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In harmony with nature

Minimal energy consumption and carbon footprint, use of biogas and solar panels, decentralised water treatment… a look at life in Auroville




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Homes with a ‘conscience’

Around 5,000 homes in the city shun BWSSB water supply and produce enough power of their own. By M.A. Siraj




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Startups join the party with craft mixers

How non-alcoholic mixers, handcrafted by small players, are edging out sugary soft drinks, sodas in cocktail glasses




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Investing with no fear, no greed

Venture capital firm Fundamentum sees growth opportunity in India’s digital transformation




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Investing in companies with ‘indicorn’ potential

Titan Capital backs seed-stage companies with potential to reach ₹100 crore revenue within five years




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Flat organisation believers: Can you imagine a world without managers?

What does a manager do that we keep hiring new ones or keep promoting more of them? Which managerial layer is the most important?




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Building digital trust with quantum tech

QNu Labs devises qubit-powered solutions for the ‘trillion-dollar cyber-attack problem’ 




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Navigating the flood of healthcare information, with a little help from AI

A global survey maps how willing, and equipped clinicians are in using artificial intelligence to support their work 




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Devotees throng Delhi ghats, mark Chhath Puja festivity with prayers, songs, selfies

Lakhs of devotees offer ‘Sandhya Arghya’ to the setting sun on the third day of the four-day festival; political leaders make a beeline for ghats with an eye on Purvanchali voters ahead of Assembly poll




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Congress gears up for Delhi poll battle with month-long ‘Nyay Yatra’

Maken, Sukhu flag off foot march; Kharge, Rahul expected to join at different junctures; yatra scheduled to end on Dec. 4; people won’t forget Cong.’s tie-up with AAP in Lok Sabha election: BJP




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One dead, one injured in two firing incidents in Delhi within 10 minutes

The two incidents of firing in northeast Delhi leave one dead and one injured; three suspects apprehended by police




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Living in a world without work

Cohabitation with machines is an inevitable future that awaits us. But is it going to be easy?




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Coming to grips with mega disasters

Rooted in research, the book reveals the existential threats we face and charts the roadmap ahead




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Millennial prophet with a failed vision

A gripping account of WeWork founder Adam Neumann’s meteoric rise and precipitous crash




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Dealing with career dilemmas

Corporate honcho Shiv Shivakumar’s book sheds fresh light




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In love with operations management

The author brings aesthetics into a field obsessed with quantification




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Rushdie’s trysts with truth

Essays in meditation on story, storytelling and storytellers




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For people with aspirations

A book that focuses on an oft neglected aspect — soft skills




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With Alyque on your mind 

The book has some of Alyque’s craziest ideas but it ends up falling between a bunch of stools 




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Paddy varieties with protein, zinc content get thumbs up in Odisha’s tribal pocket

Paddy varieties have high protein (10.1%) and moderately high level of zinc (20 ppm) content




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Centre to provide 15,000 women self help groups with drones that can be rented out for agricultural purposes

The scheme will help in infusing advanced technology in agriculture for improved efficiency, enhance crop yield and reduced cost of operation for the benefit of farmers




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Filmmaker-farmer duo script a story of transformation with natural farming

Vishy, a Rex Karmaveer Chakra Fellowship awardee advocates popularising the farming practices and the broader promotion of natural farming and popularising his co-award winner Narayanappa’s farming practices




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MSP law cannot be brought in a hurry; farmers should come forward for talks with govt: Arjun Munda

Union Agriculture Minister Arjun Munda cautioned protesting farmers about some elements usurping their protest for political benefits




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Research paper warns against nationwide switch to natural farming without proper studies

It can hamper national food production, say authors, who cite contrasting results from two studies




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‘Dairy dilemma’ engulfs women farmers in CM Chandrababu Naidu’s constituency Kuppam with sudden fall in milk price

Recently, the dairy industry has experienced a decrease of ₹5 per liter in the milk price, causing concern among the predominantly women farmers involved in the sector. 




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‘Outstanding work’: IIT-M team makes mineral nanoparticles with water

Infusing soil with silica nanoparticles made using the technique could transform agriculture




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Fertilizers are source of several diseases; switch to organic farming, says Amit Shah 

Shah said that the movement for organic farming has reached an important stage and cooperatives have an important role in making India the world’s largest organic food producing country




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Cabinet clears 7 schemes with ₹ 14,235.30 crore for agriculture sector

Digital Agriculture Mission, which has an outlay of ₹2.817 crore and aims to create a consolidated database on crop data, among initiatives to get nod; schemes to boost nutritional security and livestock production also approved




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Jet turns around with record Rs 1,212-cr. net profit




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Tata Motors signs MoU with ASDC for skill development




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S. Korea woos startups in India with ‘grand challenge’

Wants them to look at Korea as a testing bed for their ventures




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Forbes’s list of self-made American women has two with India connect




