Kunal Sehgal - Senior Producer
Kunal Sehgal
Senior Producer
Kunal Sehgal is an award-winning Senior Producer for CNN based in Hong Kong.
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A weeks-old Gen-Z protest group managed to get India’s Modi to blink. What’s next?Jul 28, 2026For more than a decade, India’s leader Narendra Modi has seemed politically unassailable, presiding over a government that has outmaneuvered opponents, dominated public discourse, and squeezed spaces for dissent. -
A blue schoolbag in a mass grave. Sri Lanka’s bloody past is re-emerging from the soilNov 30, 2025A mass grave in northern Sri Lanka has revived allegations of wartime atrocities and calls for justice. -
At least 27 killed as Bangladesh air force jet crashes into Dhaka schoolJul 22, 2025A Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a college in the capital Dhaka on Monday, killing at least 27 people, mostly children, according to officials – in the country’s deadliest air incident in recent memory. -
Missiles, drones and airstrikes, until a sudden ceasefire. How India and Pakistan agreed to an uneasy truceMay 13, 2025India and Pakistan engaged in the most intense fighting in decades with four days of escalating conflict that included fighter jets, missiles and drones packed with explosives. It ended almost as abruptly as it began. New details reveal how a flurry of phone calls and diplomacy ultimately brought about a truce.
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Young Indians have been making a ‘do or die’ journey to live the American dreamOct 22, 2024The sun blisters the arid ground in Karnal, a district in India’s northern Haryana state, where empty houses stand testament to an acute problem that’s driving some residents to take unimaginable risks. -
Fire at gaming arcade kills at least 20 people in IndiaMay 27, 2024The blaze broke out in the western Indian city of Rajkot on Saturday, local officials said. -
A new scooter every 90 seconds. India’s EV revolution has begunAug 23, 2023At a startup factory in Hosur, a southern Indian city not far from Bangalore, the assembly line is buzzing with lightning-fast activity. -
Despair and anguish stalks hospitals as India reels from devastating train crashJun 5, 2023Manto Kumar was traveling on the Coromandel Express with six of his friends when his train compartment began to violently shake like an earthquake. -
Crushed rail cars. Bodies tangled in metal. Passengers and first responders recount the horror of deadly India train crashJun 4, 2023Authorities investigating one of the deadliest train crashes in India’s history were examining whether a signal failure led to the disaster, as rescue workers finished their search for survivors and overturned train cars were cleared from the tracks on Sunday. -
Indian official drains reservoir to retrieve phone dropped while taking selfieMay 28, 2023A government official in India who drained a reservoir to retrieve a phone he dropped while taking a selfie has been suspended from his job. -
Over 50 dead, hundreds hospitalized and 23,000 displaced by ethnic violence in India’s ManipurMay 8, 2023Ethnic violence in the Indian state of Manipur has killed more than 50 people, left hundreds hospitalized, and displaced 23,000, according to hospital officials and the Indian army. -
Search of BBC offices by Indian government ends after three day raidFeb 16, 2023Indian tax officials have ended their days-long search of the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, the British broadcaster announced Thursday. Officials had spent three days raiding the spaces following the country’s ban on a BBC documentary that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly riots more than 20 years ago. -
Indian authorities raid BBC offices after broadcast of Modi documentaryFeb 15, 2023Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai on Tuesday, weeks after the country banned a documentary from the British broadcaster that was critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly riots more than 20 years ago.
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CNN Exclusive: Sri Lanka’s acting President says previous government was ‘covering up facts’ about financial crisisJul 18, 2022Sri Lanka’s acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said the country’s previous administration was “covering up facts” about its crippling financial crisis. -
Sri Lanka’s former President has stepped down – but larger problems loom for the crisis-hit countryJul 15, 2022Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country earlier this week, has formally resigned, the parliamentary speaker confirmed Friday, capping off a chaotic 72-hours in the crisis-hit nation that saw protesters storm the capital. -
Millions impacted by monsoon flooding in Bangladesh and IndiaJun 20, 2022Four million people have been impacted by flooding in northeastern Bangladesh, according to Dr. Enamur Rahman, the country’s State Minister for the Ministry of Disaster Management. The situation could soon worsen, with heavy rain forecast in the next 24 hours.
About
Kunal Sehgal is an award-winning Senior Producer for CNN based in Hong Kong, where he helps lead editorial strategy and breaking news multi-platform coverage across Asia. He works with CNN teams across the region to deliver distinctive, original reporting.
Kunal also leads CNN’s coverage of South Asia, overseeing breaking news and long-form storytelling from the subcontinent.
He has played a key role in CNN’s coverage of many of Asia’s defining events, including the 2025 Myanmar earthquake and ongoing civil war, the deadly Wang Fuk Court fire in Hong Kong, and the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
He has also overseen distinctive human-impact storytelling, including reporting on high-risk defections from North Korea and investigations into how U.S. weapons left behind in Afghanistan have fuelled insurgency in Pakistan.
Kunal holds a bachelor’s degree from Sciences Po in Paris.
