under the virgin brand however this model is not yet allowed in indiafor instance virgin mobile has a tieup with bell in canada while it has an alliance with sprint in the usinstead virgin is planning to become an exclusive franchisee of tata teleservices which is permitted in india for this a new entity largely owned by tata teleservices will be formed the products and services will be bundled under virgin name supported by the services provided by tata teleservices the source added that discussions so far has been good and if all goes well with the regulatory approvals in place virgin mobile would be launched in april this year when contacted a tata group spokesperson declined to commentin simple words there would be two brandstata indicomm and virgin tata indicomm positioned as a mass market brand while virgin would be positioned as a youth brand pitted against brands like hutch this is been done as tata indicomm does not appeal to everyone in terms of popularity and appeal tata indicomm has already established itself in the mass market category while richard bransons touch could bring in more subscribersthis comes at a crucial time when dayanidhi maran union minister of communications and it is pushing to promote passive mobile tower sites and active infrastructure branding service alliances sharing which would help companies to reduce its cost of rolling out services though wireless subscribers in india have already crossed the 100million mark making india one of the top five markets in the world still more than 50 of the population is to be covered by mobile servicesfor the british billionaire this is part of his strategy to expand his businessestelecom radio food and beverages financial servicesin india in 2005 branson launched his airline virgin atlantics flight services in indiatata teleservices pioneered the cdma technology platform in india and it serves 13 million customers in over 2500 towns its customer base increased thanks to its hugely successful schemes like nonstop and dont stop recently tata teleservices saw a change in ownership structure with nri businessman c sivasankarans sterling infotech group and singapore governments private equity arm temasek acquiring stakes in the companysteel should be available to all areasthe steel ministry plans to have steel dealers in all districts of the country by march 31 2007new delhi the steel ministry plans to have steel dealers in all districts of the country by march 31 2007 steel minister ram vilas paswan said steel should be available to even remote rural householdstoday if a villager wants to buy steel to build a house or for any other purpose he has to travel to cities where steel is available paswan said pursuant to this policy public sector undertakings under the ministry steel authority of india ltd sail and rashtriya ispat nigam ltd rinl have started work to expand the distribution networks over 450 district level dealerships have been allottedpaswan said of the 450 dealers appointed 202 belonged to the scst category tnnmaharashtra eases wine excise lawsthe