Saturday, 18 April 2015

India's inter-minsterial committe recommends taking Aljazeera off air in map row.

    The India government has called for Aljazeera news channel to be taken off for five days for recurrently showing the wrong map of India in various programes, The Express Tribune reported. India acused Aljazeera news channel of violating the program code by showing wrong maps of India on repeated occasions ad recommended that it be taken off air for five days, The Hindu rported. According to order issued by the mnistry on April10, the SGI observed that the maps displayed by the TV channel were shown  wrongly. The SGI said that a portion of India territory has not been shown with clarity and proper shape in another map. The channel also did not show Lakshadweep and Andaman isands.

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