Hyderabad, June 23 -- Google and Apple restored Telegram on their respective platforms on Tuesday morning, June 23, as the government's week-long ban on the messaging platform came to an end, though a separate order disabling the app's message-editing feature remains in force until June 30.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had blocked Telegram on June 16 under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, on the recommendations of the National Testing Agency (NTA) and the Ministry of Home Affairs.

The ban came ahead of the NEET-UG 2026 re-examination held on June 21, after the platform was found to be systematically misused by cheating networks to circulate fabricated question papers and fraudulent content...