rishi raj Columns, Leading Columnist

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Wednesday 25 Apr '12The biggest problem with using 3G base prices is that with the economy and telecom in trouble, few want to invest.
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Friday 13 Apr '12The 122 licences being cancelled accounted for just 4.3% of active subscribers and 2.8% of the industry’s revenues.
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Monday 20 Feb '12Around 10 years ago, Maruti launched the Versa, a multi-utility vehicle.
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Friday 10 Feb '12With the Supreme Court cancelling the 122 licences given by former telecom minister A Raja in January 2008, there have been demands by certain commentators and analysts that the government should compensate the companies who got the licences and made investments in the sector.
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Saturday 28 Jan '12If top telecom honchos like Bharti Airtel’s Sunil Mittal and Reliance Communications’ Anil Ambani along with other bigwigs met telecom minister Kapil Sibal twice in the last two months, it’s not without reason.
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Wednesday 11 Jan '12At his recent interaction with editors, Tata Group chairman Ratan Tata made a very pertinent point. He said that group company Tata Motors, which happens to be the country’s largest automobile company and its third largest passenger car maker, should now be seen as a global company and not merely as Tata Motors India or Tata Motors UK.

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Thursday 08 Dec '11Politicians are the same all over the world. They promise to make bridges where there are no rivers.
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Tuesday 29 Nov '11The government has finally opened multi-brand retail to foreign investment and the opposition parties have gone to town with protests.
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Wednesday 09 Nov '11If measured by financial as well as operational performance, the action in the automobile market this fiscal has shifted from the four-wheeler to the two-wheeler companies.
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Tuesday 25 Oct '11With the special CBI court framing charges in the 2G spectrum scam, the case has now moved into its most important stage.
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Wednesday 12 Oct '11A serious problem is staring at the government in general and telecom minister Kapil Sibal in particular—a problem that the New Telecom Policy 2011 will not be able to address.
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Wednesday 07 Sep '11Your letter dated August 20 to the CBI on the 2G spectrum scam, stating that Trai never asked for auctions in 2003 and 2007, and it did not even ask for revision of entry fee in 2007, has created a lot of confusion.
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Wednesday 31 Aug '11It has to be more than a coincidence that on the same day the CBI was pulled up by the Gujarat High Court for botching up the investigations into the Haren Pandya murder, CBI counsel UU Lalit told the special CBI court in the 2G scam that the agency had failed to find any evidence of any quid pro quo as far as money changing hands is concerned in the Unitech Wireless case.
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Tuesday 16 Aug '11The slowdown in auto sales has been well recounted in the news pages by now.
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Friday 05 Aug '11Since the beginning of last week, the accused in the 2G spectrum case have been presenting their defence in the CBI special court.
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Thursday 16 Jun '11Serial entrepreneur C Sivasankaran has embarrassed the UPA government for the second time in a span of two years. In both instances, the ministers with egg on their faces happened to be from the DMK—A Raja earlier and Dayanidhi Maran now.
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Friday 03 Jun '11Going by the financial and operational performance of the country’s top three mobile operators, the ones that have announced their results so far, it is quite established now that not only are the days of double-digit growth and profits passé but it will take quite some time for the industry to regain its robustness. Not that this revelation is new.
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Wednesday 11 May '11The steel ministry has once again started working on a national steel policy. If the effort fructifies, it will have to be called a new national steel policy since currently a national steel policy is in force, since 2005.
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Thursday 05 May '11Perception is stronger than truth is the commonly held wisdom.
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Friday 15 Apr '11The first chargesheet filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation on April 2 before the special court to try the 2G spectrum scam has been seen as weak by many.
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Saturday 09 Apr '11The Jan Lokpal Bill can’t do anything about corporate corruption like Satyam and 2G, and that is the real issue.
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Thursday 24 Mar '11There are no permanent enemies, no permanent friends, only permanent interests…The best practitioner of the Churchillian dictum today appears to be telecom minister Kapil Sibal, in the manner in which he is handling various scams and non-scams under his charge.
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Tuesday 22 Mar '11You made a startling revelation in the course of an interview to a TV news channel last week.
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Friday 11 Mar '11In 2003, when it was clear Reliance Infocomm was providing full-blown mobility instead of the limited mobility that its licence allowed, the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal came up with a 2:1 judgement that said Reliance’s unlimited mobility services had to be stopped.
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Tuesday 08 Mar '11It’s a pity that the system of learning through case studies does not exist in government. Why else would it flounder when it comes to cases of reviving loss-making Air India or BSNL, when it has a record of giving a package of as high as R8,000 crore to a public sector undertaking that revived within two years of getting this bailout?