While smart boys like the Ruias of Essar, Ajay Piramal, Max India promoter Analjit Singh laughed all the way to the bank, the Tatas, Anil Ambani, Malaysian tycoon T Ananda Krishna of Maxis (which invested in Aircel), Sistema, and Norway's Telenor burnt their fingers, notes Surajeet Das Gupta.
Industrialist Anil Ambani on Wednesday met key ministers and senior government officials in New delhi, a day after he accused the Union oil ministry of helping the Mukesh Ambani-run RIL renege its commitment on supplying gas to his group firm.
The arguments in the high-voltage bitter legal battle for the first time saw Anil Ambani sitting during the court proceedings throughout the day.
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.
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 shares of the Mukesh and Anil Ambani group companies were on fire on Monday following the brothers burying their hatchet, with RIL gaining 2.58 per cent and Reliance-Power rallying 7.86 per cent.
RIL said the Anil Ambani group firm "does not have a single power plant since the demerger (of the Reliance empire) and the ADAG owns just one gas-based plant."
Announcing the rollout, Anil Ambani told reporters that the company has invested over Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) in the project, which was completed six months ahead of schedule. Reliance Communications mobile users will now have a choice of both CDMA and GSM services, Ambani said, adding, "the project was completed within 15 months", six months ahead of schedule.
Anil Ambani group counsel Mukul Rohtagi said he had no objection.
If the Indian government insults them, then they will will ensure its removal, Gandhi said.
A day before the deadline of exclusive takeover talks between Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications and South African company MTN expires, Reliance Industries has invoked the dispute resolution clause of the non-competition agreement against RCom. However, RCom plans to go ahead with its proposed merger with MTN without taking RIL's claim into account.
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.
Reliance Communications (RCom), the country's second biggest mobile operator promoted by Anil Ambani, has earmarked Rs 30,000 crore for capital expansion this financial year with an aim to take its subscription to 100 million by 2010 from the current 60 million.
Reliance Capital Ltd (RCL), part of the debt-ridden Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Group, has received 10 more bids, including from SBI Life, for its subsidiaries, sources said. Earlier this month, the Committee of Debenture Holders had extended the last date for submission of expression of interest (EoI) to December 17, 2020. Following this, 10 new bids have come in for Reliance Capital's assets, taking the total number of bids to 70, the sources said.
Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications on Monday said news reports that it was acquiring the English Premier League club Newcastle United for an estimated 260 million pounds were false and baseless.
Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications denied news reports that it was acquiring the EPL club Newcastle United for an estimated 260 million pounds.
In insolvency proceedings, Ericsson will be treated as only an operational creditor and may end up losing the Rs 550 crore
The power sector has been notorious for missing capacity addition targets and it remained just that in 2008.
Mysterious text messages have begun circulating in Mumbai praising Anil Ambani, the Indian businessman.
Anil Ambani on Wednesday announced formation of two new companies, Global Fuel Management Services and Reliance Communication Ventures Ltd, under the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises umbrella.
The government will investigate every Indian name appearing in an unprecedented leak of financial records, known as the 'Pandora Papers', which alleged that many world leaders have secret offshore stores of wealth.
Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Industries will lose around $1 billion (Rs 4,300 crore) a year if it sells gas to the Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources at the agreed price of $2.34 per million British thermal unit
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.
The Anil Ambani group on Friday asked market regulator SEBI to probe hammering down of shares of Reliance Communications and other companies by rivals and charged RIL with attempting to derail ongoing talks for a deal with South African telecom giant MTN.
Anil Ambani Group firm Flag Telecom on Monday announced the acquisition of US-based Ethernet services provider Yipes Communications for 300 million dollars (Rs 1,200 crore) in cash.
The Congress chief took a dig, saying the documents have disappeared like two crore jobs for youths, right price for farmers' produces and the promised 15 lakh for everybody.
Anil Ambani group company FLAG Telecom on Wednesday announced the appointment of Punit Garg, who was heading Reliance Infocomm's international business, as its president.\n\n
Anil Ambani controlled Reliance Power, which received a tremendous response for its initial public offer, has fixed the issue price at Rs 450 per share, but it will be offered at Rs 430 to retail investors, a discount of Rs 20. "The company's board has fixed the issue price at top-end at Rs 450 per share for the Reliance Power issue and for retail investors at Rs 430 per share," Reliance Power chairman Anil Ambani said on Saturday.
The company will invest Rs 16,000 crore (Rs 160 billion) for network expansion in FY08, said ADAG chairman Anil Ambani on Tuesday in Mumbai.
Shares of Reliance Industries plunged on Friday after a court ruling that the Mukesh Ambani-led company can not sell its KG basin gas to any company except NTPC and Anil Ambani group's Reliance Natural Resources.
The Bharti group has applied to the government for a licence to operate direct-to-home television services.
Mukesh and Anil Ambani have yet again made it to a list of richest people compiled by Forbes, only this time the recognition has been bestowed on them because of their running feud. "Sometimes fighting has a silver lining, as has been the case for Indian brothers Mukesh and Anil Ambani," the US business magazine wrote about the two siblings in a report on the latest list - 'Billionaire Family Feuds'.
In a bonanza for its shareholders, billionaire Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications on Sunday announced it is hiving off its entire real estate assets, estimated to be of around Rs 12,000 crore (Rs 120 billion), into a separate listed company.
'Modi had promised to deposit money in the accounts of people, but he has done it only in the case of some rich businessmen like the Ambanis'
Higher price will lead to hike in fertiliser subsidy while a lower price will hit returns.
Kapoor, 62, and the Wadhawans were arrested by the agency in this case early this year and they are in judicial custody at present.
The government on Monday refused to review its decision rejecting the price of natural gas proposed to be sold by Reliance Industries Ltd to an Anil Ambani group firm.
Anil Ambani's Reliance Power tops the table with 3.46 million shareholders
Market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India on Wednesday said it will take appropriate action on complaints filed by Reliance Industries' vice chairman and managing director Anil Ambani
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