Mohsin Khan

தமிழன் / Tamizhan / Entrepreneur - Tamil Nadu 🇮🇳 / Sharjah 🇦🇪 (கூத்தாநல்லூர் சேர்ந்த ஒரு பையன் திருவாரூர் மாவட்டத்தில் உள்ள ஒரு நகரம்) #DravidianStock

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Two more students, Suhani and Avantika, have taken their lives.

Thirteen young lives have now been lost because of the incompetence of one minister. Thirteen families shattered, yet the system is focused only on evading accountability.

These are not personal tragedies. These are deaths caused by institutional failure.

For millions of students from lower and middle-class families in this country, medicine and engineering remain one of the few pathways out of poverty, socio-economic mobility, towards a better life for themselves and their families. Parents spend their life savings on these exams. Students dedicate years of their lives for these exams.

But then, the state has turned exams of such importance into a hub of corruption, leaking papers and selling seats. This is not administrative mismanagement. It goes far beyond that. It is the organised destruction of the hopes and dreams of millions of students who cannot buy their way through the system.

Do we want to continue breaking our young people like this, again and again?

[RT @RT_com]

I can't criticize Israel but they can shoot babies — Bill Burr

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: In this season of political splits and mergers, the Supreme Court’s questionable role has largely escaped scrutiny.
1) The SC is yet to deliver a final ruling on the Shiv Sena (UBT) appeal filed in January 2024 challenging the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker’s decision on the party split. That’s 30 months, four CJIs and counting.
2) The SC is also yet to rule on a petition filed by Goa Congress leader Girish Chodankar in March 2022 challenging a Bombay High Court order related to defections. More than four years have passed.

When the history of this period is written, the Supreme Court’s performance as a constitutional guardian must come under serious examination.🙏

[Dr. Anbil Mahesh @Anbil_Mahesh]

From Govt Model Schools to Hungary! 🇭🇺 For the first time, students have won fully-funded scholarships for 3.5-year UG degrees. Incredible achievement! 👏

திருப்பூர் மாவட்ட மாதிரிப் பள்ளி மாணவர்கள் இருவர், ஹங்கேரி நாட்டின் மதிப்புமிக்க 'Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship' முழு நிதியுதவியுடன் கூடிய இளங்கலை(UG) படிப்பிற்குத் தேர்வாகி சாதனை படைத்துள்ளனர்! 🎓✨

🎉 ஹரிஹரன் – Vehicle Engineering (University of John Von Neumann)
🎉 உம்மு மஜிதா – Mechatronical Engineering (University of Debrecen)

நமது மாணவர்களின் சர்வதேச கல்விப் பயணத்திற்கு வாழ்த்துகள்! 💐👏

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

5th suicide in the last 48 hours!

If Dharmendra Pradhan has any shame left, he should resign immediately!

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Another NEET aspirant commits suicide in Tamil Nadu.

When will the PM sack the Education Minister?

Is one incompetent minister more important than students?

[The Wire @thewire_in]

The Wall Street Journal's report focuses on whether politically connected figures close to Trump became involved in efforts to have the prosecution against the billionaire businessman abandoned.
https://t.co/3ZGz5MNsWA

[Akilan Palanimuthu @akilan16]

"Naan Mudhalvan" renamed as TN Skill Corporation. This is unacceptable & done out of political vendetta by TVK

The most successful scheme of DMK govt which trained 41 lakh students & ensured 70000 job placements till 2024 especially 100 + UPSC jobs till 2025

Will he change the title of "Amma Canteens"?? Can he restore Chennai Central's name?? Can TVK demolish overbridges constructed by DMK across Chennai??

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Telegram CEO Alleges Reliance Lobbying Role Behind Temporary Block, Moves HC

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has said that the ban is part of a 'competitive war' linked to Meta's stake in the company.

https://t.co/Qbi9YKeahX

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

@KartiPC @NTA_Exams You should also shut down all the shopping malls since there might be a theft in one of them. And close the roads because I heard someone was speeding.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

While the BJP and its leaders were busy poaching Shiv Sena MPs, two more NEET aspirants have committed suicide today.

This shows that they don’t care about your kids; they only care about grabbing more power.

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

12 years ago Modiji said 'be ready for tougher days'
After 12 years he's saying the same thing!

