{"id":1006790,"date":"2026-05-04T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T05:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006790"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T06:41:07","slug":"extremely-severe-alerts-as-emergency-system-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/04\/extremely-severe-alerts-as-emergency-system-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Extremely severe alerts&#8217; as emergency system tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Friday tested its first indigenously made emergency alert system on mobile phones, triggering a sharp beeping sound, vibrations, and a warning message for a few seconds across parts of the country. <\/p>\n<p>The alert left many people confused, with some initially mistaking it for a fire alarm or a technical glitch. However, on reading the message, users realised it was part of a government test. The alert read: \u201cAlert citizens, safe nation. No action is required by the public upon receipt of this message.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: India on Friday tested its first indigenously made emergency alert system on mobile phones, triggering a sharp beeping sound, vibrations, and a warning message for a few seconds across parts of the country. The alert left many people confused, with some initially mistaking it for a fire alarm or a technical glitch. However, on reading the message, users realised it was part of a government test. The alert read: \u201cAlert citizens, safe nation. No action is required by the public upon receipt of this message.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006801,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006790\/revisions\/1006801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}