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Representatives of Indian industry, including online retail and technology firms, will discuss issues pertaining to trade and e-commerce with WTO chief Roberto Azevedo here tomorrow.

Speaking at a session on future of big businesses at the WEF Annual Meeting 2017 here, the Bharti group chairman said, "disparities have increased in the last 10 years, and the people who feel that are the voters".

In an exclusive interaction with Moneycontrol, CEO and MD of Airtel Payments Bank Shashi Arora said that the company will soon be integrating UPI payments for its account holders but will not issue plastic cards.

"As more and more telecom companies enter the fray, I think we will hopefully see competition not only amongst telecom companies which we read a lot about these days but we will probably see competition between conventional and the new mode of banking that you are going to introduce," Jaitley said at the launch.

Apple Inc officials today met Commerce Ministry top brass amid its plans to open stores in India without initially having to source components locally.

Lauding "big, bold" moves by the government, telecom czar and Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal today said the challenge going forward is to ensure India that has opened its economy in the "most dramatic" way now "asks for rightful movement of people".

The GSMA also elected the new members of the 26-member Board and re-elected Mari-Noëlle Jego-Laveissiere, Executive Vice President, Innovation, Orange Group as Deputy Chair for the two-year period.

Days ahead of start of the country's largest ever spectrum auction, Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal today said the pricing of 700 MHz frequency band is "very expensive".

With less than 10 days to go before the mega spectrum auction kicks off, Mittal termed 700 mHz band as "very expensive", but declined to divulge whether it will bid for the band.

In a freewheeling interview given to Business Standard, Founder & Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Sunil Mittal admitted that Mukesh Ambani's ambitious Jio launch will result in a shake-up in the sector.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of India's largest telecom firm Bharti Airtel, will take home a higher annual pay package of over Rs 30 crore, excluding perquisites, for this fiscal.

"Sunil Bharti Mittal has been re-appointed as the Chairman of the company for further term of five years with effect from October 1, 2016," the company said in a BSE filing, communicating the outcome of its 21st AGM.

Existing investors - Tiger Global, Bharti and Softbank Group - also participated in this round. This is the fourth venture capital round and the biggest to date for Hike, a company founded by Kavin Bharti Mittal, son of Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal.

Sunil Mittal is the third Indian business leader to head ICC in its near-hundred year history of being the world's oldest and most respected global business organisation.

"The scheme of amalgamation of Augere Wireless Broadband India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary with Bharti Airtel Limited, is under consideration for approval by the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi.

NSDL is one of the applicants who has received in-principle approval from RBI to set up a payment bank last year

Rudraradhya will report to Founder and CEO of Hike, Kavin Bharti Mittal, son of Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal, and will help Hike scale its engineering team and streamlining product development.

Low-cost calling apps like Ringo are offering service at nearly 90 per cent cheaper rates than telecom operators. However, domestic call services of Ringo were blocked in the same week it started operating.

Speaking at the B20 session, held on sidelines of the G20 Summit, he also highlighted the need for simpler and easier global trading norms and investments in infrastructure and said the world needs to create more employment opportunities for women and youth.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today conducted an open house discussion on the issue wherein all the stakeholders including mobile operators and consumer groups expressed their views.