{"id":1015241,"date":"2026-06-17T12:25:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T06:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015241"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:35:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T07:05:27","slug":"last-resort-telegram-blocked-ahead-of-neet-retest-centre-cites-changing-ip-address-editing-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/last-resort-telegram-blocked-ahead-of-neet-retest-centre-cites-changing-ip-address-editing-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Last resort\u2019: Telegram blocked ahead of NEET retest; Centre cites changing IP address, editing feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has blocked Telegram across India until June 22 and ordered the platform to disable its message-editing feature until June 30 \u2014 two separate interventions on NTA\u2019s recommendations, the first to disrupt organised fraud ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination on June 21, the second to prevent the retroactive fabrication of paper-leak evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The editing-feature restriction addresses a technique NTA, in a statement describing the orders, said had been used to manufacture false proof of advance leaks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre has blocked Telegram across India until June 22 and ordered the platform to disable its message-editing feature until June 30 \u2014 two separate interventions on NTA\u2019s recommendations, the first to disrupt organised fraud ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination on June 21, the second to prevent the retroactive fabrication of paper-leak evidence. The editing-feature restriction addresses a technique NTA, in a statement describing the orders, said had been used to manufacture false proof of advance leaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015241","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015242,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015241\/revisions\/1015242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}