{"id":1015075,"date":"2026-06-17T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015075"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:04:48","slug":"why-did-centre-ban-telegram-ahead-of-neet-re-exam-nta-chief-abhishek-singh-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/why-did-centre-ban-telegram-ahead-of-neet-re-exam-nta-chief-abhishek-singh-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Centre ban Telegram ahead of NEET re-exam? NTA chief Abhishek Singh explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General Abhishek Singh on Tuesday defended the Centre\u2019s decision to temporarily restrict access to Telegram in India ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, saying the government had \u201cno option\u201d but to act against fraudsters who were using the platform to sell fake question papers and mislead students. <\/p>\n<p>The restriction comes ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination scheduled for June 21. More than 22 lakh students are expected to appear for the medical entrance test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Testing Agency (NTA) Director General Abhishek Singh on Tuesday defended the Centre\u2019s decision to temporarily restrict access to Telegram in India ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination, saying the government had \u201cno option\u201d but to act against fraudsters who were using the platform to sell fake question papers and mislead students. The restriction comes ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination scheduled for June 21. More than 22 lakh students are expected to appear for the medical entrance test.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015075","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=1015075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015082,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015075\/revisions\/1015082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}