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Aurangabad train accident: Raised an alarm but to no avail, says eyewitness

As many as 16 migrant labourers were killed and five others injured when a freight train ran over them between Jalna and Aurangabad on Friday




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I am healthy, not suffering from any disease: Amit Shah issues statement

"I am totally healthy and I am not suffering from any disease," he said in the statement in Hindi which was posted on his Twitter handle




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Microfabricated electrochemical sensing devices

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1358-1389
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01112A, Critical Review
Fumihiro Sassa, Gokul Chandra Biswas, Hiroaki Suzuki
Electrochemistry provides possibilities to realize smart microdevices of the next generation with high functionalities.
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Optically-controlled closable microvalves for polymeric centrifugal microfluidic devices

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1426-1440
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01187K, Paper
M. Shane Woolf, Leah M. Dignan, Hannah M. Lewis, Christopher J. Tomley, Aeren Q. Nauman, James P. Landers
Microvalving is a pivotal component in many microfluidic lab-on-a-chip platforms and micro-total analysis systems (μTAS).
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Advanced 96-microtiter plate based bioelectrochemical platform reveals molecular short cut of electron flow in cytochrome P450 enzyme

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1449-1460
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01220F, Paper
Ronny Frank, Christoph Prönnecke, Ronny Azendorf, Heinz-Georg Jahnke, Annette G. Beck-Sickinger, Andrea A. Robitzki
We developed a novel 96-well microtiter plate based bioelectrochemical platform with a vertical divided cell three-electrode architecture and a 96-multipotentiostat to perform fully parallelised bioelectrocatalytic screenings on redox enzymes.
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An implantable multifunctional neural microprobe for simultaneous multi-analyte sensing and chemical delivery

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1390-1397
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00021C, Communication
Bo Wang, Ximiao Wen, Yan Cao, Shan Huang, Hoa A. Lam, Tingyi “Leo” Liu, Pei-Shan Chung, Harold G. Monbouquette, Pei-Yu Chiou, Nigel T. Maidment
PDMS thin-film transfer and enzyme microstamping enabled 3-in-1 Si/PDMS hybrid chemtrode for multi-analyte sensing and chemical delivery in vivo.
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Droplet encapsulation improves accuracy of immune cell cytokine capture assays

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1513-1520
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01261C, Paper
Yuan Yuan, Julie Brouchon, J. Mauricio Calvo-Calle, Jing Xia, Li Sun, Xu Zhang, Kiera L. Clayton, Fangfu Ye, David A. Weitz, John A. Heyman
In-droplet cytokine capture assays combined with FACS to accurately identify and isolate activated immune cells.
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Monitoring tissue-level remodelling during inflammatory arthritis using a three-dimensional synovium-on-a-chip with non-invasive light scattering biosensing

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1461-1471
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01097A, Paper
Open Access
Mario Rothbauer, Gregor Höll, Christoph Eilenberger, Sebastian R. A. Kratz, Bilal Farooq, Patrick Schuller, Isabel Olmos Calvo, Ruth A. Byrne, Brigitte Meyer, Birgit Niederreiter, Seta Küpcü, Florian Sevelda, Johannes Holinka, Oliver Hayden, Sandro F. Tedde, Hans P. Kiener, Peter Ertl
We demonstrate that the integration of complex human synovial organ cultures in a lab-on-a-chip provides reproducible and reliable information on how systemic stress factors affect synovial tissue architectures using light scatter biosensing.
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Scalable microfluidic droplet on-demand generator for non-steady operation of droplet-based assays

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1398-1409
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01103J, Paper
Open Access
Kartik Totlani, Jan-Willem Hurkmans, Walter M. van Gulik, Michiel T. Kreutzer, Volkert van Steijn
We developed a microfluidic droplet on-demand (DoD) generator that enables the production of droplets with a volume solely governed by the geometry of the generator for a range of operating conditions.
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Contact lens-based lysozyme detection in tear using a mobile sensor

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1493-1502
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01039D, Paper
Zachary Ballard, Sarah Bazargan, Diane Jung, Shyama Sathianathan, Ashley Clemens, Daniel Shir, Saba Al-Hashimi, Aydogan Ozcan
A rapid and cost-effective method for monitoring proteins in tear-fluid is reported, which enables biomarker monitoring using contact lenses toward personalized mobile-health applications.
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Applications of the microphysiology systems database for experimental ADME-Tox and disease models

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1472-1492
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01047E, Paper
Open Access
Mark Schurdak, Lawrence Vernetti, Luke Bergenthal, Quinn K. Wolter, Tong Ying Shun, Sandra Karcher, D. Lansing Taylor, Albert Gough
The Microphysiology Systems Database (MPS) is a critical tool for the design, management, analysis, and sharing of MPS study data.
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Mathematical modeling and computational analysis of centrifugal microfluidic platforms: a review

