BLOCKING OF WEBSITE

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The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued the orders for blocking of the website "Groups.yahoo.com/groups/kynhun" as per the instructions of Indian Computer Emergency Response Team, (CERT-In) under Department of Information Technology (DiT) who are duly authorized for this purpose vide Gazette Notification Extraordinary No. GSR 181 (E) dated 27.02.2003 & No. G.S.R. 529 (E) dated 07.07.2003. The said website was found to be promoting anti-national news and containing material against Government of India & State Government of Meghalaya.

This is the first time that a website has been blocked under CERT since it came into being in July this year.

The representatives of Yahoo in India were requested to remove the objectionable material from the reference, however they declined to comply with the request.