Haripriya Suresh
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Journalist @Reuters. Formerly @thenewsminute, @moneycontrolcom. Views personal. 📧: [email protected] | Signal username: haripriyasuresh.15
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Joined April 2011
The Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre at INCOIS says no sea-level changes, no tsunami warning for India after an earthquake of 7.3 magnitude struck off Indonesia's Flores Island, and the country's Met agency warned that tsunami waves are possible. @thenewsminute.
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Returned to @thenewsminute office today, for the first time since March 13. At the time, we were keeping track of cases on this whiteboard - a total of 85 cases and 1 death. Today, we're at 1.38 lakh cases, and over 4,000 deaths.
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At 23ºC, Bengaluru currently is cooler than many hill stations in India 😁
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Swiggy to cover vaccination cost for its fleet of active delivery partners across India - for over 2 lakh people.
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Satya Nadella in Bengaluru asks ChatGPT to give the list of popular south Indian tiffins (it included biryani in the list 😂), and then makes it write a play to get idli, dosa, and vada to argue on the best tiffin of them all. @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant
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Some personal news: After a wonderful stint @moneycontrolcom, I've joined @Reuters as India Company News Correspondent. I'll be covering India's IT sector, GCCs, as well as other companies based out of Bengaluru. I can be reached at haripriya.suresh@thomsonreuters.com.
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Thought this was Bellandur Lake for a second.
The ocean is on fire in the Gulf of Mexico and now boats are pulling up to use water to put it out. This is WILD.
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🧵 Wipro's onboarding delays for new candidates are well documented, but now the company is offering candidates an option -- if you hold an offer of Rs 6.5 LPA, take a 46% paycut and you get onboarded in March. @chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom.
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Happy to announce that I’ve joined @moneycontrolcom’s tech and startups team. I will be covering IT & tech from #Bangalore, as well as the #gigeconomy from a consumer and delivery partner lens. Excited to work with @chandrarsrikant and team!.
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FM Nirmala Sitharaman announces PM Garib Kalyan Yojana of Rs 1.7 lakh crore. Frontline workers to get insurance cover of Rs 50 lakh per head. Includes doctors, ASHA workers, and sanitation workers.
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Hey Bangalore Twitter, two of us are looking for a third flatmate (female) for a 3-BHK in Ulsoor. The semi-furnished room is available from Sept 1. DM for details!. Please RT for karma. Thank you!.
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Symbiosis asks director to go on leave after 106 students complain of harassment via @IndianExpress.
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Career update: After nearly 5 years, Friday was my last day at @thenewsminute. As a first job, it was as good as they come, and I’m grateful to @dhanyarajendran and @vmvignesh for giving me a shot as well as letting me delve into as many areas as I wanted.
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Demand grows stronger to probe role of Sathankulam magistrate in custodial deaths @meghakaveri
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A lot has been said about Amazon and its tussle with small business, but it's not often that Amazon loses that fight. But in the case of Bangalore-based bakery Happy Belly Bakes, it did.
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How do you pass a bill when you can't even hear the ayes, or heck, even look up at the house.
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Infosys has deferred pay hikes for employees, a sign of the growing stress in the IT sector. It usually rolls out hikes for employees below the senior management level in the June quarter, but employees have not received any communication so far.
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🚨Accenture to cut 19,000 jobs - or 2.5% of its workforce in the next 18 months as signs of stress become more apparent in the IT sector. @chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom.
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Every major news story in recent times had a defining photograph by Danish Siddiqui, often helping you articulate what you could not put into words. What a devastating loss. Rest in power.
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16-year-old Annie is the daughter of our domestic worker. Annie just completed class 10 but for PUC, the fee is Rs 33,000, which her mother can't afford. Please see if you'd like to contribute. Thank you.
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Hackers who compromised Rona Wilson, Hany Babu, and Varavara Rao's emails added a recovery email and phone number - that of a Pune Police official. The recovery email on all three accounts included the officer's full name.
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Namrata Shirodkar limits Instagram comments after reports name her in Kwan probe
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This isn't a move that's gone down well with candidates, simply because they've let other offers go by because of the promise of a job with a CTC of Rs 6.5 LPA. "Wipro has trapped us," says one candidate.
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This campaign is now closed. Thanks to the people who contributed, we surpassed the target and raised over Rs 50,000 in just one day!.
16-year-old Annie is the daughter of our domestic worker. Annie just completed class 10 but for PUC, the fee is Rs 33,000, which her mother can't afford. Please see if you'd like to contribute. Thank you.
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Github has laid off its entire India engineering team of 142 people, sources told @Unibrowverse and me. The number of people impacted in India could be as high as 180.
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H D Kumaraswamy arrives at the Lalit Ashok to hold a meeting with Siddaramaiah, D K Shivakumar, K J George. @thenewsminute.
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🧵In several cities, finding a cab that doesn't cancel on you or accepts your ride on the first try is pretty much like winning the lottery. But, there are multiple factors determining whether or not that driver chooses to accept your ride.
