ONGC has suffered a loss of over Rs 30,000 crore due to alleged siphoning off of natural gas by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) from the PSU's well in Krishna-Godavari (KG) basin and appointment of an experts body on the issue "will not help", the state-run oil firm said.
Strong refining and petrochemical margins seen boosting consolidated net by up to 6%
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) will acquire around 1 per cent stake in Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), the retail arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries, by investing Rs 8,278 crore ($1 billion). A QIA's wholly-owned subsidiary will make the investment in India's largest retailer at a valuation of Rs 8.278 lakh crore ($100 billion). Updating about the development, Reliance Industries in a regulatory filing said: "QIA's investment will translate into a minority equity stake of 0.99 per cent in RRVL on a fully-diluted basis." RRVL is the holding company for all retail businesses of Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has said issue of bonus shares after a 12-year hiatus was just fulfilment of the company's commitment to reward shareholders after completion of important projects.
Mukesh Ambani group firm Reliance Industries on Wednesday said it will issue one bonus share for every share held in the company.
Reliance Industries Ltd -on Saturday authorised its board committee to suggest a 'suitable scheme' of reorganisation in the wake of the settlement of ownership issues between the Ambanis.
Sebi was probing a complaint by S Gurumurthy of Swadeshi Jagran Manch, alleging that RIL and its investors lost at least Rs 2,700 crore.
Stumbling blocks for resolving the gas row between the Ambani brothers can be removed by putting together the family MoU and the demerger scheme, Anil Ambani-led RNRL told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Reliance Industries Ltd had sought to settle certain investigations into alleged violation of insider trading norms in sale of shares of its erstwhile subsidiary Reliance Petroleum Ltd, but the application to settle of the matter under Sebi's consent framework was rejected by the regulator.
The bench observed that it needs more time to study Sebi's view on the matter.
The company should be given a fair chance to be heard in the matter, the judges said and posted the matter for further hearing on December 19.
Future Retail Ltd (FRL) on Wednesday said it is "committed" to reversal of takeover of its stores by Reliance Retail and will take all such action as may be necessary to seek value adjustments. The Kishore Biyani-led firm also said the action of the Reliance Group has come as a "surprise" to it. Moreover, the action of taking possession of its stores has "complicated" the positive scenario which had started building up after a CCI order in December 2021, FRL said in a regulatory filing.
Future Retail Ltd (FRL) on Monday said the Delhi high court has ruled that statutory authorities cannot be restrained from acting in accordance with law and stayed a previous order on status quo of its Rs 24,713 crore deal with Reliance. Updating stock exchanges about the court ruling, FRL said a Division Bench comprising Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh has stayed the operation and effect of order passed by single Judge J R Midha on February 2. "...inter alia, for the prima facie reason that the company is not a party to the Shareholders Agreement dated August 22, 2019 executed between Amazon, Future Coupons Private Limited and the Promoters of FRL, under which arbitration was initiated by Amazon in Singapore," FRL said.
The government had in October 2007 set a sale price of $4.20 per million British thermal unit based on the price discovered by RIL from key customers.
Sources said a final order could be made soon in this case by Sebi, which has rejected twice RIL's request for settling the case by paying a consent fee -- an out-of-court settlement like resolution reached through negotiations between the two parties.
RIL and ONGC on March 28 agreed to appoint neutral international expert to decide if four wells drilled on boundary of KG-D6 block were drawing gas from neighbouring gas discoveries of the state-owned firm.
The tribunal, which had concluded its hearings on two petitions from RIL on January 6 and reserved its order for an unspecified date, set February 24 for the next hearing.
The capital market regulator has accused Reliance Petroinvestments of buying shares of Indian Petrochemicals Corp Ltd in early 2007 just before it declared an interim dividend and announced the merger of IPCL with RIL.
Corporate India is busy restructuring - through mergers, demergers and splits. That seems to be the new normal as CXOs and boards brainstorm on how to create assets and value. The pitch rose significantly during the third quarter of this financial year (FY24), translating into $32.9-billion worth of such deals - the highest quarterly total since the HDFC Bank-HDFC merger announced in FY22 Q2.
The SC bench headed by judge S S Nijjar suggested to appoint foreign arbitrator in RIL'a ongoing case on gas pricing.
Reliance Industries, India's largest company by market capitalisation, and GAIL India, the largest transporter and marketer of gas, have sought licences to sell natural gas to households and vehicles across 60 cities in India.
BCCI ethics and ombudsman, served a notice to Ambani after receiving a complaint from former MPCA member Sanjeev Gupta.
Many companies, including Reliance Industries Ltd, have postponed their board meetings, scheduled for Wednesday, in view of the bandh called by Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party to protest on Monday's blast in Mumbai.
Reliance will also announce its third quarter results on the same day.
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At the last hearing on October 11, SAT had suggested to Sebi to look at considering the RIL application for a consent settlement that allows companies and individuals to settle disputes by paying a fine without admission or denial of the alleged wrongdoing.
As per the 15-day billing cycle, gas producers are to raise the first invoice at the revised price of $5.61 per million British thermal unit this weekend.
Reliance Industries net profit fell 21 per cent to Rs 4,473 crore (Rs 44.73 billion) in the first quarter (April-June) of the current financial year, from Rs 5,661 crore (Rs 56.61 billion) in the same period in 2011-12.
BP, which bought a 30 per cent stake in RIL's 21 oil and gas blocks, including KG-D6, for $7.026 billion in 2011, is working with RIL to arrest the output decline in the fields.
The market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has asked the government to consider appropriate action against Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) for allegedly routing funds to dummy companies for buying large quantity of its shares 2000.
In the biggest ever deal in the Indian media sector, RIL will acquire control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, including its subsidiary TV18 Broadcast Ltd.
Earlier, the listing agreement was a bilateral one.
Ambani's wife Nita Ambani, a non-executive director on the company's board, earned Rs 600,000 sitting fee.
As Ayodhya readies itself for the glittering, much-awaited consecration ceremony of the Ram Mandir on January 22, and as millions of pilgrims and devotees pour into the holy city for the momentous event, companies are rushing to do their bit and be a part of the mega celebrations. Some are offering a part of their profits as donations, telcos are beefing up the number of cellular towers to ensure better connectivity, and there are those distributing jalebis and food platters.
Two Indian companies - Reliance Industries and Tata Consultancy Services - figure in the financial disclosure report submitted by Lawrence Summers, director of President Barack Obama's National Economic Council.
Mukesh Ambani-controlled Reliance Industries on Wednesday said there are no proposals for a bonus issue or a stock split of its shares.
The 3-year partnership to set up a pan India initiative to catalyse the country's technology startup ecosystem was signed today by R A Mashelkar, Chairman, GenNext Ventures and Board Member, RIL, and Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman, Microsoft India.
RIL has completed Network 18s open offer after four months of acquiring the latter.
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