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A.P. universities undertake novel initiative to introduce students to natural farming

Sri Venkateswara University and Sri Padmavati Mahila Viswa Vidyalayam establish organic vegetable gardens at their respective premises, where vegetables like brinjal, chilli, tomato and lady’s finger, roots like carrot, beetroot, and radish are planted




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​Beautifully vague: On the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam’s inaugural conference  

Actor Vijay seems to be targeting both the BJP and the DMK 




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Medicinal chemistry-based perspective on thiophene and its derivatives: Exploring the structural insights to discover plausible druggable leads

RSC Med. Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4MD00450G, Review Article
Shikha Thakur, Devendra Kumar, shivani jaiswal, Kapil Kumar Goel, Pramod Rawat, Vivek Srivastava, Sonia Dhiman, Hemant R Jadhav, Ashish Ranjan Dwivedi
Thiophene is a privileged pharmacophore in medicinal chemistry owing to its diversified biological attributes. The thiophene moiety has been ranked 4th in US FDA drug approval of small drug molecules,...
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Light enhanced cytotoxicity and antitumoral effect of a ruthenium-based photosensitizer inspired from natural alkaloids

RSC Med. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4MD00600C, Research Article
Open Access
Gennaro Sanità, Maria Laura Alfieri, Barbara Carrese, Serena Damian, Vincenza Mele, Gaetano Calì, Brigida Silvestri, Sebastiano Marra, Susan Mohammadi, Giuseppina Luciani, Paola Manini, Annalisa Lamberti
Biological assays carried out on melanoma and breast cancer cells highlighted the role of light in boosting the cytotoxic effect of a ruthenium complex featuring a dihydroisoquinoline ligand suggesting applications in photodynamic therapy.
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‘State should retain primary agricultural cooperative societies under its purview’




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Dribbling past gender stereotypes in rural Odisha

Odisha takes a lead in inspiring and training young tribal boys and girls to play mixed-gender football matches and drive social change in the State




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Thirukkural and Indian diplomacy

India’s unique ethos will help it navigate the choppy waters of global diplomacy, writes Jaishankar




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Cultural side to leadership

Exploring the relevance of Indian-ness in our leaders




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T.N. CM Stalin announces naming of Thanjavur Agricultural College after late scientist M.S. Swaminathan

In an announcement made in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday, the CM, praising the renowned agricultural scientist’s contributions, also said a student award would be instituted under his name




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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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More than half of students in agricultural universities are girls: Union Minister

Shobha Karandlaje inaugurates ‘Women Agricultural Entrepreneurship Sector Conference 2024’




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A natural farm from wasteland at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam

The Andhra University Avani Organics Gardening Hub in Visakhapatnam has grown into a thriving natural farm and is building a community of urban dwellers that is transforming a wasteland into a patch of green




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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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Shivraj Chouhan blames Congress again for problems in agricultural sector; Opposition walks out in Rajya Sabha

Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar asks Mr. Chouhan to look at pending issues of farmers




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Anantapur Collector urges farmers to adopt natural practices

V. Vinod Kumar visits several watershed structures in the district implemented by Accion Fraterna Ecology Centre with funding from NABARD




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Polls to rural local bodies, due late December, may be delayed

This is because the process of re-organisation of local bodies in general and village panchayats in particular is not yet complete. An official, who handled the previous round of local bodies’ polls, says this may take three to four months




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T.N. lists achievements of Rural Development Department




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T.N. CM Stalin inaugurates new buildings for rural local bodies




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Chemo-mechanical model of cell polarization initiated by structural polarity

Soft Matter, 2024, 20,8407-8419
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00800F, Paper
Hexiang Wang, Zhimeng Jia, Yuqiang Fang
We establish a multiscale model of a cell to explore the chemomechanical mechanisms of cell polarization initiated by structural polarity. The two-dimensional vertex model is built by coupling the cytoskeletal reorganization and the Cdc42 activation.
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On a world stage: Inside the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre in Mumbai

A massive, multi-disciplinary cultural space is now open in Mumbai, with a global outlook and a vision to foster and promote Indian arts




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Beautiful, naturally

Blossom Kochhar says if you can eat it, it can be used on your face.




