NEW DELHI: In the last few days, TikTok, the app developed by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, with a huge following in India, has dropped many notches in the popularity stakes, from number 5 to 10 in the App playstore. The drop coincided with the India-China standoff in Ladakh. China’s Global Times was quick to notice and […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India’s state-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), has extended to June 24 its Rs 9000 crore (around $1.3 bn) tender for upgrading 50,000 new 4G sites in four zones and nearly 7000 new sites in Delhi and Mumbai for MTNL. Reports in the pink papers said “some officials in the Department […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The muddle in India’s telecom sector is likely to deepen with the Department of Telecom (DoT) expected to announce the schedule for 5G trials soon. Industry insiders warn that the government wants the trials to stretch well into the next year, which is viewed by many as a waste of resources and will […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Last week’s announcement of several policy reforms in the defence and space sector, is a result of a detailed study undertaken by the National Security Council Secretariat (NSCS) and National Security Advisory Board (NSAB) to encourage Make in India in these two domains over the past six months. The creation of a negative […]Read More
NEW DELHI: “I do think that some of the companies moving away from China is not necessarily a commercial but a strategic decision, which is possibly being encouraged by governments. India can take advantage of this during and post COVID-19 if we develop a proper domestic structure,” says Suresh Prabhu, G-7 and G-20 Sherpa. Those […]Read More
NEW DELHI: It is said that India will reform only when its back is to the wall. The pandemic appears to have done that. An added incentive are reports that international businesses are seeking to diversify their investments away from China, and India could gain potentially if some of that money flows this way. In […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Mark Zuckerberg had famously declared in 2019 that “the future is private.” But data privacy or the possible lack of it is the big question on everyone’s minds after Facebook inked a deal with Reliance Jio, the telecom unit of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) providing $5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crore) for a 9.99 percent stake in the company. […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Some would say the message going out to China from India over the tweaked FDI law is simply this: Wuhan and Mamallapuram (informal summits) are fine but don’t meddle in our economy! Others say it underscores the classic dilemma for a country like India. It is hungry for foreign investment but cannot overlook the impact […]Read More
NEW DELHI: There was a strange disclaimer by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission a few days ago. It said: “5G technology does not cause coronavirus”. That the top U.S. agency charged with regulating all internet, television, radio and satellite communication had to come out with a disclaimer of this kind tells you something about the […]Read More
NEW DELHI:: China is trying hard to deny that the COVID-19 virus originated in Wuhan, its commercial heartland in the east. The mandarins are also trying to change the narrative to suggest that the Chinese authorities did a heroic job in containing the spread of the virus inside the country, and was well placed to […]Read More
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