Miffed MEA

India has refused to renew the visa of Shogo Takahashi, the New Delhi bureau chief of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK). The external affairs ministry was apparently upset over some biased content in some of the NHK's documentary programmes. The NHK's coverage of the Lok Sabha elections last year, with its focus on role of caste system in Indian politics, did not go down well with Indian officials, sources said. The refusal comes weeks after a Japanese journalist had complained to the PM at his press conference in May that it was very difficult for foreign journalists working in India to get accreditation from the Press Information Bureau .  (IANS)