30 January - 3 February 2025 | Hotel Clarks Amer, Jaipur

NIKHIL KUMAR

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Nikhil Kumar is CNN’s New Delhi Bureau Chief responsible for the strategic planning of the network’s multi-platform news coverage from India and the region. Kumar was previously the South Asia Bureau Chief for TIME magazine. Before moving to India in early 2015, he was a Senior Editor based in New York, editing and managing TIME’s international editions, as well as foreign coverage in the U.S. edition. Kumar has reported on several key regional and global political, economic and social stories including the devastating Nepal earthquake in 2015, the global financial crisis, the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and the Boston marathon bombings. He has also interviewed leaders from the region including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena and Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.

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