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An app soon to design nutrition programmes in real time

The app helps deliver quick, customised and nutrition improvement programmes for vulnerable groups




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Apple: Watch Ultra gets ski and snowboard workout detection

Apple’s Watch Ultra got more options for workout detection with the help of a third-party app Slopes




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Microsoft to discontinue authenticator app for Apple Watch 

Microsoft Authenticator will continue to work on iPhone and iPad




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Meta unveils Quest 3 mixed reality headset ahead of Apple's VR debut

Priced starting at $499, Quest 3 to be 40% thinner than Meta’s previous headset and feature colour mixed reality




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Wearables device segment sees slower growth in March quarter but players remain bullish on outlook

As per estimates released by IDC, India’s smart wearable device market grew by merely 2.1 per cent in March quarter




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Markets open flat as Fed rate cut, Trump victory stir global sentiment 

Technology stocks led the gains in early trade, with Infosys rising 1.60 per cent, followed by Apollo Hospitals, Hindalco, Wipro, and Tech Mahindra




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Crude oil futures fall as Hurricane Rafael disrupts production

Around 22% of the daily oil production and 9.7% of the daily natural gas production in the Gulf of Mexico has been shut in response to Hurricane Rafael




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Gold heads for weekly drop as traders weigh Trump, fed outlook

Thursday’s gain partially helped to retrace Wednesday’s 3% rout, when Trump’s win triggered a powerful rally in the dollar, reducing the appeal of commodities priced in the currency




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Wealthy investors may take pre-IPO route after losing QIB tag

Large family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals, who typically establish their own AIFs and invest via the QIB route but are otherwise ineligible for QIB status individually, will be affected by SEBI guidelines, say experts




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Share Market Highlights November 11, 2024: Sensex, Nifty close flat amid unabated foreign fund outflows, muted earnings

Sensex, Nifty updates on November 11, 2024: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed flat in highly volatile trade on Monday as continuous FII selling, disappointing quarterly earnings and weak trends from Asian markets dented investor sentiment. After gyrating between highs and lows, benchmark Sensex eked out gains of 9.83 points or 0.01 per cent to settle at 79,496.15. The barometer gyrated 1,100.8 points between the day’s high of 80,102.14 and a low of 79,001.34. The NSE Nifty dipped marginally by 6.90 points or 0.03 per cent to 24,141.30. From the 30-share Sensex pack, Asian Paints tumbled over 8 per cent after the company on Saturday reported a 43.71 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 693.66 crore for the September quarter, impacted by soft-demand conditions, material price inflation and a decline in decorative and coatings business in the domestic market. Tata Steel, Bajaj Finance, Mahindra & Mahindra, JSW Steel, NTPC, Adani Ports, Bajaj Finserv and Larsen & Toubro were also among the laggards. However, Power Grid, HCL Technologies, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Tata Consultancy Services and ICICI Bank were among the gainers.




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Sensex, Nifty close flat amid unabated foreign fund outflows, muted earnings

The NSE Nifty dipped marginally by 6.90 points or 0.03 per cent to 24,141.30




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Crude oil futures trade lower as China stimulus measure fails to boost market 

At 9.57 am on Tuesday, January Brent oil futures were at $71.77, down by 0.08 per cent, and December crude oil futures on WTI (West Texas Intermediate) were at $67.97, down by 0.10 per cent




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Sagility India shares debut 3.53% higher

The stock made its debut at ₹31.06, up 3.53 per cent from the issue price on both the BSE and NSE, later, it jumped 7.2 per cent to ₹32.16 on the BSE




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Sensex, Nifty drop 1% on sustained foreign fund outflows, weak global trends

Sun Pharma, Infosys and ICICI Bank were the top gainers on the Sensex




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Lack of govt control on retail outlets blamed for soaring onion prices

Rains in Maharashtra delay kharif arrivals; prices likely to drop in a fortnight




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Swiggy’s stock market debut: Will it deliver listing gains?

With large IPOs like LIC and Hyundai India faltering, Swiggy’s listing today is expected to be muted, as analysts remain cautious amid subdued retail demand and challenging market conditions




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ACME Solar debuts today after IPO oversubscribed 2.75 times

The shares have been priced at ₹289, the upper limit of its price range




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Kolkatan who returns to Durga Puja after 20 years: ‘Crowds still there but no bonding, people are alone clicking selfies’

According to Arpita Mandal, the City of Joy, now that she’s two decades older, is today less suitable for pandal-hopping, due to the massive crowds, and more suitable for cafe-hopping, with plenty of eateries mushrooming even in residential neighbourhoods




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Mamata Banerjee reaches out to striking junior doctors, meeting scheduled on October 21

West Bengal Chief Minister refuses to accept demand made by protesting doctors seeking removal of State’s Health Secretary




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Without V-C for a year, Visva-Bharati now asks: Who and When?

