1. Rajdeep Sardesai was born on 24 May 1965 and is an Indian news anchor, reporter, journalist and author.
14 Facts About Rajdeep Sardesai
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Rajdeep Sardesai is a consulting editor and anchor of India Today Television.
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Rajdeep Sardesai was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, before resigning in July 2014.
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Rajdeep Sardesai's father, Dilip Sardesai, was a former Indian Test cricketer and his mother, Nandini, is an activist in Mumbai and former head of the Department of Sociology at St Xavier's College, Mumbai.
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Rajdeep Sardesai then went to University College, Oxford, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence and Bachelor of Civil Law.
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Rajdeep Sardesai worked with The Times of India for six years, after joining it in October 1988, and was the city editor of its Mumbai edition.
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Rajdeep Sardesai entered television journalism in 1994 as political editor of New Delhi Television.
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Rajdeep Sardesai was the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both.
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Rajdeep Sardesai hosted popular shows like The Big Fight at NDTV.
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Rajdeep Sardesai quit NDTV on 17 April 2005 to start his own company, Global Broadcast News, in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Bahl's TV18.
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Channel 7 has come under this umbrella after Rajdeep Sardesai's company bought a 46 per cent stake in the channel.
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Rajdeep Sardesai is a consulting editor with the India Today Group and anchors a prime time show on India Today since 2014.
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Rajdeep Sardesai is married to journalist, author and Trinamool Congress leader Sagarika Ghose.
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Rajdeep Sardesai subsequently filed a defamation suit in the Delhi High Court against Sardesai.