Because unlike China, India doesn't have the media on their payroll via vacation junkets to China and ads in newspapers. Plus China has the entertainment complex's nuts in a vice and can threaten to keep their movies and TV shows out of China. So the byline reporters are told to tote the line, and like the organ grinder monkeys they are, they clamp and dance accordingly.
Yes, but the internet sees all. This will be brought into the light eventually.