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In a major advantage to old GSM operators, the government today said all service providers would be allowed to hold higher spectrum of up to 10 MHz, a move that would help them offer quality services. Announcing a part of the New Telecom Policy, Telecom
India announced a uniform telecom licence fee policy under the new telecom policy on Wednesday. Telecom minister Kapil Sibal announced that the telecom regulator will announce a migration path for existing licence holders to the uniform licence regime.
Indian Minister of Communication and IT Kapil Sibal speaks during the inaugural session of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) at the India Leadership Forum in Mumbai on February 14, 2012. India's flagship information... View Photo »
In order to cater to the huge demand, we need several manufacturers to manufacture Aakash. We are enhancing the specifications on the basis of feedback we have received from the first version of Aakash. So we want to make sure that the upgraded product caters to the need of the customers... We have invo...
Telecom minister Kapil Sibal has announced new telecom rules on Wednesday. He said all license henceforth will be unified and there will be a cap on spectrum capacity in case of mergers and acquisitions which in turn requires surrendering excess capacity
India will allow mergers and acquisitions in the telecoms sector that create combined market share of up to 35 per cent, under a quick and simple process, Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal said. A new telecoms policy will be announced in April, he added. The
National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) vice chairman and Tata Consultancy Services chief executive N. Chandrasekaran (L) and NASSCOM president Som Mittal (R) watch as Indian Minister of Communication and IT Kapil Sibal (2L)... View Photo »
In my 17 years in the sector - I have never seen such a power call.to meet seven top functionaries starting with the Prime Minister and including Pranab Mukherjee, Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma among other officials - all in just one day, is historic
Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Wedenesday said that all future licences will be auctioned and that the licences will not to be linked with spectrum allocation. He also said that the spectrum sharing will be permitted under automatic route; uniform licen
Kapil Sibal is the Union minister in Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences in the Cabinet of India. He was born in Jalandhar, Punjab on 8 August 1948 and obtained his M.A. in History from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi, Delhi and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, USA. Full Article
Indian Minister of Communication and IT Kapil Sibal speaks during the inaugural session of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) at the India Leadership Forum in Mumbai on February 14, 2012. India's flagship information technology sector is 'resilient and...
View Photo »Indian Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal addresses a press conference regarding the Supreme Court ruling on 2G spectrum licenses, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. India's top court ordered the government on Thursday to cancel 122 licenses granted to companies during...
View Photo »Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, center, Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari, second left, and Indian Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal, right, walk after Hasina received an honorary Doctor of Literature (DLit) degree at Tripura University in Agartala, India,...
View Photo »India's Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal addresses a press conference in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Sibal said Tuesday that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would...
View Photo »Indian Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal addresses a press conference in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Sibal said that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the government would have to...
View Photo »Chairman of Reliance Communications Anil Dhirubhai (L) and Ambani Group's Anil Ambani leave after a meeting at Indian Minister of Communications and Information Technolog Kapil Sibal's residence in New Delhi on January 24, 2012. Top chiefs of Indian telecom companies met with minister...
View Photo »Indian Minister of Communications and Information Technolog Kapil Sibal arrives at Parliament in New Delhi on November 23, 2011. Price rises, black money, and Telangana were among a host of issues that disrupted Parliament on the second day of the winter session.
View Photo »Kapil Sibal , Indian Minister of Human Resource Development and Communications, and Information Technology speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum - India Economic Summit in Mumbai on November 13, 2011. More than 800 participants from 40 countries are due to take part in the...
View Photo »India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, center, his deputy D. Purandeswari, left display the supercheap 'Aakash' Tablet computer during its launch as School Education and Literacy Secretary Anshu Vaish, right, applauds in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. The...
View Photo »Indian Human Resource Develpoment (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal (R) presents the 'Akash' 46 USD (34 euros) computer tablet to student Sonali Garg (L) as Junior HRD Minister D. Purandeswari (L) looks after its launch in New Delhi on October 5, 2011. India launched its long-awaited 'computer...
View Photo »Indian Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal arrives in parliament in New Delhi on August 2, 2011. The Parliament's 39-day monsoon session is slated to debate or approve 32 new laws including the hard-fought Lokpal Bill, which if passed will arm a national ombudsman with...
View Photo »Indian protestors hold placards and flowers outside the residence of India's telecommunications minister Kapil Sibal as they protest against the government plans to screen websites for derogatory content in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. Sibal said Tuesday that Internet...
View Photo »Activists from Shaheed Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena, a Hindu group, hold placards as they are detained by police during a protest outside the residence of India's Telecoms and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal, in New Delhi December 7, 2011. India has urged social network...
View Photo »Indian Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal arrives for a meeting at the Finance Ministry in New Delhi on June 21, 2011. The joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill has met here for the last time amid 'fresh and serious' differences between the government and the Anna Hazare...
View Photo »Indian Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, left, and Home minister P Chidambaram come out after a meeting of the committee to draft legislation for an anti-corruption watchdog, in New Delhi, India, Monday, June 20, 2011.
