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Underwhelming India wastes chances, goes down to German efficiency




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Former Indian women’s hockey skipper Rani Rampal announces retirement

A clinical forward, who made her international debut in 2008 as a 14-year-old in the Olympic qualifiers that year, Rani scored 205 goals in her 254 outings for India.




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Indian hockey team beats world champions Germany 5-3 in second Test, but loses series in shoot-out

India turned the table in the second half, with goals from Sukhjeet Singh (34th and 48th), skipper Harmanpreet Singh (42nd and 43rd) and Abhishek (45th) to level the two-match series.




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Salima Tete named India captain for women’s Asian Champions Trophy

Navneet Kaur will serve as Tete's deputy. India enter the competition with high expectations, having clinched the title at last year's edition in Ranchi.




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Karnataka defeats Chandigarh, makes the last-eight stage




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Moonshot : the Indigenous comicgs collection.




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Biindigen! : Amik says welcome / Nancy Cooper ; illustrated by Joshua Mangeshig Pawis-Steckley

Cooper, Nancy, 1967- author




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The lodge that Beaver built / Randi Sonenshine ; illustrated by Anne Hunter

Sonenshine, Randi, 1968- author




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‘Start-up valuations are more palatable in India’

Why Rocketship.vc prefers to back ideas rather than valuations




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Fireside Ventures aims to birth Indian mega-brands

Why VC firm Fireside Ventures believes it can build multimillion-dollar consumer brands in India without burning capital




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Esport: Rise of the virtual Indian champ

Competitive video gaming in India is buzzing with big-money championships, star players, celebrity endorsers and a surging fan base




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Funding climate favours clean tech

Why Orios Venture Partners wants to double down on clean tech and climate investments




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An app with a taste for Indian languages 

Language Curry offers digital means to achieve multilingual proficiency




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There must be ease of winding up business, too

Why a business that wants to down shutters must be offered the right kind of support




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Zephyr Peacock: Lending funds... and a hand

VC firm Zephyr Peacock zeroes in on sectors for its fourth fund deployment




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A honk meter for Indian roads

Ahmedabad techie designs app-based device Yhonk to keep horn-happy drivers in check




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‘Join the funding party... early’

Ninad Karpe, Founder and Partner, 100X.VC, spells out the early mover advantage in venture capital




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Why India Inc is slow to adopt AI tech

Indian firms appear willing to explore AI deployment, but most projects are stuck in pilot stage




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India’s booming D2C beauty market

Start-ups take on personal care biggies with niche products, mostly home-delivered through e-commerce




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Funding ventures with vertical takeoffs

Cornerstone Venture Partners on how specialisation can deepen a start-up’s value proposition




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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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Funding builders of future technology

Why Seafund Venture India Trust focuses on early-stage technology startups




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How startups are expanding the EV charging network

With generous funding, a host of newbie companies are revving up the expansion of the country’s EV charging network




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Flexi funding for unbanked needs

Anicut Capital zeroes in on investment opportunities that banks overlook due to regulatory constraints




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Electrocatalytic reduction of N2 to NH3 by MIL-88 derived pod-like Fe7Se8/C nanomaterials under ambient conditions

Chem. Commun., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CC04683H, Communication
Gongyao Nie, Huanhuan Zhang, Lanhua Yi, Xiao Ma, Wei Yi, Jiawei Wan, Yebo Lu, Xingzhu Wang
In this paper, pod-like Fe7Se8/C nanocomposite catalyst materials were prepared by MIL-88 selenide annealing and the as-prepared Fe7Se8/C nanocatalyst exhibited excellent electrocatalytic performance in neutral electrolyte for electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction...
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Currently trending in Hyderabad’s food scene: Apricot delight

Hyderabadis’ love affair with apricot continues to delight with many modern variations



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Bengaluru hosts Indian Cacao & Craft Chocolate Festival this weekend

The upcoming craft chocolate fest promises to be an eye-opener on the entire bean-to-bar experience




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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.



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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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Elucidating the interplay between entropy-driven and patch-mediated bonding in directing nanoscale assemblies

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4ME00153B, Paper
Kireeti Akkunuri, Xiangyu Zhang, Thi Vo
The interplay between directional patchy attraction and shape-driven entropic forces sculpts the spatial and orientational orderings between anisotropic building blocks, giving rise to symmetry breaking of pre-programmed interactions between particles.
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Indicative of Supremacy




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No conditions




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Faith is indispensible




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Efficient elimination of Hg(II) from water bodies with acid-modified magnetic biomass spent tea leaves: conditional optimization and application

New J. Chem., 2024, 48,7413-7429
DOI: 10.1039/D4NJ00576G, Paper
Dingli Cheng, Yiwen Li, Xinyu Zheng, Yongfu Guo
To effectively enhance the resource utilization of biomass waste, a acid-modified magnetic biomass spent tea leaves (NiFe2O4/STLs) was prepared via the pyrolysis and co-precipitation methods and used to eliminate mercury (Hg(II)) from water bodies.
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Towards Global Understanding – Advancing Multilingual AI with Gemma 2 and a $150K Challenge

Google is building AI models, focusing on Gemma, to bridge communication gaps across languages.




