Evening Report

Evening Report is a half hour programme in English for South Asian listeners which aims to report the most important and interesting global and regional news of the day.

The programme features reports and interviews with our network of correspondents and specialists in South Asia and throughout the world.

It also allows our audiences to hear for themselves the voices of those involved in the news.

Evening Report is presented from Delhi and edited in London, and goes out at 1400 GMT from Monday to Friday, packed with news and information.

As well as listening on the radio, you can download Evening Report as a podcast or listen to it on demand, on the website.

You can contact the editor by using the form below or emailing: eveningreport@bbc.co.uk

Evening report team:

Evening report editor Ailsa Auchnie has been a news editor with the BBC World Service for more than ten years. She was the Senior Editor in the Newsroom during the South Asian earthquake and the 2004 tsunami. She also covered the attacks of September the eleventh and their aftermath, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the London and Madrid bombings.

Presenter Tinku Ray's career at the BBC spans 19 years. She has worked as a resarcher, a producer and presenter. She is currently a news editor for the BBC in the Delhi bureau with responsibility for all BBC World Service outlets. Along with her editorial responsibilities, Tinku reports for news and documentary programmes. Her most recent report was a half hour programme on the rise of abuse against the elderly in India. One of her most memorable moments was the last BBC interview with the legendary Indian film maker Satyajit Ray, just before his death.

Jyotsna Singh is the South Asia News editor for BBC World Service based in Delhi where she steers the daily news agenda for the region for all BBC outlets, as well as pitching in with her own voice reports, features and analysis for News programmes in English, Urdu and Hindi. Jyotsna was born and grew up in the north Indian city of Varanasi. She was educated at Banaras Hindu University where she did her Masters in English Literature.

Sunil Raman has been a journalist for over 18 years and specialises in political, economic, foreign policy and security matters. He joined the BBC in 2003 and has been its Bangalore correspondent covering the 2004 Asian Tsunami, the killing of forest brigand Veerappan and changes brought about by globalisation. Sunil is a keen horse rider and spends his spare time walking people through historic parts of the Indian capital Delhi.