India's government, amid an uproar over privacy, has revoked an order quietly issued to smartphone makers to pre-install a ...

The government said the rules were needed to prevent theft and other crime. Its opponents and privacy activists regard the ...

India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security ...

The reversal comes just 48 hours after reports surfaced that Apple refused to comply with the order to preload the government ...

India’s government retreated less than a week after sending a private order to smartphone manufacturers instructing them to ...

Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.” ...

India’s telecom ministry has directed smartphone manufacturers to preload a mandatory, undeletable cybersecurity app ...

The mobile apps of fast-fashion retailer Shein and Alibaba Group Holding's Taobao marketplace and Youku video-streaming platform are again available to Indian users more than four years after New ...

Can an Indian-made messaging app compete with the behemoth that is WhatsApp? Over the past couple of weeks, Arattai, developed by Indian tech company Zoho, has become a viral sensation in the country.

Arattai, an Indian messaging app backed by the billionaire Vembu family, has seen a surge in signups and downloads over the past two weeks in its home country, boosted by the Indian government’s calls ...

Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for nine Indian languages alongside English. The Gemini mobile app in ...

Apple and other smartphone makers are being pressed by India to pre-install government-developed apps on devices before sale, echoing a similar 2021 demand from Russia that Apple ultimately complied ...