Ruias to challenge Vodafone's put option, continue reverse-listing plan.
Last week, Essar had decided to prepay $900 million of this debt to foreign lenders.
Kapil Sibal, telecom minister, said many companies borrowed heavily to pay for 3G licences late last year. These companies were now facing difficulty in raising resources for the business, upsetting the calculations they had made while bidding aggressively for the licences, he said.
Nine years after parting ways, Prannoy Roy and Rupert Murdoch are again coming together for a unique airtime sale and marketing alliance.
Three independent people with knowledge of the talks said the group had been selected in the first round and was now likely to make a formal bid.
The cap of 25% on sales to group companies likely to be removed.
Telcos such as Loop, Etisalat and Videocon have done little to churn the subscriber base.
Vedanta had proposed to buy a 51 per cent stake in Cairn India for $9.6 billion in the middle of last year. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs is expected to take up the issue next week.
The fund, with an initial corpus of $150 million, is set to be the first of its kind, said two independent industry sources familiar with the development.
A memorandum of understanding between the defence and telecom ministries for vacation of spectrum was signed two years ago.
The plan includes expanding the number of flights of AI Express from 204 a week to over 250 a week with a new thrust on West Asia.
At present, when Indian corporates declare dividends, a dividend distribution tax is slapped at 15 per cent.
The Japanese giant will also consider increasing its capacity, which could mean a new plant or expansion of existing units, after its ongoing expansion to 500,000 vehicles is completed in phases.
The note recommends allowing FDI in domestic firms through the issue of partly-paid up shares and convertible warrants, but with certain riders.
The proposal gains significance because the merger plan was given a quiet burial under former telecom minister A Raja.
The conclave also focused on the need for more spectrum, a key issue for India.
Google will also use artificial intelligence to provide customers with more solutions.
In an interview at the GSMA conference in Barcelona on Tuesday, Mittal broke his silence on the scam and the very public spat between Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications: "My plea is that the industry shut their mouths; zip up and let the various investigative agencies do their job," he said.
As it firms up its telecom re-entry strategy, Reliance Industries subsidiary Infotel Broadband has told telecom tower companies that it will pay only half the prevailing rental for towers taken on lease.
Four years after buying Novelis, a company three times its size, Hindalco is now banking on the Atlanta (US)-headquartered aluminium rolling and recycling major to fund its Rs 23,000-crore expansion plan in India.
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