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@munsifv

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2026-01-11
India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government, intimate major updates, and make more software changes as part of a raft of device security measures, prompting private opposition from giants like Apple and Samsung. Details of Reuters Scoop⤵️ [image]
2026-01-11 View on X
Reuters

Documents and sources: India proposes security rules that would force smartphone makers to share source code, prompting quiet pushback from Apple and Samsung

India proposes requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government and make several software changes as part …

2025-08-06
It's Musk vs. Modi in India. The legal fight by Musk's X in India target the entire basis for tightened internet censorship in India. @Reuters reviewed 2,500 pages of non-public legal filings and interviewed government sources to piece together a behind-the-scenes account 🧵 [image]
2025-08-06 View on X
Reuters

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules

In January, an old post on Elon Musk's social media platform, X, became a concern for police in the Indian city of Satara. X: @adityakalra , @munsifv , and @reuterstech X: Aditya K...

2024-11-18
In June, Reuters found Foxconn was systematically excluding married women from iPhone assembly roles in India Days after the story, all 3rd-party hiring vendors were called for an all-important internal meeting. In a tense room, Foxconn was about to shake things up Story time🧵
2024-11-18 View on X
Reuters

Sources and ads: Foxconn tells recruiters that help hire iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age, gender, and marital criteria and its name from job ads

Apple supplier Foxconn has ordered the hiring agents that help recruit iPhone assembly workers in India to remove age …

2024-08-22
Long battle ahead for the panic-stricken employees of Byju's “A lot of people, including myself, have stopped taking classes because there's no point doing charity for the company anymore,” one teacher says. Reuters story: https://www.reuters.com/...
2024-08-22 View on X
Reuters

Interviews with dozens of Byju's staff and other sources show a growing sense of desperation, as its insolvency rumbles on; some staff weigh their legal options

2024-04-08
SCOOP: Pegatron in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group. Pegatron to effectively cease independent operations in India. Tata to take at least 65% stake in Pegatron plant, to take over employees and operations [image]
2024-04-08 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Pegatron is in advanced talks to hand over its only iPhone plant in India to the Tata Group, which will hold a 65%+ stake; Apple supports the move

Pegatron (4938.TW) is in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group …

2024-03-21
India's move “prompts U.S. and other firms to think twice about doing business in India,” stated the “talking points” of her briefing paper. Around the same time, a U.S. diplomat in India told his colleagues that Indian officials had conceded the sudden rollout was a mistake.
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

Modi has taken several decisions that have hit American firms - like forcing Mastercard and Visa to store data locally and forcing Amazon, to comply with stringent rules for e-commerce. But Indian authorities did not back off on such policies despite push back.
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

US and India are a happy couple to the casual eye. But internal comms we saw were anything but. Language around India's now-reversed laptop imports policy ranged from “screwed up”, “incredibly problematic”, “out of the blue”, to “think twice about doing business in India”. [image]
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

What was the original policy? India in Aug imposed rules requiring firms like Apple HP to obtain licenses for all shipments of imported laptops and tablets, raising fears the process could slow down sales. But New Delhi rolled back the policy within weeks. [image]
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

USTR's Katherine Tai met Indian Minister Goyal in New Delhi on Aug. 26, soon after the policy. While the USTR's public readout said Tai “raised concerns” about the policy, she privately told Goyal that the U.S. wanted India to “rescind the requirement”, internal records showed.
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

India's IT ministry “understands they (India) screwed up. They admitted as much. American companies here have been hammering them about this,” he wrote. Three Indian officials however said New Delhi did not reverse its policy under any U.S. pressure.
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

The emails underline the level of alarm the policy caused in Washington. “Some U.S. companies in India told us that they have been pushing their headquarters for greater manufacturing in India but were embarrassed by this unexpected measure,” a state department official wrote.
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

India took the call as it realized local manufacturing of laptops wasn't significant at this stage, they said. USTR told Reuters it is satisfied currently, but still is closely tracking India's scrutiny of imports to make sure it was implemented in line with WTO obligations.
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

We have a backstory today. Of a rare lobbying win by US in India How it got the usually inflexible Modi govt to reverse a damning policy restricting laptop imports to India US govt records seen by Reuters, often blunt in language, show how it plotted a pushback. And succeeded🧵 [image]
2024-03-21 View on X
Reuters

US government emails show India rolled back its policy to impose restrictions on laptop imports in 2023 after behind-the-scenes lobbying by US officials

Reuters : X: @munsifv , @munsifv , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @reuters , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @munsifv , @adityakalra , @adityakalra ,...

2023-12-05
Reuters Exclusive: Apple hassled about India's proposed common charger mandate for phones. It has privately raised objections on mandating type-C charging ports for existing iPhone models (like 13, 14 series). Move can hit production goals as design changes required, it warns. [image]
2023-12-05 View on X
Reuters

Docs: Apple warned India that its EU-style charger rules will lower local production targets and on November 28 asked to exempt or delay existing iPhone models

Apple (AAPL.O) has told India its local production targets will be hit if New Delhi follows the European Union and requires existing iPhones …

Apple is asking for an exemption for existing models. If existing models are to have USB-C port, Apple Says it needs another 18 months from the EU deadline of Dec. 2024. Story w @adityakalra. Read here: https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-12-05 View on X
Reuters

Docs: Apple warned India that its EU-style charger rules will lower local production targets and on November 28 asked to exempt or delay existing iPhone models

Apple (AAPL.O) has told India its local production targets will be hit if New Delhi follows the European Union and requires existing iPhones …

2023-03-16
Reuters Exclusive: Foxconn to make AirPods for the first time. New $200 million factory to come up in India's Telangana. The decision to set up production in India was requested by Apple, @YimouLee reports. https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Reuters

Sources: Foxconn will make AirPods for the first time and plans to invest $200M+ in a plant in Telangana, India; a source says Apple wanted production in India

Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn (2317.TW) has won an order to make AirPods for Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and plans to build …

2023-03-14
Government has been holding closed-door meetings with the likes Xiaomi, Samsung and Apple on the matter. Records of one such meeting, which @Reuters accessed: https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Sources and documents: India plans to force smartphone makers to let users remove pre-loaded apps and will mandate screening OS updates via new security rules

India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system …

Two key components of the proposed rules, per sources: * Smartphone makers will be forced to allow removal of pre-installed apps * Every new major OS update to be verified and certified in a lab before rolling out
2023-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Sources and documents: India plans to force smartphone makers to let users remove pre-loaded apps and will mandate screening OS updates via new security rules

India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system …

The proposed security clearance test is likely the most stringent globally for smartphones. @adityakalra and I have more details for you in our latest story. Read! https://www.reuters.com/...
2023-03-14 View on X
Reuters

Sources and documents: India plans to force smartphone makers to let users remove pre-loaded apps and will mandate screening OS updates via new security rules

India plans to force smartphone makers to allow removal of pre-installed apps and mandate screening of major operating system …