Asmita Sarkar
Articles by Asmita Sarkar
Asmita Sarkar covers news and current affairs from India and world for IBTimes India. She is interested in politics, women's rights, fiction, photography, and travel. She has worked for citizen journalism portal Youth Ki Awaaz and has interned with the Times of India, Al Jazeera, Roli Books, Platform Magazine, and Campus Diaries before venturing into digital journalism. She was a Nokia Create to Inspire fellow. She has a Masters in Literature from the Hindu College, Delhi University and a PG Diploma in journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication.
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$100 million worth ivory to be burnt in Kenya as anti-poaching gesture
3 NDRF teams battling forest fires in Uttarakhand; 1,900 hectares land razed
Iran election 2016: Moderates make major gains in Phase 2 of parliamentary polls
Parliamentary committee recommends 100% salary hike for MPs
Moroccan youth arrested in Switzerland over Cologne sex attacks
11 dead after drinking contaminated water in Rajasthan
Iraq shuts Al Jazeera's operations for inciting 'violence and sectarianism'
Indian man, who stalked woman for a decade, jailed for 19 years in Texas
South Korea-American sentenced to '10 years hard labour for spying' in North Korea
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Syria: 20, including 3 doctors, killed in airstrike on MSF hospital in Aleppo
7 injured after masked man throws petrol bomb in Kerala village
Consultations for Sex Offenders Registry underway
North Korea releases video of parents pleading South Korea to 'return' daughter
President's rule to stay in Uttarakhand; SC asks Centre 7 questions
Amid energy crisis, drought, Venezuela imposes 2-day working week
Pakistan says it is making efforts for peace in Afghanistan, denies sheltering Taliban
Kerala SSLC results declared: 96.59% students passed the exam
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