying autonomous vehicles for extracting them, AI shows great promise in revolutionising mining in the near future. This feature d...
AI for Weather Prediction
Accurate weather forecasting plays an important role in planning human activities. As opposed to conventional physics-based weather models, data-based models make use of past data to apply machine lea...
Artificial Intelligence Research in India
Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in India started in the 1960s. Since then, the scene has changed dramatically as far as AI and machine learning are concerned. The article outlines six recomme...
AI-Why the Recent Excitement?
Isolated events such as AI driven programmes beating the world champion at chess have served to deepen the mystique of AI. AI mimics human intelligence and is better at tasks that demonstrably need h...