The matter was mentioned before a bench of Delhi high court's acting chief justice Gita Mittal and kustice C Hari Shankar by Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta. The court allowed it to be listed for hearing on Wednesday.
Eyeing the fast-growing Indian gaming industry worth Rs 270 crore (Rs 2.7 billion), Zapak Digital Entertainment is all set to open 1,000 gaming cafes across the country by December this year. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company, which presently runs 51 gaming cafes under the brand name Gameplex, will henceforth expand through franchisee model.
Big TV will be the fourth entrant in the 7-million private DTH subscribers market following Dish TV's launch in 2003, Tata Sky (2006) and Sun Direct (2007). Doordarshan's DD Direct Plus is the fifth player (also launched in 2003) but is a free-to-air service.
Two of the country's top business houses -- the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group and the Subhash Chandra-controlled Essel Group -- have come together to set up gaming centres across the country. Groundwork for these centres will begin on April 1. Chandra's E-City Media has struck an alliance with Zapak Digital Entertainment to this effect.Globally, gaming is one of the leading entertainment businesses with the industry size pegged at around $35 billion today.
Big TV, the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Amabni Group's soon-to-be-launched direct-to-home venture, has bagged the official DTH partnership for the Indian Premier League, the Board of Control for Cricket in India's Twenty20 cricket tournament, for a bid of $31.16 million (about Rs 137 crore) for the next four years.
ADAG slots Rs 1,200 cr for wind power plants
In what could be a prelude to Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group claiming damages against Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries for allegedly derailing the merger talks with South Africa's MTN group
Reliance Money, promoted by Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group firm Reliance Capital, would offer the brokerage services across 700 cities, including Delhi and Mumbai, through 3,000 outlets.
With Ganesh Chaturthi, Maharashtra's biggest festival, set to begin in mid-September, many companies are providing value-added services to cash in on the occasion and for brand promotion.
Anil Dhirubhai AG company Reliance Communications became the first CDMA telecom service provider in India on Monday to launch Blackberry, the push mail smart phone from Canada-based Research in Motion.
US-based billionaire's $100 million buy values the Anil Ambani company at $3 billion.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Friday cleared award of four Coal Bed Methane (CBM) blocks to an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group-led consortium and three blocks to a consortium led by Australia's Arrow Energy.
RELIINFRA's withdrawal effectively leaves the field free for the only other bidder -- the consortium of Mukesh Ambani-promoted SeaKing Infrastructure Ltd (SKIL) and IL&FS. The RELINFRA consortium had quoted a concession period of nine years and 11 months against the SKIL consortium's 75 years.
NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat said the shutdown of internet services did not have any significant impact on the economy in J-K.
A day after the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group declared it will be interested in buying out the Dabhol project whenever it is up for sale, Petroleum Minister Murli Deora categorically denied the Central government was considering any such proposal.
The Reliance Dhirubhai Ambani Group revealed plans of venturing into the power equipment business.
Around 20 senior leaders of the Gujarat Bharatiya Janata Party gathered in Gandhinagar on Thursday to openly form a strategy to combat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
The company emerged successful in the revised evaluated bids for the project.
Anil Ambani on Wednesday announced formation of two new companies, Global Fuel Management Services and Reliance Communication Ventures Ltd, under the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises umbrella.
Four Indian students have developed a software technology that promises to improve the lives of visually challenged people by enabling them to move around more freely and perceive their surroundings better.
Reliance Industries will account for about 40 per cent of the country's energy production in the next 18 to 24 months, putting the company on track to earn a quarter of its profit from oil and gas production, from 5 per cent now.
ADAG has drawn up plans to invest Rs 650 billion in the steel, cement and shipping se three new areas over the next five years. The investment includes Rs 200 billion to set-up a 10 million cement plant and Rs 400 billion towards a steel plant in Jharkhand. The group believes that the three new lines of businesses fit more with RNRL than with other companies under the group, an ADAG source said.
Plans warrants, preference shares for projects.
Three special economic zones promoted by Mukesh Ambani and Anand Jain in Navi Mumbai are among among 36 proposals that got cleared by the Board of Approval on Friday.
The 550,000 unorganised drug traders in the country are readying to take on the entry of corporate houses like Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group
A generation of youngsters are waiting in the wings, ready for their shot at being the Next Big Bollywood Star.
Two brothers have begun collaborating in certain businesses.
As per media reports four global financial giants, including Schroders, Blackstone and US-based Capital, have submitted offers to Reliance Capital for buying a small stake in its mutual fund business -- Reliance Capital Asset Management.
The first-phase of the three-phase project is to set up the trade tower on over 4 million sq. ft area. The second phase is to develop the business district on 30 acres in seven years. In the third phase the remaining 16.28 acres of the business district on would be developed.
Confirming the development, Chairman Venugopal Dhoot said, "We will use the CDMA technology for mobile services in the country."
Reliance Money, investment product distribution arm of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is foraying into retailing of its own brand of gold coins, which would be made exclusively by Swiss precious metal refining major Valcambi.
Branded Mobi-Retail, this service will be offered to the 35 million subscribers of Reliance Communications, who will be able to use their handsets to buy over 100,000 products ranging from fresh vegetables to groceries, readymade garments, toys etc.
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'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.'
Seeking to bring share trading closer to consumers just like ATMs, Reliance Capital's stock brokerage arm Reliance Money launched on Monday Internet trading services through web-enabled retail kiosks.
The MTN-Reliance Communications merger, if it gets through, will create a telecom behemoth of 115 million subscribers in 25 countries.
RIL, owned by elder brother Mukesh Ambani, had acquired the Mumbai team last month for $111.9 million (about Rs 448 crore) for 10 years. Anil Ambani chose to stay away from the bids for the eight teams last month.
Petroleum Ministry has sought help from Law Ministry in resolving the Ambani demerger issue over the production of gas from KG fields.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is poised to take another leap forward in the film arena with the launch of BigFlicks.com