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In India, mobile numbers (including pagers) on GSM, WCDMA, LTE and NR networks start with either 9, 8, 7 or 6.Each telecom circle is allowed to have multiple private operators; earlier it was two private + BSNL/MTNL, subsequently it changed to three private + BSNL/MTNL in GSM; now each telecom circle has all four operators including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone idea ltd and BSNL/MTNL.
In 2012, Bharti tied up with Walmart, the US retail giant, to start a number of retail stores across India. [21] In 2014, Bharti planned to acquire Loop Mobile for ₹ 7 billion (US$84 million), but the deal was called off later. [22] On 18 November 2010, Airtel rebranded itself in India in the first phase of a global rebranding strategy.
Bank name Established Headquarters Branches Total assets Revenues Refs Axis Bank: 1993: Mumbai, Maharashtra: 5,377 ₹ 1,518,238 crore (US$180 billion) ₹ 106,155 crore (US$13 billion) [24]
Air India became the first Asian airline to operate freighters when Air India Cargo was set up in 1954 and started its freighter operations with a Douglas DC-3 aircraft. [16] Air India Cargo ended freighter aircraft operations in early 2012. [123] Alliance Air was a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Airlines established on 1 April 1996.
India also signed an agreement with UAE to link UPI with Integrated Payment Platform (IPP). [191] On 29 March 2024, PhonePe announced that its users can pay with UPI at NeoPay terminals. The currency exchange rate will be shown and customers' accounts will be debited in Indian rupees. To make payments easier, Indians living abroad who have ...
Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. [372][373] English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; [6] it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education.
As of the financial year 2019–20, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport was again the fifth-busiest airport in India in terms of the total number of passengers served and with respect to the number of flights departing and arriving at the airport, which was about 22 million and 430 flights a day respectively.
Indian Railways is a statutory body under the ownership of the Ministry of Railways of the Government of India that operates India's national railway system. As of 2023, it manages the fourth largest national railway system by size with a track length of 132,310 km (82,210 mi), running track length of 106,493 km (66,172 mi) and route length of ...