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1318-1357
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC00775J, Critical Review
Open Access
Masoud Madadelahi, Luis F. Acosta-Soto, Samira Hosseini, Sergio O. Martinez-Chapa, Marc J. Madou
This paper focuses on theory and computational modelling of lab-on-a-disc devices of relevance for novel applications discovery and optimal designs.
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Fluorescence-based sorting of Caenorhabditis elegans via acoustofluidics

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00051E, Paper
Jinxin Zhang, Jessica H. Hartman, Chuyi Chen, Shujie Yang, Qi Li, Zhenhua Tian, Po-Hsun Huang, Lin Wang, Joel N. Meyer, Tony Jun Huang
Acoustofluidic sorting of Caenorhabditis elegans in a high throughput manner.
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Nanoplasmon-enhanced drop-screen for high throughput single-cell nucleocytoplasmic miRNA profiling

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01226E, Paper
Jia Liu, Guoyun Sun, Shih-Chung Wei, Song Guo, Weikang Nicholas Lin, Chia-Hung Chen
Nanoplasmon-enhanced drop screen is developed to measure single-cell multiple miRNAs with high sensitivity of 0.1 nM, addressing cell nucleocytoplasmic profile in a throughput ∼100 cells per minute.
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Stretching DNA to twice the normal length with single-molecule hydrodynamic trapping

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01028A, Paper
Open Access
Yan Jiang, Theodore Feldman, Julia A. M. Bakx, Darren Yang, Wesley P. Wong
High-speed hydrodynamic trapping enables combined surface-free force spectroscopy and fluorescence imaging of single DNA molecules at extreme forces.
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Development of two-photon polymerised scaffolds for optical interrogation and neurite guidance of human iPSC-derived cortical neuronal networks

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01209E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
J. A. Crowe, A. El-Tamer, D. Nagel, A. V. Koroleva, J. Madrid-Wolff, O. E. Olarte, S. Sokolovsky, E. Estevez-Priego, A.-A. Ludl, J. Soriano, P. Loza-Alvarez, B. N. Chichkov, E. J. Hill, H. R. Parri, E. U. Rafailov
We identified photopolymers for 2-photon polymerisation with biocompatibility for human iPSC-derived neural network development. Generation of microscale scaffold topologies enabled neurite guidance, demonstrating use in reproducing aligned networks.
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Development and characterisation of acoustofluidic devices using detachable electrodes made from PCB

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01192G, Paper
Roman Mikhaylov, Fangda Wu, Hanlin Wang, Aled Clayton, Chao Sun, Zhihua Xie, Dongfang Liang, Yinhua Dong, Fan Yuan, Despina Moschou, Zhenlin Wu, Ming Hong Shen, Jian Yang, Yongqing Fu, Zhiyong Yang, Christian Burton, Rachel J. Errington, Marie Wiltshire, Xin Yang
We demonstrate a novel SAW device fabrication technique by mechanically clamping interdigital electrodes (IDEs) on the printed circuit board (PCB) to a LiNbO3 wafer. The novel PCB-SAW device is capable of performing all the functions of standard SAW devices.
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A bespoke microfluidic pharmacokinetic compartment model for drug absorption using artificial cell membranes

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00263A, Paper
Jaime L. Korner, Elanna B. Stephenson, Katherine S. Elvira
A new type of pharmacokinetic compartment model using artificial cell membranes that predicts intestinal absorption three times more accurately than the current state of the art.
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SLOCK (sensor for circadian clock): passive sweat-based chronobiology tracker

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00134A, Paper
Sayali Upasham, Shalini Prasad
SLOCK is a sweat based platform for monitoring circadian relevant biomarkers-cortisol and DHEA, using electrochemical detection modality.
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Current commercialization status of electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) digital microfluidics

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00144A, Critical Review
Jia Li, Chang-Jin “CJ” Kim
Electrowetting on EWOD surface: a droplet beading or spreading (left) or translating (right) by electric signals. The EWOD technology made the once-obscure electrowetting phenomenon practical, leading to the host of commercial products today.
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In situ generation of plasma-activated aerosols via surface acoustic wave nebulization for portable spray-based surface bacterial inactivation

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00001A, Paper
Kiing S. Wong, William T. H. Lim, Chien W. Ooi, Leslie Y. Yeo, Ming K. Tan
We demonstrate an efficient technique for in situ production and application of plasma-activated aerosols for surface disinfection.
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Photonic crystal-based smart contact lens for continuous intraocular pressure monitoring

