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COVID-19 and the law : disruption, impact and legacy [Electronic book] / edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Abbe R. Gluck, Katherine L. Kraschel, Carmel Shachar.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.




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Yeh Hai Mohabbatein actress Karishma Sharma's HOT photoshoot

Lensman Amit Khanna's fabulous pictures confirm that she's really hot!




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Baba Siddique murder: suspect nabbed from Ludhiana; 15 arrested so far

Elsewhere, the investigators seized a pistol from the rented house of one of the arrested accused in Panvel area near Mumbai.




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Goafest 2024, Day 2: Leo Burnett and FCB Group India rule the roost at the Abby One Show Awards

Campaigns made for HDFC, Flipkart and Oreo get a lot of recognition 




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Abby One Show Awards 2024: Leo Burnett crowned Creative Agency of the Year; VML and FCB put up strong show

Goafest2024 concludes with a glittering awards show that celebrated creative excellence




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From ‘Downton Abbey’ to Oscar glory: Maggie Smith’s remarkable journey ends

Smith’s remarkable career spanned several decades, during which she was celebrated as one of her generation’s most distinguished actresses, sharing the stage and screen with contemporaries like Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench.




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Students not branded anti-nationals, facts twisted about CAA, says Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Lies are being spread by the bogus brigade of vested interests, says Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi




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Moorabbin Glen Eira Kingston Leader; Melbourne, Vic. [electronic journal].

News Ltd Australia




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Down the AI rabbit hole, strewn with health benefits and ethical pitfalls 

Regulatory frameworks covering AI need fine-tuning to harness its potential without halting growth 




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Dabbling in different mediums

Beyond sharing her experience of working with the powerhouse combination of Alia Bhatt, Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Shinde in the upcomingDear Zindagi, Ira Dubey talks about her undying love for theatre and more




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Sri Lanka President Anura Dissanayake promises return of Tamils’ land grabbed by state agencies 

Addressing a public rally in Jaffna in the Northern Province, Sri Lanka’s recently elected President assures conduct of provincial and local body elections; revival of industries in war-affected areas




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Construction of coumarin-appended calix[4]arene-based fluorescence sensor for the detection of carbofuran in cabbage

Anal. Methods, 2024, 16,2400-2411
DOI: 10.1039/D4AY00030G, Paper
Heni Soni, Nidhi Verma, Divyesh Y. Chaudhari, Sahaj A. Gandhi, Alok Pandya, Pinkesh G. Sutariya
This study presents a novel approach for the detection of carbofuran (CBF) insecticide by exploring a calix[4]arene-derived fluorescence probe, CouC4S, functionalized with two coumarin-labelled at the narrow edge of the calix[4]arene platform.
The content of this RSS Feed (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry




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616: Strum Machine with Luke Abbott

Luke Abbott is the creator of Strum Machine, an app that simulates backing tracks by stitching together individual notes, chords, and strums recorded on guitar, standup bass, and mandolin. We talk about what Strum Machine does, why he decided to build it, how bringing on a professional designer helped, pricing thoughts, and the "fun" of building a version on iOS.




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The unusual cabbage mutation that could boost crop yield | Explained

Some 44 years ago, people found a cabbage plant with a natural mutation that destroyed the plant’s ability to make pollen.




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Startup Grex gets new CEO after founders squabble




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Flabbergasted by the flab

On working out how to workout




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Chuttalabbayi: A lost opportunity

A masala overdose limits Chuttalabbayi’s ability to entertain




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‘Phalana Abbayi Phalana Ammayi’ movie review: Slice-of-life romance drama

Writer-director Srinivas Avasarala ventures into a niche zone and succeeds to an extent with Phalana Abbayi Phalana Ammayi, helped by Malvika Nair and Naga Shaurya’s performances




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Telangana State Cyber Security Bureau nabbed 165 cyber criminals involved in 795 cases in last six months

45% fraudsters are either graduates or post-graduates; indulge in crime due to peer pressure and for easy money, says data




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Teenage boy stabbed by classmate in Udaipur succumbs to injuries

