Rajdeep Sardesai

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Sardesai is currently a consulting editor at the India Today group and hosts Headlines Today. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7, and IBN-Lokmatwhich he resigned in July 2014.Rajdeep is the son of Dilip Sardesai, a former Indian Test Cricketer.Initially, Rajdeep worked with Times of India for six years and was the city editor of its Mumbai edition.He entered television journalism in 1994 as Political Editor of New Delhi Television (NDTV).He hosted popular shows like The Big Fight at NDTV.He quit NDTV later to start his own company, Global Broadcast News (GBN), in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Bahls TV18.Rajdeep was awarded Padma Shri by Govt. of India in 2008.Rajdeep carried off The International Broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award for 2006.He received The Asian Television award for talk show presentation and has been News Anchor of the year at the Indian Television Academy for eight of the last nine years.He has been the President of the Editors Guild of India and was also chosen as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the world economic forum.