As of February 2024, India experienced four instances of internet shutdowns that lasted over three days. In fact, the south Asian country created history by imposing the longest running internet shutdown at over 197 days. The complete internet blackout in Jammu and Kashmir in India was imposed on August 4, 2019 and was only partially lifted in certain parts of the region on December 27, 2019.
Number of internet shutdowns lasting over 72 hours across India from 2015 to 2024
The source defines an internet shutdown as a government-imposed disablement of access to the Internet as a whole within a particular locality or localities for any duration of time.
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