02 February 2026
New Delhi: Tightening regulations, telecom regulator TRAI today raised the penalty on telecom operators to 5 lakh rupees for poor mobile service quality, including call drops. The regulator will also now measure call drops on the basis of data collected on the performance of telecom towers and not from area offices of telecom companies.
The penalty amount will be imposed if the operators are unable to meet the benchmark set for the quality of service in two quarters. The penalty will kick-in if call drops in a quarter average more than 2 per cent of the total traffic in a telecom circle. The penalty will go up to 10 lakh rupees if violation continues for more than two quarters.
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New Delhi: Pakistan has rebuked US to designate the Kashmiri outfit Hizbul Mujahideen as a foreign terrorist organisation The US has designated the Hizbul Mujahideen as a foreign terrorist group, nearly two months after declaring its Pakistan-based chief Syed Salahuddin as a global terrorist.
New Delhi: UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura has said expressed his hope to launch "real, substantive" peace talks in October.
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