Reuters' X Account Restored In India, Centre Denies Any Role

New Delhi: After nearly 24 hours of restricted access, the official X account of international news agency Reuters has been restored in India. The account was withheld citing a “legal demand,”.

Reuters' X Account Unblocked In India 

The government denied any involvement in this matter. Centre clarified this morning saying it did not ask for the account to be withheld and continuously working with X to resolve the problem. 

"There is no requirement from the Government of India to withhold Reuters, and we are continuously working with X to resolve the problem," said the spokesperson..

Officials further stated that they are working with X to resolve the issue.

News agency Reuters' X account was blocked in India on Saturday, July 5. 

Reuters has not issued any statement regarding the blocking of Reuters’ X account in India, leaving questions behind. 

In a recent development, the official spokesperson for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology says, "The government has not issued any fresh blocking order on 3rd July, 2025, and has no intention to block any prominent international news channels, including Reuters and Reuters World. The moment Reuters and Reuters World were blocked on the X platform in India, immediately the government wrote to ‘X’ to unblock them. The government continuously engaged and vigorously pursued with ‘X’ from the late night of 5th July 2025. ‘X’ has unnecessarily exploited technicalities involved in the process and didn’t unblock the URLs. However, after a lot of follow-ups on an hourly basis, X has finally unblocked Reuters and other URLs after 9 pm on 6th July 2025. They took more than 21 hours to unblock Reuters."