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After taking on the telecom sector and readying a foray into e-commerce, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries is now reportedly eyeing the diagnostics market. RIL is looking to do this by partnering with local entrepreneurs. It is also reportedly looking to collaborate with doctors, existing...

So, India may move to Expenditure tax from Income Tax ;)

Individual IT rate (max) may reduce from 30 to 20% as compared to corporate tax.

Almost two and a half years since its launch, the GST council is expected to discuss major restructuring to raise the base slab from 5% to 9-10%, while doing away with the 12% rate and moving 243 items in items in this segment to the 18% GST Council may raise base rate to 10% from 5%, move 243...

TRAI already asks Braodcasters for each channel price, which are in bouquets, to fix the a la carte channel MRP.

TRAI can force broadcasters to reduce MRP of a la carte price, on the basis of boutique price.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) expects the TV channel prices to settle down to the advantage of the consumers, the government told the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Minister of Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar said that the focus of the new regulatory framework is to...

Netflix and Amazon searches for OTT programs aquisition, not for Satellite network.

Disney/Star also have good relationship with Jio from inception of 4G

Without Indian Content (Cricket & Movies) they will not succeed.

Bharti Telecom, a promoter of Bharti Airtel, has sought government nod for the infusion of Rs 4,900 crore investment from Singapore-based Singtel and other foreign entities, a move that would make the country's oldest private telecom operator a foreign entity. The Department of Telecom had...

AVOID also breaks the promise of free incoming for lifetime, which was charged Rs.999 per sim earlier. Now AVOID wants ARPU Rs.300 per month in coming days.

As a No.1 Jio takes Airtel charge, Airtel plays Jio way.

Jio says its rates still cheapest despite Airtel, Vodafone Idea move to remove offnet call limits Jio says its rates still cheapest despite Airtel, Vodafone Idea move to remove offnet call limits

Jio was utlized spectrum efficiency with 30cr+ 4g data customers onboard