India denies bias in satellite internet approvals after Musk's 'oligarchs' jab

India defended its satellite internet approval process as fair and non-discriminatory on Thursday, hours after billionaire Elon Musk accused unnamed “oligarchs” of blocking Starlink’s ​launch in the South Asian nation. Starlink was being blocked by “certain oligarchs in order ‌to maintain their monopolistic chokehold on the Indian people,” Musk wrote on X, without naming anyone. India’s telecom market is dominated by billionaires Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio and Sunil Mittal’s Bharti Airtel . Their ​satellite internet ventures, alongside Musk’s Starlink, have secured early approvals to launch…