Twitter is abuzz with rumours of a news channel going off air for 15 days for breaching terror coverage norms.
Big TV channel which breached terror coverage norms likely to go black for 15 days, says a little bird from Lutyens @dna @sudhirchaudhary
— Dwaipayan Bose (@rijubose) October 26, 2017Bomb about to drop. A channel may go off air for 15 days for violating 2011 policy guidelines (UPA era), compromising national security
— Abhijit Majumder (@abhijitmajumder) October 26, 2017Speaking of banning channels, last year the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting ordered a 24-hour ban of the Hindi news channel NDTV India for its coverage of the militant attack on the Pathankot airbase. The notice was served to NDTV India under the programme code, a list of broadcast rules made by the Union government as per the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act of 1995, which was amended in 2015 to prohibit “live coverage of any anti-terrorist operation by security forces… till such operation concludes.”