In today’s News18 evening digest, we are covering the controversy over the government blocking videos and tweets in connection to the BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In other news, we have excerpts from former American Secretary Mike Pompeo’s latest book where he talks about his relations with his two Indian counterparts.
A day after Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) planned a screening of the controversial BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, left-affiliated Students’ Federation of India (SFI) on Wednesday announced to screen the documentary on the Jamia Millia Islamia campus at 6 pm. Issuing a notice, the university, however, said no permission has been sought for the screening of the documentary and “we will not allow” it. LIVE UPDATES
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