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Topic: Telegram

What’s in a WhatsApp username? Privacy, fraud fears & govt’s power over apps

The government’s notices to WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal over their username features have become the biggest test yet of privacy versus Delhi’s power over apps. One app ‘complied’ even without a notice.

Former Andhra CM Jagan Reddy’s MaViGun capital pitch is irresponsible politics

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Rajasthan teen arrested for selling fake AI-generated NEET papers on Telegram through a VPN

A 19-year-old Air Force aspirant allegedly created fake NEET papers using AI tools and sold them through a Telegram channel, charging students Rs 4,000 per paper.

Telegram architecture conducive to amplification of content—why HC upheld ban for NEET retest

Centre had said Telegram enabled automated bots, concealed user identities, allowed large-scale file sharing, self-destructing messages, and let users alter content posting dates.

Telegram ban upheld: Govt told HC it sent 35 compliance requests, CEO’s X post ‘corroborated misuse’

On Friday, Delhi HC dismissed Telegram's challenge to the temporary blocking, saying that the measure was the 'least restrictive available and met the test of proportionality.'

Gagging Telegram is easier than creating a leakproof exam system

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Delhi High Court upholds govt block on Telegram ahead of NEET re-exam, says measure ‘least restrictive’

Messaging platform’s challenge on ground of non-supply of reasons cannot be sustained, court said, adding that govt order did not suffer from ‘non-application of mind’.

India’s Telegram ban: What CEO Pavel Durov said on Reliance, Meta & Modi govt’s move

New Delhi: Hours after India banned Telegram Tuesday, the Dubai-headquartered messaging app's founder and CEO Pavel Durov accused one of the country's largest corporations...

Fake papers, Telegram & stolen logins: How fraudsters use tech to make a killing out of NEET anxiety

On Tuesday, the Centre restricted access to Telegram in India until 22 June keeping the NEET re-exam in mind.

Teen cyber whiz who hacked CBSE & IIT-Kanpur director who hired him spar over Telegram ban

It started with Nisarga Adhikary saying that banning Telegram cannot stop paper leaks. CBSE whistleblower Sarthak Sidhant also entered the chat.

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Gujarat tops NITI Aayog’s first Investment Friendliness Index, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu follow

The report evaluates 28 states and 8 UTs on 84 indicators across eight pillars, with Niti Aayog pitching it as a reform tool rather than just a ranking exercise.

DIA effect: Canada steams ahead with TKMS for new submarines, India’s P 75I still in works

Ottawa has handed over execution functions of critical defence projects to a CEO-led organisation for reducing procurement timelines and making it solely accountable for outcomes.

BJP’s push for one-party state has a flip side. It could be Congress’s chance for revival

Even if it’s a municipal election someplace where the Congress is a cipher, you will find BJP targeting it. It’s an acknowledgement that Modi sees Congress, however battered, as his only likely challenger.