{"id":1015137,"date":"2026-06-17T09:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015137"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:57:29","slug":"government-blocks-telegram-till-june-22-amid-neet-ug-re-test-cheating-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/government-blocks-telegram-till-june-22-amid-neet-ug-re-test-cheating-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Government blocks Telegram till June 22 amid NEET-UG re-test cheating concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Government has temporarily restricted access to Telegram in India until June 22 following concerns that the messaging platform was being used by cheating networks linked to the NEET-UG examination. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities are closely monitoring online activities after reports emerged that question papers and exam-related information were allegedly being circulated through Telegram groups. <\/p>\n<p>The action comes as officials intensify efforts to ensure transparency and fairness in the NEET-UG re-test process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Government has temporarily restricted access to Telegram in India until June 22 following concerns that the messaging platform was being used by cheating networks linked to the NEET-UG examination. Authorities are closely monitoring online activities after reports emerged that question papers and exam-related information were allegedly being circulated through Telegram groups. The action comes as officials intensify efforts to ensure transparency and fairness in the NEET-UG re-test process.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015137","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=1015137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015147,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015137\/revisions\/1015147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}