India directs Google To Delist Chinese App

New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), along with the Survey of India (SoI), has directed US tech giant Google to remove the Chinese chat app ‘Ablo’ from its Play Store, as the app is not correct in its depiction of India’s territorial borders.

The government’s notice states that the China-based video chat platform, which has over 10,000 downloads on Google Play, misrepresented the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh, and entirely omitted Lakshadweep Island from its map.