Reliance Money has emerged as the top brokerage house in terms of online security and cost effectiveness, while Motilal Oswal leads as the most research driven stock trading platform, a survey says.
According to one calculation, Reliance Power IPO is likely to gain close to $27 billion for Anil Ambani, which when combined with the existing market capitalisation of his companies will work out to be close to $75 billion!
A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan was hearing a petition moved by Reliance Power, promoted by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, against the Jagrut Grahak Suraksha Mahila Mandal alleging that there was a 'malafide and illegal campaign by certain interested persons to stop or delay the IPO to be launched on January 15.'
R-ADAG has taken on board Ashutosh, the business head of Sahara One and Entertainment's Hindi movie channel Filmy, as the COO for its upcoming movie channels.
Reliance Money, the financial products distribution company of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, launched on Monday services in rural markets with an initial target of tapping 1,000 talukas across five states in the country.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group is setting up TowerX, a tower tenancy exchange platform, through which mobile operators
Adlabs Launches India's First 6D Cinema at Agra. This cinematic technology promises out of this world experiences where the audience can simultaneously see, smell, hear, touch and 'feel' the movie by using cutting-edge visual and audio effects.
ADAG group company Reliance Energy Ltd is the second-lowest bidder for the Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) project, after Lanco. However, with the Lanco bid becoming invalid, REL could claim to be the lowest bidder.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company Reliance Energy Ltd on Thursday announced it has bagged three road projects valued at Rs 2,320 crore (Rs 23.2 billion) from National Highways Authority of India.
The battle for subscribers in the direct-to-home space is set to get hotter, with new player Big TV expected to fire a price war. Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's Big TV will be commercially launched sometime in May and is looking at tying up over 5 to 5.5 million subscribers even before its launch.
The company has entered into exclusive tie-ups with the US-based PopCap Games, Playfirst, and Russian game developer and distributor, Alawar, to provide content for casual (not the high-end ones) games.
The group has earmarked over Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) to acquire coal mines in foreign countries.
Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata Knight Riders have signed on Zapak Digital Entertainment, a Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) venture, to develop online games for them. As part of the exclusive one-year tie-up, Zapak will create a cricket gaming zone on the official website of the Knight Riders and is said to make an investment of Rs 1 crore (Rs 10 million) in the deal. The exact value of the deal is not known. The portal has already gone live with two games.
The Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gujarat announces admissions for its B Tech (Information and Communication Technology) programme.\n
Reliance Power Limited, the flagship company of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), plans to invest about Rs 2,500-3,000 crore (Rs 25-30 billion) over a period of three years, to develop three coal mines to fuel its Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in Madhya Pradesh. Reliance Power currently has access to coal reserves of about one billion tonnes in India and abroad, including a coal mine in Indonesia, which it acquired recently.
The university is expected to match the standards of institutions like Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford.
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.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's Reliance General Insurance has become the second largest non-life private insurer, toppling Bajaj Allianz, in terms of premium collections of Rs 221 crore (Rs 2.21 billion) in April.
Power sector firms that entered the capital market this year include Power Finnace Corp and PowerGrid Corp. Besides, there have been smaller issues from Suryachakra Power and Indowind Energy, which mopped up nearly Rs 135 crore (Rs 1.35 billion) collectively from their IPOs.
The board formally approved 10 SEZs, including a 16 hectare IT zone of Tata Consultancy Services in Kolkata, Saloni Business Park Private Ltd's 27.5 hectare biotech zone in Thane and a 4.77 hectare electronic hardware and IT zone in Raigad, proposed by Modern India Property Developer.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company, the Rs 6,576-crore Reliance Energy (REL) on Wednesday announced that it would buy back its shares through open market purchases at a maximum price of Rs 1,600 per share.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group Company also announced to invest Rs 1,000-1,200 crore (Rs 10 to 12 billion) on expansion of its life insurance business in the next 2-3 years. The company is aiming to sell one million 'Express Life' policies in this financial year.
The move comes just two days after Reliance Power, another group company in which REL owns 45 per cent, offered bonus shares to its shareholders in the ratio of 3:5.
Flag Telecom, a fully owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications, is divesting 15-20 per cent of its equity stake to strategic and financial investors.
Reliance Communications will be investing around Rs 15,000 crore (Rs 150 billion) to set up and install an additional 15,000 base transceiver stations in the country.
With the listing of Reliance Power, the market cap of Anil Ambani group aggregated to Rs 307,112 crore (Rs 3,071.12 billion), almost Rs 100,000 crore (Rs 1,000 billion) below expectations of Rs 400,000 crore (Rs 4,000 billion) capitalisation.
Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) is all set to begin a price war in the direct-to-home market by offering its connection about 43 per cent lower than any of the existing players. Big TV will offer its DTH service for Rs 1,490, while the lowest-priced connection is currently being offered by Dish TV at Rs 2,190, followed by Tata Sky at Rs 2,400.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, which is raising Rs 11,700 crore through the public offer of Reliance Power, has seen a value erosion of Rs 48,000 crore in the last seven days.
ADAG's push in film production will be through a new subsidiary of Reliance Entertainment, named Big Motion Pictures Ltd.
It also questioned the motive behind filing the PIL and asked the petitioner to file the detailed of the land owner's who have been affected by the acquisition.
The Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group on Friday announced a tentative schedule for merger of two firms transferred from Mukesh Ambani group.
Reliance Entertainment, controlled by the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, is divesting a 5 per cent equity stake at an enterprise value of $1.5 billion (about Rs 6,000 crore).
Led by wife Latha and Adlabs, the film will start soon.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has accumulated stakes worth Rs 1,047.8 crore
The Ruias, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group, Hindujas and Vodafone are all believed to have put in their bids.
TV 18 is all set to announce its next partnership with premium niche channels.
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani recalls his early childhood and what his father Dhirubhai taught him.
We had limited capital but our approach was different, says the RIL chairman.
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company Reliance Communications, which is in the process of bidding for Hutch-Essar, is planning to list its undersea cable business unit Flag Telecom in London to raise over $500 million.
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