{"id":1015414,"date":"2026-06-18T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015414"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:56:22","slug":"telegram-challenges-centres-temporary-ban-in-delhi-high-court-ahead-of-neet-ug-re-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/18\/telegram-challenges-centres-temporary-ban-in-delhi-high-court-ahead-of-neet-ug-re-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram challenges Centre\u2019s temporary ban in Delhi High Court ahead of NEET-UG re-test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging platform Telegram has approached the Delhi High Court against the Centre\u2019s decision to temporarily block its services in India ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. <\/p>\n<p>The government imposed the restriction until June 22, citing concerns that the platform was being used by cheating networks and fraudsters to spread fake question papers and mislead students. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) reportedly issued the order under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act following recommendations from the National Testing Agency (NTA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messaging platform Telegram has approached the Delhi High Court against the Centre\u2019s decision to temporarily block its services in India ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. The government imposed the restriction until June 22, citing concerns that the platform was being used by cheating networks and fraudsters to spread fake question papers and mislead students. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) reportedly issued the order under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act following recommendations from the National Testing Agency (NTA).<\/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-1015414","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\/1015414","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=1015414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015427,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015414\/revisions\/1015427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}