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Nushrratt Parties With Ayushmann-Tahira

Ayushmann Khurrana and his wife Tahira Kashyap hosted a grand Diwali party for friends at their home in Mumbai.






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With energy transition, turbulence and disruption are imminent

Proactive shifts are to be expected as we push towards net zero goals




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Keeping cool without losing your cool

The ‘cooling-as-a-service’ model ensures you can leave energy-efficient air conditioning to your service provider




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Saying no to plastic with bioplastic   

Recyclable and biodegradable material from agri-waste holds out much promise  




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Reviving urban water bodies with people participation

A disaster response organisation uses its expertise to address flooding and water shortages in cities




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Meta's 'Build with AI Summit' in Bengaluru: Unlocking India's ecosystem through open-source innovation




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Kannada Rajyotsava celebrated with much fervour in Karnataka; PM, HM, CM greet people




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No longer one-sided beneficiary of alliance with US: South Korean National Security Advisor




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South Korea: 7 out of 10 people say couples can live together without marriage




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Vistara merger with Air India takes off, Group to now operate 300 aircraft




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Gujarat and Spain strengthen economic ties with strategic investments and trade growth




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'My most happiest': Priyanka Gandhi ends Wayanad bypoll campaign with Malayalam touch




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Quick tip: using flatMap() to extract data from a huge set without any loop

I just created a massive dataset of all the AI generated metadata of the videos of the WeAreDeveloper World Congress and I wanted to extract only the tags. The dataset is a huge array with each item containing a description, generated title, an array of tags, the original and their title, like this: { “description”: […]




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I just pulled a 2006 and uploaded my holiday photos to Flickr with a Creative Commons Licence

I just returned from a holiday on the gorgeous island of Corfu in Greece and spent quite some time taking photos. Instead of releasing those piecemeal on various social media channels, I thought it would be fun to go back to our ways of early social media, and put them all up on Flickr with […]




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AutoSave with VSCode

Visual Studio Code has taken the crown of most used text editor, at least in JavaScript spheres. VSCode is fast, feature-filled, and supports thousands of plugins to boost productivity. Developers can also tweak hundreds of settings to enrich functionality. One such feature is the autoSave feature. To autoSave files with VS Code, you can add […]

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How to Get the Current Branch Name with git

Most developers spoil themselves with fun command line utilities to make their work easier and more efficient. One such command line helper allows developers to always show the git branch in the command line. How can you get the current branch? With this handy snippet: git branch --show-current It’s great to keep this snippet around […]

The post How to Get the Current Branch Name with git appeared first on David Walsh Blog.




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AutoGrow Textareas with CSS

As the demands of the web change and developers experiment with different user experiences, the need for more native language improvements expands. Our presentation layer, CSS, has done incredibly well in improving capabilities, even if sometimes too slow. The need for native support for automatically expanding textarea elements has been long known…and it’s finally here! […]

The post AutoGrow Textareas with CSS appeared first on David Walsh Blog.




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Extract a Number from a String with JavaScript

User input from HTML form fields is generally provided to JavaScript as a string. We’ve lived with that fact for decades but sometimes developers need to extract numbers from that string. There are multiple ways to get those numbers but let’s rely on regular expressions to extract those numbers! To employ a regular expression to […]

The post Extract a Number from a String with JavaScript appeared first on David Walsh Blog.




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How to Override width and height HTML attributes with CSS

One of the HTML elements that frequently comes into collision with CSS is the img element. As we learned in Request Metrics’ Fixing Cumulative Layout Shift Problems on DavidWalshBlog article, providing image dimensions within the image tag will help to improve your website’s score. But in a world where responsive design is king, we need […]

The post How to Override width and height HTML attributes with CSS appeared first on David Walsh Blog.




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Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript

Anyone is capable of having their caps lock key on at any given time without realizing so. Users can easily spot unwanted caps lock when typing in most inputs, but when using a password input, the problem isn’t so obvious. That leads to the user’s password being incorrect, which is an annoyance. Ideally developers could […]

The post Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript appeared first on David Walsh Blog.




