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Business Standard
28-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Product nation: Dholera and India's quest to build factories for the world
The road map to India becoming a global manufacturing hub is clear, but it is R&D that will truly change the game Nivedita Mookerji New Delhi Listen to This Article A guided tour of the Dholera Special Investment Region (SIR) typically starts with a short audio-visual presentation titled 'New Vision for New India'. It showcases a high-tech city of global standards that boasts 360-degree connectivity via air, rail, road, and ports. Visualised as a showpiece manufacturing hub, this greenfield town of Gujarat has been in the making for the past many years. Now, finally, it is expecting an international airport sometime early next year, a broad-gauge railway line in the near future, and linkages with important ports such as Pipavav soon. Located some 150 km from Ahmedabad, Dholera SIR, which
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Business Standard
22-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
Deepali Gupta traces the India story through its mobile telephony tales
To understand today's telecom business, one must trace the evolution of the entrepreneurs who shaped it Nivedita Mookerji New Delhi Telecom Wars: The Race to Capture a Billion Voices by Deepali Gupta Penguin Random House India 459 pages ₹1,299 The telecom sector is buzzing again, making this book timely and relevant. There's action both on the terrestrial telephony front and the satellite side of the business. In a surprise move, Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel Group recently approached the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) seeking conversion of its AGR dues into government equity under the package offered for stressed telecom companies (telcos) in 2021. Vodafone Idea is a recipient of that package and Airtel clarified in its post-earnings call that it was exploring a level
