In an age when the electorate is increasingly impatient and changes governments every 5 years, how did the Tamil Nadu chief minister beat anti-incumbency?
India's telecom sector has been through dizzying peaks, troughs, policy U-turns, court battles, brutal competition, and daily controversies. India could go back to a private sector duopoly with just Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel surviving the mayhem. The third player, Vodafone Idea, could be history.
New winds are blowing in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology offices at Sanchar Bhavan.
The view follows a detailed review of the matter by DoT since March this year, after Dayanidhi Maran, then communications minister, asked officials to provide details about the possibility of the Tata-owned VSNL being allowed to retain the land. This latest recommendation, made in September, comes despite the fact that the Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs had, in December 2005, approved hiving off the land bank into a separate company.
Government assured the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that security interests of the country would never be compromised while permitting larger foreign investments.
According to top sources in the government, Maran's return cannot be ruled out.
Within hours of communication and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran asking private cellular operators to reduce the roaming charges, Hutch on Tuesday announced 33 per cent cut in roaming airtime rates.
Mishra, a 1967 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has served in various administrative field positions.
Of the 243 listed flights, it claimed to have operated 75 across the country after 1600 hours on Wednesday.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation has been asked to open up bookings of SpiceJet till March 31, 2015, while airport operators have been asked to provide 15 days to the airline company for making payments.
Telecom Minister Raja's 1st day at work.
Finding a solution to the spectrum allocation issue will be the main challenge before A Raja, country's new communications minister, who has replaced Dayanadhi Maran.
Dayanidhi Maran lost his job following a family spat.
Revision in the 2005 policy for foreign direct investment in telecom sector is likely to be announced on or before January 2, Lok Sabha was informed on Wednesday.
Azhagiri said he was never implicated in criminal cases as alleged by the network.
The department of telecommunications is all set to urge the telecom companies to bring down domestic roaming charges between Re 1 to Rs 2 per minute.
The DGCA has allowed SpiceJet to accept advance bookings beyond March 31.
The government on Thursday gave its nod to a foreign direct investment of $150 million (Rs 675 crore) in Maran family-run Sun TV's ambitious direct to home service project.
Foxconn, a leading Taiwan based manufacturer of connectors for use in personal computers and printed circuit boards for mobile phones, will set up $110 million plant in Chennai to manufacture mobile handset and other components..
The airline has already commenced the sale of tickets for the new destination, which will be the ninth international sector to be served by carrier, SpiceJet said.
Malaysian pay TV operator Astro All Asia Networks plc, owned by the country's richest man Ananda Krishnan, is eyeing entry into the Indian Direct to Home satellite television market
IMAGES from the soccer matches played in Spain and Italy on Saturday
The National Association of Software and Services companies on Wednesday launched the world's first-ever centralised database of IT professionals to further strengthen the security in Indian industry.
A source said Mills was leaving the airline as he was not getting operational freedom to run the organisation.
Elections will also be held in 35 assembly constituencies in Odisha.
The Department of Telecommunication is understood to have sought three months time from the Prime Minister's Office for bringing out revised guidelines for foreign direct investment to sort out security issues.
In a move to make India one of its global strategic centres, US-based computer network equipment major Cisco Systems
Software major Infosys on Thursday committed Rs 1,250 crore (Rs 12.5 billion) to expand operations in Chennai.
Top brass of Qualcom, developer of CDMA technology, will be visiting India next week and may hold discussions with the company on royalty obligations.\n
With this, the total number of those arrested in connection with the Wednesday's attack has risen to six.
Images from football matches played across Europe on Sunday.
Tatas' suggestion for auction stirs up hornet's nest.
Broadcast tribunal Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal asked Sun Tv on Tuesday to produce a copy of the stay order granted by Madras high court on its interim order directing it to share signals with direct-to-home operator TataSky.
US telecom major Motorola's worldwide chief executive officer Ed Zander is visiting India next week and is expected to meet IT and Communication Minister Dayanidhi Maran.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, headed by Justice Arun Kumar, took a serious note of Sun TV's non-compliance of its interim order of March 19 and said that Sun Tv was acting unfairly in this matter.
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