New Delhi, Oct. 13 -- Zoho co-founder and chief scientist Sridhar Vembu has praised MapMyIndia's new navigation app, Mappls, describing it as "very nice" and highlighting that it reflects "decades of R&D, much longer than Google Maps." Vembu shared his remarks on X on 12 October 2025, extending best wishes to Rohan Verma and the MapMyIndia team.

Vembu's tweet was a reshare of an earlier post by Ashwini Vaishnaw, Minister for Railways, Information & Broadcasting, Electronics & Information Technology, who on 11 October encouraged people to try the "Swadeshi 'Mappls'" app, praising its useful features. Vaishnaw also shared a video on his X account, demonstrating the app's capabilities.

In the video, Vaishnaw demonstrated Mappls from his ca...