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Editorial. Little or no lessons learnt from natural disasters

Population as well as economic activities in vulnerable areas should be kept to a minimum. Yet, governments have promoted the opposite, including tourism




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Regional Rural Banks may see a fourth round of amalgamation; number of banks likely to come down from 43 to 28

The proposed move is part of the Government’s ‘One State-One RRB’ goal



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Topics : Peers & Natural Helpers / directed by: Nettie Wild ; production agencies: British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. Street Nurse Program (Vancouver), National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2019




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Podalakur Road will be developed on the lines of Trunk Road in Nellore, says Nellore Rural MLA

‘Median works will be completed within the next two months to remove traffic hassles for the road users’




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Andhra Pradesh Budget highlights: ₹29,909 crore for school education, ₹16,739 crore for Panchayat Raj and Rural Development for FY25

The Andhra Pradesh Government presented its Budget with an outlay of ₹2,94,427.25 crore for the Financial Year 2024-25; revenue expenditure is estimated at ₹2,35,916.99 crore, and capital expenditure at ₹32,712.84 crore




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A beginner's guide to structural equation modeling / Randall E. Schumacker and Richard G. Lomax.

New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.




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Applied structural equation modeling using AMOS [electronic resource]: basic to advanced techniques / Joel E. Collie

New York : Routledge, 2020




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Structural equation modeling with AMOS [electronic resource] : basic concepts, applications, and programming / Barbara M. Byrne

New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2016




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Carl Zeiss to help 1,00,000 persons with nearsightedness in rural Karnataka

The German company inaugurated its maiden Global Capability Centre (GCC) in India in Bengaluru




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Omaxe Group unveils ₹2,500-crore project in Delhi: 50.4-acre multi-sports and cultural destination

The Omaxe State project is expected to be completed by 2027 and to generate over ₹4,200 crore in revenue during its life-cycle





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A slice of the rural

Generous portions of rich food, sprawling houses, folk arts, skill games and animal rides… There’s never a dull moment at Chokhi Dhani Village




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A peek at Kokūn’s zero-waste, naturally-dyed apparel

Zero-waste apparel dyed with home-grown rhubarb and madder is the forte of Mridu Mehra Tiwari’s brand Kokūn, which just launched its Spring collection and a men’s range




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General ppm-level Pd-catalysed asymmetric diarylalkyne hydrosilylation to access structurally diverse Si-stereogenic vinylsilanes

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01698J, Research Article
Heng Xu, Han-Xiao Yu, An-Jiu Wen, Fang-Ying Ling, Fei Ye, Li Li, Fuk Yee Kwong, Li-Wen Xu
The first example of enantioselective Pd-catalyzed hydrosilylation of symmetric and asymmetric diarylalkynes to access novel Si-stereogenic vinylsilanes with excellent ee and a high TON is realized under mild reaction conditions.
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Anomalous magnetic behaviour induced by a structural phase transition with anisotropic thermal expansion in a spirodiradical

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6495-6502
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01098A, Research Article
Open Access
Takuya Kanetomo, Daigo Matsunaga, Shinichi Ogawa, Masaya Enomoto
A Ge-centred spirodiradical exhibited anomalous magnetic behaviour, influenced by two key structural factors: negative thermal expansion and a structural phase transition.
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Multimodal integrated flexible neural probe for in situ monitoring of EEG and lactic acid

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35520-35528
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06336H, Paper
Open Access
Luxi Zhang, Jie Xia, Boyu Li, Zhen Cao, Shurong Dong
In physiological activities, the brain's electroencephalogram (EEG) signal and chemical concentration change are crucial for diagnosing and treating neurological disorders.
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Chronological effects of oxygen on the structural transformations of polyacrylonitrile fibers during the rapid thermal stabilization process

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35560-35567
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06327A, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Shiyang Li, Liang Chen, Jie Liu, Yixin Li, Jian Tang, Rongchao Jiang, Xiaoxu Wang
The effects of oxygen on the structure changes of PAN fibers during the rapid thermal stabilization are chronological, including thermal-driven dehydrogenation, oxidation and cyclization in the shorter, intermediate and longer periods, respectively.
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Upconversion nanoparticles incorporated with three-dimensional graphene composites for electrochemical sensing of baicalin from natural plants