Though some local channels have announced a name, there is no official communication or confirmation on full-time V-C




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Calcutta High Court stays suspension of 51 R.G. Kar doctors

An internal enquiry committee had suspended the doctors for promoting a threat culture and intimidation within the hospital premises. The court said that the suspension cannot go through without the State government’s or the Health Department’s approval.




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Cyclone Dana highlights: Railways cancel more than 150 trains amid heavy rains in south Bengal

“More than 5,000 relief centres have been set up and they are expecting evacuation of around 10 lakh people,” says Odisha Revenue and Disaster Management Minister Suresh Pujari




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U.K. to invest ₹205 crore to help fight plastic pollution in West Bengal

This investment will enable the expansion and development of an integrated single-line bottle-to-bottle food-grade recycling plant by Magpet at Vidyasagar Industrial Park, Kharagpur




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One injured, several shanties damaged in fire in south Kolkata

Fire in shanty caused by battery explosion spreads to gas cylinder and injures youth, damaging multiple shanties




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Kolkata Police starts probe into 'hacking' of live-streaming of Calcutta High Court hearing

During the hearing of Justice Subhasish Samanta at courtroom number 7, an obscene video was allegedly “live-streamed” for nearly one minute before it could be stopped




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CPI(M) open to future alliance with Congress in West Bengal, says Mohammed Salim

Mr. Salim also highlighted that in the upcoming byelections, the Left Front in West Bengal has made seat adjustments considering parties outside the Left Front




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Not upset about failing to meet Amit Shah, may get chance later: Parents of R.G. Kar victim

We understand that being the Union Home Minister, he has enormous responsibilities. He must be too hard-pressed to squeeze some time out for us during the day-long visit,” says the mother of the deceased doctor




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Mamata Banerjee reaches out to estranged brother on Bhai Phonta

The Trinamool Congress chairperson had in March this year said that she was disowning and snapping ties with her younger brother Swapan Banerjee after he expressed desire to contest from Howrah in the 2024 Lok Sabha election despite the party fielding Prasun Banerjee from the constituency




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‘IIM Calcutta violating reservation policy in hiring faculty members’

Students’ association points to RTI data, says only 2 seats filled by SC and 4 by OBC candidates against sanctioned strength of 18 and 34 respectively




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Row breaks out over endorsement of Trinamool candidate by officials of Kolkata-based football clubs

Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari called the move ‘unprecedented and unethical’, writes to Union Sports Minister seeking his intervention




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R.G. Kar issue: Minutes of meeting with CM incomplete, say Bengal junior doctors

They don’t address all our demands, doctors tell Chief Secretary in email.




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West Bengal junior doctors bring out rally to demand justice for R.G. Kar victim

The protesting doctors have also come up with a gallery highlighting their protests for the past 90 days




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Jadavpur University professor from West Bengal found dead in Uttarakhand hotel room

Colleagues and students expressed shock over his untimely and mysterious demise




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Calcutta HC allows Hindutva group to protest alleged atrocities against Hindus in Bangladesh at rally in Kolkata

The development comes three months after Sheikh Hasina resigned as PM of Bangladesh and left the country, causing political turmoil in Bangladesh and creating ripples in the internal politics of West Bengal




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Self-supported FeCoNiCuP high-entropy alloy nanosheet arrays for efficient glycerol oxidation and hydrogen evolution in seawater electrolytes

Green Chem., 2024, 26,10921-10928
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC02517B, Paper
Leyang Song, Chaoqun Ma, Peidong Shi, Xiaojuan Zhu, Kaiyu Qu, Lijie Zhu, Qipeng Lu, An-Liang Wang
Self-supported FeCoNiCuP high entropy alloy nanosheet arrays electrocatalyst was developed for highly efficient glycerol oxidation to formate and hydrogen evolution in seawater electrolytes.
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Electroreductive deuteration of N-propynylamides to enamides

Green Chem., 2024, 26,10975-10981
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC03790A, Paper
Qiansong Gao, Mingchun Wang, Lianyou Zheng, Lingling Shi, Cheng Wu, He Li, Jinbao Xiang
A migratory reductive deuteration of terminal alkynes to access enamides with more than 3 deuteriums incorporated per molecule was realized.
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Modular access to multi-substituted allenones via environmentally friendly organocatalytic C–H allenylation of aldehydes

