Hong Kong/New Delhi (CNN Business) India is banning dozens more apps and reportedly reviewing hundreds of others from well-known Chinese companies, as tensions between the world's most populous countries continue to rise. The Indian government banned an additional 47 apps, all clones or variations of 59 other apps India blocked last month on national security grounds, an official at India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology told CNN Business on Tuesday. Caught up in the initial ban were several prominent Chinese apps, including the wildly popular video sharing app TikTok . Tencent TCEHY Alibaba BABA Indian media reported on Monday that the government is also reviewing more than 250 other apps, including popular mobile game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG), published by, and AliExpress, a shopping platform from. PUBG was the top mobile game by monthly active users in India last year, according to analytics firm AppAnnie.

Source: CNN July 28, 2020 13:52 UTC