Rahul Kanwal

Journalist

Birthday September 14, 1980

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Birthplace Deolali, Maharashtra, India

Age 43 years old

Nationality India

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Rahul Kanwal is an Indian TV news anchor and News Director at India Today.

He is the anchor host of the prime-time show Newstrack on weekdays and the interview based show Jab We Met on India Today TV.

Kanwal went to St. Joseph's College, Allahabad.

He studied journalism at Delhi University.

He is a Chevening scholar and did a programme in International Broadcast Journalism from Cardiff University.

He won a Rory Peck Trust grant for a course in Hostile Environment Journalism.

1999

He started his career in 1999 as an anchor-cum-reporter with Zee News and joined Aaj Tak in 2002.

He has also served as the Editor-at-Large of Aaj Tak and India Today in TV Today Group.

2013

In 2013, Kanwal was awarded the best anchor at the Indian Television Academy Awards.

2016

He was awarded the National annual award as part of the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation in 2016.

2019

In 2019, Kanwal interviewed India's union minister Piyush Goyal, and questioned the minister over the Balakot strikes.

He was criticized for simulating a skirmish between CRPF and Naxal insurgents in his TV show.

In 2019, he was awarded in the Best Anchor category at the Exchange4media News Broadcasting Awards.