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Doordarshan's news anchor sacked for pronouncing Xi Jinping's name as 'Eleven Jinping'

New Delhi: A Doordarshan anchor was sacked for wrongly pronouncing Chinese President Xi Jinping's  name as "Eleven Jinping" yesterday.India's state broadcaster Doordarshan's anchor had mistaken the word Xi for the Roman numeral XI (eleven).The bulletin

India TV News Desk India TV News Desk Updated on: September 20, 2014 14:35 IST
doordarshan s news anchor sacked for pronouncing xi jinping
doordarshan s news anchor sacked for pronouncing xi jinping s name as eleven jinping

New Delhi: A Doordarshan anchor was sacked for wrongly pronouncing Chinese President Xi Jinping's  name as "Eleven Jinping" yesterday.

India's state broadcaster Doordarshan's anchor had mistaken the word Xi for the Roman numeral XI (eleven).

The bulletin went on air at 6.15 a.m. on Wednesday and she was sacked in the afternoon.

Doordarshan's chief executive Jawahar Sircar said later on  that steps had been taken to avoid repetition of such instances in future.

"We've taken action plus upgrading systems," Sircar tweeted.

The official said a shortage of news readers had forced the channel to run some news bulletins with casual and inexperienced anchors.

Chinese President Xi Jinping was on a 3 day visit to  India and he left home on Friday.

Jinping was here to boost trade and economic ties and to improve the Indo-China bielateral realations.

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