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Here’s why BGMI did not get banned in India along with Free Fire and 53 other Chinese apps

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While Free Fire has been banned in India, another popular battle royale game, BGMI (aka Battlegrounds Mobile India) is not on the list despite being a rebrand/clone of PUBG. The game has the same format, map names, and graphics, among other things as PUBG Mobile. In this article, we explain some of the reasons why Battlegrounds Mobile India wasn’t banned by the Indian government. Why Battlegrounds Mobile India wasn’t banned in India? Reason 1 — No ties with Tencent Battlegrounds Mobile India is technically the same as PUBG Mobile, which was banned in the country back in 2020 thanks to…

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