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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicReliance Jio

Topic: Reliance Jio

Airtel’s Sunil Bharti Mittal says Indian Telecom can recover by 2020

Bharti slipped to No. 2 in the industry last year after Idea Cellular Ltd. and Vodafone India merged to become India’s largest operator by subscribers.

Mukesh Ambani vs Jeff Bezos is the fight for Indian consumer that was bound to happen

Modi govt is forcing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to fight Ambani with one hand tied behind his back.

Facebook and Reliance Jio are teaming up to get India on ‘WhatsApp phones’

Facebook and Mukesh Ambani’s Jio are building a massive user base that will boost their own fortunes. One recent afternoon in the Indian city of...

PM Imran Khan gives credit to wife Bushra Bibi for his 100 days’ success

Here’s what’s happening across the border: Pakistan to convert Kapoor family’s ancestral house in Peshawar into museum, and Pak author’s novel to be adapted into Indian TV series.

Everyone is growing but no one is making money in India’s champion sectors

Aviation, telecom and e-commerce/digital businesses are all success stories, but the issue is the same in all three sectors: Profitability.

How Mukesh Ambani shook up India’s mobile phone sector

India’s mobile industry has consolidated into 3 big service providers from more than 10 earlier after Mukesh Ambani’s Jio entered the market.

Doubtful if India’s ailing mobile telecom sector can create 4 million jobs: COAI chief

COAI’s Rajan S. Mathews wonders how the new telecom policy can achieve $100-billion investment objective 'if the industry is under financial stress'

Modi govt should find a way for private firms to use Aadhaar for KYC purposes

It may be feasible for govt to own and operate a KYC utility. That way, India could balance the concerns of privacy and trust.

It’s Mukesh Ambani who could become Amazon’s biggest rival in India

Walmart's acquisition of Flipkart might have given the impression that the battle for India would be an all-American contest, but the fight isn't that simple - or easy. 

End to Mukesh Ambani’s telecom price war may be 185 million users away

Reliance Jio has amassed more than 200 million users since its launch in 2016.

On Camera

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.