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Mahindra & Mahindra's core focus to be on utility vehicles segment

Mahindra & Mahindra would continue to focus on utility vehicles segment with the launch of fresh products on new platforms, a top company official has said.




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Automotive Mission Plan 2016-26 to be finalised by mid-2015

The Automotive Mission Plan for the next decade, beginning 2016, is being prepared and will be finalised by the middle of next year.




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Toyota revives plan to launch Lexus in India

Toyota sells Lexus across all major markets, with US being the largest. It deferred the plan to bring Lexus here in 2012 because of high import duty and a sluggish local auto market.




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Tata Motors ropes in Mayank Pareek as head passenger vehicles

Pareek comes with over two decades of experience with Maruti Suzuki where his last role was as COO, wherein he was heading Marketing & Sales vertical.




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Maruti Suzuki posts highest market share in more than a decade in July

Not only that, the maker of the Alto and WagonR in July produced more vehicles than ever before in its history.




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Autophagy-focused Casma Therapeutics debuts with $58.5 million from Third Rock

The biotech will first tackle lysosomal storage disorders




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Protein-hydrogel crystal expands and contracts

Hybrid material could aid protein structure determination and drug delivery




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Chemistry in Pictures: The search is on




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Bone nanostructure revealed by electron microscopy

Crystalline needles of bone mineral form helical patterns around collagen fibrils




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Chemistry in Pictures: Colorful chromium




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Chemistry in Pictures: 96 wells




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Chemistry in Pictures: ‘Crystal Landscape’




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Chemistry in Pictures: in the mix




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Chemistry in Pictures: Crystals in bloom




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Chemistry in Pictures: Enlightened suspension




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Chemistry in Pictures: Frozen




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Chemistry in Pictures: Turns out you can rush art




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Chemistry in Pictures: A melting liquid




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Chemistry in Pictures: One fish, two fish, red fish …




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Chemistry in Pictures: Fluorescence




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New battery could serve the grid

Manganese-hydrogen design boasts high capacity, long life, and the promise of low cost




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Synthorx raises $63 million to make synthetic proteins from an expanded genetic code




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Gulf of Oman has enormous dead zone severely depleted of oxygen




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Janssen to pay up to $1 billion for BeneVir




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Evonik buys stake in skin tech start-up mySkin




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U.S. air quality gains slowing, study shows




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Cal Dooley to leave helm of the American Chemistry Council




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Chemists elected to National Academy of Sciences

Membership to NAS is among the most prestigious scientific honors in the U.S.




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Simple guidelines could make designing catalysts for electrochemical reactions easy

Theoretical model uses readily available data to predict catalysts for tackling energy challenges




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How to fit in when you’re in a new environment




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ACS and French Chemical Society jointly award inaugural Franco-American Lectureship Prize




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Call for nominations for Green Chemistry Challenge Awards




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ACS names 2018–19 public policy fellows




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Bayer clears path to clinch Monsanto acquisition by divesting more to BASF

BASF will buy agrochemical and seed businesses for $2 billion




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Eurofins acquires Covance’s analytical services unit for foods




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CVC to acquire composites maker AOC and link it with Aliancys




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CRISPR diagnostics company Mammoth launches




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We’re not playing around: Board games medical and morbid




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Wine sleuths seek answers to the mystery of ‘smoke taint’

As wildfires increase in frequency across the globe, researchers hunt the smoke compounds that can seep into vineyards’ grapes and taint wine




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Controlling CAR-T: How scientists plan to make the engineered T cell therapy safer, and work for more cancers

CAR T-cell therapy works wonders for some cancer patients. For others, it is a death sentence. To make the revolutionary therapy work for more people, scientists must devise better ways to control it




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Hybrid method boosts microscopy resolution

Combining expansion microscopy and STED improves resolution 30-fold relative to the diffraction limit




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Reaction aminates C–H bonds selectively

Manganese phthalocyanine catalyst shows preference for least-hindered benzylic C–H bonds




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IFF to buy Frutarom in flavor and fragrance consolidation

Natural ingredients play spices up flavor and fragrance sector




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Hawaii lawmakers pass ban on sunscreen chemicals oxybenzone and octinoxate

Protecting coral reefs is the legislation’s goal




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Chemistry in Pictures: I ❤ chromatography




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Solid body wash comes without packaging. But does that make it eco-friendly?

Cosmetics firms appeal to plastic-free consumers with the hybrid of bar soap and liquid body wash




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Escient launches to tackle itching and anaphylactoid drug targets

The startup raised $40 million to target a class of GPCRs called Mas-related G-protein receptors, to treat neuroimmune and inflammatory conditions




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How chemistry helps track and detect nuclear materials

Chemists are designing better methods to analyze confiscated nuclear materials and to track nuclear activity remotely




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Chemistry in Pictures: Sun-kissed rotovaps




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Takeda finally snags Shire in $62 billion deal

If successful, the transaction could spur more M&A among major drug firms