The Kargil War
Immediately after the Kargil War in 1999, the website of Dawn Newspaper was blocked from access within India by Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited, a government-owned telecommunications company which at the time had monopoly control of the international internet gateways in India. Rediff, a media news website, claimed that the ban was instigated by the Indian government, and then published detailed instructions as to how one could bypass the filter and view the site .
Yahoo Groups ban, Sep 2003
Kynhun, a Yahoo group linked to the "Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council" (an illegal, minor separatist group from Meghalaya), which discussed the case of the Khasi tribe was banned. The Department of Telecommunications asked Indian ISPs to block the group, but difficulties led to all Yahoo groups being banned for approximately two weeks.
July 2006 Incident
A similar incident occurred when the Indian government ordered the blocking of 17 websites on the 1st of July 2006. The actual order did not ask for blogspot.com, typepad.com or geocities.com to be blocked. The inability of Indian ISPs to block specified sub-domains led to popular websites, including blogspot.com, typepad.com & geocities.com being temporarily blocked.
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