India, July 3 -- The BAT BMS Bluetooth app has become the centre of a major controversy in India after several viral videos showed people allegedly using it to switch off moving e-rickshaws with a ...

Videos flooding social media over the past week show a deeply unsettling scene: a person walks up to a moving e-rickshaw, opens an app on their phone, taps a button — and the vehicle dies. The driver, ...

The Centre has directed Apple and Google to remove at least three battery management applications from their app stores after reports that they were being misused to remotely stop electric e-rickshaws ...

New Delhi [India], July 3 (ANI): A dangerous and highly cruel social media prank has taken over the streets of the national capital. Tech-savvy youngsters and pranksters are using a mobile application ...

Viral Video: Several videos are circulating on social media platforms that allege that e-rickshaws are being shut down using a mobile application. Speaking about the issue, Delhi Transport Minister ...

In a major development, the BAT BMS App, which was allegedly used to remotely disable e-rickshaws, has been removed from both the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store following government ...

After videos of e-rickshaws being remotely switched off as a "prank" on social media led to an uproar, the government said on Friday that two such apps had come to its notice and have since been ...

Imagine hailing an e-rickshaw, settling in for your morning commute — and then, without warning, it just stops. No sputter. No warning light. Just... nothing. Videos of people using a Chinese app to ...

The government has ordered the removal of three smartphone applications that were allegedly being misused to remotely disable battery-operated vehicles, including e-rickshaws. The decision was made ...

The controversy emerged after videos and social media posts showed e-rickshaws being remotely shut down through Bluetooth-enabled battery management systems, allegedly using the BAT-BMS application.

The issue has also reached the Delhi government. A Chinese smartphone application named BAT-BMS is being used by people to remotely shut down e-rickshaws -- locally called "tirris" -- through a ...

The Indian government has directed the blocking of three battery management applications — BAT-BMS, Lossigy and Epoch i-ion — after they were found to be misused to remotely disable battery-operated ...