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Poonam Joshi is a London based journalist currently EU and UK correspondent for India's ABP News and ANI news agency. She is also a women's rights activist and campaigns for the rights of Indian women living across the UK. Poonam represents over 50K Indian women living in the UK and runs an organisation called Indian Ladies UK. Born and brought up in New Delhi, Poonam is originally from a town called Ranikhet in Kumaon Uttarakhand. Poonam made headlines when on the 15th August 2019 when thousands of Pakistanis and Pro-Khalistanis staged a protest outside the High Commission of India in London where Indians were celebrating the Indian independence day. Some pro-Khalistanis snatched the Indian flag and started desecrating it. Poonam was present there reporting for the news agency ANI and couldn't tolerate the insult of her national flag. She went ahead and took both the pieces of the flag back from the Pakistani and Pro-Khalistan supporters. Poonam's video of taking the flag back went viral and she started trending on twitter with millions of people praising her for her bravery.