118 mobile apps including PUBG banned in India, Modi govt. third Digital Strike

Indian government has taken another important decision on Wednesday amid the long-running tension between the India-China border. The government has banned 118 mobile apps, including the worldwide popular gaming app PUBG, making a third ‘digital strike’ on China. Even before this, the government has made the app of many Chinese companies.

Giving information about the banning of apps, the IT Ministry said, ‘Ministry of Information and Technology, Government of India has implemented this decision under Section 69-A of the Information Technology Act.

All these 118 mobile apps were creating different types of threats, due to which they have been blocked. ‘ The Ministry further said that in view of the available information, these apps are engaged in such activities, which are detrimental to India’s sovereignty and integrity, security.

The 118 mobile apps the government has banned include APUS Launcher Pro Theme, APUS Security-Antivirus, APUS Turbo Cleaner 2020, Shaomi’s Share Save, FaceU, Cut Cut, Baidu, CamCard. Apart from this, apps like WeChat Reading, Pitu, In Note, Small Q Brush, Cyber ​​Hunter, Life After are also included.

First of all, in late June, the Indian government, taking action against China, banned 59 Chinese Chinese mobile apps. These apps included apps such as TicTok, Share It, UC Browser, Hello, Vigo. Subsequently, in the following month, the government banned 47 more Chinese mobile apps. Thus, before the decision taken on Wednesday, the government had banned 106 Chinese apps.