Data prices in India are about to crash, going by trickling information about tariff plans of upcoming operator Reliance Jio. The Reliance Industries company, which will launch it 4G services on Dec 28, will be pricing its 10 GB pack at around Rs 600 per month, according to a retailer. UPDATE: Jio may be launching […]
Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, is prompting its users to send a submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to save its ‘Free Basics’ program, urging them to fight the “small, vocal group” of net neutrality activists. “A small, vocal group of critics are lobbying to have Free Basics banned on the basis […]
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority has invited e-tenders for designing and constructing an elevated viaduct and 16 stations on the Andheri East to Dahisar East on the Mumbai Western Line. The phase, called the Metro-7 corridor, will be constructed in three separate packages and would enable a person starting from Dahisar in the north […]
India’s biggest sports utility vehicle maker said the Delhi High Court’s order banning the sale of diesel vehicles with engine sizes over 2 liter could hit its sales by about 2%. “Honourable Court’s order today affects the sales of some of the Company’s products in NCR. The vehicles affected represent about 2% of the Company’s […]
India has signed an agreement with the US Government and aircraft maker Boeing to purchase Apache attack helicopters and Chinook heavy lift helicopters, the government said. India is not a traditional buyer of US-made defence equipment, preferring to engage with Russia and the Europeans instead. However, with the new government under Narendra Modi, India is […]
The latest consultation paper by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on telecom providers charging different prices for browsing different websites — the so-called differential pricing of data — comes across as a breath of fresh air after the last one, issued under former chairman Rahul Khullar. While Khullar started with the assumption that net […]
Centre for Science and Environment, one of India’s biggest environmental research and lobbying organization, has said that the current proposal to set a target of limiting temperature increase to 1.5 degrees could be a ‘hollow shell’ if no limits are placed on individual country emissions. Countries from across the world are negotiating in the Paris […]
Muthoot Finance, one of India’s leading gold loan companies, has cautioned people against paying money to so-called agents in return for loan approvals. “In a recent instance, an unidentified organisation has fraudulently attempted to lure customers/investors, through the platform of Muthoot Finance, by sending bogus loan approval letters to unsuspecting people,” the company said. To […]
SpiceJet, arguably the most aggressive low-cost carrier in India, said it has resumed normal operations from Chennai starting from December 8, 2015, making it the first airline to commence full-fledged services from the airport with all its 34 flights taking off on Day 1. Air travel to and fro Chennai had been disrupted by week-long […]
Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunication services provider, today announced the roll out of its next generation, high speed 4G network in India on the 1800 MHz band, from Kochi, Kerala. The ultrafast speeds offered on this state of the art network will enable Vodafone 4G customers to access internet via mobile with ultrafast […]
A day after starting domestic operations, Chennai Airport has resumed international flights to and fro from 6 AM today. Night flight operations will also continue, airport authorities informed. Among the flights that have landed at Chennai Airport today are TruJet from Shamshabad to Chennai arrived at 0830 and Express India flight from Singapore to Chennai […]
Idea Cellular, holder of the biggest amount of 4G spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, has opened registration for its 4G service in over 150 cities across eight of 12 circles where it plans to launch the service. These eight circles are the four southern states, Punjab & Haryana in the north and Orissa and […]
Customers of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd may be able to use 4G services from next month thanks to an agreement with Reliance Jio, according to sources. Jio, as we have already reported, is scheduled to launch its services by the end of this month and the company’s subscribers will be eligible to use RCom’s […]
The government of India clarified that it had no plans to forcibly take gold from religious or other institutions under its recently launched monetization scheme. It came up with the clarification in the wake of media reports to the contrary. “Some sections of the media have reported that Government will directly intervene to monetize the […]
India has a shortage of close 1.9 cr housing units in urban areas, but 1.1 cr houses in these areas are lying vacant as their owners do not live in them, nor do they rent it out, pointed out housing minister Venkaiah Naidu. The problem, he said, is being addressed in India’s new Draft National […]
Reliance Jio will announce the launch of its 4G services in India by the end of this month, but it will take a few more days after that for the operator’s SIM cards to be available in stores, according to company sources. “We’ve been told that there will be a press conference on 28th, announcing […]
Following offers such as free talk time from BSNL, Airtel and Vodafone, data operator MTS said it is offering 1 GB of data for all customers in the Tamil Nadu circle to help them cope with the floods in Chennai and surrounding regions. The validity of the data will be only for 3 days. “Both […]
Operations at Chennai airport have been suspended till 12 noon on Sunday, December 6, due to waterlogging caused by heavy rainfall. Jet Airways and Air India said they would offer alternatives to their passengers keeping the shut down in mind. Jet Airways said it has cancelled all its flights to and from Chennai until December […]
The Indian Cabinet has approved a proposal by Germany — one of the pioneers in developing solar power in the world — to provide concessional loans of around 1 bln euro to develop the renewable energy source in the country. India has an ambitious, almost impossible, target of achieving 175 gigawatt of renewable energy capacity […]
The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, approved setting up of six new Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Goa, Jammu, Kerala and Karnataka. They will be initially established as societies and later converted to ‘full IITs’ by amending the IIT Act of 1961. At present, India has […]
