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Nirmal John

Senior Editor at The Economic Times

Senior Editor @EconomicTimes I Tech + Geopolitics + Cybersecurity + Space I Author BREACH @penguinIndia I @CheveningFCO Fellow | IE Journalism Prize | Futurism

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  • Assessing India’s Offshore Wind Energy Policy

    3 weeks ago | epw.in | Nirmal John

    India’s National Offshore Wind Energy Policy 2015 is evaluated, highlighting its role in advancing renewable energy as part of the National Action Plan on Climate Change. Despite missing the initial target of 5 GW by 2022, India aims for 30 GW by 2030, supported by international collaborations.

  • India tackles snakebite crisis: New action plan aims to halve deaths by 2030

    Oct 19, 2024 | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Nirmal John

    AgenciesA 2020 study, “Trends in Snakebite Deaths in India from 2000 to 2019 in a Nationally Representative Mortality Study”, found that 1.2 million Indians died from snakebite envenoming between 2000 and 2019, with about 58,000 deaths on an average every year, the highest rate in the world. Snakebite envenoming is a potentially life threatening disease caused by the bite of a venomous snake.

  • Minimising The Plastic Waste Generated By Food Delivery Platforms - A Look At The EPR Guidelines

    Oct 16, 2024 | mondaq.com | Mani Gupta |Nirmal John

    Since the emergence of e-commerce food delivery platforms, consumers have been spoilt for choice as far as their choice of cuisines is concerned.

  • Isro onboards Pushpak for faster, cheaper satellite placement

    Oct 8, 2024 | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Nirmal John

    ISRO's PushpakBengaluru: Isro's commercial arm New Space India (NSIL) and private space company Bellatrix Aerospace signed an agreement to integrate the Pushpak Orbital Transfer Vehicle (OTV) in NSIL's launch missions. The Pushpak is an in-space transportation spacecraft designed as a shared platform for smaller satellites, to ferry them to multiple orbits. Think of it as UberPool or last mile delivery, for small satellites.

  • Mad scramble for Coldplay tickets highlights key challenges in attracting major bands

    Sep 28, 2024 | economictimes.indiatimes.com | Nirmal John |Shabori Das

    The times they are a-changin’The question is simple enough. When it comes to dream headliners, why does India end up head-scratching rather than head-banging? This query is prompted by the huge mismatch in the demand and supply of tickets for the India leg of Coldplay ’s world tour in January 2025. And it points to something more fundamental than can be conveyed by a bunch of BookMyShow memes. It really shouldn’t be this way.One out of six people in the world is Indian.

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8 Jun 25

RT @j_bindra: As feared, and expected, AI is beginning to nibble away at jobs. As not entirely expected, though, most of these are entry le…

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RT @j_bindra: Operation Sindoor, Ukraine, Gaza have all shown us that in this Age of AI, even wars seem to be becoming AI-first! Even as we…