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Chennai journo dies by suicide, organisation hasn't paid salaries properly for years
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Amazon launches Amazon Air in India in a tie up with Quikjet. Two Boeing 737-800 to service four locations, and the plane is expected to hold 20,000 shipments. Only location outside US and Europe that the company has launched Amazon Air. @chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom
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How T Natarajan overcame poverty and a suspect bowling action to rise to fame, by @meghakaveri
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🧵 Earlier this week, we reported about Wipro offering fresher candidates a slashed salary from Rs 6.5 lakh to Rs 3.5 lakh. Now, the candidates who hold offers of Rs 3.5 lakh are questioning why these openings weren't offered to them. @chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom.
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Over the last few weeks, Moneycontrol spoke to some of the biggest tech CEOs - IBM, TCS, Infosys, Coursera to get their view on ChatGPT and how it will disrupt business as we know it. Here's a thread:. @moneycontrolcom @chandrarsrikant.
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But they are desperate. They've been without a job a long time, and in the current job market they don't know if they can get another one. There's also the matter of the 2023 class of graduates needing to be onboarded as well (Wipro hasn't gone to campuses so far).
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Last date for filing income tax returns extended by 10 days to January 10.
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Everyone above the age of 18 to be eligible to get the vaccine from May 1.
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Swiggy closes $1.25 bn funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Prosus. The company raised the first $800 million in April, and later raised $450 million. It's now valued at over $5 bn. @thenewsminute.
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When someone asks what he does, he will immediately reply: “Koolipani aanu” (daily wage work). But many would like to call him a writer or a person very close to literature. Shafi has translated 250 short stories and 14 books from Tamil to Malayalam.
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Supreme Court disposes of over 5,000 cases in 13 days under CJI UU Lalit-led case management
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Remember the analysis by @prstb, where one guy was found to be running 200 brands from just one cloud kitchen? @sangha_kar and I went in search of the kitchens and its owner. Here's what we found: .
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🧵Why BigBasket believes it has an edge: . The grocery space is heating up and companies continue to crunch delivery timelines, but #BigBasket CEO Hari Menon is clear: They'll reduce timelines as much as possible, but only in a manner where the unit economics work.
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🚨 3,500 people - or 1% of Cognizant's workforce - to be impacted in 2023. Attributed to "simplifying operating model, optimizing corporate functions". It expects to incur $200 mn in severance costs "primarily related to nonbillable and corporate personnel.". @chandrarsrikant.
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Apart from the benefits, the salary difference between GCC and IT services starts to become apparent in experience brackets above 3 years.
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OnePlus 9 series prices in India:. OnePlus 9 at Rs 49,999 for the 8+128gb and at Rs 54,999 for 12+256gb. OnePlus 9 Pro at Rs 64,999 for 8+128gb and Rs 69,999 for 12+256gb. OnePlus Watch at Rs 16,999. @thenewsminute #OnePlus9Series.
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We saw the many, many stories about IT cos and their hiring numbers. Now, behind those stories is hundreds of freshers watching time pass by as companies aren't onboarding them, or aren't giving the offer letter after all formalities are completed.
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🧵Vice Media filed for bankruptcy on May 15 after going through a financial crunch and growing troubles. However, two factors pushed it to actually file -- one of them was Indian IT major Wipro. How?. @chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom.
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Wrote on exactly this for @thenewsminute. As @DeliveryBhoy said, spending 12 hours doing nothing but being in a hurry messes you up.
Grofers delivered groceries within 13 minutes and the co-founder responds back that its' 3 minutes too long. For god's sake, these are groceries - not life-saving medicines. Please don't put unnecessary pressure on the delivery boys just for marketing gimmicks!
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@priyankathiru talks to the man of the hour, Vadivelu, who was clueless about #Pray_for_Naesamani storm :D.
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Is there anyone to deliver homecooked meals for two COVID-19 patients around Yeshwantpur? Is there a meal service they could reach out to? Looking for leads. Thanks!.
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Last but not the least, please do support independent journalism. The work that independent news outlets do is incredibly important. Become a TNM member:
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Remember this statue? Sculptor M Sridhar Murthy, the man who runs Gombe Mane, tells @thejaram92 that his family has been in the business for over 200 years, and claims many of his ancestors were artisans in courts of Mysuru kings! .
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Dravidian stalwart, revered leader, passionate writer: Rare pictures of Karunanidhi | The News Minute
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Has the organisation/institution you work for set up an IC following the #MeToo movement? Have they held gender sensitisation workshops? We @thenewsminute want to know what your orgs have done. If you’d be willing to speak, please DM. We can keep you anonymous. Thank you.
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.@CharanT16 pulls no punches. "Caste is bloody caste. It has to be shown like it is, and hiding it on screen doesn't make this country, especially Telugunadu, a caste free space.".
