Merging state-run telcos with a nationalised Vodafone Idea could save jobs & precious capital. Managed professionally, it could become a credible third player.
A two-judge panel headed by L. Nageswara Rao Friday dismissed the petitions by Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel Ltd Friday, without without giving reasons.
Cairn Energy has been moving aggressively to push the Modi govt to comply with the $1.7 billion arbitration award that it won in December 2020 in the retrospective taxation case.
The appeal against a tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration invalidating India's Rs 10,247 crore tax claim comes weeks before UK PM Boris Johnson's visit to India.
P.C. Mody says govt has already appealed international tribunal order in Vodafone retrospective tax case, and will soon decide whether to appeal Cairn verdict too.
In episode 647 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta says India must stop digging the hole and rethink its decision to appeal the rulings against retrospective tax.
In a letter to TRAI, Jio alleged the rival companies are claiming that migrating to their networks would be an act of support to the farmers' protests.
After the transaction, Bharti Infratel will own 36.7% of Indus Towers, Vodafone 28.1%, with the rest held by investors including KKR & Co. and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
No politician sees economic reform as a vote-catcher; it’s the old, povertarian economy that gets votes. Can Modi bring farm and labour reforms centre-stage?
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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