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Thursday, August 21, 2025
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Topic: Reliance

2020 has been a forgettable year for most, but not for Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Jio

Everyone’s buying into the Reliance Jio dream for now. Big investors such as Facebook and Google are writing a cheque to own a slice of it.

Reliance funnels billions from Jio stake sales into debt funds

The monies have been deployed into ultra-short and money-market funds, and others focused on debt with an average of three-to-five year maturities.

Why Reliance’s mega deal to sell 20% of its oil business to Saudi Aramco has been stuck

Mukesh Ambani said the Saudi Aramco-Reliance deal hadn’t been worked out yet with the delay partly due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After luring Google & Facebook, Mukesh Ambani plans to build a global digital company

Mukesh Ambani unveiled a slew of services from Jio, including a 5G network as early as next year and a mega video-streaming platform.

From oil to tech – Reliance transformation story Mukesh Ambani will tell investors tomorrow

At Reliance AGM Wednesday, Mukesh Ambani will be speaking on behalf of an empire that is increasingly breaking free from oil-price fortunes.

Reliance Jio raises $4 billion from share sale to investors

Mukesh Ambani's Jio has now sold about 25% of its shares to buyers, including Facebook and US private equity firms KKR & Co., and Silver Lake.

How India is becoming an unlikely Asian hotspot for mergers & acquisitions

Thanks largely to $15 billion of investments in Jio, India accounts for more than 12% of announced deals in the Asia Pacific region so far this year.

Intel invests Rs 1,895 crore in Ambani’s Jio Platforms for 0.39% stake

Intel Corp. has agreed to pay approximately Rs. 1,895 crore ($253 million) for a stake in the telecom giant, joining other investors like Facebook Inc., KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Partners.

Shut up and put up — What Chinese companies in India should do as Galwan crisis continues

After Mike Pompeo defined a ‘clean’ multi-national company, the Modi govt banned 59 Chinese mobile apps such as TikTok, UC Browser, SHAREit and Clean Master.

Reliance starts testing JioMart, its online grocery shopping portal across India

JioMart is now delivering in more than 200 cities. Last month, it started a pilot project serving users in three neighbourhoods surrounding Mumbai.

On Camera

What a Tamil town tells us about votes, caste, and fraud in medieval India

Nepotism seems to have been a concern in Uttaramerur elections. That's why the drawing of ballots was done by a child and executives' relatives were banned from being elected.

New insolvency frameworks to shorter timelines, how 2025 amendment bill proposes to transform IBC

New bill aims to fix key issues with IBC 2016, including delays & patchy implementation, and protect creditors, with window for genuine promoters to retain control of their companies.

First-of-its kind tri-services conference Ran Samvad to take place in Army War College next week

Billed as the military’s own version of Raisina Dialogue, the event will spotlight on tech-driven warfighting, lessons from Operation Sindoor and release of three new doctrines.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?