BBC appoints Yogita Limaye, Sameer Hashmi in Mumbai

Mumbai: BBC today announced the appointment of two new business journalists to be based in the BBC's Mumbai bureau.

Yogita Limaye will join the BBC in May 2012 as Mumbai Business Correspondent. She will report across BBC World News and will serve as the presenter of India Business Report, the channel's weekly television programme on business throughout the region. In addition, she will report for bbc.com/news and on the BBC World Service in both English and Hindi. 

Limaye has worked for CNN IBN since 2006, most recently serving as an anchor and principal correspondent. She has reported on several important news events including the 2008 Mumbai attacks, cotton farmer suicides and the Anna Hazare movement.  She is an engineering graduate from the University of Pune and received her post graduate diploma in broadcast journalism from the Asian College of Journalism in Chennai.

Sameer Hashmi will join the BBC in June as Mumbai Business Reporter. He joins BBC World News' Mumbai and Delhi-based India Business Report team, and will also report on all aspects of business across BBC World News television, bbc.com/news and the BBC World Service radio. Hashmi has worked with The Times Group since 2008, most recently serving as a business correspondent for the group's business channel ET Now, and previously for The Economic Times. He has reported on business across the aviation, infrastructure, power and hospitality sectors.

The India Business Report team not only produces a weekly programme for BBC World News but are also contributes to other BBC News business coverage through specialist programmes such as Asia Business Report and World Business Report and the daily News output across radio, television and online.

Richard Porter, Controller, English Language for BBC Global News said: ''As one of the world's most important economies, it's vitally important that the BBC delivers the most up to date news on India's business developments. We're so pleased to have Yogita and Sameer on board to bring BBC audiences across radio, television and online the latest business news from Mumbai.''