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Air India flight with 80 passengers from India lands at San Francisco airport in USA




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Indian envoy Sandhu, US Senator Feinstein discuss COVID-19




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Places in History for August 10, 1861. Aerial Reconnaisance, Sewells Point, Virginia

Historic maps from the Library's collections documenting battles and campaigns of the Civil War, and other historical events.




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Karnataka: Indian grey wolf spotted in Cauvery Sanctuary

In a rare finding, an Indian grey wolf (Canis lupus pallipes) was documented for the first time in Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Chamarajanagara district. The wild animal was documented by Sanjay Gubbi of Nature Conservation Foundation, and his team, while camera trapping for studying leopards.




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First Air India repatriation flight to take off from San Francisco, only asymptomatic passengers allowed onboard

Only those Indian nationals who show no signs of contracting the coronavirus infection and have been stranded in the US due to the lockdown are allowed to board the first repatriation flight of Air India from San Francisco to Mumbai and Hyderabad on Saturday. Over 10,000 registrations were recieved. People travelling under compelling circumstances were prioritised.




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It Happened Here: The Invention of Santa Claus

Though legend has it that Santa Claus hails from the North Pole, he was actually a New Yorker who came into the world on West 23rd Street in what is now the trendy Chelsea neighborhood.

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January 8th, 2012
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Thomas Nast and George Webster. Santa Claus and his works. New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca 1870. New-York Historical Society, YC1870.Web.

Though legend has it that Santa Claus hails from the North Pole, he was actually a New Yorker who came into the world on West 23rd Street in what is now the trendy Chelsea neighborhood.

The modern Santa was born in the imagination of Clement Clarke Moore, a scholar who penned a whimsical poem about St. Nicholas, the patron of old Dutch New York, for the amusement of his six children at Christmastime. Soon after the publication of "A Visit from St. Nicholas"—popularly known today by its opening line, "Twas the night before Christmas…""—St. Nicholas became a popular feature of American Christmas celebrations. Moore's poem permanently connected St. Nicholas to Christmas, and led to our idea of Santa Claus.

Santa's popularity, appearance and many of the holiday traditions that surround him owe much to the imaginative work of two other New Yorkers: Washington Irving, the creator of Knickerbocker's History of New York, and Thomas Nast, an artist whose drawings of Santa were reproduced all over the country in the years following the Civil War.

To celebrate the winter season, the New-York Historical Society is presenting It Happened Here: The Invention of Santa Claus, an installation tracing the modern image of Santa Claus, the red-suited, pot-bellied descendant of the medieval bishop St. Nicholas of Myra, which emerged only decades after the first Congress met in 1788 in Federal Hall in New York.  The exhibition features Robert Weir's 1837 painting of a rather sly St. Nicholas and Thomas Nast's Harper's Weekly cartoons of Santa. Clement Clarke Moore's desk is on display in the Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture.

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 Video excerpt: The Santa Files with John Sergant (c) 2010 Fine Stripe Productions.




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Uddab Bharali develops new sanitization vaporizer concept

Uddab Bharali develops new sanitization vaporizer concept




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Youth sanitizes village, distributes masks

Youth sanitizes village, distributes masks




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Ambiguous ampersands

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at what happens if there’s an unencoded ampersand that’s not part of a character reference in your HTML code. Is it valid? Is it invalid? And what do “ambiguous ampersands” have to do with all this?




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Working capital loan sanctions doubled in 2 days: Sitharaman




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SBI General Insurance launches Arogya Sanjeevani health insurance policy




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Covid-19: 25,000 Indians to be repatriated from US, says Ambassador Sandhu

The first flight will be from San Francisco to Mumbai and Hyderabad on Saturday with 200 passengers on board




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Tiruchi firm develops robots to help hospital sanitation workers

They can take care of riskier duties of the staff, says the company’s CEO




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Supply of sand, gravel to hasten Polavaram rehabilitation works

Mines Director assures timely support to complete construction of colonies




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Only 20 people can attend funeral, but 1000 can gather near alcohol shops: Sanjay Raut




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Santhanam's Server Sundaram to release in theatres

Santhanam's Server Sundaram to release in theatres




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Government disburses Rs 18,253 crore to 9.13 crore farmers under PM-Kisan scheme

Government disburses Rs 18,253 crore to 9.13 crore farmers under PM-Kisan scheme




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Four children die after school van catches fire in Punjab's Sangrur




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Punjab crackdown on illegal sand mining- 9 arrested in special ops in six districts




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Punjab cracks down on illegal sand mining, nine arrested




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Combating COVID-19: Punjab closes malls, local Kisan Mandis, museums till March 31




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SGCP members hand out masks, sanitisers to devotees at Golden Temple




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Punjab allows distilleries to manufacture hand sanitizers




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COVID-19: Punjab announces relief measures amid lockdown, sanctions Rs 20 cr from CM fund




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Punjab CM sanctions Rs 3 cr for providing food packets during lockdown




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Company gives 30,000 masks, sanitisers to Punjab Police




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Vigilance arrests chemist selling sanitizers, masks at exorbitant rates in Punjab




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COVID-19 : Punjab distilleries begins manufacturing sanitisers




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Punjab residents shower rose petals on sanitation workers




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Punjab police felicitate sanitation workers with kits




