A big digital strike on China by the centre, a list of 118 Chinese apps have been banned in the country. On 3 September, 2020 The ministry of electronics and IT issued orders to ban 118 more Chinese apps. The PUBG game has been banned alongside apps like CamCard, Baidu, Cut Cut, VooV, Tencent Weiyun, Rise of Kingdoms, Zakzak and many more. It was reported last month that the government has prepared a list of 245 more Chinese apps which could be banned on concerns of data security. + + +Earlier, India banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, CamScanner and many more. Soon after, the government also banned another 47 apps in the country. Over 275 Chinese apps had been under scrutiny under the violation of national security and citizens privacy. Till now approx to 224 apps have been banned by Indian government. + + +Reason for this was given by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, who has received many complaints and various issues reported regarding misuse of some mobile applications available on on Android, and iOS platform for stealing and transmitting data of users which have locations outside India. They termed the decisions '' a targeted move to ensure Safety , Security and Sovereignty of Indian Cyberspace.'' + + +PUBG, the most sensational game of youth and which has the largest subscriber base in India. As a incident can justify it truly, When a mother complained in front of PM Narendra Modi about his son, who was badly in addiction of online gaming during the "Prakisha pe Charcha" event and PM Modi replied her by saying 'yeh pub g wale hai kya' (does she meant to say pub g). This completely gives a virtual vision on PUBG a youth love. + + +The parent company, Tencent engrosses a huge loss because of the ban as PUBG Mobile has millions of downloads and active users in India. The Indian government has also banned the PUBG Lite app available on Google Play store. Meanwhile, the desktop version of PUBG is still available in the country. + + +In this ongoing conflict between India China border, Chinese troops were again noticed doing unfair attempts on 29th and 30th August night. India China relations have enter a new critical phase, following fresh conflict along the border in Ladakh. Even after multiple round of high level military talks which fail to standoff and banning of applications due to privacy issue.
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