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Wednesday, August 13, 2025
TopicReliance Jio

Topic: Reliance Jio

Mukesh Ambani emerges winner as Airtel, Vodafone face Rs 92,000 crore hurdle

Mukesh Ambani’s Jio has emerged largely unscathed while Airtel & Vodafone have to pay the govt a combined Rs 92,000 crore.

PM Modi looks for cover as lawmakers take hands off the wheel

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Mukesh Ambani is now handing out free TVs to beat his competition

Ambani’s JioFiber seeks to tap a burgeoning business where firms from mobile carriers to Netflix Inc. & Amazon.com Inc. are butting heads to offer content.

Here’s what Modi govt must do when 5G arrives: give spectrum free to Jio, Airtel & others

Left to itself, telecom industry will take years to come up with the capital needed to exploit 5G opportunity. So, Modi government must step in.

Airtel, in cost war with Reliance, plans London IPO for Africa arm to cut debt

Airtel is Africa’s second-largest mobile operator with almost 100 million subscribers across 14 countries in the continent.

Airtel preparing to kick off IPO of $5 billion Africa arm in May

Airtel has operations in 14 African markets including Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria and Ghana.

Mukesh Ambani’s debt-fueled bet on India’s rising middle class is paying off

Mukesh Ambani has ambitions to take on Amazon and Walmart in India, where the middle class is driving the growth of e-commerce.

BSNL employees get February salary but their woes aren’t over, blame Modi govt for cash crunch

BSNL employees fear that salaries for next month too might get delayed, blaming the Modi government for the cash crunch at the company.

Reliance Jio faces Rs 15,000 crore loss over its handset subsidies

This would be a bigger deficit than those of its rivals Bharti Airtel Ltd. and Vodafone Idea Ltd.

Reliance chairman Mukesh Ambani announces Rs 10,000-crore fresh investment in West Bengal

The announced investment will be over and above the Rs 28,000 crore corpus Reliance has already pumped in the state.

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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.