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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s attitude towards the press was once again foregrounded during his Europe trip on Monday (May 18), when he was heckled by a Norwegian journalist over whether he would take questions from the media but walked away without doing so.

Immediately after Modi and his Norwegian opposite number Jonas Gahr Store finished their joint press statement in Oslo, Helle Lyng Svendsen, a commentator with the Dagsavisen newspaper, cried out: “Prime Minister Modi, why don’t you take some questions from the freest press in the world?”

Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to. Norway has the number one spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba. It is........

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