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,36084-36092
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06540A, Paper
Open Access
Na Zhang, Yilin Wu, Tian Liang, Yongxiang Su, Xusheng Xie, Tianren Zhang, Hongyan Wang, Keying Zhang, Rongli Jiang
The fabrication of UCNP-3DG and its application in electrochemical detection of Bn in natural plant samples.
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Exploring heterocyclic scaffolds in carbonic anhydrase inhibition: a decade of structural and therapeutic insights

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35769-35970
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA06290F, Review Article
Open Access
Nafeesa Naeem, Amina Sadiq, Gehan Ahmed Othman, Habab M. Yassin, Ehsan Ullah Mughal
Heterocyclic compounds represent a prominent class of molecules with diverse pharmacological activities.
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Citing ‘exigency’, T.N. Health Dept posts 51 PGs to peri-urban, rural government medical colleges

Official sources and a number of senior doctors confirmed that these deputation/postings were made to address specific manpower shortages in medical colleges in Nagapattinam, Tiruvallur and Tiruvarur




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Structural and Mechanistic Insights into Oxidative Biaryl Coupling to form Arylomycin Core by an Engineered CYP450

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02197E, Paper
Vandana Kardam, Vaibhav Bhatt, Kshatresh Dubey
Arylomycin, a potent antibiotic targeting bacterial signal peptidases, is difficult to synthesize experimentally due to its poor to moderate yields and the formation of a mixture of compounds. A recent...
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Activation of small molecules by ambiphilic NHC-stabilized phosphinoborenium cation: formation of boreniums with B-O-C, B-O-B, and B-O-P structural motifs

Dalton Trans., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02656J, Paper
Tomasz Wojnowski, Anna Ordyszewska, Hanna Halenka, Iwona Anusiewicz, Jarosław Chojnacki, Kinga Kaniewska-Laskowska, Rafał Grubba
The reactivity of the phosphinoborenium cation supported by a 1,3,4,5-tetramethylimidazolin-2-ylidene ligand toward small molecules was explored. The phosphinoborenium cation exhibited dual Lewis acid–base properties due to the presence of the...
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Direct O2 mediated oxidation of a Ni(II)N3O structural model complex for the active site of nickel acireductone dioxygenase (Ni-ARD): characterization, biomimetic reactivity, and enzymatic implications

Dalton Trans., 2024, 53,17852-17863
DOI: 10.1039/D4DT02538E, Paper
Kelsey E. Kirsch, Mary E. Little, Thomas R. Cundari, Emily El-Shaer, Georgia Barone, Vincent M. Lynch, Santiago A. Toledo
A structural and functional biomimetic Ni(II)N3O complex, capable of O2 mediated dioxygenase like C–C bond cleavage, via a putative high-valent Ni intermediate.
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Sustainable treatment for low ammonia nitrogen sewage wastewater in cold climates: natural polymer gel–organic synthetic polymer embedded anammox bacteria immobilized pellets

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,2809-2830
DOI: 10.1039/D4EW00538D, Paper
Jun Li, Salma Tabassum, Hüseyin Altundag
Denitrification effect of the hybrid carrier-embedded anammox bacteria pellets to treat NH4+–N urban sewage wastewater at low temperature through batch and continuous tests.
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A novel graphene oxide–microalgae hybrid material for the removal of pentavalent arsenic from natural water and industrial wastewater

Environ. Sci.: Water Res. Technol., 2024, 10,2796-2808
DOI: 10.1039/D4EW00308J, Paper
Eliana S. Lemos, Evelyn M. Valdés Rodríguez, Adrián Bonilla Petriciolet, Andrea M. Ray, Leticia B. Escudero
The adsorption process using bionanomaterials based on graphene oxide and green microalgae for the removal of arsenic from complex samples of natural water and industrial wastewater.
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How’s the structural shift impacting microfinance?

From the customer’s point of view, banks and small finance banks are able to offer a more comprehensive product basket




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Handbook of research methods in behavioural economics [electronic resource] : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by Morris Altman (Dean, University of Dundee School of Business, and Chair Professor of Behavioural and Institutional Economics and Co-ope

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2023]




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The nature of politics has become a politics of scarcity: economist Karthik Muralidharan

For India to realise its full potential, author of Accelerating India’s Development: A State-led Roadmap for Effective Governance Karthik Muralidharan pushes for investment in good institutions which can restrain politicians