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India bans 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok

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India has banned 59, mostly Chinese, mobile apps including Bytedance’s TikTok, Alibaba’s UC Browser, and Tencent’s WeChat citing security concerns, the government said in a statement on Monday.


The apps are “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, the security of the state and public order”, the ministry of information technology said.


The ban comes after a deadly border conflict between the two nuclear-armed nations earlier this month in which 20 Indian soldiers have died. Reuters


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