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Lockdown : Radha Soami Satsang Beas prepares 'langar' for needy in Punjab, other states




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COVID-19: Punjab announces special health insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh each for police personnel, sanitation workers




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Chandigarh Municipality to do drone-based sanitisation




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First person who tested COVID-19 positive in Sangrur district has recovered: Punjab Special Chief Secy




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Punjab govt issues advisory on maintaining hygiene, sanitization in banks




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Punjab Health Minister launches sanitisation drive via drones in Mohali




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Conduct health test for sanitation workers: KTR

Officials told to prepare for the monsoon




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Govt disbursed Rs 18,253 cr to 90 mn farmers under PM-KISAN: FM Sitharaman

Under the PM-KISAN (Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi) scheme, each farmer gets Rs 6,000 in a year in three equal installments directly in bank account





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'Thank you for creating mommy': Sara Ali Khan makes mother Amrita Singh & grandmother Rukhsana Sultana feel special

Sara Ali Khan shared a beautiful picture of Amrita Singh and Rukhsana Sultana holding her newborn self




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'Allow private vehicles to ferry them': Sanjay Raut's advice to Maharashtra govt on migrant situation

Sanjay Raut took to his official Twitter handle on Sunday to let know his suggestion via a post regarding the situation.




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Sania Mirza cuddles with her son in bed

Picture shows Sania and her son, wearing nightsuits all cuddled up in bed. Izhaan has a sweet smile on his face that can brighten anyone's day.





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Thousands of migrant workers enter Haryana from Punjab





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Crystal structure of 3,14-diethyl-2,13-di­aza-6,17-diazo­niatri­cyclo­[16.4.0.07,12]docosane dinitrate dihydrate from synchrotron X-ray data

The crystal structure of title salt, C22H46N42+·2NO3−·2H2O, has been determined using synchrotron radiation at 220 K. The structure determination reveals that protonation has occurred at diagonally opposite amine N atoms. The asymmetric unit contains half a centrosymmetric dication, one nitrate anion and one water mol­ecule. The mol­ecular dication, C22H46N42+, together with the nitrate anion and hydrate water mol­ecule are involved in an extensive range of hydrogen bonds. The mol­ecule is stabilized, as is the conformation of the dication, by forming inter­molecular N—H⋯O, O—H⋯O, together with intra­molecular N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds.




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Crystal structures of chlorido­[dihy­droxybis­(1-imino­eth­oxy)]arsanido-κ3N,As,N']platinum(II) and of a polymorph of chlorido­[dihy­droxybis­(1-imino­prop­oxy)arsanido-κ3N,As,N']platinum(II)

Each central platinum(II) atom in the crystal structures of chlorido­[dihy­droxybis­(1-imino­eth­oxy)arsanido-κ3N,As,N']platinum(II), [Pt(C4H10AsN2O4)Cl] (1), and of chlorido­[dihy­droxybis­(1-imino­prop­oxy)arsanido-κ3N,As,N']platinum(II), [Pt(C6H14AsN2O4)Cl] (2), is coordinated by two nitro­gen donor atoms, a chlorido ligand and to arsenic, which, in turn, is coordinated by two oxygen donor ligands, two hydroxyl ligands and the platinum(II) atom. The square-planar and trigonal–bipyramidal coordination environments around platinum and arsenic, respectively, are significantly distorted with the largest outliers being 173.90 (13) and 106.98 (14)° for platinum and arsenic in (1), and 173.20 (14)° and 94.20 (9)° for (2), respectively. One intra­molecular and four classical inter­molecular hydrogen-bonding inter­actions are observed in the crystal structure of (1), which give rise to an infinite three-dimensional network. A similar situation (one intra­molecular and four classical inter­molecular hydrogen-bonding inter­actions) is observed in the crystal structure of (2). Various π-inter­actions are present in (1) between the platinum(II) atom and the centroid of one of the five-membered rings formed by Pt, As, C, N, O with a distance of 3.7225 (7) Å, and between the centroids of five-membered (Pt, As, C, N, O) rings of neighbouring mol­ecules with distances of 3.7456 (4) and 3.7960 (6) Å. Likewise, weak π-inter­actions are observed in (2) between the platinum(II) atom and the centroid of one of the five-membered rings formed by Pt, As, C, N, O with a distance of 3.8213 (2) Å, as well as between the Cl atom and the centroid of a symmetry-related five-membered ring with a distance of 3.8252 (12) Å. Differences between (2) and the reported polymorph [Miodragović et al. (2013). Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52, 10749–10752] are discussed.




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Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and spin-echo SANS measurements reveal the logarithmic fractal structure of the large-scale chromatin organization in HeLa nuclei

This paper reports on the two-scale fractal structure of chromatin organization in the nucleus of the HeLa cell.




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Eighty-thousand bark beetles enter National Museum of Natural History collections

The Stephen L. Wood collection brings the collection of bark beetles held in the Natural History Museum’s Department of Entomology to an impressive 180,000 specimens, making it one of the most extensive collections in world.

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Our galaxy might hold thousands of ticking “time bombs”

New research shows that some old stars might be held up by their rapid spins, and when they slow down, they explode as supernovae. Thousands of these "time bombs" could be scattered throughout our Galaxy.

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