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Shift toward EVs could disrupt global oil market: International Energy Agency report

As China's rapid switch to electricity plays a significant role in disrupting the oil market, oil companies find they can sell more of their product to India




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Global Organic Textiles Standards bans 5 Indian cotton firms for faking documents

Two firms used non-existent shipping firms to show transactions, the others submitted fake transaction certificates




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Kandla Customs Commissioner orders release of ship detained in organic rice export irregularities

Tells Kandla traffic manager to allow another ship to set sail after getting release order from Gujarat HC




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Board to convene consumers meeting next week over falling natural rubber prices

Rubber Board officials said prices exceeded Rs₹200 on June 11 but plummeted 24 per cent to ₹187 per kg by October 21. The Board may ask consumers to proactively purchase in the domestic market




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Storage in key Indian reservoirs unchanged for 3rd week in a row

They are higher than normal, filled to 87 per cent of the 180.852 BCM capacity




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Towards a decade of healthy ageing

Ageing with grace: Healthcare is shifting its focus from treating illness to preventing it 




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Clinical trial waiver, a step to improve patient access, in need of guardrails

Experts call for ensuring patient safety while expanding access to new drugs




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Rubber Board urges tyre makers to continue procuring rubber in domestic market

Mutual support of all stakeholders crucial in the value chain for sustainable market, says Board’s ED




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Mustard sown in 18.76 lakh ha in Rajasthan till Oct-end

Over 46 per cent of the targetted area of 40.50 lakh ha has been covered in the largest producing state




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Maharashtra cashew board plans to expand area under the crop, promote organic farming

Plans promoting the State’s produce as unique brand, says director Patil




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India’s night temperature rise in October breaks all time record, November may be ‘above normal’

October was the warmest pan-India basis since 1901, with the mean temperature recording 1.23 degree Celsius above normal




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India’s journey towards biofuel leadership

With continued government support, private sector investment, and public participation, India can become a global biofuel leader




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Stanford Blade named interim D-G of ICRISAT

Blade, currently the Deputy Director General (Research) at the institute, will lead the institute until the new Director General, Himanshu Pathak, assumes the position next year




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South Peninsula records 7% above normal rainfall so far, poised to get even more from later this week

Easterly to north-easterly flows starting to rebuild after being scattered by severe cyclone Dana over the Bay




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India’s cotton and pulses farmers shift to paddy, set to produce record 120 million tonnes rice

Area under paddy this year surged to record 43.37 million hectares (mh) from 40.73 mh year-ago.




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Govt withdraws sugar stock disclosure order citing comfortable domestic availability

Food Ministry says sufficient quantity of sugar is available in the country to meet the domestic demand throughout the year after reviewing prices and availability of the sweetener




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Exporting community welcomes Tea Board’s move to issue notice to over 2,000 companies for defaulting on export returns

Every business licensee registered with Tea Board must submit monthly export returns through the online portal




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Ahmedabad to host third National Spice Conference on Nov 15,16

The event’s stated goal is to help farmers understand the importance of sustainable spice production and quality assurance




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Ginners call off stir as CCI asks farmers to bring raw cotton kapas to the nearest market yards

Cotton Corp assures to procure all fair-grade cotton from growers




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Ashok Leyland bags order for 500 electric buses from Chennai MTC

While 400 of these 12-m ultra-low floor electric buses will be non-AC, 100 buses will be equipped with air conditioning as well




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Gujarat HC orders release of SW South Wind I after pact with exporting firm

Two more arrest orders are pending against the vessel




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Indian Railways renegotiates Vande Bharat order to 80 high-capacity trainsets; JV Kinet on-board

New order consists of 80 trainsets with a 24-coach configuration, instead of originally planned 16




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Diwali, rising disposable income lifts jet fuel consumption in October to second highest on record

Diesel and petrol consumption rise during the month




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RITES reports 25% decline in Q2 net profit, sees stable order book

RITES has declared a second interim dividend of ₹1.75 per equity share.




