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MEGHA MANCHANDA 0 NET USER ADDITION (million) pay for staff 270 Sea View Luxury Apartments New Delhi, 3 December in Dona Paula, Goa | Reliance Jio | Vodafone Idea | Bharti Airtel harti Airtel was the biggest gainer Says airline reached 70% of pre-Covid 3 & 4 Bedroom apartments with large outdoor decks

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4.49 level, operating 1,000 daily flights with 3.8 million subscriber 3.8 3.72 Club house, Mirror Pool & Restaurant with ocean views 1.9 3.65 3.55 1.6 B 3.26 additions, the Telecom Regulatory 1.5 ARINDAM MAJUMDER Starts at `1.53 Crore* Authority of India said. New Delhi, 3 December According to the latest Trai data, 70222 51075 Reliance Jio added 1.5 million users In an apparent sign of recovery while Vodafone Idea continued losing in the aviation sector from the prestigeconstructions.com -1.2 -1.12 -1.26 subscribers. Vodafone Idea pandemic, India’s largest air- A Prestige Group and Mathias Construction Pvt. Ltd. lost 4.6 million subscribers in the line IndiGo has removed leave Joint Development month. BSNL, on the other hand, without pay (LWP) for all its -4.5 -6.35 gained 78,252 users. -4.7 employees. LWP was intro- -4.72 -4.74 -4.82

