Television major Balaji Telefilms is unfazed by the flak it has invited by planning to go ahead with its "inspired" version of the Aarushi Talwar murder case on their daily soap Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki. It claims any resemblance with the slain teenager is "purely coincidental".

Balaji Telefilms has said it will not step back from depicting an "inspired" version of the Aarushi Talwar murder case on their daily soap Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki.

Afghanistan government has ordered private TV stations in the war-ravaged country to stop broadcasting popular Indian soap operas by April 15, a move that apparently reflected the growing influence of hardliners who criticised the serials as being "un-Islamic".