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BBC’s ‘Question Time India’ to present 8 poll specials
For the next eight weeks BBC World’s Question Time India will be presenting a series of in-depth discussions of the major topics that lie at the heart of the Indian elections, involving some of the country’s most prominent politicians every Friday.
In this edition of Question Time India that will be broadcast on BBC World at 10 pm on Friday 2 April, presenter Dileep Padgaonkar leads a debate on the leading domestic issues that affect the Indian electorate.
The guests on the show will be: Pramod Mahajan – the General Secretary and Chief Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party, K Natwar Singh – the Congress Working Committee member and Rajya Sabha MP, Amar Singh – the General Secretary and Chief Spokesperson of the Samajwadi Party and Bhaskar Ghose – the newspaper columnist and the former Information and Broadcasting Secretary and Culture Secretary.
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Uma Sudhir signs off from NDTV after 27 years
The executive editor shaped NDTV’s southern reportage for nearly three decades
NEW DELHI: Senior journalist Uma Sudhir has retired from NDTV, bringing to a close a 27-year association with the network.
Sudhir served as executive editor, heading NDTV’s south India editorial operations. Over nearly three decades, she emerged as one of the most recognisable faces of on-ground reporting from the region, with sustained coverage of politics, governance and social issues across Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
At NDTV, Sudhir played a central role in strengthening regional journalism within national television news. Her reporting consistently connected local developments to the national conversation, ensuring stories from the field shaped policy debates beyond studio discussions. Known for her boots-on-the-ground approach, she came to represent a generation of reporters whose authority rested on fieldwork rather than prime-time punditry.
An award-winning journalist, Sudhir is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Chameli Devi Jain Award. Her body of work has been widely recognised for its public-interest focus, spanning elections, governance, gender issues, rural distress, environmental reporting and social justice.