View Photo »Indian Home Minister P.Chidambaram (L) and Human Resource Development minister Kapil Sibal (R) leave after a meeting at the Finance Ministry in New Delhi on June 20, 2011. The joint drafting committee on Lokpal Bill met here today amid hardening of stand by the government and civil...
View Photo »Rajendra S. Pawar (L), Chairman of NIIT Group, Natarajan Chandrasekaran (C) Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services listen to Kapil Sibal, Minister of Human Resource Development and Communications, and Information Technology in Indian speak during a...
View Photo »India's Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal gestures during a news conference in New Delhi April 11, 2011. Merger and acquisition guidelines in India's crowded telecoms sector need to be liberal, Sibal said on Monday. India is overhauling its decade-old telecoms policy in a bid to make the...
View Photo »Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science & Technology and Earth Sciences of India, attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos in this January 31, 2009 file photo. India's Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal said March 8, 2011 he and other government officials met with industry...
View Photo »Supporters of Indian social activist Anna Hazare carry carry an effigy representing Indian telecom minister Kapil Sibal as they stage a rally outside Tihar Jail in New Delhi on August 18, 2011. A planned 15-day public fast by Indian anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare was postponed to...
View Photo »A man surfs a Facebook page at an Internet cafe in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. India's Telecommunications Minister Kapil Sibal said Tuesday that Internet giants such as Facebook and Google have ignored his demands to screen derogatory material from their sites, so the...
View Photo »Young supporters of anti-corruption activist Anna Hazare wear topi caps and wave Indian national flags during Hazare's fast at Ramlila Grounds in New Delhi on August 22, 2011. Responding to anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare's call, supporters begun sit-in protest outside residences...
View Photo »A supporter of veteran Indian social activist Anna Hazare shouts anti-government slogans from a police vehicle after being detained during a protest rally held against corruption in Mumbai August 16, 2011. Police arrested India's leading anti-corruption campaigner on Tuesday, just hours...
View Photo »Indian spiritual guru Swami Ramdev (R) gestures as he addresses supporters in Gurgaon, some 25kms south of New Delhi on June 2, 2011. India's government Is attempting to to placate a famed yoga guru whose plan to start an anti-corruption hunger strike at the weekend has piled pressure...
View Photo »Indian Minister of Communication and IT Kapil Sibal speaks during the inaugural session of the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) at the India Leadership Forum in Mumbai on February 14, 2012. India's flagship information technology sector is 'resilient and...
View Photo »In order to cater to the huge demand, we need several manufacturers to manufacture Aakash. We are enhancing the specifications on the basis of feedback we have received from the first version of Aakash. So we want to make sure that the upgraded product caters to the need of the customers... We have invo...
In my 17 years in the sector - I have never seen such a power call.to meet seven top functionaries starting with the Prime Minister and including Pranab Mukherjee, Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibal, Anand Sharma among other officials - all in just one day, is historic
To cater to the huge demand, we need several manufacturers to produce Aakash. We are enhancing the specifications on the basis of feedback we received from the first version of Aakash. So, we want to make sure that the upgraded product caters to the need of the customers... We have involved ITI to upgra...
Even when Ramdev was enjoying bonhomie with the government and communicating very cordially with Kapil Sibal and even the prime minister, the police had been telling the organizers that it could not allow them to convert a yoga camp into an anti-corruption rally and allow a gathering of more than 5,000 ...
In case of matters concerning weaker sections such as SCs/STs/OBCs or minorities, the ombudsman can co-opt a person of eminence from the area coming from the weaker section to assist him/her in arriving at a decision
The Parliamentary Standing Committee, while examining the Bill to prohibit and punish unfair practices, had recommended to constitute the grievance redressal mechanisms in higher education institution
We believe in resolving issues rather than highlighting them.
I will meet with the industry players soon to discuss the 3G roaming issue, industry players have sought time and I am hopeful to resolve the issue
Having taken an oath to the Constitution our job is to discuss, debate and inform. If we do not do that, then in a sense we are not doing things consistent to the oath that we have taken
I have refused to comment on these issues, please do not seek to extract a comment from me
It is our job to work, we get paid for it. It is not just issue of money, it is an issue of public service.
We are moving towards a new policy of one nation, one licence. We are now in transition and there is a legacy issue. We want to take the opinion of all stakeholders. I am planning to discuss these issues and will call every stake holder
I can move a bill, but can't pass it if Parliament is stalled
If somebody does not impose a penalty of Rs 50 crore, they fear that a complaint will be filed which will say, 'You have been bought over by such and such person'.
Opposition is not willing to work with us even through we always try to meet them more than half way
Many of them don’t know about the Bills and where we want to go with such reforms
From amendments to the higher education reform Bills along with vocational training we intend for students, I am trying to inform them about the government’s vision. So far, they have been appreciative of the efforts and I have not had a single voice of dissent. We speak to the MPs regularly, but organi...
Everyone believes in reforms so of course it will happen
