Curtains fall for India's Telegram service

Ab Telegram Nahi Ayega, News Nation Har Khabar Pahunchayega

News Nation Bureau | Updated : 15 July 2013, 05:19:18 PM

News Nation enters Limca Book of World Records; sends 400 telegrams in a day.

People turned up at telegraph centres for the last time on Sunday.

Telegram services finally closes down.

Officials working without electricity to send the telegrams on the final night.

News Nation sends 400 telegrams on the last day of the services.

Telegram sent to Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi on Sunday.

Telegram is dead.

BSNL had decided to discontinue telegrams following a huge shortfall in revenue.