The wireless subscriber base of Jio -5.26 duced in April to control costs. now stands at 404.1 million. It is 326.6 Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sept The airline took this deci- Tata Power fully repays million for Airtel, and 295.5 million for Source: Trai sion on a day when the gov- Vodafone Idea. ernment allowed them to uti- Jio has 35.1 per cent market share, Airtel had 22.9 per cent share, and Mobile number portability requests lise 80 per cent of pre-Covid Mundra unit bank loans followed by Airtel (28.4 per cent), and Vodafone Idea had 16.5 per cent. increased from 512.1 million in August capacity as the number of pas- While we are not out AMRITHA PILLAY project, based in Gujarat. Vodafone Idea (25.7 per cent). In the wireline segment, Jio gained to 520.8 million in September, the Trai sengers taking a flight con- of the woods, we are Mumbai, 3 December “This action is in line with the Total broadband subscriber base the most with 303,205 additions, as data said. tinues to climb. certainly moving in the company's stated objective of grew 1.41 per cent month-on-month, against Airtel’s 66,335 million. The total number of active “It looks like we are on a “right direction” Tata Power on Thursday said repaying debt in CGPL to reaching 726.3 million. Broadband mar- Jio’s wireline base now is 2.1 million mobile users in the country was path to a graduated and meas- RONOJOY DUTTA, its Mundra subsidiary has reduce the periodic debt serv- ket share of Jio was at 55.9 per cent. users, while that of Airtel is 4.4 million. 958.45 million. ured recovery. In anticipation CEO, IndiGo made the second tranche of icing obligations of CGPL and of the improved revenue that repayment for its bank loans. thus making its operations I know we can deliver, we are With this, the company said, more self-sustainable.” removing LWP across all quarter, IndiGo had a capacity all of the unit’s bank loans The statement said the Cap on domestic departments from January 1, utilisation of over 30 per cent, have been fully repaid. subsidiary in October repaid HONEY ADULTERATION ISSUE 2021,” CEO Ronojoy Dutta and ended it at 47 per cent, In a statement to the BSE, ~2,600 crore of bank loans. wrote to employees. much above its peers. Tata Power said Coastal “With this repayment (~1,550 flights raised Domestic air traffic jumped On Wednesday, IndiGo Gujarat Power (CGPL), a crore) and an earlier repay- FSSAI questions body for to 80% of the most since the lockdown, said it reached 70 per cent of wholly owned subsidiary of ment of ~2,600 crore of bank with a month-on-month its pre-Covid capacity and is the firm, repaid ~1,550 crore of loans made in October 2020, growth of 33 per cent in operating 1,000 international bank loans on Wednesday. the entire bank loans of CGPL, pre-Covid level November. In June, IndiGo and domestic flights daily. CGPL houses Tata Power’s aggregating to ~4,150 crore, not conducting SMR test The cap on the number of had implemented a man- India resumed domestic pas- Mundra ultra-mega power have been fully repaid.” domestic flights that Indian datory LWP programme for 1.5 senger flight operations on Food safety regulator seeks details of CSE tests on honey airlines are permitted to days to 5 days. Subsequently, May 25 after two months due operate was increased from in July, IndiGo announced 5.5 to the lockdown. At the time PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Patanjali, Baidyanath, Zandu, 70 per cent to 80 per cent of additional days of LWP for its of resumption, the govern- New Delhi, 3 December Hitkari and Apis Himalaya, all their pre-Covid levels on pilots, taking the effective ment had allowed airlines to APPOINTMENTS failed the NMR (Nuclear Thursday, said Civil Aviation number of LWPs to 10 days. operate at not more than 33 Food safety regulator FSSAI on Magnetic Resonance) test," the Minister Hardeep Singh Puri. As a cost-cutting measure, per cent of their pre-Covid Thursday sought details of the study said. Emami (Zandu), The minister had said on the airline had told 10 per cent domestic capacity. CSE tests that claimed to have Dabur, Patnajali Ayurveda and November 11 that the Indian of its employees to go and Dutta had, during a post- busted adulterants in the top Apis Himalaya have refuted airlines can operate up to 70 implemented a pay cut. results analyst call in October, 10 honey brands, even as it the claims made by the CSE. per cent of their pre-Covid Dutta said he expects the said the airline’s focus will be raised questions over why its "One of the points raised in domestic passenger flights government to remove curbs to aggressively expand its prescribed tests were not con- this investigation is about the due to the prevailing on capacity utlisation by early domestic capacity. ducted. non-prescription of Trace demand amid the Covid-19 next year. However, he added He had signalled that the In a statement, the Food Marker for Rice syrup (TMR) situation. that the outlook for interna- company will be calling back Safety and Standards Authority FSSAI to draw conclusions for detecting adulteration of Puri tweeted on tional traffic continues to its employees as capacity util- of India (FSSAI) said the CSE about the protocols followed rice syrup in honey. In view of Thursday, “Domestic opera- remain challenging. “While isation improves. However, found the adulterants by using and suggest any improve- the fact, a more sensitive tions recommenced with 30K we are not out of the woods, chief financial officer (CFO) “the non-prescription” Trace ments that are required in the Specific Marker for Rice syrup passengers on 25 May & have we are certainly moving in the Aditya Pande said the airline Marker for Rice syrup (TMR) test methodology for the test (SMR) has already been now touched a high of right direction,” he wrote. will keep salary costs 30 per test instead of “a more sensi- future, it added. made mandatory and is a more 252,000 on November 30.” Company sources said the cent lower than its pre-Covid- tive” Specific Marker for Rice On Wednesday, environ- focused test to detect adulter- “Ministry of Civil Aviation is airline is utilising more of its 19 levels, implying pay cuts for syrup test (SMR). ment watchdog CSE claimed ation of rice syrup in honey, now allowing domestic car- aircraft as it sees a growth in employees will continue for Stating that it has taken that honey sold by several hence, it was felt by scientific riers to increase their opera- demand. In the second some time to come. note of the CSE investigation major brands in India has been experts that TMR is not neces- tions from existing 70% to on adulteration in honey, found to be adulterated with sary,” FSSAI said. 80% of pre-Covid approved FSSAI said it had already made sugar syrup. Centre for Science This view was concurred by capacity,” he stated. PTI SMR test mandatory as it is “a and Environment (CSE) food the Ministry of Agriculture, and more focused test to detect researchers selected 13 top as hence TMR has not been made adulteration of rice syrup in well as smaller brands of pro- mandatory as a test method. honey.” “It is not clear as to why cessed and raw honey being Regarding the utility and desir- some tests like SMR have not sold in India to check their ability of NMR for honey test- been conducted on the sam- purity. It was found that 77 per ing, FSSAI clarified that it ples...,” the statement said. cent of the samples were adul- allows rapid but database driv- “FSSAI has requested for terated with sugar syrup. Out en detection and quantification details of the samples and the of the 22 samples checked, only of various chemical com- tests conducted from CSE.” five passed all the tests. pounds, especially for authen- Once the details are avail- “Honey samples from lead- ticating the origin of a sample able, they will be analysed by ing brands such as Dabur, of honey.

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