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Manogya Loiwal is a Broadcast Journalist with Aaj Tak and India Today Television and is currently the Editor of Eastern and North-Eastern India along with Bangladesh.

With knowledge of more than seven languages... Manogya Loiwal reports extensively from the region for Television and Digital platforms of India Today Group.

From Interviewing Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan, from Home Minister Amit Shah to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee..the list is just getting longer.

Recently she has reported extensively in the Lok Sabha Elections and survived being roughed up by goons of political parties too.

From reporting from eye of the Storm to epicentre of Earthquakes, from mid waist flood water to landfall of cyclones...Singur to Nandigram or even farthest village like Chaglagham on Sino-India Border in Arunachal Pradesh. It sounds like been there...done that !

She is the first journalist in the world to have travelled nearest to Doklam, that too alone. Doklam was the bone of contention between India and China for almost three months. She and her team were the first to reach Cox's Bazaar and Myanmar-Bangladesh border to report and document the abuses, arsons, rapes and human rights violation at Rohingya villages in Myanmar.

Her stories on conversions happening in one of the world's biggest ongoing crisis were picked up by most regional, vernacular and national media groups both in India and Bangladesh.

In 2020, She was a Speaker at the prestigious Apeejay Literary Festival.

In July 2019 she was a speaker at TEDx Talks at the Heritage School in Kolkata.

In April 2018, Manogya was one of the eight people selected from South Asia to be a part of the International Visitor Leadership Programme conducted by the Department of State of Government of United States of America.

Over the years, Manogya has been acknowledged for her contribution to journalism by various organisations.

She is a recipient of the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism 2016.

In 2016, the India Today Group awarded her the Chairman’s Award for Team Excellence 2016 for her contribution to Aaj Tak.

She was awarded the Bharat Nirman Award in 2014 for her exemplary contribution in the field of journalism. She is also recognized for her coverage of Nepal earthquake in 2015 and won accolades, including the Exchange4Media News Broadcasting Award.

Besides several feather in her cap, Manogya is a qualified defence correspondent and was awarded the Defence Correspondent Course Certificate by Ministry of Defence, Government of India in 2014.

She is also a certificate holder in feature writing from BBC World Service Trust.