Centre puts NDTV India's ban on hold

This comes after the Supreme Court has agreed to hear NDTV's appeal against the ban on Tuesday.

The decision to put the ban on hold was taken by Information and Broadcasting Minister Venkaiah Naidu.

News network NDTV has moved the Supreme Court, challenging the Information and Broadcasting (I&B) Ministry's decision to pull its Hindi channel, NDTV India, off air for a day over its Pathankot terror attack reportage.

The channel confirmed its decision in a report on Monday.

"NDTV has challenged the government's one-day ban of its Hindi channel in the Supreme Court today. NDTV India has been ordered off-air on Wednesday with the government accusing it of broadcasting sensitive details of January's terror attack on the air force base in Pathankot," the report read.

The I&B Ministry had earlier said that it banned the channel for revealing strategically sensitive information in one of its coverage.

Refuting the central government's claims, NDTV has accused it of bias.

The government's move was condemned by other political parties, with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calling it an 'emergency like situation'.

The Editor's Guild of India too took a swipe at the government and urged it to revoke the ban.

However, defending its decision, I&B Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said that the freedom of press is important but not at the cost of compromising a country's security.