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In 2016, India also put forwarded a new plan to control internet usage of its netizens. Accessing or pop-ups from ad services or malware infection of websites banned in India might invite 3 years of jail sentence and a fine of ₹ 300,000 (equivalent to ₹ 430,000 or US$5,000 in 2023). Until now, URLs and websites were blocked using DNS-filtering.
[26] [27] The ban was challenged in the Supreme Court of India. The court agreed on 3 February to hear petition by N. Ram, Mahua Moitra and Prashant Bhushan. [a] [29] [30] Right-wing Hindu-nationalist groups also petitioned the Supreme Court to ban the BBC altogether; the court described the petition as "absolutely meritless", and rejected it. [17]
The main reason for the ban in was reported to be social harmony being disturbed by "misuse" of the video app and that there was rising demand to control it. [41] The ban was lifted in August 2024 following an agreement between TikTok and the Government of Nepal to help identify criminal misuse of the app. [ 42 ] 10/02/2025
But TikTok actually faced an even bigger exodus of users in 2020, when India banned the app. At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users .
In India, the ban in 2020 was swift. TikTok and other companies were given time to respond to questions on privacy and security, and by January 2021, it became a permanent ban. But the situation ...
In June 2020, after a violent clash on the India-China border that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead, the government in New Delhi suddenly banned TikTok and several other well-known Chinese apps.
In 1989, The import [50] of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses was banned in India for its purported attacks on Islam. [51] India lifted the Ban in May 2011. In 1990, Understanding Islam through Hadis by Ram Swarup was banned. [52] In the same year, the Hindi translation of the book was banned, and in March 1991 the English original became ...
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