In 2017, The Economic Times reported that Indian soldiers were instructed to remove UC News and other Chinese-owned apps from their phones because of cyber-security concerns.
[1] It is available in seven main Languages including Hindi, Indonesian and English and 15 other Regional Indian languages like Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Assamese and Kashmiri etc.
UC News incorporates trending and latest content from social platforms and partners with traditional media as well as We-Media publishers (writers involved in a program launched by UC News) and well-known or Key Opinion Leaders to provide users with original content.
[2] UC News provided virtually no coverage of the Sino-Indian border dispute, and the 2020 China–India skirmishes in particular, raising concerns of self-censorship of matters deemed sensitive to the Chinese government.
[4] In June 2020, the Government of India banned UC News along with 58 other Chinese origin apps citing data and privacy issues.