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What is Narain Karthikeyan up to after racing?

Narain Karthikeyan, in a free-wheeling chat, reflects on his start-up venture, DriveX, the CoASTT circuit he helped develop, and the future of motorsport




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At the brand new Madras International Karting Arena, drive on the track that Mika Hakkinen, Narain Karthikeyan, and Karun Chandhok raced on

At the brand new Madras International Karting Arena, drive on the track that Mika Hakkinen, Narain Karthikeyan, and Karun Chandhok raced on The 1.2 kilometre track is India’s first karting circuit built to FIA-CIK (Commission Internationale de Karting) specifications



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Sarthak Chavan clinches maiden National crown




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Actor Ajith Kumar to take part in endurance racing

Indian actor Ajith Kumar to compete in endurance racing as team owner and principal driver of Ajith Kumar Racing




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Paris Olympics: Men’s hockey team peaking at right time, faces Great Britain in quarterfinals

Harmanpreet Singh-led outfit has lifted its game steadily in the Olympics and is likely to throw a different challenge against Great Britain




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India vs Great Britain Olympics quarterfinal: Everyone gathered around and worked on the tactics, says Craig Fulton

“Sreejesh is a legend, he is one of the best we have. He is saving us from day one. But when you ask him, he will say it was a team effort, so team first, then individuals,” said Harmanpreet.




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India vs Great Britain quarterfinal: Sreejesh was God of hockey today, says Dilip Tirkey

Dilip Tirkey, who was present at the stadium to witness the match, praised the Indian team for defending well after Amit Rohidas’ expulsion owing to a foul early in the second quarter.




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Watch: PR Sreejesh: Like Rahul Dravid, I wanted to start coaching juniors




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Hockey India starts thinking about Los Angeles Olympics 2028

Hockey India president Dilip Tirkey said the revival of Hockey India League would promote youngsters for the future




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Karthi’s brace helps Secretariat share honours with Odisha

In the second match of the day, former champion BPCL edged out Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu 2-1




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Tamil Nadu scripts a 43-0 victory over Andaman & Nicobar, enters quarterfinals




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School Education Department committee to handle complaints




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Change is in the air : carbon, climate, Earth, and us / Debbie Levy ; illustrated by Alex Boersma

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Creep, leap, crunch! : a food chain story / words by Jody Jensen Shaffer ; art by Christopher Silas Neal

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Earth / by Christina Earley

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Earth systems / by Christina Earley

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The girl who planted trees / written by Caryl Hart ; illustrated by Anastasia Suvorova

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Hello fungi : a little guide to nature / Nina Chakrabarti

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The lost drop / story by Grégoire Laforce ; art by Benjamin Flouw

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Minnow : the girl who became part fish / created by Willie Poll and Bailey Macabre

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Our amazing Earth / Patricia Armentrout

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The role of water on Earth / by Christina Earley

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What will I discover? / by Tanya Lloyd Kyi ; art by Rachel Qiuqi

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The quiet part out loud / Deborah Crossland

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Canada wild : animals found nowhere else on Earth / words by Maria Birmingham ; art by Alex MacAskill

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Exoplanets : a guide to the worlds outside our solar system / Wendy Bjazevich ; art by David Miles

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The music of life : Bartolomeo Cristofori & the invention of the piano / by Elizabeth Rusch ; illustrated by Marjorie Priceman

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‘Start-up valuations are more palatable in India’

Why Rocketship.vc prefers to back ideas rather than valuations




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Start-ups cut out for meat delivery

Backed by marquee investors, online delivery platforms sharpen knives to carve out a slice of India’s juicy meat business




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Alcohol beverage start-ups pour a stiff competition

Newly minted makers of alcoholic beverages put up spirited fight in a market ruled by legacy corporations




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‘Join the funding party... early’

Ninad Karpe, Founder and Partner, 100X.VC, spells out the early mover advantage in venture capital




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What’s experience got to do with starting up?

How important is work experience before venturing into entrepreneurship?




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How startups are expanding the EV charging network

With generous funding, a host of newbie companies are revving up the expansion of the country’s EV charging network




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When talent becomes unaffordable for startups

Why good leadership is increasingly beyond the means of startups looking to build great products




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Start-ups step up to support senior living

The number of ventures catering to the long-term eldercare segment has zoomed in the past five years 




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Separation of Rare Earth Elements and Nickel Harnessing Electrochemistry and Reactive CO2 Capture and Mineralization

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04632C, Communication
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Akanksha Srivastava, Prarabdh Jain, Greeshma Gadikota, Prince Ochonma, Christopher Noe, Tianhe Yin
The aim is to probe the chemical mechanisms underlying the use of multifunctional solvents to simultaneously capture and convert CO2 into insoluble Rare Earth Element (REE)-carbonates, while forming soluble complexes...
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Small-sized starch nanoparticles for efficient penetration of plant cells

