She is noted have been the features editor of the newspaper during Miss Universe 1994 and was the one to cover Sushmita Sen winning the peagant.
Uma married a peer journalist T. S. Sudhir and moved to the city of Hyderabad around August 1995.
[1] She was responsible for the political coverage of N. Chandrababu Naidu's rebellion against N. T. Rama Rao in the state of Andhra Pradesh which began days after her shifting to its capital of Hyderabad.
[6] In 1998, Uma moved to the new television channel Star News (later renamed to NDTV).
[4] On 6 March 2017, she also became the recipient of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons for "[h]er incisive and analytical reports [that] help create awareness of ground realities in various states".