IT major TCS surpassed Reliance Industries to become the country's most valued company as its market capitalisation soared to over Rs 2.61 lakh crore on Friday because of spurt in the share price.
Nifty is likely to remain under selling pressure unless and until it breach the 7,700-7,720 levels on closing basis.
The firm is looking to raise as much as Rs 1,000 crore through short-term commercial paper.
Reliance Industries has approved the demerger of power, financial and telecommunication services, the three entities that went to Anil Ambani as part of the settlement he reached with elder brother Mukesh.
Future Retail Ltd (FRL) on Tuesday said it will explore all legal remedies to pursue its Rs 24,713-crore deal with RIL following a Delhi high court order directing status quo to be maintained till the court pronounces its order. Earlier in the day, a Delhi high court bench of Justice J R Midha directed FRL to maintain status quo in relation to its deal with Reliance Retail that has been objected to by US-based e-commerce giant, Amazon. Amazon welcomed the latest court directive.
CPM leader Tapen Sen has asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for a probe into what he called 'artifical inflation' in Reliance Industries' KG-D6 spend and the Mukesh Ambani-run firm's 'manipulation' of gas price.
A new Bench will be constituted on Thursday to hear the high-voltage case between Mukesh Amabani's RIL and Anil Ambani's RNRL relating to pricing of gas from K G Basin.
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.
The company feels valuations are low and the demand would later rise.
RIL on Friday declared a net profit of Rs 20,040 crore (Rs 200.4 billion) for the 2011-12, a marginal drop from the Rs 20,286 crore (Rs 202.86 billion) it made in 2010-11.
NTPC was to open letter of credit in favour of RIL for an amount equivalent to a month's supplies.
A CBI team on Friday visited office of oil regulator V K Sibal to check records following charges of his receiving favours from Mukesh Ambani-led RIL to approve an inflated expenditure for gas field, a charge denied by him.
Mukesh Ambani group firm Reliance Industries on Wednesday said it will issue one bonus share for every share held in the company.
It reported a record net profit of Rs 36,075 crore for the 2017-18 fiscal, up 20.6 per cent.
A bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam sought response from the Centre and RIL on a PIL filed by Communist Party of India Member of Parliament Gurudas Dasgupta who alleged that no due diligence was done by the government while increasing the price of natural gas.
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.
Reliance industries on Monday increased diesel prices by Rs 2 per litre.
As a situation similar to the game of musical chairs continued for yet another day, Infosys slipped to the second position after RIL in terms of their weightage on the Indian stock market's barometer index, the Sensex.
Mustang's work for the KG-D6 Development (plan) was based on all available information and performed in an independent manner in October/November 2007," Woods Group -- the parent firm of the engineering consultancy firm -- said in an e-mailed statement from Houston. Anil Ambani group, fighting a legal battle to source gas from RIL's KG-D6 fields at less than market price, had stated the Mustang was not the best to validate because it had carried out separate work.
Reliance Industries on Friday dubbed as a "canard" allegations that the near-doubling of natural gas prices will lead to a similar hike in domestic cooking gas (LPG) and inflation in food item rates.
Terming as 'malicious, baseless, mischievous and ill-informed' the advertisement propaganda by Anil Ambani Group on its gas field capex, Reliance Industries has stated that the development cost was the lowest in the world and compares favourably to any other project in India.
Lok Sabha MP Harsh Vardhan on July 23 wrote to Petroleum Minister Murli Deora asking why the government had kept quiet for all this while on the Ambani family MoU that provides for dividing Krishna-Godavari basin gas between companies run by brothers Mukesh and Anil.
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.
BP Plc, Europe's second biggest oil company, and Reliance Industries will invest $5 billion in developing untapped gas reserves in the KG-D6 block, aimed at reversing the fall in gas production, RIL statement said on Tuesday.
Revenue jumped 54.5 per cent to Rs 156,291 crore.
Reliance Industries Ltd will give Rs 750 crore (Rs 7.5 billion) discount on LPG and kerosene to public sector petro retailers in 2005-06.
Moving closer to demerger of power, telecom and financial businesses from it, Reliance Industries on Thursday invited notices in support or against the demerger petition, which would come up for hearing in the Bombay High Court on November 25.
Debt-ridden Future Group is now focusing on saving and rebuilding firms such as -- Future Lifestyle Fashions, Future Supply Chain Solutions, Future Consumer and Future Enterprises, after the Rs 24,713-crore deal with Reliance Retail was rejected by secured creditors, according to industry sources. However, Future Group's flagship firm Future Retail Ltd (FRL), which has nearly Rs 18,000 crore debt, is bound to face the corporate insolvency resolution process before the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). Other companies like Future Enterprises Ltd (FEL), Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd (FLFL), Future Supply Chain Solutions Ltd (FSCSL), Future Consumer Ltd (FCL) can sustain on their own and can be rebuilt by restructuring their liabilities with the help of current lenders and investors, said an industry source close to the Future Group.
Market players were cautious over Reliance Industries on Wednesday following reports that Sebi has asked CBI to probe into UTI's subscription to the company's debenture issue.
Reliance Industries on Monday clarified that the company made purchases from Iraqi crude oil suppliers at the then prevailing international prices and no other payments were involved in these purchases.
The company is irked over not being granted the promised drilling moratorium to cover for the acute shortage of rigs.
Construction major L&T was the biggest gainer among the Sensex components, spurting 2.30 per cent, after the company said its board has approved a Rs 9,000-crore share buyback plan.
Reliance will also announce its third quarter results on the same day.
Tech Mahindra, the top loser in the Sensex pack, shed over 2.5 per cent. It was followed by UltraTech Cement, Reliance Industries, HCL Tech, HDFC, Kotak Bank, HDFC Bank and TCS. NSE Nifty plunged 179.35 points to 17,745.90.
Reliance Industries on Wednesday decided to double the production capacity at its Jamnagar Refinery to 60 million tonnes at an investment of Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion).
Reliance Industries on Friday said that it has made a sixth oil discovery in the Gujarat block, but did not give the reserves that the latest find may hold.
NTPC is fighting a case in the Bombay high court to get gas from RIL at a committed price of $2.34 per mmBtu.
Replying to a calling-attention motion in Rajya Sabha, oil minister Murli Deora said the $4.2 per million British thermal unit price fixed for gas produced from KG-D6 fields of RIL was lower than the average of $5.51 per mmBtu charged by UK's BG-led consortium for Panna/Mukta and Tapti gas. It was also lower than the $4.3 per mmBtu price of gas produced from Cairn's Ravva Satellite fields and $4.75 per mmBtu for the UK firm's Lakshmi fields.
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