Yes we would like our own perspective on international affairs to be amplified. For example, our own international TV network - DD World Service, for instance - would have given us a credible channel to beam and clarify all that is happening in Kargil. Banning Pak Television is not the answer. Having our own credible network is.

A columnist in The Indian Express.

The reports on PTV are part of a propaganda war being waged against India. They will try to flood the airwaves with false and virulent propaganda while preventing opposing points of view to be expressed. So when Pakistan selectively bombs DD and All India Radio transmitters in Kashmir and bans Indian films and television are we to turn the other cheek?

Indian Information & broadcasting minister Pramod Mahajan on the PTV ban quoted in The Times of India.

To me the World Cup is a television event; an event of vast opportunity which has still not realised its true potential internationally.

Zee TV chairman Subhash Chandra in The Times of India.

Do you know I'm always amazed that people want to come on this programme, because to sit down and be asked questions for 25 minutes about your life is fairly rigorous. I wouldn't come on Hardtalk.

BBC World's Hardtalk host Tim Sebastian quoted in The Hindu Business Line.

The Indian army meanwhile announced major gains when it announced that it had flushed out and killed terrorists from certain areas in Kashmir and recapture certain observation points. The government says it will continue its air strikes and ground attacks until it can weed out the infiltrators totally.