Anil Ambani planning to increase stake in Reliance Infra, Reliance Power

Anil Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Infrastructure and Reliance Power, told shareholders at a virtual annual general meeting (AGM) on Tuesday that promoters would increase the stake in the two companies. Ambani also informed shareholders that Reliance Power had refrained from availing a moratorium on its loans, calling the moratorium a ‘financial penalty’. “The promoters … Read more

Behind the Jio investment rush

That could either have meant that Jio Platforms would raise about $5.7 billion more, or sell another 10% stake. But as it turns out, the company has ended up selling an additional 12.4% stake already to global investors, and has raised $8 billion more. At the rate Jio Platforms is signing up investments—$1.3 billion per … Read more

JioMart gets a WhatsApp number, goes live

Three days after Reliance Retail signed a commercial pact with Facebook’s WhatsApp to further the reach of its online venture JioMart, the retailer went live in the suburban Mumbai areas of Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan. Reliance’s tie up with WhatsApp means it gets direct access to WhatsApp’s user base of over 400 million. To … Read more