India, June 30 -- Yesterday, the Government of India banned 59 Chinese apps that include some of the most popular TikTok, UC Browser, Shareit, Cam Scanner, etc.

Now if you check Google Play Store or Apple's App Store, these apps have disappeared. Users can note download these apps from Google Play Store and Apple App Store as well as not from its website.

What was the reason for banning 59 apps?

In a press statement on Monday night, the Ministry of Information Technology had mentioned that they have received many complaints from various sources about the misuse of some mobile apps for stealing and surreptitiously transmitting user data to other servers located outside India in an unauthorised manner.

"The compilation of these data, it...