ayeshea

Asia Editor, @bbcworld. Formerly India editor BBC News.

[ayeshea @ayeshea]

The BBC is looking for a senior digital journalist.
We are looking for an enterprising and ambitious news editor based in Singapore who can break stories, edit live pages, commission quick takes and set the BBC’s daily news agenda in Asia.

More: https://t.co/GAbKK2KaKA

[BBC News India @BBCIndia]

India makes history. The country's latest lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3, has successfully landed near the Moon's south pole making India the first country to do so. Watch what it means for the country and for deep space. #Chandrayaan3 #ISRO #MoonLanding

[ayeshea @ayeshea]

Well done! #Chandrayaan3

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Deadly shooting rattles Auckland just before Women's World Cup https://t.co/Clg9BaZi4s

[ayeshea @ayeshea]

Back in Singapore and wasting no time eating all the food we missed. Already done: Mala chips, salted duck egg, food court bento box. Still on the list: CHONGQING CHICKEN or LA ZI JI. (Because it has to be eaten from the correct place obviously)

[ayeshea @ayeshea]

This seemed like a good tweet with which to break a Twitter hiatus.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Penguins walking in 5x speed

[ayeshea @ayeshea]

Great piece about “the absurdity of a marriage between the news media and a speculative tech industry that can only conceptualize it as either a threat or as food.” https://t.co/pOu3x85ehx

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Former Strictly Come Dancing head judge Len Goodman has died at the age of 78, his manager says https://t.co/qwN6UqyTsI

[Kerry Allen 凯丽 @kerrya11en]

While you were all distracted by the loss of your blue tick, you might have missed that Twitter has also now deleted the state-affiliated media labels on leading Chinese outlets.

[ayeshea @ayeshea]

Got married, moved countries, had a baby 🤓

[BBC News Press Team @BBCNewsPR]

Update on India:

[Nuwan I. Senaratna @nuuuwan]

Here's an election related fact that is likely NOT to be useful to you.

Of the candidates contesting the #LGPollSL2023, 0.4% (>300) are called "Nuwan".

More seriously, here's a map of the most common names by district.

#SriLanka

[Karishma Mehrotra @karishma__m__]

Indian tax authorities raided the BBC and seized its journalists’ phones in a stunning — and apparently retaliatory — move against the British broadcaster weeks after it aired a polarizing documentary examining Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rise.

https://t.co/uNf1VGU56p

[Editors Guild of India @IndEditorsGuild]

EGI is deeply concerned about the IT “surveys” being carried out at the offices of BBC India. Is distressed by the continuing trend of government agencies being used to intimidate and harass news organisations that are critical of ruling establishment.

[BBC News Press Team @BBCNewsPR]

The Income Tax Authorities are currently at the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai and we are fully cooperating.

We hope to have this situation resolved as soon as possible.

[ayeshea @ayeshea]

“The searches in New Delhi and Mumbai come weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary in the UK critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” https://t.co/vtspeFt6oZ

[Ranga Sirilal @rangaba]

The Health Ministry has taken a decision to delay surgeries that are not urgent, in government hospitals - Health Minister

[Sri Lanka Tweet 🇱🇰 @SriLankaTweet]

Villagers, the Navy, and Coast Guard launched an operation to send stranded whales back to the sea in #Kalpitiya.
https://t.co/o4OSWUudBA #LKA #SriLanka #Whales