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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
TopicReliance Jio

Topic: Reliance Jio

After Facebook, Reliance Jio to receive Rs 5,665 crore investment from Silver Lake

The deal is the latest effort by Mukesh Ambani to convince investors that he aims to honour his promise of cutting the group’s net debt to zero by early 2021.

How a WhatsApp ‘Hi’ can transform India’s $1 trillion digital payments market

WhatsApp gives the Jio-Facebook deal a big edge in India’s fast-growing cashless payments market which is estimated to be worth $1 trillion by 2023.

Jio accepts FB friend request, says TOI, Mint’s stimulus ‘hopes’, Telegraph’s HCQ warning

A round-up of the most important reports in major newspapers around the country – from TOI and HT, Express and The Hindu to The Telegraph, Mumbai Mirror and The Tribune, as well as top financial dailies.

Why Mukesh Ambani and Mark Zuckerberg can be happy together

Oil glut & price crash makes Jio a good bet Ambani. Facebook needs new markets to keep growing & India is the next best thing since China isn’t an option.

Facebook held talks for 10% stake in Reliance Jio, says Financial Times

Facebook was close to signing preliminary deal for 10% of Jio before Covid-19 travel bans stalled negotiations, Financial Times reported.

This is how the telecom sector was rescued from bankruptcy in 1999

India’s brush with mobile telephony started in the mid-1990s, but the beginning was far from smooth.

Vodafone Idea not shutting down. Modi govt can ill afford it

Both Vodafone Idea and Airtel are losing customers at a rapid rate and Reliance Jio is gaining at their expense.

Jio, Airtel, Vodafone hike rates: Indians being punished by policies made after 2G scam?

India’s debt-ridden telecom players Vodafone-Idea and Bharti Airtel, along with Reliance Jio Sunday announced tariff hikes of 14-67 per cent.

Vodafone Idea, Airtel sending out distress signals. But they are only paying for their sins

Both Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel have pinned their losses to Supreme Court’s recent ruling. Media has described their current state as ‘bruised, battered and bleeding’.

Bharti Airtel posts record loss after making provision to pay Rs 30,710 crore to govt

Bharti Airtel is selling assets & paying down debt while losing money on its operations and facing a SC ruling to pay overdue fees related to spectrum & licences.

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

New Delhi: Amid heightened tensions between New Delhi and Washington, and a growing synergy between the Pakistan government and US President Donald Trump, Indian...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.