The ban was imposed after receiving complaints from various sources including several reports about the misuse of some mobile apps, said Indian Ministry
The Indian government on Wednesday, September 2 announced a ban on PUBG Mobile, a widely popular game in the country, as well as hundreds of other Chinese apps amid India-China border tension that escalated after a fresh confrontation with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China was reported in Ladakh. Recently, in the U. S. too, the Trump administration announced moved similar restrictions on Chinese-owned social media platforms Tik Tok and WeChat. Unlike India, where the government banned all concerning Chinese apps including Tik Tok, the executive order by the U. S. government bars these apps from doing business in the country or with U. S. persons or businesses after September 20, and need divestiture of the Tik Tok app by November 12. India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said it had received many complaints about the misuse of some Chinese mobile apps on Android, as well as on iOS platforms for stealing and secretively transmitting user data to servers outside the country.
