Reliance Infratel, a subsidiary of Reliance Communications has filed papers with Sebi for issuing IPO.
Total income decreased to Rs 66.16 crore (Rs 661.6 million) during the July-September quarter of the current fiscal, from Rs 80.91 crore (Rs 809.1 million) in the corresponding period a year-ago.
According to a disclosure filed with the bourses, the promoters purchased 56.15 lakh shares in REL between May 14, 2007 to January 22, raising their holding to 8.43 crore shares or 35.66 per cent. The transaction was done through creeping acquisition of shares from the open market.
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its judgement on an appeal by Anil Ambani firm Reliance Airport Developers challenging the Delhi high court verdict, which upheld the government's decision to allot modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports.
According to one calculation, Reliance Power IPO is likely to gain close to $27 billion for Anil Ambani, which when combined with the existing market capitalisation of his companies will work out to be close to $75 billion!
"It is a reflection of world community in the future of India... Investors seem to be confident in the future of Indian economy," Chidambaram told PTI on IPO that hit the market this morning for mopping upto Rs 11,700 crore (Rs 117 billion). Not only the IPO was fully subscribed within a minute of opening, it generated demand worth over Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) in less than two hours.
Securities Appellate Tribunal on Monday adjourned its hearing till January 21, on complaints against Anil Ambani group's $3-billion Reliance Power IPO, scheduled to hit the market on Tuesday. On January 4, SAT had refused to stay the Initial Public Offer, while saying that it would consider the issue on January 14.
Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Money on Friday announced its foray into Europe by setting up operations in Ireland and the UK and is looking to tap over two million non-resident Indian population in the region.
CDMA technology developer Qualcomm on Tuesday said it was not negotiating with Indian telecom players, including Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications, on lowering the royalty paid by them.
Reliance Power is being touted as India's biggest ever IPO with an estimated size of over $3 billion, surpassing just over $2 billion raised by DLF. This would be the first ever IPO from Anil Ambani group after being carved out from the erstwhile Reliance empire in 2005.
Riding high on a sharp growth in subscriber base, Anil Ambani group's telecom arm RCOM on Thursday reported a 23.9 per cent jump in its first quarter net profit at Rs 1,512 crore (Rs 15.12 billion) and announced plans to invest over Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion) in the current fiscal.
Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Natural Resources Ltd said on Wednesday it will raise $300 million through issue of Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds in the international market.
Vodafone, which is yet to announce the acquisition, has offered to partner Essar, on which the Indian conglomerate said, "We are at the moment evaluating all our options in the best interest of the Group."
Anil Ambani group's Reliance Money on Tuesday sparked a price war in the highly competitive brokerage space by offering a free trading account to its demat account holders, with an aim to tap up to 30 crore (300 million) potential clients. Reliance Money also announced a partnership with Corporation Bank to offer broking services to 9.5 million account holders of the public sector lender.
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The Bombay High Court on Monday asked Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Natural Resources Ltd to renegotiate within four months, a Gas Supply Master Agreement (GSMA) between them saying it has to be a "bankable" pact.
Total income rose to Rs 115.46 crore (Rs 1.15 billion) during the same quarter, from Rs 92.92 crore (Rs 929.2 million) in the corresponding period a year ago, RNRL said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Shares of RNRL closed at Rs 83.85, up 1.39 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Sources, however, said that the company has entered into a deal with some American and European investors for the pre-IPO placement. The latest deal values the company at around Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) while the earlier 5 per cent stake dilution that Reliance Infratel had made, valued the company at about Rs 28,000 crore (Rs 280 billion).
The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group on Thursday announced it that would build the world's largest next generation under-sea cable network with an investment of $1.5 bn (about Rs 7,000 crore) over the next three years.
A Bench headed by Justice S H Kapadia, while setting aside the high court order, directed Reliance Energy to submit its financial bid for the project within three months.
The stock market on Friday greeted with enthusiasm the reports of Reliance Communications planning acquisition of rival Hutch-Essar, as the Anil Ambani group firm gained a massive Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) in market value.
According to reports, the deal, if successful, could fetch Hutchison as much as $14 billion and would be Asia's largest private equity deal.
Three Japanese submarine cable construction companies have been short-listed by Flag Telecom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications
Its effort to stave off bankruptcy by selling spectrum to Reliance Jio got scuttled after the long legal and government delays for approvals.
Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Energy on Tuesday said it has bought shares worth over Rs 230 crore, representing nearly 30 per cent of the buyback offer.Reliance Energy bought back 81,680 equity shares on Tuesday, it added. The last date for the buyback would be March 4, 2009, a year from the date of the Board's approval for the offer.
The Anil Ambani group firm is the sole bidder for the engineering, procurement and construction contract for DVC's proposed 1,000 MW thermal power plant at Raghunathpur in Purulia district of West Bengal.
The government will sign contracts on Tuesday for exploitation of gas trapped below coal seams in nine areas with three consortia, including one led by Anil Ambani Group companies.\n
In a development that could prove to be a major setback for Anil Ambani group, the E Sreedharan Committee, entrusted with the task of revaluating the bids and procedure for the Rs 5,400 crore
"A meeting of the board of directors of the company will be held on March 5 to consider buyback of equity shares of the company," Reliance Energy said in a communique to the Bombay Stock Exchange.
R-Power has asked its shareholders to pay up the balance payment by Feb 26, to avail of bonus shares.
The group had a net profit of Rs 68.58 crore (Rs 685.8 million) for the year ended March 31, 2008, the company said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. The consolidated income increased to Rs 418.96 crore (Rs 4.18 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2009, up 14.06 per cent from Rs 367.31 crore (Rs 3.67 billion) in the year-ago period.
With the listing of Reliance Power, the market cap of Anil Ambani group aggregated to Rs 307,112 crore (Rs 3,071.12 billion), almost Rs 100,000 crore (Rs 1,000 billion) below expectations of Rs 400,000 crore (Rs 4,000 billion) capitalisation.
Anil Ambani group's Reliance Power on Monday made its debut on the bourses, listing at a premium of over 20 per cent, but slipped below the issue price in early morning trade.
Anil Ambani Group never sought clarification before bids closed, says DGH.