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Aarogya Setu app promoting a few e-pharmacies, says SJM

We want a level playing field for all sellers: RSS affiliate.




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Garment units outside containment zones set to reopen in Karnataka

Following the formula of graded relaxation of the lockdown, the State government has allowed garment factories located outside containment zones to c




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Maharashtra CM refutes rumours of deploying Army in Mumbai




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Garment units can open in red zones in K'taka

The Karnataka government has allowed garment units in red zones but outside containment zones to resume operations with 33% work force.




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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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Around 75% pharma units operational in Gujarat: FDCA

Around 75% pharma units operational in Gujarat: FDCA




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Garment units can open in red zones in Karnataka

Garment units can open in red zones in Karnataka




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NIA issues arrest warrants against two terrorists in Punjab drone arms drop case




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Emergency landing by Army copter with 3 on board




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Punjab may compensate farmers for setting up power towers




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Capt. Amarinder Singh promises compensation to farmers for land used by PSTCL to install towers




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Free power to Punjab farmers to continue: CM




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Free power to farmers won't be withdrawn at any cost: Punjab CM




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SAD joins farmers' protest outside Punjab finance minister's residence




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Will not allow land confiscation of farmers: Punjab CM




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NIA files charge-sheet against 9 in Punjab arms drop case




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SAD asks Punjab CM to give financial aid to farm labourers amid curfew




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Punjab, Haryana farmers fear lockdown may hit harvesting, procurement




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Facing difficulties due to non-availability of farm labour, say Amritsar farmers




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Punjab to lift partial lockdown only for farmers




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With no labourers due to lockdown, farmers in Ludhiana call for govt's help




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Punjab CM writes to PM Modi, seeks incentive for farmers




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Punjab, OLA in pact to issue e-passes to 17 lakh farmers




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Punjab govt ties up with OLA for issuing e-passes to farmers




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Vegetable farmers bearing brunt of lockdown in Ludhiana




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Punjab CM seeks withdrawal of value cut on farmers




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Moga farmers fail to sell wheat as jute mills pull shutters amid lockdown




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With migrant labourers heading home and mandis closed in Ludhiana, vegetable farmers face problems




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SAD President asks Punjab CM to give incentives to farmers for switching from paddy to other crops




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Amarinder writes to PM for increasing MSP of paddy, giving bonus to farmers




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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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Madhya Pradesh: Lost for 10 years, son ends up in father's arms due to lockdown




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Do you remember when Rohit Sharma claimed his maiden IPL hat-trick?

Sharma was taking part in an Instagram Live session with Australian opener David Warner recently, where he was questioned about his hat-trick.




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Generating three-color pulses in high-gain harmonic-generation free-electron lasers with a tilted electron bunch

A multi-color light source is a significant tool for nonlinear optics experiments, pump–dump/repump–probe experiments and in other fields. Here, a novel method is proposed to create three-color pulses based on a high-gain harmonic-generation (HGHG) free-electron laser with a tilted electron bunch. In this method, the initial bunch tilt is created by transverse wakefields after the bunch passes through a corrugated structure with an off-axis orbit, and is further enlarged in a following drift section. Then the tilted bunch experiences the off-axis field of a quadrupole magnet to cool down the large transverse velocity induced before. After that, it enters an HGHG configuration adopting a transverse gradient undulator (TGU) as the radiator, where only three separated fractions of the tilted bunch will resonate at three adjacent harmonics of the seed wavelength and are enabled to emit three-color pulses simultaneously. In addition, the use of the natural transverse gradient of a normal planar undulator instead of the TGU radiator to emit three-color pulses is also studied in detail. Numerical simulations including the generation of the tilted bunch and the free-electron laser radiation confirm the validity and feasibility of this scheme both for the TGU radiator and the natural gradient in the extreme-ultraviolet waveband.








