{"id":1015154,"date":"2026-06-17T10:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015154"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T05:12:33","slug":"telegram-ceo-criticises-restrictions-on-platform-ahead-of-neet-ug-test-says-punishes-150m-users-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/telegram-ceo-criticises-restrictions-on-platform-ahead-of-neet-ug-test-says-punishes-150m-users-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram CEO criticises restrictions on platform ahead of NEET-UG test, says &#8220;punishes 150M+ users in India&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai [UAE], June 16 (ANI): Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Tuesday criticised India&#8217;s temporary restriction on the messaging platform ahead of the NEET-UG test, claiming it unfairly affects millions of users. <\/p>\n<p>He claimed that India&#8217;s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because &#8220;some users shared leaked exam questions&#8221; and that &#8220;leaks have moved to other apps&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai [UAE], June 16 (ANI): Telegram CEO Pavel Durov on Tuesday criticised India&#8217;s temporary restriction on the messaging platform ahead of the NEET-UG test, claiming it unfairly affects millions of users. He claimed that India&#8217;s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because &#8220;some users shared leaked exam questions&#8221; and that &#8220;leaks have moved to other apps&#8221;.<\/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-1015154","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\/1015154","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=1015154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015167,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015154\/revisions\/1015167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}