The Anil Ambani group's Reliance Infrastructure and Hyderabad-based Lanco Infratech have so far purchased the Request for Qualification applications for taking up the Rs 12,132-crore (Rs 121.32 billion) Hyderabad Metro Rail project.
A special audit of Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications will be delayed, as the auditor Parakh & Co. has sought an extension for three months from mid-July.
Making its foray into mobile content outsourcing, the CDMA major, Reliance Communications, has signed its first contract with a Singapore-based GSM service provider.
A high level committee had found the lapses and hence the government has decided to recommend the irregularities to the Centre.
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.
BSNL on Monday moved the Supreme Court against an order of telecom tribunal TDSAT, directing it to provide interconnection to Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Communications through copper-based link.
A consortium of insurers, led by Anil Ambani group's Reliance General Insurance, has made final payment of $20 million (about Rs 90 crore) towards aircraft insurance claims arising from the Mangalore crash in May.
The calculation excludes cross-holding of listed group cos in each other.
The Anil Ambani group company has soft-launched the service in Mumbai, Delhi, Gujarat, Punjab Bangalore and Chennai. The company has provided GSM phones to its employees for testing the service, according to sources.
RCom, which, sources say had offered to pick up a 51 per cent stake in MTN through a complicated share-swap deal through which shareholders of the African company would pick up stake in RCom, had asked for an extension of the exclusivity talks for another three to four weeks.
Anil Ambani Group company Reliance Energy, top conglomerate Tatas and engineering giant L&T are among the shorlisted bidders for upgradation of Amritsar and Udaipur airports, financial bids for which will be invited by month-end. Airport Authority of India (AAI) had shortlisted five bidders each for the two airports. AAI will invite the request for proposals by month end and the outcome of this will be known possibly by middle of June. Fraport and Lanco are also shortlisted.
The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group is poised to take another leap forward in the film arena with the launch of BigFlicks.com
Reliance Money has launched its UAE arm and plans to tap 1 lakh customers there.
The industry will be affected if such a campaign creates a wrong perception and results in further creating complicating procedures, or delaying decisions.
Accounting regulator ICAI on Wednesday said it has asked Reliance Communication, which is under attack for alleged overstating of revenues and evasion of licence fee, to provide financial details before it can initiate action against the teleco's auditors.
Passing an interim order, Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal also directed BSNL to restore RCom's inter- connection within 48 hours of such payment. TDSAT Chairman Justice Arun Kumar said: "I am of a view that the petitioner (Rcom) should deposit an amount of 65 per cent of disputed claim in one week and respondent should restore the connection with 48 hours of the deposit."
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 COAI decision comes in the wake of Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications and two other CDMA players receiving approvals to offer GSM services in their respective circles of operation from the Department of Telecom on Friday.
CBI prosecutor K K Goel opposed the application saying it was "dragging the trial" and noted that Anil Ambani too had filed a similar plea earlier.
Reliance Defence Limited and Russia's leading developer and manufacturer of Air Defence Missile Systems 'AlmazAntey' have decided to work jointly on the entire range of Air Defence Missile and Radar Systems that are required for Indian defence forces.
Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group firm Reliance Mutual Fund retains its position as the country's largest fund house having assets of over Rs 48,000 crore (Rs 480 billion).
India's 32 mutual fund houses saw an erosion of over Rs 32,200 crore (Rs 322 billion) in their total asset under management last month, with a weak stock market robbing off some shine from their over Rs 5 trillion portfolio.
Last month, the ADAG firm announced that it had bought back 250 FCCBs worth $100,000 each, aggregating about Rs 121.22 crore (Rs 1.21 billion). The bonds were bought back at a discount of 52.5 per cent over the issue price. In two tranches, RCom has bought back FCCBs aggregating to about Rs 170 crore (Rs 1.7 billion).
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 firm Reliance Communications said it has bought back foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) worth Rs 121.22 crore (Rs 1.21 billion).
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.
The monopoly of the state-owned State Bank of India in managing provident fund totalling about Rs 2.5 lakh crore (Rs 2.5 trillion) on Tuesday ended with government allowing three private players including ICICI and HSBC a piece of the cake.
The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity has set aside an order of Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission against Reliance Energy Ltd on a dispute related to billing complaints by its customers in Mumbai.
Reliance Communications has received a $750 million (Rs 3,000 crore) loan from China Development Bank that would be invested in building a nationwide GSM footprint for the telephony major. The Anil Ambani group company has received the loan for a ten-year period and at a rate of Libor (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate) plus 80 basis points. RCom had received the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) approvals for the loan, sources close to the development said.
On examination of documents, registrar of companies concludes that Swan Telecom was an associate company of Reliance Telecom Limited/Reliance Communication Limited and an ADA Group company.
On examination of documents, registrar of companies concludes that Swan Telecom was an associate company of Reliance Telecom Limited/Reliance Communication Limited and an ADA Group company.
In a New Year bonanza for its nearly three million shareholders, Reliance Industries will offer them shares of four Anil Ambani group companies on January 25.
DoT sources confirmed receipt of the report by auditors Parekh and Co and said that it is yet to examine the findings. DoT would ask for RCom's response later.
"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.
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.
The petroleum ministry is mulling filing a defamation suit against an Anil Ambani Group firm for persisting with 'false claims' pertaining to government revenues from Reliance Industries KG-D6 fields.
Budget to match that of smash-hit sci-fi Avatar, the most expensive movie made till date.
