
GeetaPandeyBBC
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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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https://www.bbc.com/news/world/asia/india 23-02-2010 08:33:36
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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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

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. Samira Hussain and I write for BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

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. Ashraf Padanna and I write for BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…


"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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

Babydoll Archi: Indian woman’s identity stolen for erotic AI content in deepfake deception bbc.com/news/articles/… GeetaPandeyBBC @bbcnews

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 BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…


The incident in Bihar is not an isolated one. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, more than 2,500 people, mostly women, were killed in India on suspicion of witchcraft between 2000 and 2016. BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

The incident in Bihar is not an isolated one. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, more than 2,500 people, mostly women, were killed in India on suspicion of witchcraft between 2000 and 2016. BBC News India bbc.com/news/articles/…

Police in India have arrested a man who recently alleged that he had been coerced into burying hundred of bodies of women who were raped before being murdered. GeetaPandeyBBC bbc.com/news/articles/…

A court in India has given the death penalty to a man for burning alive his wife over her skin colour. In her statements before her death, Lakshmi had said that her husband Kishandas "routinely taunted her for being dark skinned". GeetaPandeyBBC bbc.com/news/articles/…