Neha Khanna joins Times Internet as Senior Anchor & Editorial Advisor

Senior journalist Neha Khanna has embarked on a new chapter in her broadcast news career. 

She has joined Times Internet, the digital vertical of the Times of India, as Senior Anchor and Editorial Advisor. A respected name on the foreign policy circuit, Khanna will host a daily show on foreign affairs and geopolitics on the digital platform of India’s most widely read newspaper. 

Prior to this, Khanna was with the TV9 Network where she hosted the popular 8 PM show ‘Global Lens’. In the past, Khanna has fronted prime time shows on WION including a signature weekly show ‘Inside South Asia with Neha Khanna’. She has worked with a multitude of other networks as well. 

Khanna began her television career with NDTV where she had a 13-year stint. She cut her reporting teeth there and went on to host NDTV’s flagship show ‘The Buck Stops Here-weekend edition’ among other prime time shows.

In the course of her journalistic career spanning two decades, Khanna has reported on scores of legal, political, electoral, socio-economic, foreign policy, gender and human rights stories. She has interviewed top national and international newsmakers. 

In 2024, Khanna was selected for the coveted Jefferson Fellowship by the East West Centre in Hawaii. She represented India in the US, Taiwan and the Phillippines. 

Khanna has extensively covered the Israel-Hamas war, the Palestinian crisis and interviewed major stakeholders in the region. Earlier this year, she visited Israel, travelled to some of the areas that were attacked by Hamas and interviewed some of the October 7 terror attack victims. 

Khanna is a United Nations RAF Fellow, an International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) Fellow, a Chevening Scholar and an Australia-India Youth Dialogue alumnus. She has been interviewed by leading media houses in the US, Australia, China and Israel. 

Back in 2009, Khanna undertook an internship with the BBC’s Parliamentary Programmes team in London and worked for BBC Radio 4’s flagship programme ‘Today in Parliament’. 

Khanna has studied the Hansard Research Scholars Programme in ‘Democracy and Public Policy’ at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Radio & Television Journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and Political Science (Honours) at Hindu College, Delhi University.