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Editor, India, Women and Social Affairs for BBC Online; Also Senior Producer of Kalki presents: My Indian Life Season 1; Have my eye on Half the Sky

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How many countries can Indian voters fill? Will the voters be thinking about Ram temple or jobs? To find out all about the staggering scale of India's election, the personalities and issues on which the polls will be fought, read my story for @BBCIndia.
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The general election is the largest democratic exercise ever
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Suddenly everyone wanted to know about her: the name Babydoll Archi trended in Google search and spawned memes, fan pages & media reports. But there was one issue about to emerge: there was no real woman behind the online sensation. I write for @BBCIndia .
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Babydoll Archi became an Instagram sensation. And then police arrested its creator.
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RT @SpirosMargaris: Babydoll Archi: Indian woman’s identity stolen . for erotic AI content in deepfake deception . .
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Babydoll Archi became an Instagram sensation. And then police arrested its creator.
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A state-of-the-art British fighter F35B jet that had been stuck at an Indian airport for more than five weeks is now airborne and on its way to Darwin in Australia, an airport spokesman told the BBC. Our report for @BBCIndia .
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The F-35B landed in Kerala on 14 June after running into bad weather, then it reported a technical snag.
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A state-of-the-art British fighter jet that has been stuck at an Indian airport for more than five weeks is set to fly out on Tuesday. I write on the F-35B in Kerala for @BBCIndia .
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The F-35B landed in Kerala on 14 June after running into bad weather, then reported a technical snag.
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Even a week after they were found, there is very little clarity on how Nina Kutina and her children came to be in a forest infested with snakes and wild animals; how long they had been living there and who they really are. I write for @BBCIndia .
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There is little clarity on how they came to be in a forest infested with snakes and wild animals.
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"The preliminary report doesn't say how switches were moved to cut-off, but since its release, sections of media and social media has been awash with unsavoury speculation about the role of pilots," says ICPA. My report for @BBCIndia .
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Earlier, India's aviation minister said not to jump to conclusions and another pilots' group criticised the report.
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I was recently in #Pahalgam Here's my report on how India's "mini Switzerland" is trying to pick up the pieces and move on two months after the April 22nd massacre of tourists .
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BBC visits ground zero of the April attack in Pahalgam where locals are picking up the pieces of their lives.
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A 14-member team of engineers from the UK has begun assessing a state-of-the-art British fighter jet stuck at an airport in India for more than three weeks now. @AshrafPadanna and I write for @BBCIndia .
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The F-35B landed in Kerala on 14 June after running into bad weather. It then reported a technical snag.
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A state-of-the-art British fighter jet stuck at an airport in India for nearly 3 weeks has sparked curiosity and raised questions about how such a modern aircraft could get stranded for days in a foreign country. I write on the F-35B in Kerala @BBCIndia .
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A state-of-the-art F-35B has been stranded at Thiruvananthapuram airport for nearly three weeks.
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The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says he will have a successor after his death, putting to rest all speculation over whether the 600-year-old institution will end with him. @SamiraHussain15 and I write for @BBCIndia.
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The exiled leader of Tibetan Buddhism issues a landmark announcement as he turns 90, ending years of uncertainty.
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Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla creates history by becoming the first Indian ever to set foot on the International Space Station. A live broadcast showed the Axiom-4 mission docking and its four-member crew crossing over to the ISS. I write for @BBCIndia .
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Shubhanshu Shukla becomes the first Indian on ISS as the mission docks with the orbiting laboratory.
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Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla who's piloting #Axiom4 has become only the second Indian to travel to space. I write for @BBCIndia .
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Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla has become only the second Indian to travel to space.
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Police allege that Sonam Raghuvanshi hired killers to murder her husband Raja during their trip to Meghalaya. Sonam's father Devi Singh has defended his daughter saying "she is innocent and she cannot do this". My report for @BBCIndia .
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Raja Raghuvanshi and Sonam were on their honeymoon in India's Meghalaya state when they went missing.
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"As I go into space, I carry not just instruments and equipment, I carry hopes and dreams of a billion hearts. I request all Indians to pray for the success of our mission," Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla. My report for @BBCIndia.
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Shubhanshu Shukla will be only the second Indian to travel to space and the first-ever to visit ISS.
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I missed this brilliant piece by @nilanjanab last week. Menopenalisation is so real:."I’m a woman of 48 – and as replaceable in the office as the swivel chair at my desk," she writes.
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In India, as elsewhere, ‘menopenalisation’ means women in middle age are failed by their employers and wider society
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4 months
There's only one place towards the bottom of their report where they credit the BBC - highlighted below 5/6
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There's more - @namitabhandare quotes are from my conversation with her, Mail just lifted them 4/6
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And it continues - I'd watched the full hour-long Humans of Bombay interview before picking the bits I've used in my piece with attribution. Dia Mirza and Showik bits are also in my story: 3/6
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These are screenshots of the Mail report - the plagiarised lines are highlighted in green. The Payal quotes are mine: 2/6
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