Sebi also ordered freezing the voting rights and corporate benefits of promoters of these companies.
The Sensex opened with a positive gap of 46 points at 10,996.
The Sensex opened marginally higher at 10,946, and soon surged to a high of 10,998. The index is now up 57 points at the same higher levels.
Following yesterday's smart move the Sensex opened with a positive gap of 15 points at 5,248. The index is now at 5,253 - 20 points
From helping their employees infected with the Covid-19 virus to vaccinating them or supporting the families of those who might have succumbed to the infection, several companies in India are trying to do their bit in this difficult time. Some have even widened their support net to include all stakeholders as well as an extended community. To the families of the employees it lost to Covid-19, Noida-headquartered IT services and consulting company HCL Technologies is, for instance, paying salary for a year, medical insurance for three years and extending support for their children's education for five years.
Chinese telcos hold 60-100 MHz of spectrum, while Indian companies hold 13-15 MHz of spectrum.
Uninor added 8.53 lakh subscribers to take its base to 4.01 crore during the reported period.
Summing up the year gone by, Sebi Chairman U K Sinha told PTI that the regulator was also able to provide clarity and a direction to the market in areas like corporate governance and investor protection during 2013.
The Sensex took less than two years to rally from the 10,000-mark it first hit in February 2006 to double that on that New Year's Eve.
Telecom companies that bought spectrum in the 2G auction of November last year would lose around Rs 4,000 crore