Jethmalani described the gas row between the Ambani brothers as a saga where the government has kept the public interest at the farthest and huge wealth has been put in private pockets.
The RIL board had last month approved 1:1 issuance of bonus shares after a 12-year hiatus. The last time RIL announced a bonus issue was in October 1997.
The Standard Chartered Bank has struck an on-shore foreign currency option transaction with Reliance Industries Ltd for $30 million, allowing RIL to hedge its dollar exposure.
Led by Tata Motors and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the combined revenue of the Tata group's listed firms crossed the Rs 10-trillion mark for the first time, in 2022-23. The group's 14 key listed companies in which Tata Sons holds a direct equity stake reported a combined revenue of Rs 10.07 trillion in FY23, up 15.3 per cent from Rs 8.73 trillion in FY22. The combined net profit of these companies was, however, down 10.6 per cent year-on-year (YoY) at Rs 66,670 crore in FY23, from a record high of Rs 74,540 crore in the previous financial year, when the profit had jumped 156 per cent YoY, aided by Tata Steel's strong showing.
The company faced severe demand contraction in its principal market segments due to the global financial crisis. Trevira manufactures high-value branded polyester fibers and filament yarns for the automotive industries, home textiles as well as for technical applications.
Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Infrastructure has agreed to pay the levy, although under protest, and has asked the Mukesh Ambani firm to resume natural gas supplies to its power plant.
If proved correct, MJ-1 would the third biggest gas field in KG-D6 after D1&D3.
Sequel to firm's announcement of cut in K-G gas reserves after long decline in output; agency says it expects decline in cash flows.
There have been reports that RIL's mark-to-market losses on oil prices hedges has run into billions of dollars after its bets on crude futures went wrong last year, when prices first surged to a high of over 147 dollars and then plunged to below $40 a barrel.
State plans to ask Centre to increase K-G gas allocation.
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries on Tuesday said it has made the first oil discovery at an exploratory block in the Cambay basin in Gujarat.
The board of directors of Reliance Industries, which met on Saturday, approved a proposal to merge IPCL with the company.
Reliance Industries Ltd has won government approval for laying six petroleum product pipelines across the country to sell output from its 33 million tonnes per annum Jamnagar refinery in Gujarat.
The sharing agreement will provide more bandwidth for RJIL to provide its high-speed 4G services.
RIL had in the New Exploration Licensing Policy rounds won 45 blocks and of these it has surrendered 14 blocks back to the government as it could not find commercially recoverable oil and gas, sources close to the company said.
RIL, which has faced numerous delays in getting approvals and shifting goal-posts, said the country did not have a stable policy regime and this was responsible for exit of global energy giants like Royal Dutch Shell, BHP Biliton of Australia, Statoil of Norway and Brazil's Petrobras.
Securities and Exchange Board of India is keeping close watch on scrips of Reliance Industries Ltd in the light of allegations made by Anil Ambani about breach of corporate governance norms in RIL.
According to an official close to the development, in the coming financial audit report, to be tabled in Parliament's Budget session next year, CAG will detail the slide in the government's share in petroleum sector profits due to a drop in gas production.
The agreements between the four new companies transferred to Anil Ambani and his elder brother Mukesh's flagship company Reliance Industries may become the bone of contention.
Corporate giant Reliance Industries (RIL) on Tuesday said it has allotted 1.6 lakh shares to its employees under the Employees Stock Option Scheme (ESOP).
Winner will construct 300,000 barrels per day refinery.
Reliance Industries Ltd announced on Tuesday a big-ticket expansion in retailing business, which would have presence in 1,500 cities across India at an investment of about Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion) generating over 1000,000 new jobs.
Bajaj Finance was the top loser in the Sensex pack, shedding around 3 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finserv, Reliance Industries, M&M, Nestle India and SBI. On the other hand, Axis Bank, Tech Mahindra, PowerGrid and Maruti were among the gainers.
It would be complete by 2012 with a total investment of over Rs 11,300 crore, including an estimated Rs 2,300 crore from RIL and Rs 9,000 crore from GAIL. Analysts say refineries -- Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals, Chennai Petroleum Corporation, Essar, Indian Oil Corporation, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation and Bharat Petroleum Corporation -- located in the vicinity of these pipelines would benefit as they would be able to substitute costly fuel oil with cheaper gas.
Fitch Ratings on Tuesday said a higher natural gas price will help improve Reliance Industries' profitability in 2014-15 fiscal and would lead it to invest more in raising production.
The combined market-cap of all listed Adani group firms has plunged nearly Rs 7.11 trillion since January 24 when the Hindenburg report was made public.
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 Election Commission asked the government to defer announcement of the new price till completion of the polls and so RIL was asked to continue selling the gas at old rates.
Reliance Industries Ltd will announce its audited financial results for the year ended 31st March 2003, on Wednesday, April 23.
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RIL with a market cap of Rs 2,98,776 crore (Rs 2,987.76 billion) is the country's second most valued company after Tata Consultancy Services.
RIL had earlier decided not to pursue the cash-and-carry model due to a number of reasons, including a growing unrest towards organised retail.
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.
A top management team of Anil Ambani group firm RNRL got stood up by Reliance Industries officials, who neither responded nor turned up for a proposed meeting to follow up the Bombay high court order on gas supply.
RIL's Dhirubhai-34, or R-Cluster field, in the flagging KG-D6 block was to produce about 13 million standard cubic metres per day of gas, equivalent to present day output from D1&D3 as well as MA fields, by 2017-18.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group on Wednesday threatened to sue three top officials of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries for breach of trust and their inability to protect the interest of shareholders of an ADAG company.
The Raigad district administration has asked RIL to submit details regarding production and safety measures at the plant.
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