For the traditionalists, wars on Twitter and Facebook smack of immaturity.
RIL has signed an infrastructure sharing agreement with Reliance Communications (RCom, of the Dhirubhai Ambani group) to launch its services.
'If the government starts playing favourites, if the government acts in a manner which is not transparent, then natural resources which belong to not just you and me, but future generations, they fritter away. The anger against corruption, the anger against India's natural resources being looted is a consequence of the fact that within society there is a huge amount of turmoil and discontentment. Why should an Empowered Group Of Ministers or the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs decide the administered price of gas?' asks Paranjoy Guha Thakurta in this exclusive interview with Rediff.com's Sheela Bhatt.
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat said the shutdown of internet services did not have any significant impact on the economy in J-K.
Public-interest litigators Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy, who spearheaded a historic legal battle for LGBTQ rights in India, along with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani are among the Indians who have been named by TIME magazine in its prestigious list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The list also includes Indian-American comedian and TV host Hasan Minhaj.
The battle between the Ambani brothers intensified on Wednesday with Anil questioning his elder brother Mukesh on his assertion that ownership issues were settled in the lifetime of their father Dhirubhai.
Reliance Group chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday said that India had the unprecedented opportunity to leverage a large young population with information technology skills, which would make it the fountainhead of a new world of technology.
'Like you have your first child, your first kiss, your first relationship... this was a first for me.' 'I've never done this before.' 'When it got over, there was a feeling of disbelief that we managed to attain this feat in a matter of three days.'
He allegedly advanced the cut-off date to favour accused firms in allocation of 2G licences.
Hrithik Roshan was just 32 when he played a grandfather in Krrish!
The ministry has attributed the fall in output to non-fulfilment of RIL's commitment to drill 22 wells in the field.
In a draft audit report on the KG-DWN-98/3, or KG-D6, block, the Comptroller and Auditor General said the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons allowed Reliance to hike capital expenditure for developing Dhirubhai-1 and 3, the largest of 18 gas finds in the block, by 117 per cent.
RIL-BP currently produce gas from Dhirubhai-1 and 3 field and oil and gas from MA field, three of the over one-and-half dozen discoveries made in KG-D6 block
The company will use the proceeds to part-repay its debt, which stands at Rs 34,000 crore (Rs 340 billion) even after the recent qualified institutional placement of its shares. An RCom board committee recently approved the sale of these assets.
Together, they controlled nearly Rs 26 lakh crore of assets at the end of FY16.
With his strong views on Bharatiya economics, his appointment to the RBI board may well presage interesting times, says Archis Mohan.
Moneylife's victory against NSE shows good journalism does not need to fear deep pockets of big corporations
The Ambani brothers on Saturday reached a settlement to split between themselves, assets of India's largest private sector conglomerate, with over Rs 97,000 crore (Rs 970 billion) in revenues, founded by their late father Dhirubhai.
Reliance had been trying to bring the brand back to the forefront recently, after years of lull, through new ad campaigns highlighting a youthful range, called Unformal, in workwear.
N Suresh pays tribute to a consummate politician who passed into the ages on Monday.
'It was unfair to expect him to continue to keep on supplying vaccines without being given a firm commitment or a financial grant of any sort.'
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Energy has approached state-owned gas utility GAIL (India) Ltd for transportation of gas to its proposed 4,000 MW power plant at Dadri.
'I have an absolutely professional relationship, nothing personal, with Amitabh Bachchan.' 'I am the only person in the industry whom he never calls for home parties or festivals. Unless we have work, we don't call each other.'
'We should become an all-encompassing entertainment and information destination," says chairman Subhash Chandra, who monitors the group on a monthly basis, leaving the day-to-day operations to the chief executive officers.
Anil Ambani Dhirubhai Group company Reliance Capital Ltd on Tuesday posted over a three-fold rise in net profit after tax at Rs 94.53 crore (Rs 945.3 million) for the quarter ended June 30.
Mr Modi, it came across, did not want to be seen as favouring any one business group.
'I sat down and asked them what they would want in their new school. One student said a football field, another one asked for computers. One little girl came and sat next to me and said, "A separate toilet for the girls." I think these small things make a huge difference in the future of education in India,' Nita Ambani tells Aseem Chhabra/Rediff.com
Gujarat was among the earliest civilisations in the sub-continent, dating back four millennia.
Mr T V R Shenoy, who contributed columns to Rediff.com from its birth, passed into the ages on Tuesday evening. As we grieve and mourning his passing, Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar bids adieu to an unusual human being, a sage for our times.
Combining affordable IT with native Indian ingenuity and entrepreneurship F C Kohli believed would enable Indian small businesses match anyone and thrive.
Reliance concealed and did not reveal the data to ONGC.
'Everything will be decided by the Centre.' 'Universities will have no autonomy to start a new course or introduce a new syllabus.'
Heavy rains pummelled Mumbai and its suburbs in which two persons died of electrocution and bringing normal life to a grinding halt on Friday with several areas waterlogged.
Armed with pricey degrees from colleges overseas, young Indians are heading back home in search for greener pastures.
Why should Reliance Digital position itself as an alternative to Chadhaji's store? It simply doesn't make good business sense, says Sudhir Bisht.
The market could see a fresh round of tariff war, similar to what happened in the voice market a few years ago.
Patel's closeness to the Gandhi family was undeniable. But unlike others, he resisted the temptation to use it to leverage personal business, says Aditi Phadnis.
I still believe that it is a good thing that think tanks are mushrooming in Delhi. They provide a platform for discussion, even if they shed more heat than light. With Parliament almost incapable of serious debate, informed discussion and civilised discourse, where does this nation get its intellectual churn, asks Mohan Guruswamy.
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