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From missing big medals to nailing the bigger one — the Swapnil story

The 50-metre rifle 3-position shooter, who lost the plot after being in pole position at major events in the run-up to the Olympic Games, turned it around with a podium performance in Paris as expert guidance, diligent preparation and Himalayan patience do the trick




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Russia and Ukraine launch biggest drone attacks of conflict

Ukraine’s drone attack on Moscow forced the temporary closure of three airports, wounded a 52-year-old woman and set two homes on fire in the village of Stanovoye in the Moscow region, officials said.




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Japan’s parliament re-elects struggling leader Ishiba as Prime Minister

Japan’s parliament has reelected struggling Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba after his governing coalition suffered its worst election loss in more than a decade




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Drones to be deployed to check sand smuggling

The unmanned aerial vehicles will be used to check illegal sand mining, smuggling, stock-keeping, and selling sand on the black market, says Police Commissioner




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Requested ₹130 crore from Centre for the development of Vijayawada GGH: Vijayawada MP Chinni

All Anganwadi centres in NTR district will get a building of their own with clean kitchens, says Chinni




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Aghori’s self-immolation bid triggers tension in Srikalahasti

Aghori accuses the police of behaving rudely with her, forcing her to take the extreme step




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Anti-aggregation colorimetric sensing of cysteine using silver nanoparticles in the presence of Pb2+

Anal. Methods, 2024, 16,2378-2385
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00351A, Paper
Lihui Mao, Yi Zhang, Huan Zhang, Huili Liu, Yong-ping Gao
In this study, an unmodified AgNPs was synthesized to prepare AgNPs-Pb2+ as a probe for colorimetric sensing of cysteine. We developed a AgNPs colorimetric method for the determination of cysteine in urine, utilizing the anti-aggregation principle.
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Detection of Free DNA Based on Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence Triggered by CRISPR-Cas12a and Colorimetric Analysis

Anal. Methods, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00149D, Paper
Ming-Qiu Zheng, Yuyao Li, Liling Zhang, Cheng-Yu Li, Menghan Liu, Hongwu Tang
The CRISPR-Cas system has been found to be extremely sensitive and there is an urgent demand to extend its potential in bioassay. Herein, we developed a novel nanobiosensor to detect...
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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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Paddy crop loss compensation pegged at ₹36,500




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Advanced baggage handling system introduced in Tiruchi airport




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583: Language Models, AI, and Digital Gardens with Maggie Appleton

Maggie Appleton talks with us about her work at Elicit, working with large and small language models, how humans vet the responses from AI, the discussion around the Soggoth meme in AI, using Discord as UI, what to do if your boss wants AI in your app, and why does she call her blog a digital garden?




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586: Micro.blogging with Manton Reece

Manton Reece, creator of Micro.blog, stops by to talk about the history of Micro.blog, what it's written in, how it handles feeds coming in and going out, cross-posting, authentication, and the somewhat hidden features of Micro.blog: bookmarking, bookshelves, and even podcasting.




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599: Fighting the Algorithm With RSS, Blogging, and the IndieWeb

Dave and Chris discuss indie web culture, the role of social media in today's society, and the challenges and strategies of freelancing. Additionally, they discuss a range of topics from content moderation, coding and refining tech skills, to emerging startups and the future of web technology.




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605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers

Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, RSS in HTML, and the state of state and UI.




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624: Blogging, In App Browsers are Bad, and Teaching CSS from Scratch

On this epsiode we're talking about the current state of blogging and social media, the polyfill hack, whether in app browsers should be banned, web components and the difficulty of front end web dev, and how we would go about teaching CSS from scratch in 2024.




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627: Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development

Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future?




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Aggregated customer power

User-friendly financial services are a click away with account aggregators




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ITC wants a bigger FMCG slice

The Sanjiv Puri-led group looks set to feed on the success of its brand extension strategy




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Two juveniles apprehended for dragging policemen on car’s bonnet 




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BJP calls Kejriwal ‘biggest symbol of VVIP culture’

Mr. Bhatia dredged up a 2013 social media post of Mr. Kejriwal in which he had lashed out at the then CM Sheila Dikshit saying she had 10 ACs, including in bathrooms.




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Unravelling nuggets of innovation

The journey of Tanishq’s mass market brand GoldPlus




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Above-normal pre-monsoon rain triggers agriculture activities in Raichur district of Karnataka

The district received 26.5 mm of rain in 72 hours against the average of 1.9 mm




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Happy 35th Virat! A look at his mind-boggling stats

Kohli has consistently dominated headlines with his extraordinary batting prowess.




