India's state-run media bureau faces online ridicule over Modi's photoshopped image

India's state-run Press Information Bureau has become the subject of online ridicule after it tweeted an edited image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi surveying Chennai.

Modi was in the southern Indian city Wednesday to take stock of the flood situation there, after it bore the brunt of the worst rains in the past 100 years.

Initially, the bureau tweeted a photo of the prime minister making an aerial survey of Chennai and looking through the window of a plane.

But hours later, it tweeted the same image again, but with an amended photo, showing a far image crudely pasted on to the plane's window.

As netizens took to social media to mock the photoshoped image, the second tweet was deleted. But, the PIB has made no public comment yet. Endit