More asset sales may be only way out, though most of the group companies' ratings have been downgraded and their combined market value is now a fraction of their combined debt.
Bharti group's Sunil Mittal retained his fourth position, followed by Wipro's Azim Premji at the fifth slot.
The success of Anil Ambani's ambitious defence plan will depend partly on whether he can persuade government officials and international partners that he can build sophisticated equipment and partly on whether the PM can get India's notoriously slow procurement process to work, say Paritosh Bansal, Sanjeev Miglani and Promit Mukherjee.
The debt resolution involves RCom exiting the SDR framework with no conversion of debt into equity and zero write-off by lenders, Anil Ambani said, adding that he expects full closure by March 2018.
In 2010, R Power acquired 100 per cent economic interest in three coal mining concessions in Indonesia
The meeting comes in the backdrop of Ambani's call to market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India to maintain confidentiality of accounts while counter auditing the books of those companies that figure in stock trackers such as BSE sensex and Nifty-50.
The two troubled subsidiaries of Reliance Capital have over Rs 20,000 crore debt of both the companies. Reliance Home Finance has a debt of Rs 11,500 crore and Reliance Commercial Finance owes Rs 9,000 crore to lenders.
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The younger Ambani sibling had a two-hour meeting with K V Kamath, chief of ICICI Bank and a friend of the family, who is said to be working out a formula to end the feud at the behest of Kokilaben Ambani.
Gautam Doshi, Surendra Pipara and Hari Nair, senior executives of the Reliance ADA Group who were granted bail on Wednesday by the Supreme Court in the 2G spectrum scam case, will provide major relief to their high-profile boss Anil Ambani.
The Bombay high court on Monday directed the Income Tax department not to take any coercive action against Reliance Group chairman Anil Ambani till November 17 on a show cause notice issued to him seeking to prosecute him under the Black Money Act. The I-T department had issued the notice to Ambani on August 8, 2022 for allegedly evading Rs 420 crore in taxes on undisclosed funds worth more than Rs 814 crore held in two Swiss bank accounts. The department has charged Ambani (63) with "wilful" evasion, saying he "intentionally" did not disclose his foreign bank account details and financial interests to Indian tax authorities.
Close on the heels of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries seeking coal mines to convert coal into oil, younger brother Anil-run Reliance Natural Resources has applied for coal blocks to turn coal into gas. Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) president J P Chalasani in a January 14 letter to Coal Secretary H C Gupta sought allocation of "captive coal blocks for the purpose of converting coal to gas."
It is estimated that RCom has been reeling under debt of over Rs 46,000 crore.
The ED probed 30 cases between August 2024 and March 2025, during which it recovered 15,261 crore, mostly from cases related to bank frauds.
As debt piles up, Anil Ambani's ability to see the asset sale plan through will be crucial
Anmol Ambani, the eldest son of industrialist Anil Ambani, has lashed out against a new round of lockdowns being imposed amid the surge in COVID-19 cases, saying such restrictions do not concern health but control and that they destroy the very backbone of the society and economy. The 29-year-old former executive director of Reliance Capital Ltd in a series of tweets lambasted the new semi-lockdown rules hurting small businesses and daily wage earners. "Professional 'actors' can continue shooting their films. Professional 'cricketers' can play their sport late into the night. Professional 'politicians' can continue their rallies with masses of people. But YOUR business or work is not ESSENTIAL. Still don't get it?" he said in a tweet.
Hint: She's closely related to the bride, Radhika Merchant.
Debt-ridden Reliance Capital ready to cede control in home finance - Blackstone, Carlyle, Brookfield, and Piramal group are in talks to buy a large stake in Reliance Home Finance.
The government informed the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that Enforcement Directorate is looking into complaints of Foreign Exchange Management Act violations by Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, but no conclusion has been reached.
Is it Rs 300 billion or Rs 66 billion or Rs 33.12 billion?
His daughter Riddhima Kapoor Sahni could not attend the funeral as she is travelling from Delhi.
In a meeting on Thursday evening, the RCom management, led by CEO Punit Garg, requested the bank representatives to release Rs 260 crore it received as I-T refund so that it could repay the dues to Ericsson.
Nine lenders have exposure to the promoter entities and had taken listed operating companies' shares as collateral from the promoter companies.
Anil Ambani and other promoters consolidated their stakes in REL to 52%.
The younger Ambani sibling, Anil, on Monday sent an emotional farewell message to all the employees of Reliance Industries, from where he stepped down as vice chairman and managing director.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) has chalked out a roadmap for its online and offline video rental business - BigFlicks - which works on the lines of the US video rental distribution network - Blockbuster. The group plans to raise the number of such stores to 500 across 35-40 cities by April 2009 from the current 22 stores in 6 cities.The retail video service had a soft launch last year following the video-on-demand portal BigFlicks' launch in August 2007.
There's talk that the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is eyeing a minority stake in the carrier. It's also possible that private equity players like Texas Pacific Group may want a slice of the low-cost carrier's equity.
In Mumbai, Reliance Health Venture has already acquired the Mandke hospital, which will be converted into a 650-bed super specialty hospital with six divisions.
Close to 21.5 per cent of this will be sold to Japan's Nippon Life, which will then become the sole promoter of the fund house.
The three companies for sale are Reliance Communications, Reliance Telecom and Reliance Infratel.
In a two-page letter written on December 12, 2017, the Reliance head said he was "personally saddened" by the "unfortunate statements" against him and his group by several functionaries of the Congress party.
He worked on the Delhi electricity privatisation
Group suspects taped conversations must have been spliced, altered, doctored and manipulated to serve interests of those engaged in tapping operations
BSES entities BRPL (BSES Rajdhani Power Limited) and BYPL (BSES Yamuna Power Limited) supply electricity to around 12 lakh and 16 lakh customers respectively.
RInfra's plan to lease out headquarters property may face legal hurdle. Moreover, PE players with balance sheets that can take on Reliance Centre Office in Santacruz would be limited and include a handful of players such as Blackstone group, GIC, Brookfield Asset Management and Maplewood Investments.
Mukesh Ambani's Jio, high debt and some bad decisions drove RCom to its grave.
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