SATINDER BINDRA is CNN's New Delhi bureau chief and correspondent, named to this position upon joining the network in March 1999. In this capacity, he is responsible for the network's coverage of India and the South Asia region. He reported on the Kosovo crisis from March to May of 1999, reporting from Aviano Airbase in Italy and from key locales in the Balkans, including Kukes, Albania. Since then, Bindra has covered the war in Afghanistan, the Kargil conflict between nuclear neighbors India and Pakistan, the Orissa Super Cyclone, the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane to Afghanistan and the elections in India and Sri Lanka. Additionally, he reported on U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to India and Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's visit to Washington, D.C. Bringing a decade of experience reporting in the South Asia region, Bindra joined CNN from Canadian Television, where, as a senior reporter with Vancouver Television, he reported from and traveled extensively throughout South Asia. Prior to joining CTV in 1997, Bindra worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., covering stories in South Asia, such as the Kashmir dispute, nuclear tensions in the region, civil war in Sri Lanka, India's 50th anniversary celebrations and Indian federal elections. He also reported on the Lockerbie plane crash in 1988, the 1997 APEC Summit and the royal family of Britain's 1997 visit to Canada. Bindra began his journalism career in 1988 as a business reporter for India Abroad News Service in London. After moving to Canada in 1989, he joined the Canadian Press and at the same time freelanced as a correspondent for India Today, India's most widely read news magazine. Born in India, Bindra is a Canadian citizen. He speaks fluent English, Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. Bindra holds two master's degrees, one in economic history from St. Stephen's College of Delhi University and another in international relations from Oxford University.