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Gemini API and Google AI Studio now offer Grounding with Google Search

Grounding with Google Search for the Gemini API and Google AI Studio enhances the accuracy and freshness of Gemini's responses by leveraging Google Search data.




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Chasing the sound barrier, Tamil Nadu skaters aim high for India

As skaters from Tamil Nadu get ready for the World Skate Games to be held in Argentina later this year, we speak to some of the talented men and women on wheels




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These motorcyclists at the India Bike Week shatter myths about ‘women bikers’

Maral Yazarloo-Pattrick, Sameera Dahiya, and Urvashi Patole smash stereotypes about female bikers in India




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Shark Tank India’s Aman Gupta, Peyush Bansal on what to expect in season two of the reality show

‘Shark Tank India’ is back for season two with “smarter entrepreneurs and smarter sharks,” say the sharks Peyush Bansal and Aman Gupta




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IIT-Madras’s Centre for Memory Studies celebrates Anglo-Indian history

Memory Bytes, a phy-gital exhibition, explores the Anglo-Indian community’s story across centuries



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Still ticking: HMT watches are trending again with Varchas, a limited edition series

Amidst rumours of shutting shop, the watches of HMT, which started over 60 years ago, are still ticking as collectors vie for their new Tiffany blue launch




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Drawing inspiration from cityscapes are Urban Sketchers in different Indian cities

With more than 15 chapters in India, Urban Sketchers are documenting many aspects of everyday life and architecture



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Understanding the active sites and associated reaction pathways of metal-free carbocatalysts in persulfate activation and pollutant degradation

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1368-1393
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00988B, Critical Review
Huawen Hu, Dongchu Chen, Yaoheng Liang, Wenyi Wang, Yinlei Lin, Xuejun Xu, Xiaowen Wang, Kun Wang, Yuyuan Zhang, Jian Zhen Ou
Environmental remediation based on peroxomonosulfate- and peroxydisulfate-activation-enabled radical/non-radical oxidation has gained growing interest due to the strong oxidation power, long life of reactive oxygen species, and wide pH adaptability.
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Influence of time and ageing conditions on the properties of ferrihydrite

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1682-1692
DOI: 10.1039/D3EN00828B, Paper
Open Access
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Michel Sassi, Odeta Qafoku, Mark E. Bowden, Carolyn I. Pearce, Drew Latta, Quin R. S. Miller, Mavis D. Boamah, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Jade E. Holliman Jr., Elke Arenholz, Kevin M. Rosso
Storage conditions affect the initial tetrahedral iron and hydroxyl populations of ferrihydrite, both are correlated and decrease over time as function of ageing.
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2023 Outstanding Papers published in the Environmental Science journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Environ. Sci.: Nano, 2024, 11,1329-1331
DOI: 10.1039/D4EN90012J, Editorial
Zongwei Cai, Neil Donahue, Graham Gagnon, Kevin C. Jones, Célia Manaia, Elsie Sunderland, Peter J. Vikesland
The Editors-in-Chief of the Environmental Science journals introduce the Outstanding Papers of 2023.
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Structural diversity and tetrel bonding significance in lead(II) complexes with pyrazoylisonicotinoylhydrazone and varied anionic co-ligands

CrystEngComm, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00325J, Paper
Open Access
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Ghodrat Mahmoudi, Isabel Garcia-Santos, Roi Fernández-Vázquez, Rosa Maria Gomila, Alfonso Castineiras, Esmail Doustkhah, Ennio Zangrando, Antonio Frontera
Four lead(II) complexes featuring pyrazoylisonicotinoylhydrazone ligand paired with various anionic co-ligands (azido, thiocyanato, nitrito, and nitrato) were synthesized and thoroughly examined using structural, analytical, and spectroscopic techniques. These ligands, in...
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Effects of B2S3 additive on diamond crystallization at HPHT conditions

CrystEngComm, 2024, 26,2190-2196
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00147H, Paper
Yong Li, Shuai Wang, Hongyu Xiao, Qiang Wang, Zhengguo Xiao, Yanchao She, Ying Wang
The color of the diamond obtained with the B2S3 additive changes from yellow to light blue and the resistivity of the synthesized diamond drops from 3.89 × 10 Ω cm to 2.51 × 10−1 Ω cm with the introduction of Ti/Cu into the synthetic cavity.
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Acoustic shock wave-induced phase transition in indium selenide: tuning band gap energy for solar cell applications

CrystEngComm, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4CE00012A, Paper
S. Oviya, F. Irine Maria Bincy, S. Arumugam, K. Kamala Bharathi, Raju Suresh Kumar, P. Kannappan, Ikhyun Kim, S. A. Martin Britto Dhas
Acoustic shock wave loading experiment on indium selenide.
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Hindi TV soaps need more grey




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Snapchat reaches over 200 million monthly active users in India

Snapchat has over 750 million monthly active users globally