{"id":26823,"date":"2026-06-21T10:12:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/?p=26823"},"modified":"2026-06-21T10:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:22:49","slug":"telegram-loses-bid-to-overturn-indias-temporary-blocking-of-the-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/?p=26823","title":{"rendered":"Telegram loses bid to overturn India&#8217;s temporary blocking of the app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" data-src=\"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26825 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 960px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 960\/640;aspect-ratio:1.500017464808411;width:480px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image.png 960w, https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/image-287x190.png 287w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Telegram on Friday lost its bid to \u200boverturn an Indian government order temporarily banning the messaging app, with a New Delhi court ruling that \u200cthe government&#8217;s actions, aimed at preserving the integrity of a key med school exam, were legal and reasonable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram on Friday lost its bid to \u200boverturn an Indian government order temporarily banning the messaging app, with a New Delhi court ruling that \u200cthe government&#8217;s actions, aimed at preserving the integrity of a key med school exam, were legal and reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tech"],"cubewp_post_meta":[],"taxonomies":["News","Tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26823"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26831,"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26823\/revisions\/26831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastlinkafrica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}