Harvard-educated Piramal is also in the boards of several companies, including Piramal Life Sciences, SBI Capital Markets Ltd and Prudential ICICI Management.
In the process, Vodafone India's valuation rose 48.39 per cent since February 2012, when Piramal Enterprises bought 5.5 per cent stake in Vodafone India for Rs 3,007 crore (Rs 30.07 billion).
The celebrations continued with the mehendi ceremony for Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani.
Religare, promoted by billionaire brothers Malvinder and Shivinder Mohan Singh, was in talks with Piramal for six to eight months to buy nearly 80 per cent in Indiareit for around Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
With a little help from their grandparents, Nita and Mukesh Ambani, here's what four-year-old Prithvi, one-year-old Veda (Shloka and Akash's children) and two-year-old Aadiya and Krishna (Isha Piramal Ambani and Anand Piramal's children) did.
US-based Abbott on Friday said it will acquire India's Piramal Healthcare's domestic formulation business for $3.72 billion (about Rs 17,484 crore).
NBFCs with a proven track record, supported by the brand values of reputed corporate, can play a key role in bringing the benefits of banking and economy to the underserved and newer segments of India.
Piramal Fund Management has emerged as the largest lender to real estate developers at a time when the sector is facing severe slowdown.
Piramal Healthcare on Wednesday said it has completed the sale of its domestic formulations business to US-based Abbott Healthcare and has received Rs 10,271 crore (Rs 102.71 billion) as initial consideration for the same.
The Ambanis go all out to celebrate the wedding of their youngest son, Anant, with Radhika Merchant.
According to sources, Piramal has plans to sell part of Gulita, his sea-facing property in Worli, Mumbai, for Rs 450-500 crore (Rs 4.5-5 billion).
Piramal is pragmatic when he says he's equally clear the conglomerate approach may not be beneficial in the long run. "It's not that we are married to the idea of having everything together permanently."
The company has identified Global Technical Systems, a US based surveillance technology developer, as a collaborative partners in India.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has stringent processes and systems, which are proving to be a stumbling block
To showcase their family at Radhika Merchant-Anant Ambani's sangeet ceremony, they chose to dance to the song, Deewangi Deewangi, from Om Shanti Om.
In one of the largest FDI deals in realty sector, global private equity Warburg Pincus will invest Rs 1,800 crore (Rs 18 billion) in Piramal Realty, which would use the funds to develop mixed-use projects in the megalopolis.
Piramal, controlled by billionaire Ajay Piramal, and APG will invest in local infrastructure companies through rupee-denominated mezzanine instruments.
Piramal-led company had announced the purchase of a 5.5 per cent stake in Vodafone Essar for $640 million.
Piramal Healthcare, which recently sold its domestic formulations business to Abbott Labs for about Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 180 billion), has announced a bonus payment of up to six months' salary to its employees.
Nita, Isha and Shloka Ambani were the real scene stealers.
PLSL's lead molecule under development for cancer treatment has completed two Phase-I studies.
Nicholas Piramal India Friday launched 'Airitis' (levocetirizine), an antihistamine drug under the company's recently-formed respiratory division, Actis.
Piramal Healthcare and SRL have entered into an agreement for SRL to acquire Piramal Diagnostics Services Ltd, Piramal said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Indian drug major Nicholas Piramal India Ltd is likely to be among the first pharmaceutical companies worldwide to develop drugs isolated from the flora and fauna of Antarctica.
Nicholas Piramal India Ltd has informed BSE that the court convened a meeting for approval of the scheme of amalgamation between Global Bulk Drugs & Fine Chemicals Pvt Ltd (Global).
Piraml will sell of its entire 11 per cent stake in Vodafone india.
Nicholas Piramal has signed an MoU with a French pharma company to manufacture an anti-chikungunya drug.
The football legend shared the VIP box with movie stars and businesspeople.
Pays $640 million, may exit when Vodafone lists its India operations.
Pharma major Nicholas Piramal India Ltd will develop and commercialise a select group of US-based Eli Lilly and Company's pre-clinical drug products that span multiple therapeutic areas.
Nicholas Piramal India Ltd said on Thursday its UK subsidiary has entered into an agreement to acquire the manufacturing facility of global pharma company Pfizer Inc at Morpeth, UK, on an asset purchase basis.
Piramals are the largest investors in the Indian real estate sector after HDFC, with investments worth $3 billion already.
Pharmaceutical major Nicholas Piramal India Ltd on Monday said the company was looking for acquisition in United Kingdom and North America to expand its overseas operation.
Bhatt, president (Manufacturing) of the Company's Pithampur plant, reached Indore on Sunday morning after being rescued from a makeshift mud hut from Natua Ka Pura ravines of Chambal area in Morena district on Satuday night. He was abducted by armed persons when he was returning home to Indore from Gwalior, in his Toyota Corolla, on January 18.