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Curtains for Jet Airways as Supreme Court orders liquidation

A three member bench of the apex court invoked its powers under Article 142 of the constitution and directed the liquidation of the grounded airline.




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Recaro to commence India sourcing to support mega orders; IndiGo among major clients

Recaro, the global aircraft seat manufacturer, has bagged mega orders from India-based airlines, including IndiGo




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Mangaluru International Airport records highest-ever passenger and air traffic movements in October 2024

The airport logged 1,538 air traffic movements, significantly up from 1,433 in September 2024




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Kerala set to start its seaplane service from Kochi, looks forward to boost in tourism

Kerala Tourism Minister Mohamed Riyas will flag off the trial run on Monday




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For the sake of record

Choirmaster Christopher Sherwood talks about his passion for collecting LP records and his love for music




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Striking a Western classical chord

The Trivandrum Centre for Performing Arts opens on a high note with a Western classical music programme in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday




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Listen to the most hardcore version of 'Enter Sandman'

Listen to James Hetfield in full metal glory belting out the song with a tiny clarinet.




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Ludo platform Zupee hits record 100 million users, 6.6 billion gameplays




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Ludo platform Zupee hits record 100 million users, 6.6 billion gameplays




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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman meets AIIB Board of Directors in Delhi




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India's solar product exports record over 20-fold jump to $2 bn in last 2 years




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MR-TADF liquid crystals: towards self assembling host–guest mixtures showing narrowband emission from the mesophase

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15,18022-18030
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC04429K, Edge Article
Open Access
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Julius A. Knöller, Franziska Müller, Tomas Matulaitis, John M. dos Santos, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Eli Zysman-Colman, Sabine Laschat
We developed a MR-TADF based, columnar liquid crystalline host system and doped it with a MR-TADF guest. Efficient FRET allowed us to construct the first columnar liquid crystal with narrowband MR-TADF from the strongly aggregated mesophase.
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Reactivities of tertiary phosphines towards allenic, acetylenic, and vinylic Michael acceptors

Chem. Sci., 2024, 15,18111-18126
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC04852K, Edge Article
Open Access
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Feng An, Jan Brossette, Harish Jangra, Yin Wei, Min Shi, Hendrik Zipse, Armin R. Ofial
Combined experimental and quantum-chemical studies were used to characterise the philicity/fugality features of tertiary phosphines and Michael acceptors in phospha-Michael reactions, which are key steps in phosphine-catalysed organic reactions.
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FragGen: towards 3D geometry reliable fragment-based molecular generation

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC04620J, Edge Article
Open Access
Odin Zhang, Yufei Huang, Shichen Cheng, Mengyao Yu, Xujun Zhang, Haitao Lin, Yundian Zeng, Mingyang Wang, Zhenxing Wu, Huifeng Zhao, Zaixi Zhang, Chenqing Hua, Yu Kang, Sunliang Cui, Peichen Pan, Chang-Yu Hsieh, Tingjun Hou
FragGen introduces a novel fragment-based AI-based molecular design method. It proposes the geometry handling protocol to improve the generation quality and has been applied to design highly bioactive type II kinase inhibitors.
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Double coordination shell modulation of nitrogen-free atomic manganese sites for enhancing oxygen reduction performance

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05998K, Edge Article
Open Access
Xue Bai, Yin Wang, Jingyi Han, Siyu Chen, Xiaodi Niu, Jingqi Guan
Utilizing double coordination shell modulation, we construct a novel nitrogen-free single-atom manganese coordination configuration catalyst on graphene oxide (Mn–S1O4G), which exhibits excellent ORR and zinc–air battery performances.
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Steering N/S coordination number to accelerate catecholase-like catalysis over low-coordinated Cu site