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01268K, Paper
Bohee Maeng, Hyung-kwan Chang, Jungyul Park
A powerless smart contact lens enabling to monitor intraocular pressure (IOP) by checking the visual color change in photonic crystal structure with a microhydraulic amplification system has been realized.
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Multiplexed homogeneous digital immunoassay based on single-particle motion analysis

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00079E, Paper
Kenji Akama, Hiroyuki Noji
Homogeneous digital immunoassay is a powerful analytical method for highly sensitive biomarker detection with a simple protocol. By using this method, we demonstrated the simultaneous multiple protein detection.
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Open sessile droplet viscometer with low sample consumption

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00248H, Paper
Matthias Hermann, Kyle Bachus, Graham T. T. Gibson, Richard D. Oleschuk
This paper reports a portable viscometer that requires less than 10 μL of sample for a measurement.
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In-air EIS sensor for in situ and real-time monitoring of in vitro epithelial cells under air-exposure

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01064E, Paper
Seungbeom Noh, Hanseup Kim
This paper reports in-air monitoring of in vitro monolayer cells under air-exposure utilizing electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).
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Clip-to-release on amplification (CRoA): a novel DNA amplification enhancer on and off microfluidics

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00318B, Paper
Ren Shen, Yanwei Jia, Pui-In Mak, Rui P. Martins
A proposed DNA amplification enhancer with a “clip-to-release on amplification” mechanism reduces dye-mediated inhibition to amplification, increases fluorescence signal up to 10-fold, and eliminates false-negative results for on-chip PCR.
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Acoustic separation of living and dead cells using high density medium

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00175A, Paper
Open Access
Karl Olofsson, Björn Hammarström, Martin Wiklund
A novel, simple and robust route for binary separation of viable and dead cells using a density modified medium which takes advantage of the compromised cell membrane of dead cells.
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Capacitive Sensing of Triglyceride Film Reactions: A Proof-of-Concept Demonstration for Sensing in Simulated Duodenal Contents with Gastrointestinal Targeting Capsule System

Lab Chip, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00133C, Paper
George Banis, Luke Beardslee, Justin Stine, Rajendra Mayavan Sathyam, Reza Ghodssi
Ingestible capsule systems continue evolving to overcome drawbacks associated with traditional gastrointestinal (GI) diagnostic and therapeutic processes, such as location restrictions or insufficient sensitivity measures when obtaining information on local...
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Catalytic exchange of hydrogen isotopes intensified by two-phase stratified flow in wettability designable microchannels

Lab Chip, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00250J, Paper
Yuexiao Song, Feng Xin, Yongsheng Xu
This work develops a reliable method to achieve stratified flow in squared cross-section microchannels by endowing the four channel walls with very different wettabilities. The gas–liquid flows are studied experimentally...
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PRESCIENT: platform for the rapid evaluation of antibody success using integrated microfluidics enabled technology

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1628-1638
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01165J, Paper
Jose A. Wippold, Han Wang, Joseph Tingling, Julian L. Leibowitz, Paul de Figueiredo, Arum Han
Identifying antibodies (Abs) that neutralize infectious agents is the first step for developing therapeutics, vaccines, and diagnostic tools for these infectious agents.
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Quantitatively controllable fluid flows with ballpoint-pen-printed patterns for programmable photo-paper-based microfluidic devices

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1601-1611
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00115E, Paper
Veasna Soum, Sooyong Park, Albertus Ivan Brilian, Jae-Youl Choi, Yongwoo Lee, Wonjung Kim, Oh-Sun Kwon, Kwanwoo Shin
A precise, simple, and inexpensive method for controlling fluid flow in a photo-paper-based microfluidic device was reported.
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Monitoring the two-dimensional concentration profile of toluene vapors by using polymer-stabilized nematic liquid crystals in microchannels

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1687-1693
DOI: 10.1039/C9LC01021A, Paper
Zongdai Liu, Dan Luo, Kun-Lin Yang
The concentration of toluene vapor is obtained based on polymer-stabilized liquid crystals by viewing a colourful gamut under a polarized optical microscope.
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In-flow measurement of cell–cell adhesion using oscillatory inertial microfluidics

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1612-1620
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00089B, Paper
Baris R. Mutlu, Taronish Dubash, Claudius Dietsche, Avanish Mishra, Arzu Ozbey, Kevin Keim, Jon F. Edd, Daniel A. Haber, Shyamala Maheswaran, Mehmet Toner
Cell–cell adhesion strength of freely suspended cell clusters can be measured using an oscillatory inertial microfluidic system.
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3-Step flow focusing enables multidirectional imaging of bioparticles for imaging flow cytometry

