Yogita Limaye - Biography & Images
Yogita Limaye is South Asia & Afghanistan Correspondent for the BBC.
She has also done stints in the US, South Korea and the Middle East and interviewed top personalities like Donald Trump, Howard Schultz, Sheikh Hasina, Abdullah Abdullah, Amitabh Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone.
Yogita is also an experienced presenter and has presented shows like Talking Business, India Business Report, Reinventing India and Witness, as well as has hosted live events including the BBC&#;s annual Indian Sportswoman of the Year Awards.
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'I wish he'd lived to see new Syria' - Crowds bury anti-Assad activist
Warning: This article contains graphic details of torture
"We gave our blood and soul to the revolution," crowds chanted, as they carried Mazen Al-Hamada's coffin through the streets of Damascus, draped in the green, white and black flag adopted by protesters back in , now ubiquitous in the city since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad.
As the funeral procession moved forward, more and more people joined it. "Mazen is a martyr," many shouted, some weeping.
If the world knew before this about the extent of the brutality of Assad's regime against its own people, it was in part because of Mazen, an activist who was an outspoken critic of the regime.
On Sunday, his body was found in the notorious "slaughterhouse", Seydnaya prison in Damascus. It bore signs of horrific torture.
A doctor who examined it told the BBC he had fractures, burn marks and contusions all over his body, allegations corroborated by Mazen's family.
"It's impossible to count the wounds on his body. His face was smashed and his nose was broken," his sister Lamyaa sai
Reprieve for Afghan women students facing forced return after US aid cuts
Since regaining power in Afghanistan nearly four years ago, the Taliban has imposed draconian restrictions on women, including banning them from universities.
The students in Oman were pursuing graduate and post-graduate degrees under the Women&#;s Scholarship Endowment (WSE), a USAID program launched in to fund studies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
On 28 February, they were informed their scholarships were ending and that they would be sent back to Afghanistan within two weeks, prompting &#;shock and tears&#;.
&#;We are relieved now, but we are still deeply concerned about our future,&#; a student said. &#;If the scholarship is not renewed, we will be left with no option but to return to Afghanistan, where we cannot study, and our safety could be under threat as well.&#;
The US government has not responded to the BBC&#;s inquiries on when a final decision will be made.
The BBC has also contacted the government of Oman to find out whether it is seeking alternative funding.
Afghanistan&#;s Taliban government says it has been trying to resolve the issue of women&#;s education
Yogita Limaye
In , she joined CNN IBN, a leading national news broadcaster, where she spent six years working in many roles.
Starting out as a junior producer in the newsroom in Delhi, she later moved to Mumbai, reporting on important political developments and presenting the channel's daily evening news broadcast.
In , she joined the BBC News bureau in Mumbai as correspondent and presenter for India Business Report.
She regularly reports on the latest business news stories from India and has also covered key socio-economic issues such as food security, rural employment and poverty. She has interviewed several important personalities including the governor of India's central bank and the country's finance minister.
In addition to reporting on business and economics, Yogita has also covered other news stories from the country such as the northern Indian floods in She was also an integral part of the BBC's news coverage on the issue of women's safety in India following incidents of gang rape in Delhi and Mumbai.
Watching movies and running are Yogita's favourite pastimes and she enjoys beach holidays.
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