{"id":1043638,"date":"2026-10-15T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043638"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:22:34","slug":"why-rss-affiliate-wants-centre-to-deny-elon-musks-starlink-a-licence-for-satellite-internet-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/why-rss-affiliate-wants-centre-to-deny-elon-musks-starlink-a-licence-for-satellite-internet-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Why RSS affiliate wants Centre to deny Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink a licence for satellite internet in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jagran (SJM), an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, urged the Union government to deny Elon Musk-owned Starlink permission to launch commercial satellite broadband services in India, citing national security concerns, according to The Hindu.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, SJM national co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan said internet services sometimes need to be suspended during riots, terrorism-related incidents and other law-and-order situations to prevent the spread of rumours and inflammatory content on social media. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jagran (SJM), an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, urged the Union government to deny Elon Musk-owned Starlink permission to launch commercial satellite broadband services in India, citing national security concerns, according to The Hindu. In a statement, SJM national co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan said internet services sometimes need to be suspended during riots, terrorism-related incidents and other law-and-order situations to prevent the spread of rumours and inflammatory content on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043638","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043639,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043638\/revisions\/1043639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}