View: India needs to balance issues of national interest with 'free market' dynamics

What the Indian government also needs to factor in here is how local language entertainment drives the local app ecosystem, rather than have consumers falling prey to ‘hostile’ or, for that matter, ‘friendly’ foreign apps.

SynopsisThese 59 apps include popular ones like TikTok, WeChat, Weibo, UC Browser, SHAREit and CamScanner. Both Apple’s App Store and Google Play have already removed these apps from their platforms for the Indian cyberspace.

By Subimal BhattacharjeeOn June 29, the ministry of electronics and information technology (MEITY) announced the decision to block 59 smartphone applications, mostly of Chinese origin. The official

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Jun 30, 2020, 11:38 PM IST

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