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DoT extends deadline to June 30 to reassess Vodafone Idea AGR dues, licence fee review is done but spectrum charge recalculation faces delays due to missing records The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended the deadline for reassessing adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues of Vodafone Idea by three months to June 30, according to a Moneycontrol report. The move comes as field officials continue to face challenges in completing the exercise. According to the Moneycontrol report, the e ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a setback to telecom service provider Vodafone Idea, the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has extended the deadline for reassessing adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues of Vodafone Idea till June 30. Earlier, the ministry had set a target to complete this reassessment by March 31. According to officials in the DoT, Vodafone Idea could not submit the required documents related to Spectrum Usage Charges (SUC) in multiple circles on time, and the field offices (CCAs) faced delays in ...Read More >
New Delhi: India will become the logistics powerhouse globally by 2030, said Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday. Scindia said India Post will have a central role in this journey, estimating that the public sector body's revenue will grow by 18-20% in FY27, from nearly ₹13,000 crore in FY26. Also Read: Executives meet Jyotiraditya Scindia as Starlink awaits India nod "We are moving now towards becoming a logistics powerhouse, not only of India, but hopefully by ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) Communication service apps need to report compliance with SIM-binding rules by December 31, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Telecom, Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, said that the web services of mobile apps are required to be logged out on the basis of risk-based analysis, and the government has not specified any time period for the log out. "The government has issued directions to certain app-based communicatio ...Read More >
New Delhi: India will become the logistics powerhouse globally by 2030, said Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday. Scindia said India Post will have a central role in this journey, estimating that the public sector body's revenue will grow by 18-20% in FY27, from nearly ₹13,000 crore in FY26. Also Read: Executives meet Jyotiraditya Scindia as Starlink awaits India nod "We are moving now towards becoming a logistics powerhouse, not only of India, but hopefully by 2 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 2 (PTI) Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thursday issued a one-week deadline to the Department of Posts for integrating its pension services with the telecom department's 'SAMPANN' portal. Speaking at an event in the national capital, Scindia directed top officials from both departments to end ongoing discussions and finalise the integration immediately. "Why is it that the postal department is not using the Sampann portal? I want (officials) to meet straight a ...Read More >
New Delhi: India's satellite internet story is slowly picking up pace, and this time it's coming from the hills of Meghalaya. The state government has signed a Letter of Intent with Starlink India to test satellite broadband in remote regions. The pilot will focus on areas like education, healthcare, disaster response, and local economic activity. At the same time, discussions are moving at the central level as well. Senior executives from SpaceX recently met telecom minister Jyotiraditya Scind ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended the deadline for implementing SIM-binding by over-the-top (OTT) platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Snapchat, Signal and Arattai to December 31 following industry pushback. It has also rolled back the mandate requiring web and desktop sessions of OTT platforms to automatically log out within six hours and require re-authentication through QR code pairing. Instead, it has adopted a risk-based approach, where sessions must be termi ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The western region cyber police arrested an autorickshaw driver for allowing a cyber fraud racket to use his account to divert defrauded money from an Andheri based senior citizen who was cheated of ₹1.54 crore. The victim, a 69-year-old resident of Andheri who retired from a private firm, was trapped by a cyber criminal who called him in December 2025 and claimed he had been circulating obscene clips for extortion. Officers from the cyber cell said the frauds told the elderly they we ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 1: In a concerning case of cyber fraud, a sitting judge of a city court in Mumbai was duped of Rs 93,000 by cybercriminals who used a malicious customer care application to gain access to his banking details. The 46-year-old judge, posted at the Small Causes Court, sought technical assistance after noticing a display issue on his mobile phone on March 30. While searching online for help, he came across a contact number claiming to be that of Samsung customer care. Upon calling the ...Read More >
Mumbai, April 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a concerning case of cyber fraud, a sitting judge of a city court in Mumbai was duped of Rs 93,000 by cybercriminals who used a malicious customer care application to gain access to his banking details. The 46-year-old judge, posted at the Small Causes Court, sought technical assistance after noticing a display issue on his mobile phone on March 30. While searching online for help, he came across a contact number claiming to be that of Samsung customer care. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 31 (PTI) Senior bureaucrat Vir Vikram Yadav has been appointed as the chief of Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) as part of a senior-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the Centre on Tuesday. Yadav, a 1996 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the Odisha cadre, succeeds incumbent Faiz Ahmed Kidwai, who has now been appointed as Additional Secretary, Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT). Yadav is an Additional Secretary, Ministry of Environme ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31: In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a 69-year-old retired senior officer from the DN Nagar area of Andheri in Mumbai was subjected to 'digital arrest' for 25 days and defrauded of Rs 1.57 crore by cybercriminals posing as police and court officials. The accused even staged a mock court hearing via video call, invoking the name of a former Supreme Court judge to intimidate the victim. According to Mumbai Police, acting swiftly on the victim's complaint, the Cyber Cell arrested a ...Read More >
Mumbai, March 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) In a shocking case of cyber fraud, a 69-year-old retired senior officer from the DN Nagar area of Andheri in Mumbai was subjected to 'digital arrest' for 25 days and defrauded of Rs 1.57 crore by cybercriminals posing as police and court officials. The accused even staged a mock court hearing via video call, invoking the name of a former Supreme Court judge to intimidate the victim. According to Mumbai Police, acting swiftly on the victim's complaint, the Cyber ...Read More >
