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BGMI banned after PUBG: Indian govt takes on ‘Chinese’ apps again

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New Delhi, July 29 (IANS) It was in September 2020 when the Indian government banned PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile, along with 117 Chinese applications, citing threat to India’s sovereignty, integrity and defence under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. PUBG then had nearly 33 million users in the country, and was growing fast. In November 2020, it was revealed for the first time that PUBG Mobile would be relaunched in India under the new entity ‘PUBG Mobile India’. In the same month, PUBG Studios and South Korea’s video game company Krafton registered PUBG India Private Ltd under the…

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