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PIX: Anita Hassanandani's ROMANTIC holiday!

A tour of Vietnam and Cambodia with Anita and Rohit.










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Bigg Boss 16: Sreejita De's SPICY New Avatar

Television actress Sreejita De is back on Bigg Boss 16 as a wild card contestant.




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'I get so many calls I get irritated'

'Be it politicians, actors or from any other walk of life, I get calls from everyone saying that Bigg Boss is a great platform for their career and they would love to be a part of the show.'




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Bigg Boss 16's Sreejita To Marry

Bigg Boss 16 contestant Sreejita De is all set to tie the knot with Michael Blohm-Pape.




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Who Won Best Ma, Pita, Beta, Beti....

Who won what at the Star Parivaar Awards?




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Why Ankita Lokhande Joined Bigg Boss

'Everybody who has been on the show has learned something from it.''I'll also learn many things from Bigg Boss and I'm sure I'm going to grow in my life.'




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Why Is Vicky So TOXIC Towards Ankita?

'The face of a woman being insulted, vilified, degraded by her husband in front of the whole world for literally no reason ever.'




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Will Ankita-Vicky Divorce Post Bigg Boss?

'Our fights came out on TV, which may not happen for other normal couples.''Because of this, our relationship has become stronger.'




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Raising a hospital: The Akole model

When finding a hospital bed proved daunting during the devastating second wave of Covid-19, the villagers of the Maharashtra taluk got together to set up makeshift healthcare centres




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Hyderabad rekindles the fire for heritage cuisine

Nothing about it is quick or simple. Meats need days of marination, spices are ground from scratch, and cooking takes hours. Yet, dishes from the Nizam era are winning new connoisseurs




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Their guitars gently wept for Bangladesh

Pandit Ravi Shankar and George Harrison pulled off a coup of sorts when they managed to get Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and other stars to play a healing note for a new and anguished nation




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Integration of paper-based analytical devices with digital microfluidics for colorimetric detection of creatinine

Analyst, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00688G, Paper
Larissa G. Velasco, Danielly S. Rocha, Richard P. S. de Campos, Wendell K. T. Coltro
Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a platform that allows the automated manipulation of individual droplets, ranging from nanoliters to microliters, and coupling sensing techniques can be facilitated by paper-based devices (PAD).
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Reference-free quantitative mass spectrometry in the presence of nonlinear distortion caused by in situ chemical reactions among constituents

Analyst, 2024, 149,5320-5328
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00961D, Paper
Yusuke Hibi
Nonlinear reference-free analysis in pyrolysis-MS enables accurate compositional analysis even in reactive and interactive systems.
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Automatic detection of fluorescent droplets for droplet digital PCR: a device capable of processing multiple microscope images

Analyst, 2024, 149,5213-5224
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01028K, Paper
Kaihao Mao, Ye Tao, Wenshang Guo, Qisheng Yang, Meiying Zhao, Xiangyu Meng, Yinghao Zhang, Yukun Ren
An automated microscope image detection device (A-MMD) is designed to detect fluorescent droplets in droplet digital PCR images captured by multiple microscopes.
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Nanozyme linked multi-array gas driven sensor for real-time quantitative detection of Group A streptococcus

Analyst, 2024, 149,5433-5442
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN00787E, Paper
Qi Wang, Pei Liu, Ke Xiao, Wenying Zhou, Jinfeng Li, Yun Xi
Group A streptococcus (GAS) is a pathogen typically transmitted through respiratory droplets and skin contact, causing an estimated 700 million mild non-invasive infections worldwide each year.
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Acoustic levitation and manipulation of columns of droplets with integrated optical detection for parallelisation of reactions

Analyst, 2024, 149,5546-5554
DOI: 10.1039/D4AN01096E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Ruchi Gupta, Nicholas J. Goddard
In this work, acoustically levitated droplets serve as wells of microtitre plates and are acoustically manipulated to perform chemical and biological reactions in a non-contact fashion.
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A heritage tree around you



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How climate change has helped vineyards in Britain thrive

Discover the rise of English wines, from picturesque vineyards to award-winning bottles, amidst a changing climate and growing acclaim



  • Life & Style

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Eeshaan Kashyap for Sarita Handa | In the mood for ghungroo

Musical anklets, traditional blooms and an old textile motif are reimagined in this Eeshaan Kashyap for Sarita Handa collection



  • Homes and gardens

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Water concerns and inheritance

Your property-related legal queries answered by S.C. RAGHURAM, Partner, RANK Associates, a Chennai-based law firm




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Empowering ultrathin polyamide membranes at the water–energy nexus: strategies, limitations, and future perspectives

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3CS00803G, Review Article
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Pulak Sarkar, Chenyue Wu, Zhe Yang, Chuyang Y. Tang
This review details the design and creation of ultrathin polyamide membranes with significant enhancement in water permeance along with the limitations and potential strategies to empower their efficacy in ionic and molecular separations.
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Bagnaia capitalises on Martin crash in Germany to take championship lead




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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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Men’s hockey: 10-man India beats Great Britain to enter semifinals at Paris Olympics

Harmanpreet, Sukhjeet, Lalit Upadhyay and Raj Kumar Pal scored for India in the shootout, which had more drama in store than one expects in pure action.