Tension prevails after crowd gathered outside hospital and other areas; police resort to lathi charge; more force sent to maintain law and order; prohibitory orders remain




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Gabbia ends AC Milan's derby pain with late winner against Inter

Defender Gabbia rose highest to thump home Tijjani Reijnders' free-kick in the 89th minute and give Milan a Serie A win which pulls them out of a miserable early season slump




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Rising stars: Anzar Abbas and Katie Wu

Interview with early-career scientists in immunology and neuroscience




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Mammootty Gets Off A Bus; Goes Down A Rabbit Hole

Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam is a masterpiece, and like most masterpieces of the cinema, it's a great act of folly, observes Sreehari Nair.




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Rabbit farming best bet for housewives, unemployed youth

NABARD offers training on scientific lines to those interested




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AbbVie invests in switchable CAR-T therapies for cancer

The drug company is partnering with Calibr to develop universal CAR T-cells directed to different tumors via antibody switches




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AbbVie invests in switchable CAR-T therapies for cancer

The drug company is partnering with Calibr to develop universal CAR T cells directed to different tumors via antibody switches




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Calico and AbbVie advance antiaging efforts




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Lisette Model / preface by Berenice Abbott ; design by Marvin Israel

New York, N.Y. : Aperture Foundation, [2007]




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Zaheer Abbas wants to see Pakistan players in IPL

Mr. Abbas also called for the revival of bilateral cricket ties between Pakistan and India.



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Jamie Laing seen in London with girlfriend Sophie Habboo after couple fled to isolate in Cotswolds 

Jamie Laing has appeared to flout lockdown rules after he returned to London with his girlfriend Sophie Habboo. The Made in Chelsea couple had left the capital to isolate in the Cotswolds.





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Isolated creativity No. 8. Pink rabbit blues.

Hidden in the flash. posted a photo:

With a lockdown in place it is against the rules for me to go to places I like to shoot, so I though I would try to create a series called Isolated creativity. The series is not intended to be a diary but a way of documenting thoughts and emotions via photography.

I've felt a bit like Pink Rabbit over the passed few day. I'm not fed up and depressed by the lockdown but by the people who think that it's okay to break the rules. By the tabloid media that run stories that convince people it's okay to go out and about, when it Isn't. By the political points scoring that has started to appear in all forms of media.Lastly I fed up with second home owners that have turned up during lockdown and appear to be going out and about most days.

Just like Pink Rabbit I have the blues.




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Affinity maturation, humanization, and co-crystallization of a rabbit anti-human ROR2 monoclonal antibody for therapeutic applications [Immunology]

Antibodies are widely used as cancer therapeutics, but their current use is limited by the low number of antigens restricted to cancer cells. A receptor tyrosine kinase, receptor tyrosine kinase-like orphan receptor 2 (ROR2), is normally expressed only during embryogenesis and is tightly down-regulated in postnatal healthy tissues. However, it is up-regulated in a diverse set of hematologic and solid malignancies, thus ROR2 represents a candidate antigen for antibody-based cancer therapy. Here we describe the affinity maturation and humanization of a rabbit mAb that binds human and mouse ROR2 but not human ROR1 or other human cell-surface antigens. Co-crystallization of the parental rabbit mAb in complex with the human ROR2 kringle domain (hROR2-Kr) guided affinity maturation by heavy-chain complementarity-determining region 3 (HCDR3)-focused mutagenesis and selection. The affinity-matured rabbit mAb was then humanized by complementarity-determining region (CDR) grafting and framework fine tuning and again co-crystallized with hROR2-Kr. We show that the affinity-matured and humanized mAb retains strong affinity and specificity to ROR2 and, following conversion to a T cell–engaging bispecific antibody, has potent cytotoxicity toward ROR2-expressing cells. We anticipate that this humanized affinity-matured mAb will find application for antibody-based cancer therapy of ROR2-expressing neoplasms.




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A look back at the Bruins' 2017 NHL Draft: Not too shabby

Joe Haggerty revisits the Boston Bruins' 2017 NHL Draft and hands out a grade for each of their picks.




