There are about 30,000 start-ups in India now. Delhi NCR, itself, has about 7,000 of them and 10 unicorns, or companies with a valuation of over a billion dollars, Anandan said

There will only be four players soon - Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel and BSNL/MTNL - as opposed to around a dozen in March 2016, according to a TRAI report

In the middle of action-packed two hours, Vodafone Idea announced its Q2 results where it posted net losses of Rs 50,922 crore, which is over 10 times higher than the losses in the previous quarter

Mukesh Ambani's conviction about the Indian market is paying off as opposed to those who invested abroad heavily.

Vodafone Group says it'll not commit any more equity to India and that the country effectively contributed zero value to the company's share price

Reliance and its partner BP Plc of the UK is in the market seeking bids from potential users for the 5 million standard cubic metres per day of natural gas they plan to produce from the R-Cluster Field in KG-D6 block from mid-2020

Union leaders said the contract employees had not been getting salary for the past 10 months and they were on an agitation since the past 130 days, demanding payment of salary dues

Thomas Cook  (India)  share price rose 4.34% to Rs 131 compared to the previous close of Rs 125.55 on BSE

The rupee opened weak at 71.10 at the interbank forex market and then fell further to 71.11, down 14 paise over its last close

Reliance Industries (RIL) share price rose 1.18%  to Rs 1,449  compared to the previous close of Rs 1,432

In 2018-19, India produced an all-time high 33.16 million tonnes of sugar but for the first time since 2016-17, the country will produce less sugar than the year before at about 26 million tonnes

Although Jio has said that the rival telcos have financial strength to pay AGR dues of over Rs 92,000 crore, it also said that the failure of its rival operators will not have an impact on the sector dynamics.

Scheepbouwer wouldn't say that India has underperformed (its revenues are still modest given its continued investments in people and TV campaigns over the years). But he does acknowledge that foreign investors perhaps were oversold on the India story.

Ravi Shankar Prasad also asked the telecom operators to monetise assets in a time-bound manner and stated that they have to be more aggressive in the telecom market.

Apple is eyeing a share of the increasing Indian streaming market and has aggressively priced Apple TV+ at a monthly subscription of Rs 99, contrary to the US pricing of $4.99 per month

Reliance Jio has accused rivals, including Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea, of \"illegally\" masquerading wire-line numbers as mobile numbers for \"undue enrichment\" and has urged TRAI to slap \"severest penalty\" on them for violating regulations and licensing norms

Trai had proposed to move from the current IUC regime to the BAK (bill and keep) regime where no operator will charge for mobile call transmission, from January 1, 2020

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