{"id":995249,"date":"2026-02-27T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995249"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:01:39","slug":"starlink-must-complete-security-clearances-to-operate-in-india-scindia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/27\/starlink-must-complete-security-clearances-to-operate-in-india-scindia\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink must complete security clearances to operate in India: Scindia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday reiterated that Starlink, led by Elon Musk, must fulfil all security clearance requirements before starting services in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question about the Iran incident \u2014 where Starlink reportedly began operating without a licence \u2014 the minister clarified that the existing security framework applies uniformly to all operators. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a performa of what the security rules are. Any operator who complies with those rules will be allowed to operate in India,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday reiterated that Starlink, led by Elon Musk, must fulfil all security clearance requirements before starting services in the country. Responding to a question about the Iran incident \u2014 where Starlink reportedly began operating without a licence \u2014 the minister clarified that the existing security framework applies uniformly to all operators. \u201cWe have a performa of what the security rules are. Any operator who complies with those rules will be allowed to operate in India,\u201d the minister said.<\/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":[4,76,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-new-indian-express","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995249","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=995249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}