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC05493H, Communication
Yongxian Chen, Simin Jiang, Yang Wang, Fuxue Zhang, Liu Wang, Li Zhao, Siyu Liu, Junjun Tan, Staffan Persson, Bo Sun, Junsheng Chen, Andreas Blennow
Fluorescent starch nanoparticles used in live cell imaging in plants suggest that small-sized starch nanoparticles can efficiently penetrate plant cells, indicating great potential for applications in plant science and agriculture.
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PVDF nanocomposites with aligned boron nitride nanosheets and dispersed BaTiO3@PEG nanoparticles by a superspreading strategy towards high energy density

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13344-13347
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04430D, Communication
Dajun Hou, Jingjing Zhou, Wen Chen, Jing Zhou, Pengchao Zhang
The limited improvement in discharge energy density (Ue) of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) nanocomposites filled with low-dielectric-constant (εr) nanosheets has been addressed by using a superspreading layering strategy.
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Sb nanoparticles embedded uniformly on the surface of porous carbon fibres for high-efficiency sodium storage

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13428-13431
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04806G, Communication
Yafei Zhao, Kai Xue, Xinyu Liu, Zhiyuan Gao, Junhao Zhang, Yuanjun Liu, Xiangjun Zheng, ZhongYao Duan, Qianqian Fan, Xingmei Guo
Sb nanoparticles (∼5 nm) are embedded uniformly on the surface of carbon fibers to prepare Sb NPs–SCFs, which exhibit excellent sodium storage with a stable capacity of 381.9 mA h g−1 at 1.0 A g−1 after 200 cycles, due to their unique structure.
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Ultrafine PtCo alloy nanoparticles integrated into porous N-doped nanosheets for durable oxygen reduction reaction

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13432-13435
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04661G, Communication
Baoliang Chen, Lei Zhao, Zhaozhao Zhu, Pei Xiong, Zhao Li, Jun Song Chen, Lanlan Li, Rui Wu
The PtCo–CoNC–P catalyst, featuring sub-3 nm small-size PtCo alloy nanoparticles integrated into a porous nitrogen-doped nanosheet, exhibits exceptional durability after 30 000 cycles of accelerated durability tests.
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Bioinspired hydrogels: polymeric designs towards artificial photosynthesis

Chem. Commun., 2024, 60,13314-13324
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04033C, Feature Article
Open Access
Reina Hagiwara, Ryo Yoshida, Kosuke Okeyoshi
This Feature Article outlines the design of polymer networks for water splitting induced by visible light to develop artificial chloroplasts. The network serves as a mediator for photoinduced electron transfer among precisely organised molecules.
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Salt baked fish at its heart

The Drawing Room charms with fancy seafood set to Bohemian décor




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Artisanal craft chocolates made in Rajahmundry

An artisanal craft chocolate named Bon Fiction is made from cacao beans grown here



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At Kraft, a concept store in Chennai, shop for pendant lights and wall art over a meal of crispy keema dosas and Korean burgers

Shop, eat, and try your hand at games at Kraft, the concept store that showcases around 60 different types of furniture and decor




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The millet makeover: Nutrihub, ICAR-IIMR’s technology business incubator for millet start-ups is a game changer

Scientists at the Indian Institute of Millet Research are helping start-ups create products, from icecream to beer, with the grain at Nutrihub



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Creating a JavaScript promise from scratch, Part 7: Unhandled rejection tracking

When promises were introduced in ECMAScript 2015, they had an interesting flaw: if a promise didn’t have a rejection handler and was later rejected, you would have no idea. The rejection silently occurred behind the scenes and, therefore, could easily be missed. The best practice of always attaching rejection handlers to promises emerged due to...




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Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 1: Companies and trust

Early on, it was a battle to get sponsorship for open source projects. What used to require phone calls and drawn-out discussions has now been streamlined thanks to efforts like Open Collective1 and GitHub Sponsors2. Companies and individuals can now know if a project accepts donations just by looking at the project page on GitHub,...




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Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 2: Project hygiene

In part 11 of this series, I described how companies make decisions about spending their money and why they might (or might not) sponsor an open source project. If you haven’t yet read that post, I’d suggest going back to do so now before continuing. Everything in this post builds off the topics discussed in...




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Making your open source project sponsor-ready, Part 3: Accepting sponsorships

In the previous two posts in this series, I described why companies sponsor open source projects1 and how following some basic project hygiene can help attract sponsors2. Now that your project is functioning at a high level and is attractive to companies, it’s time to talk specifics about accepting sponsorships from companies. Making it easy...




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L’art japonais du bonheur

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Quelle est la méthode japonaise du bonheur ? Dans chaque précepte traditionnel du pays du Soleil-Levant se trouve une sagesse, une leçon à conserver précieusement, une occasion de joie et d'enrichissement.
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