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Dabbling in the office of dreams

For the OM Africa communications and media team, the latest and greatest thing is a duck.




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Coronavirus: Lewis Hamilton Grateful For Grand Prix "Sabbatical"

The 2020 season is now set to start in July with the Austrian Grand Prix - the first of several races scheduled to take place behind closed doors as a precaution against the spread of COVID-19.




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Asif Ali Zardari Website Hacker Nabbed




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Abbasi questions NAB inaction on sugar, wheat crisis

ISLAMABAD PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Saturday blamed the federal cabinet and the Economic Coordination Committee for the sugar crisis and increase in its price.He was talking to the media after recording his statement with the inquiry commission constituted to probe the scandal at the...




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Abbasi questions NAB inaction on sugar, wheat crises

ISLAMABAD PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Saturday blamed the federal cabinet and the Economic Coordination Committee for the sugar crisis and increase in its price.He was talking to the media after recording his statement with the inquiry commission constituted to probe the scandal at the...




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Abbasi questions NAB inaction on sugar, wheat crisis

ISLAMABAD PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi Saturday blamed the federal cabinet and the Economic Coordination Committee for the sugar crisis and increase in its price.He was talking to the media after recording his statement with the inquiry commission constituted to probe the scandal at the...




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ECC, cabinet decisions led to sugar price hike: Abbasi

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said the decisions taken by the Economic Coordination Committee and the federal cabinet led to a hike in sugar prices across the country earlier this year.The PML-N leader was talking to media outside the Federal Investigation...




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Rabbi Yigal Levinstein: Conversion therapy must begin at very young age


The rabbi claimed that conversion therapy is a necessary procedure between ages 13 and 15 in order to rid people of their homosexual tendencies.




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Three nabbed in Laikipia while trying to sell elephant tusks

Detectives posing as potential buyers nab suspects.




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Abbasi wants PM, Asad quizzed by sugar scam probe body

ISLAMABAD: Senior vice president of the main opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has urged the commission of inquiry on the sugar scam to include Prime Minister Imran Khan and the then finance minister Asad Umar in the investigation to find out the truth.

Talking to reporters after appearing before the commission with another senior party leader and former minister Khurram Dastagir Khan here on Saturday, Mr Abbasi said he had told the commission there would be no worth of its report if it did not summon the prime minister and Mr Umar, the then chairman of the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) that had allowed export of sugar despite knowing it was not available in stock.

“We do not talk politics. We have presented facts before the commission. If the prime minister and the [former] ECC chairman are not called [for interrogation] there will be no worth of the commission’s report,” said Mr Abbasi, who had served as prime minister after disqualification of Nawaz Sharif in July 2017 as a result of the Supreme Court’s verdict in Al-Azizia corruption case.

Mr Abbasi had himself written a letter to the commission and offered his services to it by sharing his experiences in probing the sugar scam. He had stated that he would inform the commission how sugar scandals developed in the light of his experience as a former chief executive of the country.

Mr Abbasi held the prime minister directly responsible for over Rs100 billion sugar scam, saying the inquiry commission should ask him the reason for allowing sugar export despite the fact that the commodity was not available in surplus in the country and for not taking any step to prevent increase in its price. He said the export continued for 16 months with 45 per cent increase in the sugar price in the country, but the government took no notice of it.

The former prime minister alleged that the sugar mill owners earned Rs30 per kilogram extra due to this decision of the government. He said the increase in sugar price proved the decisions of the cabinet and the ECC to export sugar were wrong.

“There can be three factors behind this wrong decision. Either the prime minister is incompetent or corrupt or he is both. The facts prove he is incompetent as well as corrupt and the people of Pakistan are paying the price for it,” he said.

Mr Abbasi said he had told the inquiry commission it would not be able to understand the issue until it would not summon the members of the cabinet and the ECC.

“Is it not a matter of conflict of interests?” he asked, alleging those who made billions through the sugar scam were part of the federal cabinet.

Mr Abbasi said it was a clear, open and shut case as facts showed sugar was exported against the advice of the relevant authorities and continued to be exported for 16 months while prices rose. He said not only that, the government also imposed a special tax on sugar import to ensure the rise in price and exploitation of the people.

