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Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications on Friday a market capitalisation of $20 billion, in line with the rise in stock markets.
A Reliance Industries spokesman denied reports that its chairman Mukesh Ambani is bidding for a 51 per cent stake in Liverpool football club.
Reliance ADA Group chairman Anil Ambani on Monday appeared before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Mumbai and recorded his statement in connection with an investigation linked to the alleged contravention of the foreign exchange law, official sources said. Ambani, 64, deposed at the office of the federal agency in south Mumbai. Ambani's statement was recorded as part of a fresh case filed under various sections of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA), the sources said without elaborating.
Acquisition of stressed infrastructure assets has pushed its debt to over Rs 1 lakh crore, highlighting concerns about its growth strategy.
It was clearly the beginning of a new era for the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group to start generation at what was not only their first, but also North India's first private sector thermal power plant in Rosa village on the outskirts of Shahjahanpur town in Uttar Pradesh.
"Any Reliance Money customer who has an Internet access through a GPRS or CDMA-enabled mobile phone can log in to the Reliance Money website using his or her existing user ID, security token number and trade in equities and commodities," said Reliance Money Director and CEO, Sudip Bandhopadhyay. With this initiative, the company will now be tapping approximately 347-million telecom users based in India.
The strategic alliance between the two companies would address the rapidly growing demand of Hollywood studios for converting both new films shot in 2D as well as older film released in cinemas and on home platforms into the 3D format, Reliance MediaWorks said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Anil said the company is in the process of signing a contract with the Indian Coast Guard for the first defence order for 14 fast patrol vessels
Industrialist Gautam Adani slipped out of the World' Real-time Billionaires list of Forbes on Friday and was placed in 22nd position. Gautam Adani's wealth had declined 21.77 per cent or $16.2 billion. The current net worth of the industrialist was $581.1 billion at 1.23 pm (IST) on Friday afternoon, while Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani's net worth was at $82 billion.
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Reliance ADA Group on Monday said it will enhance its integrated power plants in Madhya Pradesh at an investment of Rs 20,000 crore and "will sell power to the state at Rs 1.19 a unit for the next 25 years".
Aiming to become one of the top five cement companies in the country, Anil Ambani group company Reliance Infrastructure has chalked big plans to set up plants which entail an investment of Rs 10,000 crore.
Future Retail's independent directors had last week asked Amazon if it was willing to give a long-term loan to avoid default on repayment of Rs 3,500 crore loan due on January 29. Amazon replied to that saying it was willing to financially assist Future Retail through the Samara Capital deal but the retailer must shelve Rs 24,713 crore deal with the Reliance group.
Reliance Mutual Fund has the highest asset under managment among all the Indian mutual fund houses, as on June 30 its AUM was over Rs 59,857 crore (Rs 598.57 billion) and had 32.8 lakh investors.
The e-tail venture plans to initially offer apparel, electronics and footwear products.
The project is for a concession period of 35 years with an extension clause of another 10 years, the company said in a statement.
Mukesh Ambani has resigned from the board of his group's telecom arm, Reliance Jio and handed over the reins of the company to elder son Akash, a step seen as succession planning by the 65-year old billionaire. In a stock exchange filing, Reliance Jio Infocomm said the company's board at a meeting on June 27, "approved the appointment of Akash M Ambani, non-executive director, as chairman of the board of directors of the company." This comes after his father resigned with effect from close of working hours on June 27, it said.
The portal - Mobile Financial Portal -- would offer corporate news, announcements, research reports and stock quotes to its customers across all mobile platforms, a company statement said.
The Ambani brothers on Saturday reached a settlement to split between themselves, assets of India's largest private sector conglomerate, with over Rs 97,000 crore (Rs 970 billion) in revenues, founded by their late father Dhirubhai.
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has overtaken Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani to become the richest Indian in the world with a net worth of $84.3 billion, according to Forbes Real-time billionaire list for 2023. Ambani overtook Adani after the Reliance Industries chairman's assets went up 0.19 per cent with an increase of wealth by $64 million while Gautam Adani's assets went down by 4.62 per cent with the industrialist's weath pegged at $84.1 billion according to the real time tracker of Forbes of 5 pm EST on Tuesday. Adani who figured among the top three billionaires in the world has dropped in the ranking to number 10 just below Mukesh Ambani.
Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Capital on Wednesday said it is planning to enter the housing finance and non-banking finance businesses, for which it has already filed applications with the concerned regulatory authorities.
Mukesh Ambani, the patriarch of Reliance Industries (RIL), and Gautam Adani, the chairman of Adani Group of companies, have secured the top positions on the Fortune India Rich List, created in partnership with Waterfield Advisors, with respective wealth of $99.7 billion and $63.71 billion. With a wealth of $34.6 billion, the Mistry family of Shapoorji Pallonji Group holds the third position on the list, while the Poonawalla family, owners of vaccine maker Serum Institute, with a wealth of $32.9 billion, stands fourth. Stockbroker and founder of D-Mart-branded grocery stores, Radhakishan Damani, claims the fifth spot on the India Rich List with a wealth of $23.4 billion
In a two-page letter written on December 12, 2017, the Reliance head said he was "personally saddened" by the "unfortunate statements" against him and his group by several functionaries of the Congress party.
She has been described as Reliance's real programme manager.
Reliance Big Entertainment (RBE), the flagship media and entertainment arm of the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, has announced a joint venture with Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman's Playtone.
Culver Max Entertainment, formerly known as Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI), has terminated merger agreements with Zee Entertainment, which could have otherwise created a USD 10 billion media enterprise in the country.
Anil Ambani Group's Reliance Money today signed an agreement with Tata group's IT arm CMC Ltd for setting up financial retail kiosks, besides training students of the software solutions provider in finance.
Social media platform Meta has appointed Vikas Purohit as Director of Global Business Group in India to lead the strategy and delivery of the charter that is focused on the country's leading advertisers and agency partners, the company said on Monday. Purohit will report to Arun Srinivas, director and head of ads business for Meta in India, it said in a statement. "I am thrilled to welcome Vikas as he joins our team to shape the role that Meta platforms can play in enabling businesses, supporting India's economic growth, and building the digital advertising ecosystem of the country," Srinivas said.
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.
Over 30 million students across the country, who have appeared for Class X and XII besides other competitive exams, can view their results on Reliance mobile phones on its popular mobile portal R-World.
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Reliance Capital and Reliance Home Finance said that PWC cited the companies' failure to convene audit committee meetings within the expected time, despite multiple letters of intent sent to them, as one of the reasons for the resignation.
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.
Analysts said with more power sector companies referred to the NCLT by banks, large companies would be at an advantage.
The company is keen on creating 'a differentiated e-commerce model'.
