{"id":1015149,"date":"2026-06-17T10:09:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015149"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:10:50","slug":"neet-fraud-crackdown-telegram-app-to-remain-banned-in-india-till-june-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/neet-fraud-crackdown-telegram-app-to-remain-banned-in-india-till-june-22\/","title":{"rendered":"NEET fraud crackdown: Telegram app to remain banned in India till June 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has restricted access to the Telegram platform in India till June 22 to protect the integrity of the re-test of NEET (UG) examinations on June 21. <\/p>\n<p>A direction requiring Telegram to disable in India and alongwith the message-editing feature \u2014 in respect of messages already posted \u2014 for a defined period ending June 30 has also been issued. The National Testing Agency (NTA) said it would address the specific structural feature through which the platform has been used to fabricate after-the-event \u201cpaper leak\u201d evidence in respect of national examinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has restricted access to the Telegram platform in India till June 22 to protect the integrity of the re-test of NEET (UG) examinations on June 21. A direction requiring Telegram to disable in India and alongwith the message-editing feature \u2014 in respect of messages already posted \u2014 for a defined period ending June 30 has also been issued. The National Testing Agency (NTA) said it would address the specific structural feature through which the platform has been used to fabricate after-the-event \u201cpaper leak\u201d evidence in respect of national examinations.<\/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":[4,92,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015149","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=1015149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015161,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015149\/revisions\/1015161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}