There's talk that the Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is eyeing a minority stake in the carrier. It's also possible that private equity players like Texas Pacific Group may want a slice of the low-cost carrier's equity.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG) has chalked out a roadmap for its online and offline video rental business - BigFlicks - which works on the lines of the US video rental distribution network - Blockbuster. The group plans to raise the number of such stores to 500 across 35-40 cities by April 2009 from the current 22 stores in 6 cities.The retail video service had a soft launch last year following the video-on-demand portal BigFlicks' launch in August 2007.
The Ambani brothers are locked in a bitter battle over the supply and price of the gas from KG basin.
Virtually turning down the request of Reliance Group company IPCL for reconsidering his resignation as vice chairman and director, Anil Ambani, engaged in a war of attrition with elder brother Mukesh, on Saturday sought resolution of issues, includin
The two troubled subsidiaries of Reliance Capital have over Rs 20,000 crore debt of both the companies. Reliance Home Finance has a debt of Rs 11,500 crore and Reliance Commercial Finance owes Rs 9,000 crore to lenders.
Welcoming Sebi's initiative on establishing and certifying quality of audit, Ambani said: "We are confident that as part of its supervision, Sebi will ensure compliance with the highest standards applicable to the process and will also ensure that the selection of reviewers takes into account their merit, as also issues relating to confidentiality of commercial information.
Asked about his fleet of luxury cars and other references to his lavish lifestyle as the counsel for the banks cross-examined him, the Reliance Communications chief dismissed them as "speculative" media stories.
The RBI rejection is a second blow to BoB - the lead bank of both companies -- after a Delhi high court order on August 18 stayed a move by BoB and the entire consortium of lenders to classify these accounts as fraud, restraining them from taking any other coercive action till the next hearing.
Anmol, who has a degree from Warwick Business School in the UK, has also been visiting branches and meeting employees across businesses in different regions to get exposure and detailed understanding of businesses at grass-root level in the past two years
In Mumbai, Reliance Health Venture has already acquired the Mandke hospital, which will be converted into a 650-bed super specialty hospital with six divisions.
Two brothers have begun collaborating in certain businesses.
Leading global advertising and marketing communications services company, Omnicom Group Inc, said on Monday that it has reached an agreement with Anil Ambani-led ADAG to buy a 51 per cent stake in the latter's ad agency, Mudra.
Reliance ADA Group Chairman Anil Ambani was on Thursday exempted by a Delhi court from personally appearing before it on Friday as a prosecution witness in the 2G spectrum allocation case.
In what is in effect a deposit to be paid into court pending a full trial in the case, Judge David Waksman has set a six-week timeline for Anil to pay $100 million to three Chinese banks as he concluded that he did not accept Ambani's defence that his net worth was nearly zero or that his family would not step in to assist him when "push came to shove".
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group sells multiplex business to Carnival Cinemas.
He worked on the Delhi electricity privatisation
Tribunal has stopped any construction work at the site and stayed the government's order to convert 500 acres for industrial purpose till further orders.
With the State Bank of India moving the National Company Law Tribunal's Delhi bench to enforce the personal guarantees of Ambani, it will delay the recovery of dues by the Chinese banks which won a UK court order in May this year.
Reliance Capital has two credit verticals -- Reliance Commercial Finance and Reliance Home Finance -- with a cumulative asset of over Rs 25,000 crore.
Billionaire Anil Ambani on Wednesday called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at 7 Race Course Road for close to an hour but refused comments on the purpose of his meeting. The meeting comes within days of the Supreme Court rejecting his group firm Reliance Natural Resources Ltd's plea for cheap gas from Reliance Industries as had been decided in a private family agreement of 2005.
Dubai Reliance Capital, the financial services arm of Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group, plans to expand its operations in the Middle East, chief executive Sam Ghosh has said.
The promoter group companies controlled by Anil Ambani are expected to buy R-Infra shares from the open market. "The promoters want to control the majority stake in the company to ward off any hostile attack, when corporate rivalry heightens in the country. As the share price of R-Infra is cheaper around Rs 400, the promoters feel that the purchase of shares from the open market would be profitable, boosting the confidence of the shareholders in turn," said sources.
The Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh Cabinet decided to refer the 1,200-acre SEZ proposal to New Delhi as it violated the contiguity norms laid down by it.
The apex court said Ambani and the others will have to purge contempt by paying Rs 453 crore to Ericsson in four weeks. A bench comprising Justices R F Nariman and Vineet Saran said if the 'contemnors' failed to make the payments within the specified period, they will undergo a jail term of three months.
Branded Mobi-Retail, this service will be offered to the 35 million subscribers of Reliance Communications, who will be able to use their handsets to buy over 100,000 products ranging from fresh vegetables to groceries, readymade garments, toys etc.
Reliance was the highest bidder at Rs 63 cr for the 5 airports project.
Swiss bank UBS has been fined Pounds 8 million in the United Kingdom after four of its senior employees were found misusing funds of customers, including two companies of Indian industrialist Anil Ambani-led group.
He said unwarranted rumour-mongering, speculation, and bear hammering of all Reliance Group companies shares over the last few weeks had caused grave damage to all our stakeholders.
Litigation, business setbacks, corporate governance issues and a massive funding shortage have left Anil Ambani's companies reeling.
Anil Ambani said on Wednesday his Reliance Group will invest Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) in Gujarat in the next 5-7 years on various projects as the firm looks to tap opportunities in the state.
Anil Ambani, chairman of the Reliance ADA Group, on Monday denied that the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) had banned his two group companies, Reliance Infra and Reliance Natural Resources, or their directors from participation in the capital market for any period.
The company also expects to benefit in its proposed banking foray through partnership with Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and Nippon Life Insurance
The dispute between RCom and Chinese banks led by ICBC started after Anil Ambani led company defaulted on its loans to Indian as well as Chinese banks. A British court on May 22 asked Ambani to pay nearly $717 million to three Chinese banks within 21 days.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Friday cleared award of four Coal Bed Methane (CBM) blocks to an Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group-led consortium and three blocks to a consortium led by Australia's Arrow Energy.
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.
Days before US President Barack Obama's high-powered visit here, the US-India CEO Forum has been reconstituted with Cyrus Mistry replacing Ratan Tata as its co-chairman