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Get Started in AI and NFTs with the Limewire API (Sponsored)

AI media creation has expanded to incredible video art and a host of other important improvements, and LimeWire is leading the way in creating an awesome interface for the average user to become an AI artist. Limewire has just released its Developer API, a method for engineers like us to create dynamic AI art on […]

The post Get Started in AI and NFTs with the Limewire API (Sponsored) appeared first on David Walsh Blog.




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How to Fix: Windows WASD Keys Reversed with Arrow Keys

This past weekend I had the opportunity to be what every father wants, if only for a moment: the “cool dad”. My wife was out of town and my youngest son wanted to play PUBG. I caved in, taught him the basic FPS key binds, and he was having a great time. While he was […]

The post How to Fix: Windows WASD Keys Reversed with Arrow Keys appeared first on David Walsh Blog.




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PIX: Haaland stuns with 'amazing' goal against Sparta

Erling Haaland scored with a flying back-heeled volley out of the air -- that had social media in a frenzy and left his teammates in awe.




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Revolutionising data security: IBM introduces Guardium Data Security Centre with GenAI capabilities

The centre incorporates GenAI features for generating risk summaries and improving productivity among security teams.




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A digital twin holds promise for people with Type 2 diabetes

This model integrates data from various sources, including a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), activity trackers, and a smartphone app where patients log their daily food intake




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Sealy expands global reach with new manufacturing facility in India

The new factory will produce Sealy’s premium mattresses, including the Posturepedic range, for the domestic market




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Telcos creating a false equivalence with satellite operators on spectrum pricing : Amazon, Starlink

Reliance Jio, which is pushing for auctioning spectrum, said that arguments that satellite frequencies are always assigned in a shared mode and on a non-exclusive basis are both factually and technically incorrect and should be ignored




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HCLTech to launch AI Lab in Singapore, partners with EDB 

HCLTech has maintained a presence in Singapore for over 40 years, serving as its Southeast Asian operations hub




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Progress targets $1 billion revenue with acquisition; expands Bangalore team

The ShareFile business the company is acquiring generates approximately $240 million in revenue




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Cyient DLM secures 16-year aerospace contract with Honeywell 

The shares of Cyient DLM Limited were trading at ₹644.85 up by ₹11.80 or 1.86 per cent on the NSE today at 1.40 pm




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Airtel expands with AI data centres and high-altitude network, shares rise 

Bharti Airtel’s subsidiary, Nxtra, becomes India’s first AI-powered data centre operator, while the company expands mobile connectivity to military outposts along the Indo-China border




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Satcom spectrum: TRAI sidestepped level field issue with terrestrial services, says Justice Nageswara Rao

His legal opinion, requested by Reliance Jio, highlights TRAI’s failure to invite stakeholder comments on the important issue of creating a level playing field between terrestrial access services and satellite communication networks




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KPMG in India forms strategic alliance with SecurityBridge to enhance SAP security and compliance

KPMG in India, one of the country’s leading professional services firms, has announced a strategic alliance with SecurityBridge GmbH, a renowned provider of SAP-native cybersecurity solutions. This collaboration aims to enhance SAP security and compliance offerings for clients by integrating SecurityBridge’s cutting-edge technology into KPMG’s comprehensive service portfolio




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With Trump win, DoT gears up to sort out issues related to Elon Musk’s Starlink

The department of telecommunications is looking into security aspects while considering the demands made by two American companies — Starlink and Amazon (project Kuiper), say sources




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Google Cloud expands support for early-stage AI Startups with new initiatives, partnerships




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Airtel, Jio clash with Amazon, Starlink over satcom spectrum

Telcos bat for level playing field; satcom firms say customers have right to choose




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Afternoon with a poet

Everyone was overjoyed when Mona athai won the prize for her short story. But they didn’t realise how one neighbour would react.




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Off with its head!

Vanquishing the Lernean Hydra, a beastly nine-headed snake, was Hercules’ next task.




