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Active Incident

Internet outage in India

India · March 15, 2026 · 10 hours

IODA detected significant connectivity drop in India. 4 critical alerts recorded. CenAlert confirms censorship activity.

Evidence

25%
Anomaly Rate
4
Measurements
67%
Confidence

What This Means

25% of tests showed anomalies, above the typical 1-3% baseline. This suggests potential network interference.

How We Detected This

Data Sourceioda + censoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score67% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeMarch 15, 2026

Corroborating Evidence (26)

Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.

IODAInternet Outage Detection & Analysis4 records
outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Manipur"IODA report
Signal value: 0.30
Mar 15, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Manipur"IODA report
Signal value: 0.23
Mar 15, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sikkim"IODA report
Signal value: 0.21
Mar 15, 2026
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outage
"IODA detected critical level outage for Sikkim"IODA report
Signal value: 0.24
Mar 15, 2026
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Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research22 records
dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 92/92 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com"Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 15, 2026
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dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 96/96 probes anomalous (100.0%) for binance.com"Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 15, 2026
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dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 94/94 probes anomalous (100.0%) for facebook.com"Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 15, 2026
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dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 92/92 probes anomalous (100.0%) for getlantern.org"Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 15, 2026
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dns-blocking
"DNS blocking detected: 81/81 probes anomalous (100.0%) for google.com"Censored Planet report
Signal value: 1.00
Mar 15, 2026
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+ 17 more Censored Planet records

Affected Services (17)

BBCFacebookInstagramLanternMediumNew York TimesProton VPNProtonVPNPsiphonSignalTelegramThe GuardianTikTokTwitter/XWhatsAppXYouTube

Blocked Domains (22)

What we cannot say

  • Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
  • Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
  • Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
  • The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
  • Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.

Cite This Incident

Voidly Research. (2026). Internet outage in India [IN-2026-0051]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/IN-2026-0051

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