Reliance Industries on Wednesday launched three state-of-the-art retail outlets for diesel and petrol at Jamnagar Petrochemicals complex at Hazira and DAKC and Navi Mumbai.
Saudi Aramco chairman and head of the Kingdom's cash-rich wealth fund PIF Yasir Othman Al-Rumayyan will join the board of Reliance Industries Ltd as an independent director in a precursor to a $15 billion deal. Reliance chairman and Asia's richest man Mukesh Ambani, who had two years back disclosed the talks to sell a 20 per cent stake in the company's oil-to-chemical unit to Saudi Aramco, announced the appointment of Al-Rumayyan at the company's annual meeting of shareholders. Harvard educated Al-Rumayyan, 51, will replace Yogendra P Trivedi, 92, who has expressed a desire to retire, Ambani said. On the sale of a 20 per cent stake in the O2C business, he said the deal is likely to conclude this year.
The two hotels have been turned into virtual fortresses with policemen and other security personnel outside and inside.
A person who has Covid but also has another disease can be classified as a Covid death or not. It serves the immediate purpose of the government to pretend that the official number is low because it makes it appear less incompetent and helpless than it is, points out Aakar Patel.
This is the first time that the 73-year-old former finance and home minister is being grilled by the ED in this case.
Gandhi said if the Congress was voted to power, his party's government would function from Gujarat and not on orders from Delhi.
The incident occurred near Viramgam, about 50km on the Ahmedabad-Rajkot route.
Reliance's big-bang entry across the solar ecosystem will cut dependence on Chinese imports drastically. And Ambani's repeated emphasis that RIL's new energy foray will be 'a truly global business' points that his group is playing not just for a share of the Indian pie but to be the OEM in the larger 5,000 GW global market by 2030, points out Shailesh Dobhal.
Reliance Industries Ltd will begin full-fledged petrol and diesel retailing by June this year after it sets up 300 petrol stations across the country.
#MainBhiChowkidar was trending world wide on Twitter.
Reliance Industries on Friday reported more than doubling of its March quarter net profit to Rs 13,227 crore as improvement in petrochemical and consumer business countered continued weakness in refining business.
India's middle-order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara on Wednesday tied the nuptial knot with fiancee Puja Pabari, at a family function in Rajkot.
He will address meetings at Sanand in Ahmedabad in central Gujarat and at Jamnagar and Amreli in Saurashtra regions.
A complaint was filed on Tuesday in a local court seeking penal action against Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari for "hurting" religious sentiments of lakhs of followers of Swami Vivekananda by comparing him with mob boss Dawood Ibrahim.
Rahul Gandhi attended thee public speeches in Jamnagar, Amreli and Sanand on Tuesday, but his careful attitude made them bland, says Sheela Bhatt.
The company will invest Rs 7,000 cr over 2-3 years to launch services in eastern, northeastern states.
Countering Sonia Gandhi's charges that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's promises were "hollow and false", Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday attacked the Congress president saying she was "spreading lies" against his government.
India's largest firm Reliance Industries has initiated work-from-home for its staff while keeping open consumer-facing businesses of hospital, retail stores and telecom with a minimum workforce amid increasing number of Covid-19 cases in the country. Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani will hold a meeting almost every third day to take stock of the impact of novel coronavirus (covid-19) outbreak on his employees and business, officials said.
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RIL, which operates the world's biggest refining complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat, reported a net profit of Rs 5,589 crore (Rs 55.89 billion) in January-March as against Rs 4,236 crore (Rs 42.36 billion) in the same period a year ago.
In a major setback to suspended IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt, a local court on Tuesday ordered framing of charges against him and six policemen who are accused in a 21-year-old custodial death case.
RIL operates 33 million tonne domestic-tariff area or DTA refinery that sells most of its products to domestic market, and 29 million tonne only-for-exports or SEZ unit.
The two companies have approached banks to raise up to Rs 8,000 crore as debt to fund their expansion plans.
The newly built Saurashtra cricket stadium in Rajkot is all set to host the India-England One-Day International next month and would soon be formally inaugurated, the body's honorary secretary Niranjan Shah said.
Ambani has investment in gas pipeline company Reliance Gas Transportation Infrastru-cture; Jamnagar-based power company Reliance Utilities and Power Ltd and Reliance Ports and Terminal Ltd.
There was a fire at its older, 660,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) refinery in Jamnagar.
Two workers from Vadodara, who were recently released from jail by Angolan authorities along with others, returned to the city on Saturday night and reunited with their families. Three workers from Gujarat, out of the total 26 workers who were recently released from jail by Angolan authorities, returned to the state. Jignesh Prajapati and Ashish Maheshwari from Vadodara arrived at the civilian Harni airport on Saturday. One Mukesh Nakum is from Jamnagar.
Gas production at KG-D6 field dropped by a steep 53 per cent.
An earthquake, measuring 5 on the Richter Scale, jolted many parts of Gujarat in the wee hours of Thursday, but there were no reports of damage to property or loss of life. A moderate earthquake was experienced on Wednesday, which had its epicenter at 26 km South South-East of Dholavira in Kutch district. Tremors were felt in Bhuj, Rapar, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Ahmedabad cities too, according to officials of the seismological department.
Police personnel in Gujarat cast their votes for the upcoming state assembly elections on Sunday.
Ravindra Jadeja has been accused of violating wildlife rules after the Indian all-rounder clicked pictures in front of a lion pride at the Sasan Gir forest in Gujarat. The Gujarat Forest Department on Thursday ordered an inquiry after pictures were posted on social. Jadeja and his wife Riva can be seen posing in front of lions.
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India's Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara had reason to celebrate his inclusion in the team for the first two Tests against England. He got engaged to Pooja Pabari at a low-key private ceremony, on Tuesday.
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Workers who had gone to their hometowns and did not return for work after Diwali vacation owing to the demonetisation impact have now started trickling back to the industrial hubs in Gujarat, say Vimukt Dave & Sohini Das.
Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday set out with much fanfare to file his nomination papers for Delhi Assembly election but had to put it off till Wednesday after his road show made it impossible for him to reach the election office in time.
Thirty-two years after the project was sanctioned, the first indigenously-built Tejas Light Combat Aircraft was on Saturday handed over by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar to the Indian Air Force, a red letter day for Indian defence and aerospace sector.
Accusing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi of wasting public money on party functions and building votebanks, state Congress on Friday criticised him saying, "Ten years of misrule have been completed in Gujarat."
Suspended IPS officer Sanjeev Bhatt, seeking relief in a 1990 case related to alleged police atrocity, on Thursday told the Gujarat high court he was being "harassed" by the state government as he has made allegations against Chief Minister Narendra Modi regarding the 2002 riots.