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05014B, Edge Article
Open Access
Meng Yuan, Nannan Xia, Ziheng Huang, Chaofeng Huang, Xun Hu, Fei He
Modulating the coordination configuration of metal Cu center through steering the N/S coordination number around Cu center boosted the catalytic activity of catechol oxidase-mimicking nanozyme.
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Three in one: engineering MOF channels via coordinated water arrays for regulated separation of alkanes and alkenes

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05286B, Edge Article
Open Access
Lu-Lu Ma, Pavel N. Zolotarev, Kang Zhou, Xin Zhou, Jiaqi Liu, Jiafeng Miao, Shenfang Li, Guo-Ping Yang, Yao-Yu Wang, Davide M. Proserpio, Jing Li, Hao Wang
Regulated adsorptive separation of alkane/alkenes has been achieved through engineering the coordinated water arrays in MOF channels.
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Strain-induced charge delocalization achieves ultralow exciton binding energy toward efficient photocatalysis

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05873A, Edge Article
Open Access
Junyuan Duan, Yinghe Zhao, Yu Wu, Youwen Liu, Junnian Chen, Ruoou Yang, Jiazhao Huang, Chuanqi Luo, Mao Wu, Xiaodong Zheng, Pengyu Li, Xueliang Jiang, Jianguo Guan, Tianyou Zhai
A novel approach of strain-induced charge delocalization is developed to significantly reduce the exciton binding energy of Ta2O5 nanorods to below ambient thermal energy, leading to a remarkable enhancement in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.
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Noncentrosymmetric tellurite halides created by a depolymerization strategy: toward strong SHG intensity and wide bandgap

Chem. Sci., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC06403H, Edge Article
Open Access
Dan-Dan Zhou, Chun-Li Hu, Xin-Wei Zhang, Jiang-Gao Mao, Fang Kong
Successful synthesis of centrosymmetric Ga(Te3O7)Br and non-centrosymmetric M2(OH)(TeO3)(Te2O5)X (M = Al, Ga; X = Br, Cl) using a depolymerization strategy.
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Rare-earth metal complexes bearing electrophilic and nucleophilic carbon centres and their unique reactivity patterns towards pyridine derivatives

Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC04197F, Edge Article
Open Access
weikang Wu, Thayalan Rajeshkumar, Shan Zhu, Fuxiang Chai, Dongjing Hong, ZeMing Huang, Qingbing Yuan, Laurent Maron, Shaowu Wang
The rare-earth metal dialkyl complexes (κ2-L1)RE(CH2SiMe3)2(THF)2 [RE = Lu(1a), Yb(1b), Er(1c), Y(1d), Dy(1e)] (L1 = 1-(2-N-C5H10NCH2CH2)-3-(2,6-iPr2C6H3N=CH)-C8H4N) and the rare-earth metal monoalkyl complexes (κ2-L1)2RE(CH2SiMe3)(THF)n [n = 0, RE = Lu(2a), Yb(2b);...
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Sequence-dependent Conformational Transitions of Disordered Proteins During Condensation

Chem. Sci., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SC05004E, Edge Article
Open Access
Jiahui Wang, Dinesh Devarajan, Keerthivasan Muthukumar, Youngchan Kim, Arash Nikoubashman, Jeetain Mittal
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) can form biomolecular condensates through phase separation. It is recognized that the conformation of IDPs in the dense and dilute phases, as well as at the...
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A rewarding journey

Festival director Ritu Sarin talks about the highlights of this year’s Dharamshala International Film Festival 2016




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A highly recommended underdog

Thrilling gameplay and beautiful visuals make Titanfall2 a worthy purchase




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Buzz is the word

At the ongoing Sound Reasons Festival V, Swiss artist Zimoun’s minimalist sound sculptures explore the connection between organic life and modern technology




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Why investing in this large-cap fund can be rewarding in choppy markets

Kotak Bluechip is a steady outperformer and suits investors, with a medium risk appetite, saving for long-term goals




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20 landmark verdicts delivered by CJI Chandrachud