Nimisha S Pradeep
@nimishaspradeep
Reporter @xpresstn Formerly @BusinessLine @NewsMeter_In Alumni @HydUniv @NFI_India fellow 🎧🧳🏞️📷 Bylines: @MongabayIndia @the_hindu RTs, views personal
To new beginnings 🥂 I am super excited to have joined the Chennai bureau of The New Indian Express @xpresstn as a Reporter. Starting today, I will be covering the city corporation and more...Any leads or feedback, pls DM. #careerupdate
#proffessionalupdate Due to a personal emergency, I am taking a break from TNIE #Chennai. 1 month, a few bylines and more learning. Small but memorable journey @xpresstn :) Hoping to get back to the team soon. Until then, looking for freelance writing, editing opportunities
#TNIEimpact | After #TNIE’s report, #Tirunelveli District Collector Dr R Sukumar sanctioned a free house to C Manikandan, a person with disability (PwD) born without fingers on his hands and legs. @AntoJoseph @thinak_ Read here: newindianexpress.com/states/tamil-n…
#Zomato's closure of its nearby resting point after #GCC opened an AC lounge for gig workers in #AnnaNagar has sparked concerns over location choices and funding for such facilities. @SAPRAVEENA1 & @nimishaspradeep newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai…
As @chennaicorp opens a #gigworkers lounge in AnnaNagar,Zomato shuts its restpoint just 250m away,sparking several concerns: 1.Why should city corp's 'capital(public)funds' be used for welfare of workers primarily from popular food delivery firms? @xpresstn @nimishaspradeep (1/n)
Hundreds of patients and their attendants who throng the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital (@rggghmmc) are left with no choice but to buy drinking water from outside as the reverse osmosis (RO) dispenser units installed in the hospital remain unusable. A visit by #TNIE…
Hundreds of patients who throng the @rggghmmc #Chennai are forced to buy drinking water from outside as RO dispensers in hospital remain unusable. Mangamma, a bystander said that she felt like vomiting when she drank the RO water. Full story in today's @xpresstn @Sinduj11
India Today’s graphic from 5 years ago.
IMPORTANT Delhi HC Quashes FIRs against Tablighi Jamaat members in Covid cases, many of whom were even arrested in Delhi 5 years ago . HC: no evidence that Tablighi members were Covid carriers or tested Covid positive en masse. HC: Tablighi members entered the building BEFORE…
IMPORTANT Delhi HC Quashes FIRs against Tablighi Jamaat members in Covid cases, many of whom were even arrested in Delhi 5 years ago . HC: no evidence that Tablighi members were Covid carriers or tested Covid positive en masse. HC: Tablighi members entered the building BEFORE…
#CustodialTorture allegedly caused death of Tamil Nadu's daily-wage labourer, A Masanamuthu (43), in Madhya Pradesh, allege Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu and victim's family members @India_NHRC @PMOIndia @CMOTamilnadu @CMMadhyaPradesh @AppavuSpeaker @Collectortnv…
Tamil Nadu Assembly Speaker M Appavu has raised suspicion that Masanamuthu Abirakam of Tamil Nadu died in #PoliceCustody in Madhya Pradesh. Alleging #CustodialDeath, his family members claimed Masanamuthu was tortured & killed during interrogation by Ganj Basoda police…
#professionalupdate After a 6-month break, I am joining the @NewIndianXpress as Vellore Correspondent. So excited to be back in the TNIE team. I will be in Chennai for a couple of weeks before beginning the Vellore assignment. DM me if you have any leads.
A century after Madras first rolled out midday meal scheme, every state and UT now runs it—Kerala even serves egg-fried rice & microgreens. Yet funding woes persist for a program that boosts enrolment and retention. A long-form report with @plaasya on its origins and execution.
PM-POSHAN vs reality: How India’s midday meal programme struggles on the ground - Kiran Narayanan and Laasya Shekhar write trib.al/hrJ5DhE
In honour of Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi winning the Booker Prize, I am giving away one copy of Heart Lamp! To participate in the giveaway simply RT this tweet. @bookworm_Kris will send the copy to one winner selected at random. Winner to be announced at 4 pm, 21 May! 📚✨❤️
I want folks to reflect on the logic which the government is following on the flow of information. 1. Indian news channels ran programming for hours last night reporting that the Indian Navy had been deployed and had bombed and destroyed Karachi Port. 2. Indian news channels ran…
The internet service providers are saying multiple things. We have learnt it is per orders of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting.
Great work @SAPRAVEENA1
#TNIEImpact:After @xpresstn exposed ongoing #sexualharassment of female sanitary workers by their supervisors in the Ambattur zone, @chennaicorp Commissioner @kgbias has directed zonal ACs to form #InternalComplaintsCommittees in every zone to address such concerns under #POSHact
Many times, I ask myself the same question: Why are these students protesting? Why are they risking their careers by getting FIRs registered against them? After all, none of them are going to stay on that campus forever. Eventually, they’ll move to other cities or return to…
SUV driving activists and HCU fake liberals are crying because they will lose this view. Outrage is about property prices and 111 GO lands value. Deer and peacock HCU biodiversity story is scrap.
Our Chief Photographer @PRavikumar25 accepts the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award 2024.
Calling unsuccessful readers in #Chennai to join. Do reach out! If 2-3 people join me, I shall put out an open invite soon.
Documents from the Armed Forces Tribunal and the court of inquiry—which began just two days after the incident of torture—show that the army leadership was aware, in intimate detail, of which individuals conducted the torture, on whose orders and under whose monitoring. The army…