- Prior to joining FNC, she was a morning anchor and reporter for KXTV in Sacramento, CA, and the main anchor and health reporter for WICU-TV in Erie, PA.
- She received the Best Enterprise Reporting award from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association in 1997 for her series "Young and Hooked," which looked at teen smoking.
- She began her career in 1995 as a reporter for News 21 in Rockville, MD.
- She received a B.A. in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland's College of Journalism.
- Grew up in Gaithersburg, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC.
- She is half-Nepalese (her father is Nepalese and her mother is of Ukrainian, Dutch and German descent).
- The name Kiran is Sanskrit for "a ray of light".
- Her ex-husband, Christopher Knowles, is a former weather forecaster for the Fox News Channel.
- Mother, with ex-husband Christopher Knowles, of daughter Maya Rose Knowles (b. February 8, 2006) and son Christopher Chetry Knowles (b. April 17, 2008).
- Went to work at CNN in March 2007.
- Named co-anchor, with John Roberts, of CNN's American Morning (2001) in April 2007.
- In 2006 she made Maxim Magazine's top ten list of TV's Sexiest News Anchors, placing her third on the list. She was ranked as America's sexiest female anchor and the world's second sexiest female anchor. In October 2007 she was featured in Esquire's "Women We Love: The Newgirls".
- In February 2011 she left CNN.
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