{"id":1019898,"date":"2026-07-10T09:28:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T03:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019898"},"modified":"2026-07-10T09:43:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T04:13:28","slug":"sikkim-activist-urges-action-after-x-allegedly-labels-gangtok-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/10\/sikkim-activist-urges-action-after-x-allegedly-labels-gangtok-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Sikkim activist urges action after X allegedly labels Gangtok in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: A social activist in Sikkim has urged the state government to ask the social media platform X to correct an anomaly that allegedly lists Gangtok as being in China rather than India. <\/p>\n<p>In a representation to the Home Department, activist Muk Hang Limboo said X displays the state capital as &#8220;Gangtok, Xinjiang&#8221; instead of &#8220;Gangtok, Sikkim, India&#8221; when users select a location for posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUWAHATI: A social activist in Sikkim has urged the state government to ask the social media platform X to correct an anomaly that allegedly lists Gangtok as being in China rather than India. In a representation to the Home Department, activist Muk Hang Limboo said X displays the state capital as &#8220;Gangtok, Xinjiang&#8221; instead of &#8220;Gangtok, Sikkim, India&#8221; when users select a location for posts.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019898","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=1019898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019911,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019898\/revisions\/1019911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}