{"id":1016717,"date":"2026-06-24T10:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016717"},"modified":"2026-06-24T10:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T05:27:32","slug":"google-restores-telegram-app-for-android-users-in-india-after-temporary-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/google-restores-telegram-app-for-android-users-in-india-after-temporary-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Google restores Telegram app for Android users in India after temporary ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reinstated Telegram on the Play Store in India after the messaging app was briefly banned. The government has blocked access to Telegram until June 22, with the centre acting against cheating rackets that were using the messaging platform to defraud students ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) ordered the restriction under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, moving on recommendations from the National Testing Agency (NTA) days before lakhs of medical aspirants sit the re-test on June 21.<\/p>\n<p>The removal of the app created a lot of confusion among the users as many of them were not able to either update or download the app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has reinstated Telegram on the Play Store in India after the messaging app was briefly banned. The government has blocked access to Telegram until June 22, with the centre acting against cheating rackets that were using the messaging platform to defraud students ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) ordered the restriction under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, moving on recommendations from the National Testing Agency (NTA) days before lakhs of medical aspirants sit the re-test on June 21. The removal of the app created a lot of confusion [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016717","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=1016717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016718,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016717\/revisions\/1016718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}