Telegram blocked in India till June 22 for NEET

[Sushubh]

Centre blocks Telegram app access till June 22 over NEET security concerns

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has issued directions, restricting Telegram app's access in India until June 22, 2026, ahead of the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination on June 21.

indianexpress.com

Crazy incompetence on display at the highest level.

 

[Kyle Crane]

Tomorrow they will say

"Online scams take place on the Internet, lets cut sub sea cables"

 

[Sushubh]

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[Kaiju404]

Interesting times

 

[Navjot Singh]

The Ministry has also directed the platform to disable its message-editing feature in India until June 30th, 2026.

 

[Sushubh]

Minister says edited messages don't show that they have been edited. That's not true for official apps. Third party apps might. But lame excuse.

Plus editing is only allowed for a limited time. 48 hours iirc.

 

[Sushubh]

Durov on India


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Durov on UK


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[jehunix]

airtel is implementing telegram block via dns response policy zones (rpz) which a server-side override that hijacks resolution of banned domains, returning a spoofed cname (restricted.rpz.airtelspam.com) instead of the legitimate a record. no bgp-level route filtering, no ip null-routing, no dpi but just poisoned dns. bypassed trivially by pointing your resolver to any third-party dns (cloudflare 1.1.1.1, quad9 or opendns).

telegram's dc ips remain fully reachable on tcp/443, as confirmed by a direct nc probe.

 

[jehunix]

also this is exactly why you should run your own router and not the isp provided one with a custom dns resolver or atleast some other dns server than what your isp provides.

your isp should never be in a position to manipulate your dns responses...

 

[sloj]

Telegram on phone was working fine while desktop app was trying to connect. Went to settings -> advanced -> connection type and selected 'try connecting through IPv6'.