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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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Warm welcome and felicitations mark the return of the Indian hockey team

The tired players, led by Harmanpreet Singh, express satisfaction with the performance at the Paris Olympics




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The forest keeper : the true story of Jadav Payeng / by Rina Singh ; illustrated by Ishita Jain

Singh, Rina, 1955- author




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I am big / written by Itah Sadu ; illustrated by Marley Berot

Sadu, Itah, 1961- author




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Venture capital: On the trail of buying power

Why VC firm Elevation Capital chooses to stay invested in consumer brands




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Digital detox for hallucinating chatbots and other AI fails

Bengaluru start-up’s automated platform detects and fixes machine learning gone wrong




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Fostering the digital adoption drive in India

Why 8i Ventures backs startups that are digitising the economy




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Visible light-activated polyphenol–Al3+ coordination for ambient and quantitative xylose-to-furfural conversion

Chem. Commun., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04899G, Communication
Jinshu Huang, Qizhi Luo, Tengyu Liu, Song Yang, Hu Li
Visible light-enhanced coordination of polyphenol–Al3+ is uncovered to switch Lewis/Brønsted acid sites for room-temperature cascade upgrading of xylose to furfural in ultrahigh yields.
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Moringa honey: How Italian bees are helping farmers in sweet enterprise

Moringa honey is among the most popular varieties of floral nectar in the food sector. Farmer and beekeeper N Dhandayuthapani is one of those in the Cauvery delta reaping the benefit of combining apiary with agriculture




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Take home a piece of heritage at this Visakhapatnam sweet store

Sarvani Sweets launches its series sweet boxes featuring some iconic heritage spots of Visakhapatnam




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Predictions for 2023: AI, VR boom in hospitality, wellness and gaming, and Balenciaga in India

This is the time of year when that we draw up the Best Of 2022 lists, and trend forecasts for 2023. And But how do you predict the unpredictable? We start with gains from the past.



  • Life & Style

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How Pune is becoming a dining destination, drawing cosmopolitan bar hoppers

With a heady mix of craft beer, high energy spaces and unique cocktail programmes, Pune cracks the cocktail code




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Design strategy and molecular level understanding: hole transport materials with suitable transition dipole orientation for OLEDs

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2024, 9,1116-1129
DOI: 10.1039/D3ME00127J, Paper
Krishan Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Anirban Karmakar, Dipanshu Sharma, Feng-Rong Chen, Mangey Ram Nagar, Jwo-Huei Jou, Subrata Banik, Subrata Ghosh
A combined experimental and theoretical study on a group of phenothiazine-substituted pyridine is reported.
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Ligand-assisted solvothermal precipitation synthesis of quantum-sized SnO2 nanoparticles and their application in quantum dot light emitting diodes

New J. Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00811A, Paper
Jiaxin Gao, Mengxin Liu, Xinan Shi, Daocheng Pan
Quantum dot-light emitting diodes with an external quantum efficiency of 12.9% are fabricated based on quantum sized SnO2 nanoparticles as electron transportation layers.
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Self-assembled superstructures derived from suitably substituted phenanthro[9,10-d] imidazole-based Zn(II)/Cd(II) complexes for selective detection of acetone

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7456-7468
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00450G, Paper
Mallayasamy Siva, Sheethal Sasi, Priya Rana, Raj Kumar Bera, Yuvaraj Sivalingam, Priyadip Das
Newly synthesized (L1)2M, (L2)2M, and (L3)2M (M = Zn(II)/Cd(II)) self-assembled into well-ordered superstructures and exhibited promising potential for developing a new class of sensor devices for human health monitoring and environmental safety measurements.
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Quantitatively differentiating foliar adhesion and absorption of different lead-based particles on Solanum melongena L.

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1417-1428
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00640A, Paper
Bing Zhao, Siyu Zhang, Xuejiao Zhang, Qing Zhao, Jason C. White, Fengchang Wu, Baoshan Xing
This study quantitatively distinguished foliar adhesion and absorption between Pb nano- and submicron particles of different chemical forms.
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Magnetic and structural characteristics associated with the transformation of As(V)-coprecipitated ferrihydrite to hematite: implications for magnetic enhancement in soils and sediments

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00739A, Paper
Guoqing Zhang, Yixuan Tang, Jinru Lin, Jiaxing Xu, Zidan Yuan, Lingyun Chen, Fei Wu, Chengshuai Liu, Zongmin Zhu, Xiangyang Bi, Wei Zou, Zhiguo Cao, Kai Jiang, Yuanming Pan, Roman Chernikov, Yongfeng Jia, Shaofeng Wang
The transformation of metastable ferrihydrite to stable hematite has been linked to magnetic enhancement in soils and sediments.
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