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Dehydrative alkynylation of 3-hydroxyisoindolinones with terminal alkynes for the synthesis of 3-alkynylated 3,3-disubstituted isoindolinones

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00190G, Paper
Kai-Cheng Yang, Shi-Lu Zheng, Zhong Wen, Yu-Shan Zhang, Hai-Liang Ni, Long Chen
A HOTf or Fe(OTf)3-catalyzed dehydrative alkynylation of 3-hydroxyisoindolinones with terminal alkynes was developed, which represents a brand-new procedure for the synthesis of 3-alkynylated 3,3-disubstituted isoindolinones.
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A copper-catalyzed asymmetric Friedel–Crafts hydroxyalkylation of pyrazole-4,5-diones with 5-aminoisoxazoles

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00322E, Communication
Siyu Gao, Xiang Sun, Sijie Peng, Zhenggen Zha, Qi Sun, Zhiyong Wang
An asymmetric Friede-Crafts hydroxyalkylation reaction was developed under the catalysis of chiral copper complexes. A variety of pyrazolone derivatives were obtained with excellent yields and enantioselectivities.
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Rh(III)-catalysed C-H annulation of cis-stilbene acids with 2-diazo-1,3-diketones: A facile access to 6,7-dihydrobenzofuran-4(5H)-one and α-pyrone scaffolds

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00151F, Paper
Shankaraiah Nagula, Mary Sravani Galla, Nandini B. Kale, Akshay Kumawat, Darshana Bora
An efficient Rh(III)-catalysed C-H functionalization, tandem annulation of cis-stilbene acids using 2-diazo-1,3-diketones was devised. The protocol has solely afforded 6,7-dihydrobenzofuran-4(5H)-ones using alicyclic diazocarbonyls via decarbonylation and α-pyrones with aliphatic diazo...
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Electrochemical nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling of glycosyl thiols with preactivated phenols and ketones

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00442F, Communication
Fuxin Li, Hui Liu, Wanyu Xing, Qingju Zhang, Liming Wang
Here we report an efficient electrochemical nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction for the synthesis of S-glycosides from preactivated phenols and ketones.
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Catalyst- and base-free visible light-enabled radical relay trihalomethylation/functional group-migration/carbonylation with CX3SO2Cl

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00292J, Paper
Jinkai Hu, Chenglei Yang, Xiaotao Qin, Hui Liu, Tongtong Ma, Ao-tong Shi, Qing-Long Lv, Xingman Liu, Jinhui Yang, Dianjun Li
A visible light-enabled photocatalyst-free radical trihalomethylation/cyano (or benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl) 1,4-migration/carbonylation reaction of 2-hydroxy-2-hex-5-enenitrile (or (benzo[d]thiazol-2-yl)-pent-4-enol) with CX3SO2Cl (X = F, Cl) is reported.
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Palladium-catalyzed (Z)-selective allylation of phosphine oxides with vinylethylene carbonates to construct phosphorus allyl alcohols

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, 22,3068-3072
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00354C, Paper
Hua Huang, Yi-Qi Wu, Lu-Yao Han, Lu Jiang, Zhuo-Zhuo Zhang, Xiang Zhang, Bo Han, Wei Huang, Jun-Long Li
A general and efficient method for the highly stereoselective synthesis of (Z)-phosphorus allylalcohols has been developed using the Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling of phosphine oxides with vinylethylene carbonates.
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Additive-free oxychlorination of unsaturated C–C bonds with tert-butyl hypochlorite and water

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, 22,3080-3085
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00003J, Paper
Duyi Shen, Chaoyue Sun, Yun Han, Zhen Luo, Ting Ren, Qin Zhang, Wenting Huang, Jianru Xie, Ying Jia, Mianran Chao
A facile oxychlorination of various alkynes and alkenes with tBuOCl as an alternative chlorine source and H2O as a green oxygen source.
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Charge-transfer inclusion complex formation of the tropylium cation with prism[6]arenes

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00423J, Communication
Guojiao Zhang, Channi Cheng, Zhengxiang Li, Dezhi Zhao, Chengyou Han
We report that charge-transfer (CT) inclusion complexes were formed between prism[6]arenes and tropylium cation. Additionally, the CT complex showed Cl/Ag+ responsiveness which can be easily monitored by the naked eye.
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