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Thursday, September 25, 2025
TopicIndia bans chinese apps

Topic: india bans chinese apps

Indian TikTok rivals flooded with CVs as China’s ByteDance fires hundreds amid ban

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
ByteDance is laying off India-based employees as the government shows no signs of lifting the ban imposed on its most popular apps TikTok and Helo last June.

These 3 Chinese apps are doing better than Indian platforms trying to replace TikTok

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Snack Video by Kuaishou Technology, Zili by Xiaomi, and ByteDance's Resso have seen a surge in downloads over the past few months since the govt banned over 200 Chinese apps.

SHAREit, Baidu Maps, CamScanner — at least 23 of banned Chinese apps still in use in India

Regina Mihindukulasuriya -
Though India banned 59 Chinese apps, and has now added 47 alternatives of them to the list, people in India have found ways to use many of these.

Kennedy dispatched planes to India in 1962. US must join ‘digital strike’ to counter China

Anand Raghuraman -
A US digital airlift should aim to add extra oomph to India’s counterpunches and thereby raise the immediate costs of Chinese territorial aggression.

49% Indians say Chinese firms can operate if there isn’t data sharing with China: Survey 

Pia Krishnankutty -
A survey by LocalCircles also found that 29% respondents felt government-sanctioned action should be taken against Indian companies with Chinese investment.

Chinese apps ban doesn’t end user data theft. There is bloatware you can’t even uninstall

Ravi Shankar Jha -
Considering India doesn’t have a dedicated law on data protection, regulators should either ban these pre-installed apps or make them more accountable.

Can’t keep making money by buying cheap Chinese raw materials: JSW Group CMD Sajjan Jindal

Revathi Krishnan -
Calling the Galwan Valley face-off an opportunity to push for an 'atmanirbhar' India, Sajjan Jindal said it was time to support domestic producers.

Reader View: India depends on China in many ways, to disregard that isn’t a smart decision

ThePrint Team -
YourTurn is our new weekly feature in which ThePrint's readers share their views or opinions in response to the question of the week.

Modi’s chest-thumping ministers, and not Congress, are an irritant in dealing with China

D.K. Singh -
If PM Modi had launched ‘surgical’ and air strikes to punish Pakistan in 2016 and 2019, his ministers are now outdoing him in pounding China with verbal strikes.

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Opinion

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Shabnoor Rahman -
Zubeen Garg's funeral entered the Limca Book of Records as the fourth-largest such procession in the world.

More and more POCSO cases are being settled by victim-accused marriages

UPSC Civil Services Exam has been reduced to a memory test. That’s not how you select officers

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

Saksham Thakur -
China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.

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