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FAME-III scheme unlikely to extend benefits to hybrid vehicles as govt focuses on EVs, cabinet note ready

Maruti Suzuki India, Toyota and Hyundai Motor have been lobbying for tax cuts on hybrid vehicles




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Indian government hikes kharif crops support price by 1-13%

Farmers will receive ₹2-lakh crore from the new minimum support prices




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Periodic review likely of PSBs, CPSEs employees

New instructions from DoPT require PSUs and Banks to review employees monthly for integrity and effectiveness.




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Govt hikes NDRF risk and hardship allowance by 40%: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah made the announcement at the Flag-in ceremony of the NDRF’s Mountaineering Expedition Vijay, emphasising the crucial role NDRF plays in national and international disaster response




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Wage ceilings likely to be hiked for EPS, EPF and ESIC: Labour Ministry sources

Talks are at an advanced stage to firm up the quantum of increase




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Flagship-like, or flagship?

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TN Health Dept to launch 25 bike ambulances with Rs 1.60 crore allocation




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Cyclone Dana: East Midnapore, South 24 Parganas likely to be worst affected in Bengal




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Pollution levels in Kolkata likely to be alarming on Kali Puja as AQI deteriorates




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Significant spike in air, noise pollution in Kolkata




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Bursting of firecrackers post-Diwali further spikes air pollution in Kolkata




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Why ‘one nation, one election’ would strike a blow against federalism | Data

The idea of simultaneous elections is untenable if its impact on existing Assemblies and the three-tier system is considered.




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We have to go all the way back to Karpov and Kasparov on the top two boards to find something like India’s dominance: Peter Svidler

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Trump rules out former Cabinet members Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley in his administration

Pompeo served as the CIA Director and Secretary of State in his first term, Haley served as his ambassador to the United Nations in the first two years of Trump’s presidency




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Israeli strikes kill 30 people, including 13 children: Gaza rescuers

Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed 43,552 people in Gaza, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s Health Ministry




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Israeli strikes kill dozens in Lebanon and isolated northern Gaza, officials say

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 20 people in the village of Aalmat, north of Beirut;Lebanon's Health Ministry said a further six people were wounded




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Trump asks Mike Waltz, China hawk, to be national security adviser

There are concerns on Capitol Hill about Donald Trump tapping members of the House, where the final tally is still uncertain




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Israeli strikes set off explosions in Beirut suburbs and kill 14 Palestinians in Gaza, medics say

The strike came hours after the Israeli military announced an expansion of the zone, where it has told Palestinians evacuating from other parts of Gaza to take refuge




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YSRCP likely to retain local body MLC seat of Vizianagaram district

Former MLC Indukuri Raghuraju who represented the constituency previously was disqualified as YSRCP leadership approached the High Court of Andhra Pradesh with an allegation that he was indulging in anti-party activities




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Luminescent and time-resolved determination of gemifloxacin mesylate in pharmaceutical formulations and spiked blood plasma samples using a lanthanide complex as a probe

Anal. Methods, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00236A, Paper
Gasser M. Khairy, Rania M. Goda, Zeinab M. Anwar, Mohamed M. Aboelnga, Axel Duerkop
A new luminescent europium probe for the determination of the antibiotic gemifloxacin is presented. Time-resolved luminescence enables its quantitation in pharmaceutical formulations and blood samples.
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Dual-mode detection of 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid based on the enhanced peroxidase-like activity and fluorescence property of novel Eu-MOFs

Anal. Methods, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00331D, Paper
Jintao Yi, Xianqin Han, Jiahao Jian, Yayan Lai, Jun Lu, Lei Peng, Zhongkai Liu, Jun Xue, Hui Zhou, Xun Li
The dual-mode fluorescence and colorimetric detection of 2,6-pyridinedicarboxylic acid (DPA) based on the enhanced peroxidase-like activity and fluorescence property of a novel MOF.
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AIADMK ready to join hands with like-minded parties to defeat DMK: Palaniswami




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551: PlanetScale with Iheanyi Ekechukwu and Mike Coutermarsh

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592: Web Component Therapy, SEO Therapy, and Learning Something New like Swift

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628: Tending to RSS Feeds, Code Hike’s Fine Markdown, and Cloudflare R2

Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes, Dave's got a 2x life update, how often do you manage or prune your RSS feed subscriptions, checking in on Code Hike and their fine grained Markdown approach, JavaScript decorators use case, and using Cloudflare R2 for image storage.




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Bikes for last mile connectivity

The Japanese are increasingly shunning cars to help the urban environment get greener.




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DMRC launches bike taxis for last-mile connectivity




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Amazon is designed to spin like a flywheel: Brian Dumaine

In Bezonomics, the Fortune jounralist explains how Jeff Bezos has shrewdly changed the way business is done in today’s world




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Mango output is set to increase by 14% this year; heat wave unlikely to impact yields

The total production of mangos could jump to 24 million tonnes in the 2023-24 crop year, as against 21 million tonnes in 2022-23




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Paddy MSP up 5.35% to ₹2,300 per quintal as Cabinet clears MSP hikes for 14 kharif crops

MSPs for bajra, arhar dal, maize offer highest margins above production costs; Cabinet nod for Varanasi airport expansion, new Maharashtra port, wind energy projects in Gujarat and T.N., forensic infrastructure development




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At $73 m, Nikesh Arora is among world’s highest-paid execs




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Ikea to start production unit in India




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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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BJP leader Tamilisai Soundararajan calls for ‘strong alliance of like-minded parties’ to defeat DMK in 2026

BJP’s Tamilisai Soundararajan says that it is not necessary that only parties with similar ideologies should form an alliance




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Do it like denim

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Editorial. Crowd strike, indeed

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Bank of Baroda likely to report 5% YoY net profit growth in Q2FY25

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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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A strike, and Tamil Nadu’s challenge

The State government cannot afford to neglect the interests of workers




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Muslim Vedike rues attempts to divide Hindus and Muslims on waqf property issue




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MRF consolidated Q2 net skids 20% to ₹471 cr. on input cost hike




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'Hannah Gadsby: Douglas' review: After 'Nanette', the extraordinary mind of Gadsby strikes again

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‘Karthikeya 2’ movie review: Not quite the riveting thriller it aims to be

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Bengaluru residential property micromarkets witness record hike in prices: Report

Prices in Bagaluru in North Bengaluru have surged by nearly 90 per cent in the past five years, while Whitefield has seen an 80 per cent rise in prices




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Man arrested for shooting at father of woman he liked




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Private engineering colleges demand fee hike




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Like the rain that drenched everything

Sri Ramanuja’s compassion knew no distinction.



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An art haven like no other

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Reaction of unsymmetrical α-bromo-1,3-diketones with N-substituted thioureas: regioselective access to 2-(N-arylamino)-5-acyl-4-methylthiazoles and/or rearranged 2-(N-acylimino)-3-N-aryl-4-methylthiazoles

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,35585-35600
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA05436A, Paper
Open Access
Ranjana Aggarwal, Shilpa Sharma, Naman Jain, Dionisia Sanz, Rosa M. Claramunt, Patricia Delgado, M. Carmen Torralba
Hantzsch's [3 + 2] cyclic condensation of α-bromo-1,3-diketones with N-substituted thioureas.
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Rahul Gandhi likely to visit Ahmedabad on July 6

Rahul Gandhi will meet party workers and leaders who were ‘assaulted by BJP goons’, says Gujarat Congress chief