Diplomatic fallout over "racial remarks" by TVNZ broadcaster Paul Henry are today front page news in Delhi's largest circulation newspaper, the Hindustan Times.
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully says he wants India to know that Paul Henry's on-air racial slur were the "gratuitous and insulting" actions of an individual.
A nationwide supermarket chain could pull its advertising with TVNZ's Breakfast show after host Paul Henry's on-air slur as the New Zealand High Commissioner in India has been forced to apologise for the broadcaster.
A TVNZ public relations manager has apologised to colleagues for her response to media after comments about the Governor-General's nationality by Breakfast host Paul Henry on Monday.
The Race Relations Commissioner had condemned TVNZ host Paul Henry's remarks that Prime Minister John Key should select a Governor-General who "looks and sounds more like a New Zealander".