1999: Post the Kargil War, the website of Pakistani daily newspaper Dawn was banned from access within India by VSNL which was then a government-owned telecommunications company.

September 2003: The government asked all ISPs to block Yahoo! Groups webpage of a Khasi militant group called the Hynniewtrep National Liberation Council. Eventually all Yahoo! Groups were blocked for about two weeks affecting thousands of users.

July 2006: Some 26-odd websites were blocked by the government. These included some hosted on the Geocities, Blogspot and Typepad domains. Access was restored in about a week‘s time after widespread online protests.