Snehal Vivienne Fernandes

Senior associate ed @httweets/City team @htmumbai #SciTech #Environment, #ClimateChange, #Socio-Anthro. Tabs on #NuclearEnergy. Ex @indianexpress. #Xavierite

[Snehal Vivienne Fernandes @SnehalFerns]

Some time in 2004-05, an alert citizen called on the landline @IndianExpress, Mumbai (where I worked) about mangrove destruction behind his apartment on Malad Link Rd. We did report & mangroves were saved. That tip-off came from #IrfanKhan @samar11 @prachijatania @iyerkavi

[Osama Rawal @Osamaarawal]

Residents of Powai’s Hiranandani township are up in arms against a proposed 13.4-metre Development Plan (DP) road that they fear will cut through the Pramod Mahajan Garden, an urban forest
📸 Satish Bate/ @HT_Mumbai

[Pritam Chauhan @Im_pritam18]

Dr. Pratosh at IISc Bengaluru tells his students that rapid advances in AI are commoditizing intellectual labour.

He raises an unsettling question: if companies stop recruiting on campus in the next 5–10 years—even at India’s top universities—what will the purpose of a university education be ?

A must watch video for everyone in tech

[Roxy Koll ⛈ @RockSea]

“Climate Detectives” is out in Sanctuary Asia!

How do we study the climate before thermometers? We climate detectives read the clues hidden in air bubbles, tree rings, corals and even bird poo.

Read: https://t.co/CFniI8Jd6a

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Head-banging bumble bees bite flowers to shake loose more pollen.

Learn more: https://t.co/QqqN6AZRew #ScienceMagArchives

[Sanjay Maurya @MeSanjayy]

HT Exclusive: Nearly one in four of the 155 Institutions of National Importance (INIs) --including Central Universities, NITs, IIITs, IITs, IISERs-- are running interim in-charge or acting vice-chancellors (VCs) or directors, or those with additional-charge or on extensions.

[Osama Rawal @Osamaarawal]

The Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) in coordination with @mybmc today razed four concrete walls along access points to the Bandra Bandstand promenade. The walls had been built without obtaining any permission from the MMB.

https://t.co/TvYcLHQo4S

[Seema Mundoli @MundoliSeema]

Mickey the Mouse has come a long way.
I am looking for adopters but since he is a very special case have additional conditions. Open to Bangalore and Chennai. Adoption checks will be a long process so please DM 9449818468 only if you are willing to go through them.

[Niraj Pandit @nirajcpandit]

Around 85 dogs living on the 280-acre Kalina campus of the @Uni_Mumbai have been going hungry for the past 10 days as the university administration has prevented dog-feeders from entering the campus and feeding the strays
#DogCare @MNVS_Adhikrut
https://t.co/VcuDj3eD72

[Snehal Vivienne Fernandes @SnehalFerns]

🚨 #India's first dedicated Earth Observation imaging Satellite (EOS-5) reached its targeted orbit. @isro said third & final orbit raising manoeuvre completed successfully at 8:57 pm on Sept 7, 2026. Satellite health is normal. @htTweets

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

'ISRO’s role won’t diminish': Agency allays concerns over privatisation

Read: https://t.co/hF4EFWIR4y

@SnehalFerns ✍🏻

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[Osama Rawal @Osamaarawal]

A hundred-odd Breach Candy residents turned up at Cymroza Art Gallery on Saturday at 10am, to discuss concerns over the proposed Coastal Road Gardens and its anticipated impact on the neighbourhood’s livability, traffic, road capacity and infrastructure.
📸 @AnshumanPoyreka

[Snehal Vivienne Fernandes @SnehalFerns]

Nine @isro associations write to their chief V Narayanan, seeking an official clarification on the proposed transfer of the space agency’s manufacturing and operational functions to private entities.

https://t.co/3iPogMtEvS

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

ISRO staff bodies seek clarity on shift to private sector, write to chairman

Read: https://t.co/Ixr56mAN83

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[Siddhartha Basu @babubasu]

Wow !
All along, Old Monk hasn't been a rum at all, but a "rum flavoured spirit", based not on sugarcane juice or by-products, but a cheap, neutral base spirit, caramel colouring & additives to pass it off as a dark aromatic rum ?!?
https://t.co/Mbmabkl7NO

[Liz Mathew @MathewLiz]

Penguin India won’t publish Sonia Gandhi’s book, had asked for ‘changes’ which author rejected

https://t.co/30QoNaqxa3

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

So @PenguinIndia won't publish Sonia Gandhi's memoir ‘Belonging: a Journey of Love'.

Why? They asked her to change & delete some sections from the manuscript. She refused.

Time when even a memoir by a Sr. opp. leader's near her 80s has to pass through the censor’s scissors before reaching the public or is otherwise unofficially buried.

You may imagine the level of mother of democracy. ☺️

[Reuters Asia @ReutersAsia]

A can of Fanta sold in London has 63 calories. Buy the same brand in India, and it contains three times as much sugar. It also includes artificial dye, whose presence in food products in Europe requires a prominent health warning.

In India, the colorant’s presence is noted merely in small print on the back of the can. That suits some of the world’s biggest companies, which have long resisted Indian efforts to mandate nutritional warnings on the front of packaged products. Read more: https://t.co/AdhqNFiVG5

[Reuters @Reuters]

A can of Fanta sold in London contains 63 calories. In India, the same drink contains three times as much sugar. It also has artificial dye — requiring prominent health warnings in Europe — but in India, the colorant’s presence is noted merely in small print on the back of the can https://t.co/YCUjj5BR2J

[Snehal Vivienne Fernandes @SnehalFerns]

@MundoliSeema Such cuties!

[Snehal Vivienne Fernandes @SnehalFerns]

@MundoliSeema So amazing :-)