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Amid the raging controversy over privacy on WhatsApp, the government is planning a whole new approach - its own version of the messaging app. Sources in the Ministry of Electronics and Information and Technology (MeITY) have confirmed to NDTV that two such apps are being tested in their beta stage. They have been codenamed Samvad and Sandes, literally "conversation" and "message", respectively.
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