Do you get unwanted phone calls from business ventures wanting to sell credit cards, insurance policies, travel packages, or any such services or goods? Do you feel such calls should be banned?
Being the only universal service provider in uneconomic areas, the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has sought exemption from contributing to the dedicated fund saying it should be reimbursed directly on the basis of cost incurred.
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on 2G spectrum allocation has concluded that Attorney General G E Vahanvati was aware of the procedure approved by the Department of Telecommunication on first-come-first served criteria in file notings.
Idea may have to shell out Rs 4,500 crore in cash
Even as the policy on spectrum for 3G services is yet to come, State-run BSNL has sought additional spectrum for introducing the advanced third generation mobile services in the country.
How sustainable and prudent is the policy of boosting services without commensurate growth in infrastructure in the relevant sectors, asksA K Bhattacharya.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has wrapped up hearings on the government policy allowing fixed-line telephone firms to offer cheaper limited mobility services and will rule later on the issue.
BSNL Employees Union on Wednesday demanded that tariffs announced by the telecom corporation effective from May 1, be reduced in the interest of the common subscriber and BSNL itself.
About 40 per cent of respondents felt fraud had gone up in India, while 67 per cent said the new Act would improve governance.
Likely to seek FIPB approval to raise holding; deal could bring FDI of about $696 mn.
No one expects the government to publicly concede policy mistakes. But it can shed denial; and, stop the point-winning debating style to the formulation of public policy, says Rahul Khullar.
The defence ministry has lost sight of what it intended to achieve -- which was to nurture private defence firms that would compete on equal terms with the 9 defence PSUs and the 41 Ordnance Factory Board factories.
Appropriate policies will increase connectivity much more than spectrum auctions, says Shyam Ponappa.
The government is considering to tweak FDI policy in retail sector so as to allow global chains like Walmart, Carrefour and Tesco to open multi-brand stores in non-hilly cities with population less than one million.
Critics say the programme, launched 10 months ago in India in collaboration with operator Reliance Communications, violates principles of net neutrality
Mobile tower radiation reaching us is more than a thousand times weaker than that from the handsets we use and the Indian standards are 10 times more stringent than the global norms recommended by the World Health Organisation, points out T V Ramachandran.
India's cellular and WLL additions exceeded 67 lakh (6.7 million) during April-July, against 14 lakh (1.4 million) additions a year-ago, owing to the adoption of growth oriented and forbearing tariff policies, TRAI said on Tuesday.
Anything can happen, says a young Congress leader.
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
The RIL stock has halved from an all-time high of Rs 1,626 made (intra-day) on January 15, 2008, to on Wednesday's closing figure of Rs 800.55.
The ministry of railways is set to invite bids for content on demand and rail radio services, to be provided for travellers in April, says Shine Jacob.Shine Jacob in New Delhi
Private participation remains lacklustre.
In 2012, India attracted $22.78 billion of FDI, according to the data by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.
The size of the hole in today's banking crisis appears to be roughly 10 per cent of GDP.
Corporate legal cases kept India Inc on its toes in 2014 as high stake matters on coal, telecom and mining came up in the Supreme Court, which also sent Sahara Group chief Subrata Roy to jail.
A brief report card on Modi's ministers.
Mark Zuckerberg said the company believes in Net neutrality "very strongly".
This is the highest closing for both the indices since May 15.
In fact, no other recent Union Budget has held so much significance for the Indian economy as the one to be presented in about six weeks from now, notes A K Bhattacharya.
Standard Chartered on Friday lowered India's growth forecast for the current financial year to 4.7 per cent from earlier 5.5 per cent, citing "upside risks" to inflation and fiscal deficit.
Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection, and time lag
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