I&B showcause to channel for allegedly showing wrong India map

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PTI | New Delhi | Published: Aug 31 2014, 19:37 IST

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SUMMARY

A leading international channel has been slapped with a show cause notice by the Information and Broadcasting...

A leading international channel has been slapped with a show cause notice by the Information and Broadcasting ministry for allegedly depicting a wrong map of India in its news reports.

Sources told PTI that the I&B ministry has in its show cause notice to the Al Jazeera TV channel said that it had come to its attention that on more than one occasion last year, a wrong map of India had been shown in its news broadcasts wherein parts of the country were shown outside the border, and sought the channel's response.

"It had come to the notice of the ministry that in some of the news reports shown by the channel in 2013 related to various incidents, parts of Jammu and Kashmir were shown in territory outside India. The ministry took the matter with the office of Surveyor General of India.

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