According to a Business Recorder news item, editors in India have accused Modi's government of imposing censorship reminiscent of the country's 1970s emergency after it ordered NDTV India off the air over its reporting of the Pathankot attack.
NDTV India has been instructed to cease broadcasts for 24 hours next week after a government panel d4ecreed it had revealed "strategically sensitive details" while covering January's deadly attack on Pathankot air base. The panel said an NDTV report included details about military aircraft and weapons kept at the base in Punjab "which was likely to be used by the terrorists themselves or their handlers to cause massive harm."It has been learnt that the Indian channel would have to go off air on November 9 "for violating the cable TV act" which limits what the media can report during major security incidents.That Narendra Modi government is trying to prove itself as ultra nationalist is a fact. Only recently, it created a considerable controversy by claiming that Indian armed forces had carried out 'surgical strikes' inside Pakistan. Its assertions in relation to so-called 'surgical strikes' were challenged by so many Opposition leaders, including those from Congress and Aam Admi Party (AAP). What is he mulling insofar as the role of traitors' is concerned? Modi has certainly lost his marbles.
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