Indian editors blast Modi govt over censorship on media
NEW DELHI: Editors accused India’s government on Friday of imposing censorship reminiscent of the country’s 1970s emergency after it ordered a TV network off the air over its reporting of an attack on an airbase by militants.
NDTV India has been instructed to cease broadcasts for 24 hours next week after a government panel decreed it had revealed “strategically sensitive details” while covering January’s deadly attack on the Pathankot airbase.
A spokesman for the information ministry said the channel would have to go…