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Crystal structure of pirfenidone (5-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyridin-2-one): an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API)

The crystal structure of pirfenidone, C12H11NO [alternative name: 5-methyl-1-phenyl­pyridin-2(1H)-one], an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) approved in Europe and Japan for the treatment of Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), is reported here for the first time. It was crystallized from toluene by the temperature gradient technique, and crystallizes in the chiral monoclinic space group P21. The phenyl and pyridone rings are inclined to each other by 50.30 (11)°. In the crystal, mol­ecules are linked by C–H⋯O hydrogen bonds involving the same acceptor atom, forming undulating layers lying parallel to the ab plane.




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Neutron Larmor diffraction on powder samples

A hitherto unrecognized resolution effect in neutron Larmor diffraction (LD) is reported, resulting from small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) in the sample. Small distortions of the neutron trajectories by SANS give rise to a blurring of the Bragg angles of the order of a few hundredths of a degree, leading to a degradation of the momentum resolution. This effect is negligible for single crystals but may be significant for polycrystalline or powder samples. A procedure is presented to correct the LD data for the parasitic SANS. The latter is accurately determined by the SESANS technique (spin–echo small-angle neutron scattering), which is readily available on Larmor diffractometers. The analysis technique is demonstrated on LD and SESANS data from α-Fe2O3 powder samples. The resulting d-spacing range agrees with experimental data from high-resolution synchrotron radiation powder diffraction on the same sample.




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Fossils Show Prehistoric Global Warming

For those who think that global warming is a 21st-century phenomenon, Scott Wing, a scientist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, has news about the past.

The post Fossils Show Prehistoric Global Warming appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.




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Coral bleaching event caused by warming ocean waters is documented in Panama

Scientists and local dive operators first noticed coral bleaching in the waters surrounding Isla Colon, in Panama’s Bocas del Toro province in July. Smithsonian staff scientist Nancy Knowlton and colleagues documented an extensive bleaching event in late September.

The post Coral bleaching event caused by warming ocean waters is documented in Panama appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.




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Thepytus carmen, a newly described species of butterfly from Brazil

Thepytus carmen, a newly described species of butterfly from Brazil, was recently named in memory of Carmen Lúcia Buck in recognition of the gracious support […]

The post Thepytus carmen, a newly described species of butterfly from Brazil appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.




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Alarming number of fledgling, suburban catbirds fall prey to domestic cats, study finds

Smithsonian scientists report fledgling catbirds in suburban habitats are at their most vulnerable stage of life, with almost 80 percent killed by predators before they reach adulthood. Almost half of the deaths were connected to domestic cats.

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Study reveals environmental impact of American Indian farms centuries before Europeans arrived in North America

The new research reveals that from the period between 1100-1600 small agricultural settlements up and down the Delaware River Valley caused a 50-percent increase in sediment runoff into the Delaware River.

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Will global warming be hell on the hellbender? Smithsonian study aims to find out.

Now, a new study of hellbenders by scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute will place these amphibians at the center of the conservation of Appalachian salamanders.

The post Will global warming be hell on the hellbender? Smithsonian study aims to find out. appeared first on Smithsonian Insider.




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Cold spells spell trouble for warm-weather invasives

In a laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md., scientist João Canning Clode and colleagues tested the cold-water tolerances of a number of invasive green porcelain crabs.

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Is obesity predestined at infancy? Marmoset study may help scientists find out.

A new study of marmosets, small South American monkeys, indicates that obesity may begin very early in life and suggests that marmosets may be a helpful model for obesity in humans.

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Browsing suburbia: Virginia’s parceled-up farms and forests are ideal refuge for white-tailed deer

Forget the deep forest, “today the highest densities of deer in the state of Virginia are in suburbia,” says William McShea, ecologist and research scientist at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va.

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Powerful computer simulations show how spiral galaxies get their arms

Spiral galaxies are some of the most beautiful and photogenic residents of the universe. Our own Milky Way is a spiral. Our solar system and […]

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