Leroy Leo D'Souza

Professional update: After nearly two years at @livemint, which I left last month, I have now joined @Reuters and am based out of Bengaluru. In my new role, I would be covering US health and pharmaceutical companies.

#STATOISTICS | Periodic Labour Force Survey data shows rising financial pressure on households, with the share of young men aged 15-24 who are leaving education to supplement family incomes rising from 58% in 2017 to 72% in 2023 Read more in today's Times Of India print edition 📰toi.in/epaper

Project Hail Mary was made for IMAX. The filmmakers intended it that way. Yet you delayed the release by a week and still gave those screens to a film that wasn't even filmed for IMAX. Don’t kill the excitement around a great film before it even gets a chance. Be better, PVR 🥀 @_PVRCinemas | @IMAX | @imaxindia | @preethamdnl | @INOXMovies | @PicturesPVR

The sealing of the office of United News of India (UNI), one of the country’s oldest and most respected news agencies, has raised serious concerns over press freedom. 📌 Staff members were forcibly evicted, with several not allowed to retrieve their personal belongings. 📌 Female journalists were manhandled by teams of Delhi Police. 📌 Some Delhi Police personnel were intoxicated while on duty. 📌 Two lawyers and Delhi Police personnel abused several individuals. @PMOIndia | @HMOIndia | @AmitShah | @DelhiPolice | @CMODelhi | @gupta_rekha | #UnitedNewsOfIndia | #UNI | #PressFreedom | #JournalismUnderThreat | #MediaFreedom | #FreePress | #UNIUnderAttack

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Ripplr, a CPG logistics and supply chain startup, is closing $30 million funding let by SBI Ventures at a $200 million valuation. Japan’s Sojitz Corp, Fireside Ventures and 3one4 Capital are also putting in money. From last mile to e-commerce, startups solving legacy logistics challenges through technology have raised significant funding in recent years. The trend continues. Read our scoop exclusively on @MoniifyBusiness

Novo Nordisk's India team has been pushing its global leadership for an earlier launch of popular weight-loss drug Wegovy over fears of falling behind Eli Lilly. @RishikaSadam and I report for @Reuters #weightloss #news #obesity #Ozempic #Wegovy #Mounjaro bit.ly/4fWvQIJ

12 pm sharp, lol! It's 12.15 now and it's still not live!

@bookmyshow's website is worse than IRCTC when booking major concert tickets!

Change's Smaller rivals are signing longer contracts with hospitals that temporarily switched after the Feb hack, showing a shift among healthcare practices roping in multiple service providers instead of relying on 1 @Sripootwts and I write for @Reuters bit.ly/4e8xOVE

Eli Lilly expects to launch its obesity drug tirzepatide in India as early as next year, the U.S. drugmaker's CEO David Ricks told Reuters on Wednesday. reut.rs/3SW66SH reut.rs/3SW66SH

"He has redefined the idea of ethical leadership." Richard Horton's latest Offline: The moral clarity of WHO's Director-General hubs.li/Q029X0FG0

BREAKING NEWS The 2023 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Norwegian author Jon Fosse “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable.”

Urghhh.... So travel one and a half hours in BLR traffic only to see show is happening in a dilapidated auditorium with bad acoustics, poor ventilation and terrible seats. And for over an hour, @bookmyshow organizers keep us in a limbo only for us to find it out through his tweet

Since the Barbie movie released, the procedure, also known as "Trap Tox", is seeing demand as a cosmetic procedure, even among women as young as in their 20's. #BarbieBotox had 11.2 mln views on TikTok. But doctors are concerned. My story for @Reuters reut.rs/3qUITpM

#Thread: We @reporters_co are releasing the #ModifiedRice papers. These show how the Union gov't forced fortified rice upon 80 cr Indians. Despite failed pilots and internal red flags over health risks. Corporate interests played from the back. To know more, stay with me.

@LeroyLeo7 is following this much-awaited meeting all of today. Keep an eye on this space. $SRPT reuters.com/business/healt…

Drugs for obesity are being considered for the WHO's 'essential medicines list' for the first time - a big step if they are added reuters.com/business/healt…

French drugmaker Sanofi is reviewing operations at two of its vaccine making facilities near Hyderabad in India and has offered voluntary retirement scheme to all its employees at the plants. My story for @Reuters reuters.com/business/healt…

Novavax has delivered a written notice to Gavi terminating with immediate effect an agreement for the sale of 350 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to COVAX. No details on Serum Institute's agreement as of now. reuters.com/business/healt…

@pereirasrichard @FIFAcom Sports18 on cable/DTH is the only other option I think.

@LeroyLeo7 @FIFAcom Any alternative to watch matches live in India? Jio Cinema sucks....

It's just the opening ceremony and these guys are already messing up in handling the surge in traffic. Can @FIFAcom hand the telecast rights to someone more capable now? It's Jio Cinema for a reason, not Jio Sports!