Telecom Scam

Today's Best of BS Opinion weighs UPI's funding model, freight corridor gains, India's AI strategy, Delhi's student housing crisis and J S Deepak's memoir

Astr is the third reform, which uses AI to find out the total number of connections each person has taken

Thousands of Chinese officials and executives of state-owned companies have been ensnared in a long-running crackdown on embezzlement, taking bribes and other misbehavior

A day after the Congress accused the BJP-led government of giving a bonanza of Rs 46,000 crore to telecom firms, most stocks fell about 3%. Market experts, though, called it a knee-jerk reaction

A CAG report tabled in Parliament in March said six telecom companies under-reported their adjusted gross revenue by Rs 46,045.75 crore

Says Centre allowing 6 telcos to avoid paying Rs 45,000 cr dues; Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says charges 'utterly bogus'