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Simplilearn to expand tie-ups with cos; plans guaranteed interviews




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Swiggy announces ₹11,000 crore IPO with a price band of ₹371 to ₹390

Swiggy plans to use most of the proceeds of the offer to invest in expansion of its dark stores for its quick commerce business Instamart




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Free salon for persons with disabilities inaugurated in Vellore




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Powerloom weavers urge Tamil Nadu CM to take up the issue of QCOs on textiles with the Central government




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No question of reviving ties with BJP, clarifies AIADMK

Former Fisheries Minister D. Jayakumar told journalists at the party headquarters that the AIADMK would have no truck with the BJP not only in 2026 but also in other elections in the future




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Tiruchi Corporation to take up survey of areas without storm-water drains

Storm-water drains proposed to be constructed for a length of 52 km in all 65 wards in the city at a cost of ₹32.50 crore under the Corporation’s General Funds for 2024-25




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Litigant withdraws PIL seeking revival of 2001 flyover construction scam case against T.N. CM Stalin

The Madras High Court also permits him to withdraw ₹1 lakh deposited in April this year to prove his bona fide intention




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Chennai and neighbouring districts to witness heavy rains till November 15

On Nov. 12, RMC, Chennai, upgraded its weather warning to orange alert, indicating a possibility of rainfall of very heavy intensity for 24 hours ending 8.30 a.m. on Nov. 13 in Chennai, Tiruvallur, and Chengalpattu districts




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Kanguva cannot be released without depositing ₹20 crore: Madras High Court

Justices G. Jayachandran and C.V. Karthikeyan pass the order on an application filed by the Official Assignee of the High Court




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Controlling wall–particle interactions with activity

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8395-8406
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00634H, Paper
Open Access
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Luke Neville, Jens Eggers, Tanniemola B. Liverpool
The interaction between a disk and wall in an active nematic depends on a combination of activity and anchoring, with contractile nematics repelling disks with planar anchoring.
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Effective patchiness from critical points of a coarse-grained protein model with explicit shape and charge anisotropy

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8455-8467
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00867G, Paper
Open Access
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Jens Weimar, Frank Hirschmann, Martin Oettel
Critical points of an anisotropic, coarse-grained protein model are used to detemine an “effective patchiness” by comparison to the Kern–Frenkel patchy model.
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Random field reconstruction of three-phase polymer structures with anisotropy from 2D-small-angle scattering data

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8493-8504
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00721B, Paper
Open Access
Stephen Kronenberger, Nitant Gupta, Benjamin Gould, Colin Peterson, Arthi Jayaraman
We present a computational method to analyze 2D small-angle scattering data from three-phase soft materials systems with structural anisotropy and output representative real-space structures of the three phases.
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Mechanical characterization of freestanding lipid bilayers with temperature-controlled phase

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8524-8537
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00706A, Paper
Open Access
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Arash Yahyazadeh Shourabi, Roland Kieffer, Djanick de Jong, Daniel Tam, Marie-Eve Aubin-Tam
Lipid membranes formed in a microfluidic device are studied with temperature-controlled optical tweezers, revealing how mechanical properties of ripple phase and gel-fluid phase-separated membranes change when heated above the transition temperature.
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Retraction: Self-assembled organic nanotubes embedding hydrophobic molecules within solid bilayer membranes

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM90171A, Retraction
Open Access
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Naohiro Kameta, Masumi Asakawa, Mitsutoshi Masuda, Toshimi Shimizu
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Long-lived unidirectional flow of active particles within long narrow channels

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00879K, Paper
Man Xu, Ying Lan, Yuehua Yang, Hongyuan Jiang
We present the dynamics of particles in a device divided into two chambers by V-shaped barriers and connected by a narrow channel. Here three distinct movement modes occur, including stochastic movement, oscillation and unidirectional flows.
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The role of macrocycles in supramolecular assembly with polymers

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8549-8560
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01053A, Review Article
Ruslan Kashapov, Yuliya Razuvayeva, Elena Fedorova, Lucia Zakharova
Supramolecular self-assembly of polymers with macrocycles has attracted the attention because it enables the spontaneous creation of nanostructures with unique properties.
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Hydrogel-based 3D fabrication of multiple replicas with varying sizes and materials from a single template via iterative shrinking

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00835A, Paper
Eunseok Heo, Hye Been Koo, Jun Chang Yang, In Cho, Hyun-Hee Lee, Yong-Jin Yoon, Steve Park, Jae-Byum Chang
3D printing technologies have been widely used for the rapid prototyping of 3D structures, but their application in a broader context has been hampered by their low printing throughput. For...
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Dynamics of switching processes: general results and applications to intermittent active motion

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM01054J, Paper
Open Access
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Ion Santra, Deepak Gupta, Kristian S Olsen
Systems switching between different dynamical phases is an ubiquitous phenomenon. The general understanding of such a process is limited. To this end, we present a general expression that captures fluctuations...
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