{"id":1015122,"date":"2026-06-17T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015122"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:50:12","slug":"telegram-neet-plug-app-block-band-aid-solution-not-enough-to-curb-exam-fraud-say-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/telegram-neet-plug-app-block-band-aid-solution-not-enough-to-curb-exam-fraud-say-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram NEET plug: App block &#8216;band-aid solution&#8217;, not enough to curb exam fraud, say critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday blocked messaging app Telegram in India till June 22 amid rumours of paper leaks in the run-up to the June 21 NEET-UG medical entrance retest. <\/p>\n<p>The May 3 NEET, which 22 lakh students had taken, was cancelled following a paper leak, with some question setters in custody. <\/p>\n<p>Google has removed Telegram from Play Store in compliance with the government order. Apple is likely to follow suit, sources said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Tuesday blocked messaging app Telegram in India till June 22 amid rumours of paper leaks in the run-up to the June 21 NEET-UG medical entrance retest. The May 3 NEET, which 22 lakh students had taken, was cancelled following a paper leak, with some question setters in custody. Google has removed Telegram from Play Store in compliance with the government order. Apple is likely to follow suit, sources said.<\/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":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015122","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=1015122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015136,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015122\/revisions\/1015136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}