TikTok, Mobile Legends, UC Browser, and 56 other Chinese apps permanently banned in India

• TikTok, ShareIT, UC Browser, and several other Chinese-origin apps have been permanently banned in India
• The Indian government says that it was 'unsatisfied' with the response provided by the apps' developers
• PUBG Mobile was not on the initial list of apps, so there is a chance that the game will be launched in India at a later date

The Indian government has permanently banned 59 Chinese-origin apps that include big names such as TikTok, WeChat, ShateIT, UC Browser, and more. The decision comes several months after their initial ban in June 2020. It appears that The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) was not satisfied with the response given by developers of said apps regarding their data protection laws. We reported earlier that TikTok's developers ByteDance was one of the first to respond to said notice, and that the government was 'satisfied' with its response. There is still a possibility of some, if not all, apps being unbanned at a later date, but the prospects of that seem somewhat dim.