NEW DELHI: Editors accused India’s government Friday of imposing censorship reminiscent of the country’s 1970s emergency, after it ordered a TV network off the air over its reporting of an attack by Pakistan-based militants.

NDTV India has been instructed to cease broadcasts for 24 hours next week after a government panel decreed it had revealed “strategically sensitive details” while covering a deadly attack on Pathankot air base in the northern Punjab state, in January.

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