Wiki Bio / Profile Background
Introduction :
- A skilled presenter, Yogita Limaye has been a journalist for over ten years and is a correspondent for South Asia and Afghanistan. She has produced television, radio, and online reports for many international and UK channels.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Yogita was born to loving parents in the western Indian city of Pune.
- Yogita studied engineering like her father, pursued a career in journalism thereafter. In May 2022, Yogita’s father passed away, prompting her to share a heartfelt post on social media. She expressed gratitude that her father was able to fulfill one of his greatest passions in life. Many have spoken and written about the admirable qualities her father possessed, including his leadership skills, expertise in engineering, friendship, and humanity. Yogita added that she would eventually find the words to describe the kind of parent her father was.
- Limaye has maintained a private life while being a prominent figure in the media. As a result, it is unknown whether she is married, single, or dating.
- In her free time, Yogita likes to run and watch movies, and she also wants to go on beach vacations.
Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info
- Yogita earned a B.E. (Bachelor of Engineering) in Electronics and Telecom from Savitribai Phule Pune University in 2004. She spent a year writing computer programmes before deciding to pursue journalism.
- She graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism in 2006 from Chennai-based Asian College of Journalism.
Work, Career, Salary and Net Worth :
- Yogita began her six years of service with CNN IBN in 2006 as a Principal Correspondent, one of the top national news organisations.
- She began her career as a young producer in the Delhi newsroom. Then she relocated to Mumbai, reporting on significant political events and hosting the channel’s regular evening news programme.
- She began working for the BBC News division in Mumbai in 2012 as an India Business Report journalist and presenter.
- Over the course of her career, Limaye has covered a wide range of major international issues, including the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, the Syrian Civil War, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Rohingya migrant crisis, and elections in Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka.
- In addition to covering business and economic news, Yogita has also written about other national news issues, such as the Anna Hazare campaign and the 2013 floods in northern India. She played a significant role in the BBC’s news reporting of the problem of women’s safety throughout India.
- She has had the opportunity to interview a diverse range of notable individuals, including former US President Donald Trump, Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, business leaders Howard Schultz and Jesper Brodin, Afghan politician Abdullah Abdullah, Bollywood actors Amitabh Bachchan, and Priyanka Chopra, former Indian finance minister P Chidambaram, as well as Indian politicians Bal Thackeray, Uddhav Thackeray, and Arun Jaitley, and spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravishankar, among others.
- She has served as the host of live events like the BBC’s yearly Indian Sportswoman of the Year awards shows, and series like Talking Business, Reinventing India, India Business Report, and Witness.
- Limaye has been BBC News’ South Asia and Afghanistan Correspondent on a full-time basis from September 2022 onwards.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- Yogita holds proficiency in languages – English, Hindi, and Marathi.
- She spent a year (Jul 2004 – Jul 2005) writing software programs before deciding to pursue journalism. The company she worked was Kanbay Software Pvt. Ltd. (now aquired by Capgemini).
- Yogita Limaye wrote an article for The New Statesman on November 3, 2021, in which she discussed the unstable situation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, the tragic reality of parents selling their children for survival, and the failure of the West in protecting Afghan women. The palpable pain she felt upon returning to the country under Taliban rule was evident in her writing. As a journalist, she had always relied heavily on her Afghan colleagues for reporting, but many of them had been forced to flee. Limaye considered it a privilege to be able to report from the country, given that many Afghan journalists, especially women, do not have that opportunity. She felt fortunate to be able to document the struggles of the Afghan people.
- In May 2016, a news report by the BBC stated that in order to seek asylum in Europe, numerous young individuals were undertaking arduous journeys to escape poverty and violence in regions such as Africa and the Middle East. Approximately 2,000 of these individuals were believed to be present in Greece. Yogita conversed with one such youngster at a shelter in Athens, who, though unwilling to reveal his identity, chose to recount his experience.
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