[1] He is the anchor host of the prime-time show Newstrack[2] on weekdays and the interview-based show Jab We Met on India Today TV.
[4] He is a Chevening scholar and did a programme in International Broadcast Journalism from Cardiff University.
[5] He won a Rory Peck Trust grant for a course in Hostile Environment Journalism.
[6] Kanwal started his career in 1999 as an anchor-cum-reporter with Zee News and joined Aaj Tak in 2002.
[8][9] He was criticized for simulating a skirmish between CRPF and Naxal insurgents in his TV show.