To understand how materials work, whether a metal in a car’s catalytic converter or the substances in a battery, scientists need to look at their surfaces at the atomic level. One of the best tools for this is X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). A device shoots X-rays at a material and measures the properties of electrons...
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‘Ikkis’ box office collection day 6: Agastya Nanda starrer earns Rs 1.5 cr on its first Tuesday
Agastya Nanda’s inaugural film ‘Ikkis’ has hit a rough patch at the box office, reportedly falling short of Rs 25 crore even after a week of release. The war drama, featuring the legendary Dharmendra in his swan song role, only managed to collect Rs THIS amount on day six. Read on. Agastya Nanda’s ‘Ikkis’ failed...
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‘Shameful, embarrassing’: After clip shared by student, civic body erases defaced murals on Gwalior wall
BHOPAL: Scrambling to action after a Class 11 student shared a disturbing video of obscene defacement of a roadside wall in a viral social media post, Gwalior Municipal Corporation repainted the wall white, erasing all the objectionable markings and artwork.The walls, painted with murals depicting women in myriad Yoga asanas, were found defaced with vulgar...
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Not just forests: why grasslands also belong in national climate plans
The United Nations has declared 2026 to be the ‘International Year for Rangelands and Pastoralists’. In 2022, a group of scientists from institutions in Tanzania, Zambia, the U.K., the U.S., Germany and Canada wrote an open letter urging the parties of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) to broaden their goals to be...
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UP SIR: Nearly 3 crore names deleted from draft rolls; claims open till Feb 6, final list on Mar 6
NEW DELHI/ LUCKNOW: About 2.9 crore voters, making up 18.7% of UP’s 15.4 crore-strong electorate at the launch of the state’s SIR exercise on Nov 4 last year, have been struck off the draft rolls published on Tuesday.These voters have time till February 6 to file claims and objections to get their names restored in...
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‘Does not belong here’: When Manjrekar questioned Kohli’s place; how he replied
Sanjay Manjrekar, Virat Kohli Former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar’s reaction to Virat Kohli’s Test retirement has brought back memories of a comment he made more than a decade ago, when Kohli’s place in the Indian Test side was under question during the 2011–12 tour of Australia.In Januray 2012, after India’s heavy loss in the second...
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Mustafizur row: ‘He is completely chill’ – Ex Bangladesh captain drops big revelation
Mustafizur Rahman (Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images) Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful has said that Mustafizur Rahman remains unaffected by the circumstances surrounding his release from Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. The Bangladesh pacer was let go by KKR following a directive from the Board of Control for Cricket in India, issued...
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Mustafizur row: ‘He is completely chill’ – Ex Bangladesh captain drops big revelation
Mustafizur Rahman (Photo by Kerry Marshall/Getty Images) Former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful has said that Mustafizur Rahman remains unaffected by the circumstances surrounding his release from Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. The Bangladesh pacer was let go by KKR following a directive from the Board of Control for Cricket in India, issued...
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Rich can’t bypass tiers of court & come directly to us: Supreme Court
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court under the leadership of CJI Surya Kant maintained its stand for equitable distribution of judicial time for litigants irrespective of their status, and said on Tuesday that the rich and influential could not bypass tiers of judiciary to move the SC directly.When an accused sought hearing of his petition challenging validity...
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Army outreach in border areas: Solar plant set up in Sikkim; water facility built in Arunachal
NEW DELHI: To enhance civil-military cooperation and improve the quality of life in remote border areas, the Indian Army has constructed a 10-KW solar power plant in north Sikkim and a water storage facility in Arunachal Pradesh.“Trishakti Corps of the Indian Army has established a 10-KW solar power plant at Muguthang village, North Sikkim”, located...