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Markets give up initial gains dragged by sharp fall in Kotak Bank, unabated foreign fund outflows

Equity markets open strong but later decline; HDFC Bank gains, Kotak Mahindra Bank falls, global markets mixed




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Markets fall dragged by Hindustan Unilever; massive foreign fund outflows

Nestle, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finserv, ICICI Bank and Maruti were the other big laggards




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Swiggy cuts IPO valuation again, to $11.3 billion, BlackRock and CPPIB to invest: report

BlackRock and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board will invest in the $1.4 billion IPO, which will be the country’s second-biggest stock offering this year




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Swiggy likely to price $1.35 billion IPO at ₹371-390/share: report

Swiggy is expected to list its shares on November 13




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Markets decline in early trade dragged by bank stocks, weak Asian peers

In contrast, Maruti, Tata Motors, IndusInd Bank and Larsen & Toubro defied broader market trend and were trading in the positive territory




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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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Sensex, Nifty plunge in early trade dragged by Reliance Industries

Relentless selling by foreign investors also dampened the sentiments in the equity market




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ONGC conducts mock drill at Kovilkalappal GGS




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Reversible pH-responsive supramolecular aggregates from viologen based amphiphiles – A molecular design perspective

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00695J, Paper
Redhills L. Narendran, Archita Patnaik
pH responsive self-assembled supramolecular systems in water hold tremendous promise spanning across the various realms of science and technology. Herein, we report the design and synthesis of benzyl viologen (BV)...
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How to Create a CSS-Only Toggle Button

With the growing eco-system of CSS, designers, and developers are continually seeking ways to leverage its power for interactive UI elements. One such element is the toggle button, an essential interactive component. While more complex features might require JavaScript or …




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RBI grants online payments aggregator license to Jio Financial arm JSPL

Jio Financial, helmed by veteran banker K.V. Kamath, already runs a shadow bank and an insurance brokerage and has joined forces with BlackRock Inc. to start an asset management business



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Monkey on the Back / directed by: Julian Biggs ; produced by: Grant McLean ; production agency: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)

Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2016




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Cost of flood management works in Amaravati pegged at ₹2,063 crore

World Bank, ADB express satisfaction over the plan, being taken up after a gap of five years, at enhanced rates due to cost overrun caused by the delay




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Andhra Pradesh Budget is deceptive, says Buggana Rajendranath

How can the government fulfill its poll promises with a meagre increase in budgetary allocation of ₹24,000 crore, questions the former Finance Minister




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Stop digging borewells for uranium, A.P. Chief Minister directs officials




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Two electric buggies damaged in fire at Pilikula

Before the firemen could reach the spot, the personnel put off the fire by pouring water. The two buggies were completely damaged




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CCI probe finds Zomato, Swiggy breached antitrust laws, documents show

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) investigation finds Zomato and Swiggy breached competition laws with exclusive deals favoring restaurant chains




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Russian oil finds its way to Europe via India; India now biggest exporter of fuel to EU

India has become the second biggest buyer of Russian crude oil since the invasion, with purchases rising from less than 1% of the total oil imported in the pre-Ukraine war period to almost 40% of the country's total oil purchases




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CCI probe: Zomato, Swiggy say committed to complying with competition law

Zomato and Swiggy termed news reports on the Competition Commission of India's (CCI) investigation "misleading", maintaining that the CCI is yet to pass its final order on the matter of unfair business practices, including alleged preferential treatment to some restaurant partners




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As its industry struggles, Germany services sector offers untapped growth potential




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Ae Dil Hai Mushkil: Sluggish narrative overtakes a fresh film

ADHM is the latest in the brand of cinema that isn’t so much as plot driven as it is focused on characters, relationships and interactions.




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Label Erode’s debut collection blends the GI-tagged jamakkalam with Jimi Hendrix’s music

How a Mumbai-based fashion label is reviving the GI-tagged Bhavani jamakkalam through its debut collection




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All-thiophene dendrimers based on cyclooctatetrathiophene: synthesis and aggregation-induced emission (AIE) features

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01525H, Research Article
Pengfei Wang, Chunmei Zhao, Shuai Qiu, Wan Xu, Chunli Li, Zhiying Ma, Wei Cao, Li Xu, Hua Wang
A novel class of all-thiophene dendrimers with obvious AIE emissions was designed and synthesized based on saddle-shaped cyclooctatetrathiophene (COTh) as building blocks.
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Dendron-mediated control over self-assembly of chlorophyll rosettes into columnar vs. discrete aggregates

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, 11,6304-6310
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01629G, Research Article
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Ryo Kudo, Hiroki Hanayama, Balaraman Vedhanarayanan, Hitoshi Tamiaki, Nobuyuki Hara, Sarah E. Rogers, Martin J. Hollamby, Biplab Manna, Koji Harano, Shiki Yagai
By controlling the π-π stacking of chlorophyll supramolecular rosettes through steric hindrance of alkyl dendrons, it become possible to create chlorophyll tubes and discrete rings that resemble to natural chlorophyll assemblies.
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Facile single-step synthesis of pentaaryl-substituted pyrano[3,2-b]pyrrol-5(1H)-ones showing aggregation-induced emission

Org. Chem. Front., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4QO01600A, Research Article
Yongfeng Wang, Ruijun Chu, Yanxiao Wang, Mengyuan Zhou, Yuan Chen, Cheng Xu, Jingyu Sun, Guodong Yin
A novel class of heterocyclic AIEgens has been synthesized via a multicomponent reaction of isatins, 2,3-diaryl cyclopropenones, and alkyl bromides.
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