The issue blew up on August 14 when restaurants across major cities started the #logout campaign in protest to deep-discounting that some platforms were providing users. Restaurants felt deep-discounting was hurting the core value proposition of the restaurant business and undermining its value

The Swadeshi Jagran Manch said India's telecommunications network should be fully indigenised and reserved for domestic companies on security grounds

SJM has said that India must recognise the full extent of the national and economic security threat posed by foreign and especially Chinese equipment in India's ICT networks.

Even if the government decides to go ahead and issue sovereign bonds in foreign currency, its rising borrowings will continue to put pressure on liquidity in the domestic market

A team of DoT officials are scheduled to visit China to attend a conference on 5G sponsored by Huawei on August 1-2, 2019.

While Garg claimed to have discussed his plans for voluntary retirement with the Prime Minister's Office beforehand, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says she wasn't aware of any such conversation. Both, however, stand by the soundness of the overseas bond plan introduced in Budget 2019

We made our position clear to all those who matter, SJM's Ashwani Mahajan says. The economic wing of RSS opposes the idea raising sovereign overseas borrowing, and believes Garg was the brain behind it

India and the US have major differences on trade and strategic matters, but they are also trying to accommodate each other

The action from the Ministry of Electronics and IT (Meity) follows a complaint by the RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch, which had written to the Prime Minister alleging that these platforms are being used for anti-national and illegal activities.

The notice has been sent along with a long questionnaire covering a range of issues including unauthorised data sharing by the apps and the Platforms turning into a hub for anti-national activities

\"We must look at the experience of countries that have taken loans from international markets to meet their government deficit. The experience of these countries has been far from good,\" says Ashwani Mahajan co-convenor of Swadeshi Jagran Manch

TikTok ban: In the latest Parliament proceedings, several MPs accused TikTok of spreading 'fake news' and 'malicious content', and sharing user data with the Chinese government, prompting politicians, including Congress MP Shashi Tharoor to call for its ban in India