{"id":1042253,"date":"2026-10-10T08:47:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1042253"},"modified":"2026-10-10T08:59:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:29:04","slug":"india-allows-no-monopoly-scindia-responds-to-musks-starlink-row-says-3-firms-await-clearances-takes-dig-at-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/10\/india-allows-no-monopoly-scindia-responds-to-musks-starlink-row-says-3-firms-await-clearances-takes-dig-at-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India allows no monopoly\u2019: Scindia responds to Musk\u2019s Starlink row, says 3 firms await clearances; takes dig at Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said India does not allow monopolies in any sector, responding to Elon Musk\u2019s allegations over Starlink\u2019s delayed launch in the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia doesn&#8217;t allow monopoly in any sector,\u201d Scindia said amid the controversy over Starlink\u2019s pending approvals. <\/p>\n<p>He also took a dig at the Congress over its response to Musk, saying the party did not know whether it was \u201cgoing left or right\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said India does not allow monopolies in any sector, responding to Elon Musk\u2019s allegations over Starlink\u2019s delayed launch in the country. \u201cIndia doesn&#8217;t allow monopoly in any sector,\u201d Scindia said amid the controversy over Starlink\u2019s pending approvals. He also took a dig at the Congress over its response to Musk, saying the party did not know whether it was \u201cgoing left or right\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042255,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042253\/revisions\/1042255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}