Reliance ADAG plans BIG in film production biz

20 aug 2007

The Indian film industry is attracting big ticket investment with corporate houses turning focus on film production. After Yashraj Films, UTV, TV18 and PVR, Reliance ADAG is investing big in film production.

Reliance Communications interested in Aircel to expand GSM footprint

20 aug 2007

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications is looking at acquiring a controlling stake in Aircel Cellular Ltd. by buying out stake from Malaysian company Maxis Communications, who hold 74% stake and possibly from promoters of Apollo Hospitals who hold remaining 26%.

KP Singh of DLF becomes India’s third trillionaire

23 jul 2007

After Mukesh and Anil Ambani, DLF’s Kushal Pal Singh became India’s third rupee trillionaire with a net wealth of Rs.101,250 crore. The market cap of India’s largest real estate company DLF now stands at Rs.1,14,744 crore.

Tower Business – Value unlocking for telecom companies

21 jul 2007

With the offloading of 5% stake in Reliance Tower Infrastructure Ltd by Reliance Communications to 7 financial investors valuing the tower business of the company at astonishing Rs.27000 crore, the analysis has now shifted as to how the tower business would contribute in the growth of telecom companies.

Reliance Energy plans big in Indian energy market

10 jul 2007

Reliance Energy Ltd plans to spend Rs.60000 crore to contribute one-quarter of India’s additional generating capacity over the next 5 years. This would increase the company’s generating capacity almost 17 times from 941 megawatts to 16,000 megawatts.

Ambani junior now also part of trillionaire club

09 jul 2007

After Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani, it’s now his younger sibling, Anil Ambani to have personal wealth of over 1 trillion or Rs. 100,000 crore. The market capitalisation of all ADAG companies stand at around 1.67 trillion while Anil Ambani’s personal share is over 1 trillion, though behind Mukesh Ambani’s wealth of 1.15 trillion.

Online DVD Rentals – an unclear road ahead

05 jun 2007

The online DVD rental business in India is still at a nascent stage but is attracting big players, funding and consolidation activity. The business is attracting interest on count of various factors like a proven viable revenue model, good market demand and convenience.

Healthcare – The next big bet for Reliance ADAG

26 may 2007

After Energy, Financial Services, Telecom, Entertainment, its now Healthcare, which is catching Anil Ambani’s focus, primarily due to the high margins this sector command. He is supposed to be investing Rs.

Reliance ADAG joins the DTH bandwagon

25 may 2007

Reliance ADAG group has received permission to start its DTH operations, becoming the fourth player after Zee TV owned Dish TV, Tata-Star TV’s Tata Sky and yet to be launched Sun Direct.

Idea Cellular wants to Spice up its network

24 may 2007

After Bharti Airtel, Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular, a relatively smaller player, Modi promoted Spice Telecom, operating in just 2 but lucrative circles of Punjab and Karnataka, would be the one to hit the capital market with an IPO in June.

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