Replying to a question, the former prime minister said when the PML-N had left the government in 2018, the sugar price was Rs54 per kg. He said the PML-N had also given huge subsidy of over Rs20bn and even allowed the export, but at the same time it kept check on its price and brought the price down.

Responding to another query, he said they had not given anything in writing or any document, but they were ready to do so, if asked. However, he said, the minutes of the meetings of the cabinet and the ECC would be sufficient as evidence.

The federal cabinet in its meeting on April 28 had allowed three more weeks to the Sugar Forensic Commission (SFC) to compile its report on last year’s food crisis after the expiry of the April 25 deadline given for the task.

The commission headed by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Wajid Zia had reportedly made a formal request to the federal government to grant it more time citing multiple reasons, including the situation created by coronavirus.

The commission had been constituted by the government in the first week of April following the release of two separate inquiry reports of the FIA on the issue of artificial shortage of sugar and wheat in the country and sudden increase in their prices last year.

The inquiry report on sugar had revealed names of many bigwigs, including Jahangir Tareen, former secretary general of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf and a close confidant of Prime Minister Imran Khan, who had allegedly obtained benefit during the crisis.

The report had showed in the past few years sugar production was historically more than the local requirement and said therefore it was imperative to include this aspect related to export of sugar, including any subsidy given, its impact on local sugar prices and eventually major beneficiaries of such export subsidies, if any. The inquiry committee had found the sugar export was not justified as sugarcane production was expected to be low in harvesting season 2018-19 and with the export of sugar in Jan 2019, the prices of sugar sharply increased.

After the release of the report, the opposition had demanded that the PM take stern action against those who had been declared responsible for the crisis by the FIA committee.

PM Khan had vowed to take action, but said he would do so after receiving the forensic audit report from the commission he had constituted on the recommendation of the ‘initial’ reports. The commission comprises officials from a number of agencies and departments, including Intelligence Bureau and the Federal Board of Revenue.

Published in Dawn, May 10th, 2020




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Televangelist Jim Bakker Has Stroke, Taking Sabbatical From His TV Show

Televangelist Jim Bakker recently suffered a stroke, according to a Facebook post Friday by his wife, Lori. As a result, the 80-year-old preacher will be taking what’s described as a “sabbatical” from his television show. “For many years now, Jim has been working non-stop, working hard to bring incredible prophets and guests to our show, […]




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Flabber-gassed by our noxious air: can electric vehicles save us? Insights Blog

Paris is a beautiful city but has an ugly problem with air pollution. Using 2 wheels to get to work, one becomes acutely aware of this insidious addiction to cars, and the “essence” of the problem, DIESEL.




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Samantha Cameron's father is robbed after thief 'reached into his car and grabbed his iPhone'

Sir Reginald Sheffield, Samantha Cameron's father, was targeted in the grounds of Normanby Hall near Flixborough outside Scunthorpe, in an alleged tussle with a man accused of stealing his iPhone 8.




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Inphase Power Technologies ... vs Abb India Limited on 31 January, 2020

5 Mr. Rishi Gulati, "IGBT-based power quality compensation solutions are high Business end solution in terms of technology as compare to non IGBT Development which our company manufacturing. As per my market Manager, experience, I can say that approximately IGBT based power Cummins India quality compensation solution cost double to the customer as Ltd. compare to non IGBT base solutions. Switching speed is in nano seconds in IGBT based solutions whereas switching speed is in milliseconds in TSC or non-IGBT solutions."




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Md. Abbas vs The State Of Bihar on 17 March, 2020

- Gorgama, P.S.- Salkhua, District - Saharsa.

... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Amarnath Jha, Advocate For the State : Mr. Uma Shankar Prasad Singh, APP For the Informant : Mr. Sanjay Kumar Jha, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH ORAL JUDGMENT Date : 17-03-2020 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.




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BRITs 2020 red carpet: Abbey Clancy wears VERY short dress

The model, 34, put on a very leggy display in a perilously short black mini dress with daring thigh-high slits on the side.