Wrong map: Al Jazeera off air for 5 days
New Delhi, April 22
International news channel Al Jazeera was today forced to go off air in the country for five days as the government penalised it for repeatedly showing wrong maps of India.
Al Jazeera today only showed a blank screen with a message saying that “as instructed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, this channel will not be available from 00.01 hours on April 22 till 00.01 hours on April 27.”
Earlier in an order, the I&B ministry had said that it had come to its notice that Al Jazeera had shown a wrong map of India in some of its broadcasts in 2013 and 2014, after which the matter was referred to the Surveyor General of India (SGI). — PTI
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