Sunil Mittal

The calling feature, which will work over 4G and wi-fi to begin with is available on Android currently while iOS and Windows will be followed by end of the year, the company said in a statement.

This ratio is the highest in case of Mittal in comparison to any other director for the company, followed by CEO (India and South East Asia) Gopal Vittal whose remuneration was Rs 5.34 crore (excluding perquisite value of stock options) — 636 times of the median staff pay.

With this partnership, Bharti Realty has forayed into the residential segment. It will develop over 2,000 apartments in this project covering about 5.2 million sq ft of area.

With strong GDP growth, expanding base of start ups and growing trend of new technologies like cloud in the country, the 21st century is Indian century, IBM chief Virginia Rometty said.

Rahul takes over from Manoj Kohli, who has assumed the role of Executive Chairman, SBG Cleantech - a JV between SoftBank, Bharti and Foxconn for renewable energy, Bharti Enterprises said in a statement.

Telecom major Bharti Airtel on Wednesday committed to invest more than Rs 1 lakh crore or about USD 16 billion in next five years in technology space.

Quoting latest data published by World Cellular Information Service (WCIS), Airtel has over 303 million mobile subscribers across its operations and has moved up one position in the global rankings.

Airtel did not share investment details in OneWeb but said it will be able to leverage the investment by becoming a preferred distributor of these services across its operations in 20 countries in Asia and Africa.

SoftBank together with Sunil Mittal's Bharti Enterprises and Foxconn today announced a three-way joint venture company, SBG Cleantech, to invest up to USD 20 billion to generate 20 gigawatt of solar power.

Earlier this month, the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) had approved the two deals worth Rs 1,290 crore.

The company also announced termination of its controversial 3G intra-circle roaming agreements with Vodafone and Idea in various circles, except Kerala, by the end of 2015-16 fiscal.

Ideal Cellular, which provides mobile services using GSM technology, bid a maximum of Rs 30,306.98 crore to buy spectrum in the 900 megahertz, 1800 MHz and 2,100 MHz bands.

Facebook has launched an 'internet.org' initiative under which users can access internet free of charge for select websites if they come through a partner telecom operator.

It is fairly clear that the auction is crucial for some, and no so crucial for others. Of the seven players who will be bidding for 2G and 3G spectrum, the stakes are highest for Kumar Birla‘s Idea Cellular, which has nine circles coming up for renewal, followed by Vodafone (seven circles), Reliance Communications (seven) and Bharti (six).

Both companies will work together for understanding and sharing testing and validation practices including network equipment, features and new releases etc, and will also jointly conduct proof of concepts as well as trials.

Among the 90 Indians on the Forbes Rich List 2015, published on Monday, Ambani (39th globally) is closely followed by pharmaceuticals business tycoon Dilip Shanghvi (44th rank with networth of USD 20 billion) and Azim Premji (48th with USD 19.1 billion).

The court was earlier informed that the Supreme Court has quashed the order summoning Bharti Cellular CMD Sunil Bharti Mittal and Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia as accused in the case.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman are also expected to attend the meeting, which among other things is likely to focus on Make In India campaign and ease of doing business.

The apex court, in its April 26 last year interim order, had said that hearing against Mittal and Ruia in the case will remain "postponed" in the trial court until further orders.

Essar Group promoter Ravi Ruia today told the Supreme Court that he was not connected with the day-to-day affairs of accused company Sterling Cellular Ltd and the special court wrongly summoned him as an accused in a corruption case related to allocation of additional spectrum during the NDA regime in 2002.