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04550E, Paper
Xinying Hu, Ayisenbati Jialingbieke, Yuzhi Ren, Yifan Yang, Donghui Wei, Jian Gao, Ding Du
Organocatalytic direct C–H allenylation of aldehydes with propargyl bromides has provided a straightforward and step-economical strategy for allenone modular synthesis.
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Engineering high-valence nickel sites in Ni3S2/Ni3Se2 architectures enabling urea-assisted hydrogen evolution reactions

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04318A, Paper
Taotao Ai, Miaomiao Bai, Weiwei Bao, Jie Han, Xueling Wei, Xiangyu Zou, Jungang Hou, Lizhai Zhang, Zhifeng Deng, Yuxin Zhang
Bifunctional Ni3S2@Ni3Se2 electrocatalysts were constructed for urea-assisted hydrogen evolution. In the HER/UOR two-electrode system, the heterogeneous interface modulates the electronic structure and thus improves the catalytic performance.
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High Efficiency Leaching of Valuable Metals from Waste Lithium-ion ternary Batteries under Mild Conditions Using Green Deep Eutectic Solvents

Green Chem., 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04373A, Paper
Bo Li, Zhengfu Zhang, Chengping Li, Jinsong Wang, Rundong Wan, Jiangzhao Chen, Ying Liu, Yuejing Bin, xiaoping yang, Chongjun Bao, Shaohua Ju
Recently, the production and demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) has increased owing to increasing number of electric vehicles and products. This surge has considerably increased spent LIBs, leading to environmental...
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Visible light-induced strain-release transformations of bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes

Green Chem., 2024, 26,11083-11105
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC03193H, Tutorial Review
Qing-Bao Zhang, Feng Li, Bin Pan, Shanshan Zhang, Xiang-Guo Yue, Qiang Liu
This review aims to provide an overview on the recent visible light-mediated strain-release transformations of bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes. Prospects for future development of (aza)bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes in this fascinating field are outlined.
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Iron/photoredox dual-catalyzed redox-neutral double decarboxylative C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling

Green Chem., 2024, 26,11334-11339
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04523H, Paper
Qi Zhang, Shanghui Wu, Xuesong Wu
An efficient iron porphyrin/photoredox dual catalytic system for the double decarboxylative radical C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling under redox-neutral and mild conditions.
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A paired alkaline electrolyzer for furfural oxidation and hydrogen evolution over noble metal-free NiFe/Ni and Co/MXene catalysts

Green Chem., 2024, 26,11351-11363
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04447A, Paper
Open Access
Xiaopeng Liu, Mohammad Albloushi, Michael Galvin, Connor W. Schroeder, Yue Wu, Wenzhen Li
A paired alkaline electrolyzer with non-noble metal catalysts was developed, demonstrating higher performances of furfural oxidation on NiFe/Ni foam at the anode and hydrogen evolution on Co/MXene at the cathode under practical current densities.
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Utilize rather than create: transforming phthalonitrile resin into N-rich hierarchical porous carbon for supercapacitor materials

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04103H, Paper
Yi Li, Qiancheng Liu, Qian Zhang, Xiaoxiao Li, Yang Yang, Pan Wang, Kui Li, Ying Li, Fei Zhong, Qi Liu, Yun Zheng, Xulin Yang, Peng Zhao
The “utilize rather than create” strategy employs the reaction product (RPH) as the precursor and the by-product (KCl) as the template for the synthesis of N-rich hierarchical porous carbon for high performance supercapacitor materials.
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Bio-derived solvent-based automated dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction for pretreatment of diamide insecticides in environmental water samples

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04467C, Paper
Jin Liu, Yuxin Wang, Rui Song, Yukun Yang, Li Li, Xu Jing
The automatic dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction based on bio-derived solvents achieved great environmental greenness, high-throughput operation, and low human error compared to the present sample pretreatment methods for diamide insecticides.
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CO2 switchable solvents for sustainable dissolution, modification, and processing of cellulose materials: a critical review

Green Chem., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4GC04032E, Critical Review
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Peter McNeice, Ben L. Feringa
CO2 switchable solvents provide a convenient and environmental method to dissolve and process cellulose.
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Sticking out like a thorn




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Making the cut

As a film’s success depends heavily on its teaser and trailer, editing them has become an art in itself




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How Rang De Basanti created a challenging storyboard for future filmmakers

Rang De Basanti set a trend in filmmaking with its unconventional narrative style




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It’s all about getting the basics right: Amla



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