[ParanjoyGuhaThakurta @paranjoygt]

ADANI’S AMERICAN ESCAPE: How a USA case ended in a deal, and why India's silence is the bigger scandal - a long read https://t.co/ZRAO17IcDV

[Reuters @Reuters]

Telegram founder Durov says India has 'punished' more than 150 million people by banning Telegram https://t.co/Y5kWzXKh3G https://t.co/Y5kWzXKh3G

[Deccan Herald @DeccanHerald]

'India punished more than 150 million people': Telegram founder Pavel Durov slams ban on messenger app https://t.co/izO0jmWSm9

[Deccan Herald @DeccanHerald]

Political row reignites as Savarkar's grandnephew admits freedom fighter filed 10 mercy petitions https://t.co/F7zlZeoZJI

[Puram @puram_politics]

Gujarat having a higher rate of stunting compared to Jharkhand is the story we should all be talking about. A failure in basic governance for a rich state.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions.

This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials.

And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps.

[The Wire @thewire_in]

'Savarkar Filed 10 Mercy Petitions Before British Govt, Other Revolutionaries Didn't': Grandnephew Tells Court

Satyaki Savarkar told the court that it is true to say that, Savarkar filed a mercy petition within the first month after being sentenced.

https://t.co/y2yBDcPFOi

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud

The Internet Freedom Foundation objects to the directions announced today in the National Testing Agency's press release on action against the Telegram platform. On the NTA's recommendation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricted access to the whole of Telegram in India until 22 June 2026, and has separately ordered the platform to switch off message-editing for every Indian user until 30 June 2026. This is a blunt, nationwide measure aimed at the conduct of rampant fraud rackets, and on the Government's own admission is constitutionally incompatible.

At the outset it is important to note that Section 69A and the Blocking Rules of 2009 framed under it allow the Government to block access to specific “information” on a computer resource. They do not extend to switching off an entire intermediary, still less to ordering a company to redesign its product by removing a feature for a whole country. In Shreya Singhal v Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A because it is narrow and hedged with procedural safeguards. Reading it to authorise shutting down a platform that lakhs use is an overbroad restriction by the NTAs own admission. For the message-editing direction the release identifies no source of power at all. If one exists, the order must say so.

The release argues against itself

A restriction on access has to be the least intrusive measure that achieves its aim as per the constitutional test of proportionality laid down in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) and applied in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020). The NTA's own narration shows the block fails its nodal agency, the release says, “has secured the prompt take-down of a substantial number of Telegram channels, groups and bots”, and this targeted work “is the reason the harm caused by these rackets has been contained to the extent it has”. If channel level takedown contained the harm, the case for a blanket block collapses and hence the Government has reached for a heavier tool while conceding that a lighter one was working. The collateral cost sits on the record too as noted in the press release. The block, the NTA accepts, “affects lakhs of citizens who use the Telegram platform for legitimate personal, educational, professional and informational purposes”. The release also says there is "no such paper available outside the secured examination chain" and that “the security of the examination is unaffected by the action taken”. If the exam is secure and no leak exists, what is being suppressed is rumour, and rumour cannot justify closing a platform when specific blocking and criminal prosecution remain available.

Students use of Telegram

The block of telegram is reactive and ineffective and will punish ordinary users instead of addressing the systemic source of exam leaks. This blocking comes in the final days of NEET preparation, when thousands of students depend on Telegram for study groups, doubt-clearing, and shared resources. Also, it is important to consider that the source of exam papers leak will occur from inside the system, among insiders and across the printing and logistics chain, with the platform being the most downstream channel for distribution. Hence, switching off Telegram, is merely a deflection from the repeated failures that will continue while media attention is directed towards this Telegram ban.

Lack of transparency

At present only a press release from the NTA has been provided, which recommended the block but the reasoned order of MeitY, the authority that issued it, has not been released. The Anuradha Bhasin decision requires that orders restricting access be published so they can be tested in court. Here the order, and the reasoning of the committee behind it, stay out of view, and we do not know whether Telegram was heard at all. An announcement of a block is no substitute for an order the affected party can challenge.
Blunt to enforce and very easy to evade
Usually, app-level blocks run through IS-level DNS and IP filtering. They are over inclusive, sweeping in lawful use, yet simple to evade as a determined exam leak racket moves to a VPN or a mirror within minutes while ordinary users lose the service for a week.

We ask the Government to:

1) Publish the MeitY Section 69A order and the NTA recommendation behind it, with reasons;
2) State the legal basis for the message editing direction, or withdraw it;
3) Confirm whether Telegram was given a hearing under the Blocking Rules, and place the committee's record before any court that hears a challenge; and
4) Lift the platform-wide restriction and rely on the targeted takedowns the NTA itself credits with containing the harm.

We emphasise that the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination is worth protecting and it concerns the future of lakhs of aspirants. It requires securing the entire process of examination rather than reaching for purported band aid solutions that instead cause more harm. The State cannot switch off a service used by lakhs to answer the wrongdoing of a few, and cannot do it through an order no one affected is allowed to read. On its own facts, the Government has done both.

New Delhi, 16 June 2026.