"Advertisements will not be stopped," Water Resources Minister Annapurna Devi said while speaking at a seminar "How far and how near are Government, Society and Media", organised by the Information and Public Relations Department here today.
Her assurance came after an editor of a Hindi daily, in his speech on the occasion, alleged that a previous government had stopped advertisements to the newspaper after a negative news was published.
"But news should be checked and re-checked (before publication), because it is the political leaders who face people," the minister added.