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2025, May 2-9

Starlink’s Indian Bureaucracy Meets the Final Frontier

After months of regulatory whack-a-mole and bureaucratic limbo that would make Kafka proud, Starlink has finally been granted conditional approval to operate in India. That’s right, Elon Musk now has the green light to beam the internet straight from space into the subcontinent, provided he tiptoes around a 4% revenue cut and hands over 500 rupees per urban user like some sort of orbital toll booth.