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Ambani’s Jio joins with Musk’s Starlink in surprise move

March 12 (Reuters) – Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio said it has signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring Starlink satellite internet services to India, a surprise move from the billionaires after being at odds for several months over how the country should grant them spectrum. The deal follows a similar partnership between Starlink and No. 2 telecom player Bharti Airtel announced for the India market a day before. Both deals are conditional upon Starlink obtaining government approval to begin operations in the country. The agreements come weeks after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Elon Musk in

Opposition members in Rajya Sabha accuse govt of forcibly thrusting National Education Policy on states, impinging upon their autonomy

New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) Opposition members in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday accused the government of forcibly thrusting on states the National Education Policy and impinging on their autonomy. During the discussion on the working of Ministry of Education, Ritabrata Banerjee (TMC) and Kanimozhi NVN Somu (DMK) accused the Centre of withholding funds meant for education programmes in opposition ruled states of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. “Without any consultations with the state governments, the NEP (National Education Policy) has been forcibly thrusted upon states,” Banerjee said adding the West Bengal government was forced to stop the four-year graduation course

Bureaucrats can’t be allowed to frustrate grassroot democracy: Supreme Court

New Delhi, Mar 11 (PTI) The Supreme Court has said bureaucrats couldn’t be allowed to “frustrate grassroot democracy” and upheld a Bombay High Court order reinstating a woman as the sarpanch of a Maharashtra village. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and N Kotiswar Singh said it noticed several recent instances from the state where bureaucrats misbehaved with the elected representatives of Panchayats. “We have given judgements in two-three cases where babus were found to be misbehaving with the elected representatives. This is happening typically in Maharashtra. These babus should be under the elected representatives. These bureaucrats cannot be allowed

BJD demands ECI conduct independent “process audit” of entire election process

New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): A Biju Janata Dal delegation on Tuesday went to the ECI (Election Commission) and demanded that the Commission conduct a periodic “process audit” of the entire election process by independent auditors or the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG). In its letter to the electoral body, the BJD also demanded to make such report public as is being done in several countries where democratic elections are held. “We had mentioned in our earlier Memorandum that discrepancies indicated therein were unusual and showed that there was either machine (EVM) error or manual error (during data entry)

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