Officials said Bharti Airtel has to pay more than ₹5,000 crore toward AGR dues while Tata Teleservices has to pay over ₹4,000 crore, adding that the amount will be higher when accrued interest is incorporated in the instalment. New Delhi: Bharti Airtel and Tata Teleservices are required to pay nearly ₹10,000 crore to the government by March 31 as part of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. Officials told that in the absence of relief on the lines of Vodafone Idea (Vi), the telecom op ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 10 (UNI) union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Jitendra Singh on Tuesday interacted with representatives of various pensioners' associations and chaired the 35th meeting of the Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA) in New Delhi. SCOVA was constituted in 1986 by the Department of Pension and Pensioners' Welfare to institutionalise coordination between the government and pensioners' associations. The committee functions under the chairman ...Read More >
India LPG Shortage: India's ongoing LPG shortage is no longer just a concern for household cooking, as the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran entered its 12th day on Wednesday. Experts say the situation could also indirectly affect services such as mobile networks and internet connectivity. LPG is used in certain industries and also serves as a backup fuel for generators that power telecom towers and data centres. If the supply disruption continues, operations in areas that rely on ...Read More >
New Delhi, Feb 23 (PTI) The telecom department has written to Noida International Airport asking it to take necessary steps to enable installation of telecom infrastructure by private operators, as it cited the Telecom Act and other rules under which the airport qualifies as a 'public entity'. The Telecom Act, alongside Telecom (Right of Way) Rules, offers a statutory framework for the grant of Right of Way permissions to facility providers, including licenced telecom service providers for the ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has asked all insurance companies to adopt special 1600-series telephone numbers by February 15, to help protect consumers from fraud calls. All entities regulated by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India must use the designated numbering series for customer service and transaction-related calls, Trai said in a direction issued on Tuesday. The deadline was set in consultation with the insurance regulator. The 1600 s ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has asked all insurance companies to adopt special 1600-series telephone numbers by February 15, to help protect consumers from fraud calls. All entities regulated by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India must use the designated numbering series for customer service and transaction-related calls, Trai said in a direction issued on Tuesday. The deadline was set in consultation with the insurance regulator. The 1600 s ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has mandated that entities regulated by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) should adopt, by February 15, 2026, the '1600' series numbers for making service and transactional calls to consumers. The Trai said that the direction has been issued with the objective of enhancing consumer trust, curbing spam, and preventing fraudulent activities perpetrated through voice calls. "The series will ...Read More >
New Delhi: Probing an organised cybercrime network involving the use of over 20,000 illegally procured SIM cards, CBI conducted raids in Delhi, Noida and Chandigarh over the weekend and discovered a 'phishing factory' that was using SIM boxes -- devices that can hold hundreds of SIMs cards, disguise international calls and bypass telecom rules -- to dupe thousands of people.Three suspects -- Sonveer Singh, Maneesh Upreti and Himalaya -- have been arrested in connection with the case.TOI had repo ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 15 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested three organised cyber gang members during raids in Delhi, Noida, and Chandigarh for supplying 21,000 SIM cards used for sending bulk messages for frauds like digital arrests, loan scams and investment offers, an official said on Monday. Sonveer Singh, Maneesh Upreti and Himalaya were arrested after the CBI detected that the gang was providing bulk SMS services to cyber criminals to send phishing messages. ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 15 (PTI) The CBI has busted a gang allegedly involved in providing phishing messaging services to cyber criminals to trap gullible citizens through offers of fake loans and investment opportunities, and arrested three operatives, officials said Monday. In its initial investigation, the central agency identified 21,000 SIM cards which were obtained fraudulently in violation of the rules, they said. Initial probe also shows role of some channel partners of telecom companies and th ...Read More >
Vodafone Idea (Vi)'s financial health looks set for significant improvement, if local press is to be believed. According to an Economic Times report, the government is considering a four-to-five year, interest-free moratorium on the telco's adjusted gross revenue (AGR) liabilities, which today stands at a hefty 830 billion rupees (approximately $9.2 billion at current exchange rates), straining Vi's finances to their limit. Even more good news, the government is also reportedly mulling whether ...Read More >
It asked the Department of Telecom to ensure that telecom service providers do not provide multiple SIM cards to one user or entity, which may be used in cyber crimes. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the CBI to carry out a unified pan-India probe into digital arrest scam cases and asked the RBI as to why it was not using Artificial Intelligence to find out and freeze bank accounts used by cyber criminals. Digital arrest is a growing form of cyber crime in which fraudsters pose as ...Read More >
Delhi/Hyderabad, Dec 1 (Maxim News) The Supreme Court on Monday handed over the investigation into the nationwide 'digital arrest' scam to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), granting the agency sweeping powers to probe what it described as a crime of alarming scale and sophistication. Here To Join Us On WhatsApp A Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant said the CBI would be the first and primary agency to investigate all cases related to the scam, which involves fraudster ...Read More >
New Delhi, Dec 1 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Monday asked the CBI to carry out a unified pan-India probe into digital arrest scam cases and asked the RBI as to why it was not using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to find out and freeze bank accounts used by cyber criminals. Digital arrest is a growing form of cybercrime in which fraudsters pose as law enforcement, court officials or personnel from government agencies to intimidate victims through audio and video calls. They hold the victims hostage ...Read More >
India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has privately asked smartphone makers to pre-load all new devices in India with its cyber safety app Sanchar Saathi, reports Reuters. The publication claims that a November 28, 2025, order by the DoT gives smartphone brands 90 days to ensure all new mobile phones are pre-loaded with the Sanchar Saathi (pronounced: sun-chaar saa-thi) app, with the provision that users cannot disable it. The order, meant to tackle a surge in cybercrime and hacking, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court's ruling on telecom AGR (adjusted gross revenue) empowers the Cabinet to review the entire gamut of issues related to recovery of thousands of crores of rupees from Vodafone Idea, when it comes to matters of duplicate payments, double-counting, interest and penalty on interest, as pointed out by the company. Estimates put Voda Idea's AGR outstanding to govt at around Rs 80,000 crore, though the company has refused to specify the exact amount. And, not just Vodafone I ...Read More >
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