The Ministry of Home Affairs has recommended a ban on 54 Chinese mobile applications, including the popular game Free Fire. Interestingly, Free Fire is Singapore-based and the developer is not from China. The game was one of the most downloaded games in India last year and had taken up the space created by PUBG Mobile after it was banned in September 2020. The app was already removed from the Google Play Store and App Store in India, as indianexpress.com had reported Sunday.
In 2020, the government had also banned TikTok and other popular short video apps from China. According to PTI, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will formally issue a notification banning the operations of these apps in India.
When TikTok was banned on June 29, 2020, the list included around 59 apps in total. Other popular apps on the list we share it, Shan (the fashion website and app), Xiaomi Mi Community, Clash of Kings, Weibo, Like, etc.
Banned these apps under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, which states that the government has the “Power to issue directions for interception or monitoring or decryption of any information through any computer resource.” This is usually when the government is “satisfied that it is necessary or expedient to do in the interest of the sovereignty or integrity of India, defense of India, security of the State, friendly relations with foreign states or public order or for preventing incitement to the commission of any cognizable offense relating to above or for investigation of any offense.”
For TikTok and PUBG, the government had said that these were being banned “in view of the emergent nature of threats” as “they are engaged in activities which are prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defense of India, security of the state and public order.” PUBG was banned in September 2020, along with 117 other apps. The third list of banned apps came out in November 2020, which included a total of 43 apps. AliExpress was the most prominent name in that particular list.
The full list of 54 blocked Chinese apps is provided below:
1 Beauty Camera: Sweet Selfie HD
2 Beauty Camera – Selfie Camera
3 Equalizer – Bass Booster & Volume EQ & Virtualize
4 Music Player - Music. Mp3 Player
5 Equalizer & Bass Booster – Music Volume EQ
6 Music Plus – MP3 Player
7 Equalizer Pro – Volume Booster & Bass Booster
8 Video Player Media All Format
9 Music Player – Equalizer & MP3
10 Volume Booster – Loud Speaker & Sound Booster
11 Music Player – MP3 Player
12 Cam Card for Salesforce ENT
13 Island 2: Ashes of Time Lite
14 Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade
IS A PUS Security HD (Pad Version)
16 Parallel Space Lite 32 Support
17 Viva Video Editor – Snack Video Maker with Music
18 Nice video Baidu
19 Tencent X river
20 Emoji Chess
21 Emoji Arena
22 App Lock
23 Dual Space Lite – Multiple Accounts & Clone App
24 Dual Space Pro – Multiple Accounts & App Cloner
25 Dual Space Lite – 32Bit Support
26 Dual Space – 32Bit Support
27 Dual Space – 64Bit Support
28 Dual Space Pro – 32Bit Support
29 Conquer Online – MMORPG Game
30 Conquer Online I
31 Live Weather & Radar – Alerts
32 Notes - Color Notepad, Notebook
33 MP3 Cutter – Ringtone Maker & Audio Cutter
34 Voice Recorder & Voice Changer
35 Barcode Scanner – QR Code Scan
36 Lice Cam – selfie camera app
37 Eves Echoes
38 Asha craft
39 Game Booster-network solution for high ping
40 Extraordinary Ones
41 Bad landers
42 Stick Fight: The Game Mobile
43 Twilight Pioneers
44 cute: Match With The World
45 Small World-Enjoy group chat and video chat
46 cute Pro
47 Fancy – Video Chat & Meetup
48 Real: Go Live. Make Friends
49 Moon chat: Enjoy Video Chats
50 Real-Lite -video to live!
51 Wink: Connect Now
52 Fun chat Meet People Around You
53 fancy pro – Instant Meetup through Video chat!
54 Free Fire – Illuminate
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