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Spoke to @JanhaviNilekani last week regarding the Aastrika Foundation as well as the midwifery centre. "Aastrika comes out of my personal experience with pregnancy and childbirth in India, where I was dramatically dissatisfied,” she says.
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🧵GCCs are growing at a rapid clip, quite in contrast to the slowdown in IT. In the current economic condition, they are seen as better to be professionals in terms of career growth, culture, and compensation.@unibrowverse @chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom.
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🚨Accenture has said it is skipping pay hikes for employees in India and Sri Lanka, and has told them to expect annual bonuses to be "significantly lower than last year.". @ChristinMP_ @chandrarsrikant @moneycontrolcom .
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"Now, the $300 million from Sumeru and Oxshott is not coming, but that is not our mistake. But who cares about $300 million? I can raise $300 million in a week.". Nuts. Byju Raveendran's intv by @chandrarsrikant @patwardhannn @deepsekharc .
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The two-finger test is an unscientific and regressive procedure that involves the insertion of two fingers into a person’s vagina to gauge the laxity of vaginal muscles, thereby determining her ‘virginity’.
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How to NOT word something: A 19 year old woman was murdered and he then stabbed himself -- but we'll still call it an 'issue of love' and the guy believed to be the attacker as a 'jilted lover'. FFS.
#Karnataka | A man attempted suicide after stabbing to death a woman inside the Presidency College premises today. It's suspected that there was a fight between the man and the woman on the issue of love: Bengaluru Police.
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Zomato takes action on cloud kitchens running multiple brands, says it is going to manually check any physical location which runs more than 10 brands out of a single kitchen .
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🚨Wipro has decided to pause variable payouts for the April-June quarter for mid and senior-level employees amid significant pressure on margins. Junior-level employees will get 70% of their variable pay for the quarter.
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Valli Arunachalam has been fighting an unwritten rule at Murugappa group - that only sons take over the business.
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For Wipro, they were placed in either late 2021 or early 2022, but a job still isn't in sight. Degrees and training programs are out of the way, and some of them received their offer letters nearly a year ago. Now, some candidates' families are questioning if the job ever existed.
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I’ve learned a ton and it’s been an absolute honour to work with and learn from my colleagues, many of whom are now great friends. I cannot possibly name everyone here, but you know who you are. I'll miss working with you all.
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Any recommendations for good Telugu speaking therapists for online sessions? Please reply or DM. Do RT. Thanks.
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Let's not forget that the Delhi court is expected to give its verdict in the defamation case filed by MJ Akbar against Priya Ramani today.
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It's @thenewsminute's 7th birthday! . If you like the work we do, do support us. It's as good a day as any to support independent media. Sign up:
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Zomato has paused food delivery, and Swiggy has paused food delivery as well as well as Genie and other services in Hyderabad till there's more clarity. Delivery partners were stopped in Hyd today despite the guidelines allowing it.
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‘Casteism killed Pranay, we must uproot caste’: 21-year-old Amrutha vows to fight
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Karnataka Minister Eshwarappa, who is accused of corruption, denied that he knew contractor #SantoshPatil or that he asked him to build a road in Belagavi. @PoojaPrasanna4 traveled to Hindalga to find out what the real story is.
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🧵Not just freshers, but laterals as well. TCS is delaying onboarding of lateral recruits by up to three months after they've been relieved by their previous job, effectively rendering them unemployed currently . @chandrarsrikant @debanganaghosh4.
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Have you heard of US citizens + OCI holders attempting to travel to India not being allowed to board in the US? Let me know! DMs open.
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Now, vaccine procurement to be done by the Union government again, states will have to do so anymore. That's 75% of vaccines produced. 25% to be sold to private hospitals.
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HCLTech numbers big miss: .> CEO CVK says performance lower than their own expectations even though Q1 is a seasonally soft quarter for them.> Net headcount down by ~2,509 because of not backfilling all attrition.> Compensation review deferred by a quarter.
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Were you (or someone you know) planning to go abroad to study this year? Have plans changed due to coronavirus? Looking to speak to people for a story, please DM. Can keep you anonymous. Thanks!.
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Suez Canal blocked by huge container ship, causing a traffic jam at either end
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Hello! We at @thenewsminute are looking to speak with people who have been diagnosed with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) for a story. Please reach out to @geetikamantri or me. Please RT. Thank you.
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This is. nuts. Former NSE CEO let a faceless conman ‘Himalayan yogi’ make all key decisions.
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Rejected headlines for this story:. - Old whine in new bottle.- Study confirms that yes, Bengaluru's traffic is the most soul-sucking in the world.- 2 and a half people in Mumbai MAY be surprised.- Study proves Bengaluru is traffucked.
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🚨PhonePe launching a new consumer app 'Pincode' on ONDC. Looks to build a hyperlocal shopping experience: co-founder Sameer Nigam.
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Hello! We @thenewsminute are looking to speak with people with endometriosis for a story. Preferred if you're from/based in south India. Please reach out to @geetikamantri or me. Our DMs are open. Please RT. Thank you.
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