News agency IANS apologises for abusive word against PM Modi
Private news agency Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) on Thursday apologised after publishing a story in which an offensive word was used for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A sentence in the story, now withdrawn, read "Prime Minister Bakh***d Modi". The agency's Managing Editor Hardev Sanotra said, "IANS deeply regrets the wholly inadvertent incursion of an unparliamentary reference to the PM."