Bharti Airtel employees will also make personal voluntary contributions towards the cause through a platform set up by the company; the telecom giant is among scores of big contributors including Tata Sons, Reliance Industry, among others

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The court has also categorically denied self-assessment of the AGR dues by the telcos, and has asked companies to pay all four components of the dues: principal, interest on the principal, penalty, and interest on penalty

Vodafone Idea share price crashed up to 40% to Rs 2.91 against previous close of Rs 4.85

The Supreme Court has scheduled the government's plea on fixing of \"reasonable time\" for making AGR dues payment in the next three weeks

The $1.8 billion decline in Mukesh Ambani's wealth comes on the back of 8% or Rs 91 fall in the share price of RIL today

\"There is no versus...They asked us to self-assess, we have self-assessed and paid,\" commented Sunil Mittal on Airtel's payment being less than the government's calculation

Assessment of dues by DoT was done for period 2006-07 to February 2020; Airtel says though it has complied with October verdict, its actual dues are one-third of total amount

Bharti Airtel has paid Rs 1,950 crore to the telecom department towards its deferred spectrum dues, while Reliance Jio has made a payment of Rs 1,053 crore

The \"test checks\" of AGR calculation for a sample year would commence shortly and it could be as early as this week at least for large telecom companies, says a DoT official

AGR case: The latest deposit that the company paid on Saturday was of Rs 3,004 crore. On February 17, the Sunil Mittal-led company had paid Rs 10,000 crore to the DoT

Despite an AGR burden of Rs 53,000 crore, Vodafone Idea hopes for a fresh lease of life, right before a crucial meeting of the highest decision-making authority in the Telecom Ministry

According to Moody's, Rs 35,300 crore cash payment will not cause a significant deterioration in the credit quality of Bharti Airtel, although it will substantially reduce its available cash reserves for Indian operations

Share price of Bharti Airtel fell up to 2.78% to Rs 520.45 compared to the previous close of Rs 535.35 on BSE

Share Market Update: BSE 30-share S&P Sensex closed 392 points lower at 39,888 and NSE 50-share index Nifty50 closed 119 points lower at 11,678.

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All three telecom companies Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Tata Teleservices have been asked to provide substantiating documents to support their claims on AGR arithmetic

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COAI termed the 'test checks' being proposed by the telecom department to examine deviation in calculation of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues by telcos as a \"standard audit procedure\"

Of total amount, Rs 9,780 crore will be towards secondary sale of shares by GMR group and Rs 1,000 crore will be equity infusion in GMR Airports Ltd