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Nitish Rana

Nitish Rana, born 1993 in Delhi, Indian left-handed batter and off-spinner; IPL teams Mumbai Indians, KKR (captain 2023), Rajasthan Royals, Delhi Capitals; 3,078 IPL runs; 1 ODI and 2 T20Is for India in 2021.

Oct 10, 2026

Nitish Srivastava

Nitish Srivastava is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher who co-invented dropout, the neural network regularization technique, as lead author of the 2014 JMLR paper.

Nitishataka

Nitishataka (नीतिशतकम्), the "Century on Ethics," is a Sanskrit collection of over a hundred aphoristic verses on ethics and worldly wisdom, attributed to Bhartṛhari and transmitted as the first book of his Śatakatraya.

Nitmiluk National Park

Nitmiluk National Park (Katherine Gorge), NT Australia: Jawoyn-owned, jointly managed park 320 km south of Darwin with 13 sandstone gorges, Leliyn (Edith Falls), and the Jatbula Trail; handback 1989.

Nito Alves

Nito Alves (1945–1977) was an Angolan MPLA commander and minister whose failed 1977 coup against Agostinho Neto was followed by a purge killing tens of thousands.

Sep 24, 2026

Nitobe Inazō

Nitobe Inazō (新渡戸稲造) was a Japanese agricultural economist, educator, and diplomat who served as a League of Nations Under-Secretary-General and wrote Bushidō: The Soul of Japan in 1899.

Nitocris

Nitocris, or Nitiqret, is a queen whom classical tradition places at the end of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, around 2184–2181 BCE, remembered for drowning her brother's killers at a banquet.

Nitocris I (God's Wife of Amun)

Nitocris I, also known as Neitiqert, was a God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, daughter of Psammetichus I, who held the office for almost 70 years from 656 BC.

Nitocris II (Divine Adoratrice of Amun)

Nitocris II was a Saite princess, daughter of Amasis II, adopted as heir to the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes before the Persian conquest of 525 BC.

Nitori Holdings

Nitori Holdings is Japan's largest furniture and home-furnishings retailer, founded by Akio Nitori from a single Hokkaido shop in 1967 and operating over 1,000 stores across Asia.

Nitra

Nitra (Nitriansky kraj) is a city and one of eight self-governing regions of southwestern Slovakia, capital Nitra, bordering Hungary; oldest written mention 826/828, population 668,301 (2023), Slovakia's most productive agricultural region with a Jaguar Land Rover plant.

Nitralin

Nitralin, sold as Planavin, is a dinitroaniline herbicide used before weeds emerge in cotton, soybeans, and peanuts, first reported in 1966 and now largely obsolete.

Nitram

Nitram is a 2021 Australian drama by Justin Kurzel, written by Shaun Grant, about the years before the 1996 Port Arthur massacre; Caleb Landry Jones won Cannes Best Actor.

Nitrate

Nitrate, also known as the nitrate ion, is the monovalent anion NO₃⁻ and the conjugate base of nitric acid, a plant nutrient in fertilizers that is regulated in drinking water.

Nitrate crisis

The nitrate crisis refers to the successive breakdowns of Chile's saltpeter export economy, culminating in the 1919 to 1922 crisis and the terminal collapse that followed the Great Depression of 1929.

Nitrate ester

A nitrate ester, also called an organic nitrate, is an organic compound in which a nitrate group is attached through oxygen, formed by nitrating alcohols and used in explosives and vasodilators.

Nitrate reductase chaperone, NarJ

NarJ is a system-specific chaperone in E. coli, encoded by the narGHJI operon, required for inserting the molybdenum cofactor into nitrate reductase and for its assembly.

Nitrate reductase, beta subunit

Nitrate reductase beta subunit (NarH, narH gene): electron-transfer subunit of respiratory nitrate reductase NarGHI, 52-64 kDa, carrying three [4Fe-4S] and one [3Fe-4S] clusters; distinct from the catalytic alpha subunit NarG.

Nitrate transport permease

Nitrate transport permease (InterPro IPR005889; NrtB/NtrB) is the integral membrane permease component of bacterial ABC-type nitrate transporters, distinct from MFS-type nitrate permeases such as NrtP and CrnA.

Nitrate transporter

Nitrate transporter: plant membrane proteins (NRT1/NPF, NRT2, CLC, SLAC/SLAH families) moving NO3- via proton coupling; NRT1.1/CHL1 is the dual-affinity transporter-sensor switched by Thr101 phosphorylation.

Nitration

Nitration is a chemical reaction that introduces a nitro group into an organic compound, usually replacing a hydrogen on an aromatic ring via the nitronium ion.

Nitrazepam

Nitrazepam (Mogadon, Alodorm) is a nitrobenzodiazepine hypnotic developed by Hoffmann-La Roche in 1965 for severe insomnia; plasma half-life about 30 hours, marketed in Europe and Australia but never in the USA.

Nitrefazole

Nitrefazole (Altimol, EMD-15-700) is a withdrawn 4-nitroimidazole aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor once used as an alcohol deterrent for alcoholism; withdrawn in Germany and Austria in 1984 for fatal hepatotoxicity.

Oct 15, 2026

Nitrendipine

Nitrendipine is a dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker developed by Bayer for hypertension, best known as the first-line drug of the Syst-Eur trial, which showed reduced stroke and dementia rates in older patients.

Nitrene

A nitrene, also called imene, is a neutral, highly reactive molecular species containing a monovalent nitrogen atom, the nitrogen analog of a carbene, existing in singlet or triplet states.

Nitrene transfer

Nitrene transfer is a class of chemical reactions delivering a nitrene or metal nitrene fragment to a substrate, typically converting C–H or C=C bonds into C–N bonds to form amines and aziridines.

Nitrene-mediated C–C bond cleavage for ring contraction

Nitrene-mediated C–C bond cleavage for ring contraction is a skeletal-editing strategy in organic synthesis where a nitrene cleaves a ring's carbon–carbon bond, forming a smaller ring.

Nitrene-transfer C–H amination

Nitrene-transfer C–H amination is a catalytic chemical method in which a metal nitrenoid inserts into a carbon–hydrogen bond, converting it directly into a C–N bond to form amines.

Nitrenium ion

A nitrenium ion, also called an aminylium ion, is a highly reactive, electron-deficient chemical species in which a divalent nitrogen atom bears a positive charge.