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1676-1686
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00244E, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Andreas Kleiber, Anuradha Ramoji, Günter Mayer, Ute Neugebauer, Jürgen Popp, Thomas Henkel
The control of the focus plane allows multi-directional imaging flow cytometry.
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Matrix density drives 3D organotypic lymphatic vessel activation in a microfluidic model of the breast tumor microenvironment

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1586-1600
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00099J, Paper
Karina M. Lugo-Cintrón, José M. Ayuso, Bridget R. White, Paul M. Harari, Suzanne M. Ponik, David J. Beebe, Max M. Gong, María Virumbrales-Muñoz
Lymphatic organotypic in vitro model allows the examination of components of the tumor microenvironment (e.g., ECM density, cancer cells) in lymphatic vessel biology in the context of cancer, providing insights into potential therapeutic targets.
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High-sensitivity microliter blood pressure sensors based on patterned micro-nanostructure arrays

Lab Chip, 2020, 20,1554-1561
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00063A, Communication
Nianzuo Yu, Yongshun Liu, Bai Ji, Shuli Wang, Yunyun Chen, Tianmeng Sun, Junhu Zhang, Bai Yang
Blood pressure sensors are proposed to measure the value of central venous pressure, and diagnose the severity of hypertension, hypotension and arterial thrombosis.
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Microfluidic assessment of red blood cell mediated microvascular occlusion

Lab Chip, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00112K, Paper
Yuncheng Man, Erdem Kucukal, Ran An, Quentin Watson, Jürgen Bosch, Peter A. Zimmerman, Jane A Little, Umut A. Gurkan
Abnormal red blood cells (RBC) deformability contributes to hemolysis, thrombophilia, inflammation, and microvascular occlusion in various circulatory diseases. A quantitative and objective assessment of microvascular occlusion mediated by RBCs with...
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Particle/cell separation using sheath-free deterministic lateral displacement arrays with inertially focused single straight input

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00354A, Paper
Naotomo Tottori, Takasi Nisisako
We propose sheath-free microfluidic deterministic lateral displacement devices with inertially focused single straight input.
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A high-throughput system combining microfluidic hydrogel droplets with deep learning for screening the antisolvent-crystallization conditions of active pharmaceutical ingredient

Lab Chip, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00153H, Paper
Zhening Su, Jinxu He, Peipei Zhou, Lu Huang, Jianhua Zhou
Crystallization of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) is a crucial process in the pharmaceutical industry due to its great impact in drug efficacy. However, conventional approaches for screening the optimal crystallization...
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Evaluation of intercellular communication between breast cancer cells and adipose-derived stem cells via passive diffusion in a two-layer microfluidic device

Lab Chip, 2020, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00142B, Paper
Sharif M. Rahman, Joshua M. Campbell, Rachael N. Coates, Katie M. Render, C. Ethan Byrne, Elizabeth C. Martin, Adam T. Melvin
Breast cancer cells co-cultured with adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs) in a microfluidic device exhibited enhanced growth, a more aggressive morphology and polarization towards the ASCs, and increased drug resistance.
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Picoliter Agar Droplet Breakup in Microfluidics Meets Microbiology Application: Numerical and Experimental Approaches

Lab Chip, 2020, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D0LC00300J, Paper
Asmaa Khater, Osama Abdelrehim, Mehdi Mohammadi, Milad Azarmanesh, Mohsen Jonmaleki, Razieh Salahandish, AbdulMajeed Mohamad, Amir Sanati Nezhad
Droplet microfluidics has provided lab-on-a-chip platforms with the capability of bacteria encapsulation in biomaterials, controlled culture environment, and live monitoring of growth and proliferation. The droplets are mainly generated from...
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PM Narendra Modi’s day at the Red Fort through 10 Express photos




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Express newslist: Updates on Draft National Encryption Policy, beef ban and other stories




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Express News list: Hardik surfaces after disappearance, prosecution seeks death penalty for 8 in Mumbai blasts case




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Express Newslist: Modi calls IS greatest challenge, Karnataka bandh, Hawala crackdown links to Dawood




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Express Newslist: Narendra Modi at Facebook townhall, SC rejects Somnath Bharti’s bail plea




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Express Newslist: Mob kills man over beef rumours; 7/11 Mumbai blast sentencing




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Over 10,000 students dance to spread awareness against drugs




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Express Newslist: MHA’s ‘zero tolerance’ on Dadri Lynching, jawans killed in Kupwara encounter, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s new book,




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7th Pay Commission recommendations: All you need to know