India, June 23 -- Telegram, the instant messaging app on which government imposed access restrictions ahead of the June 21 re-exam for medical entrance examination National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG), appears to remain blocked for some users in India who are still unable to send or receive messages even after the June 22 expiry date for the curbs.

The government, in an interim order issued on June 16 under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, directed Telegram and its associated URLs to be blocked across India till June 22, and ordered the platform to disable its message-editing feature till June 30.

While some users continued to experience access restrictions and some were able access the messaging ...