Gandhinagar, Invoking Mahatma Gandhi’s movement against colonisation, Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani on Friday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead a fight against “data colonisation”, saying that Indian data must be “owned and controlled” by Indians. “I pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of our[Read More…]
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“Data is the new oil”, Jio founder Mukesh Ambani’s veiled attack on Facebook, Google
Speaking at Vibrant Gujarat Summit on Friday, Reliance Industries Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani raised his concerns on data colonisations by the global companies. Ambani said, “Gandhi ji led India’s movement against political colonisation, today we have to collectively launch a new movement against data colonisation.” “In this data[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani, the richest Asian piles up wealth while 128 top tycoons lose $137 billion this year
Amidst global trade tensions and concerns hovering around the stock valuations, the top tycoons of Asia, 128 of them have lost $137 billion in this year. Making this year, the first since 2012, when the inaugural ranking of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index got released, to register such a fall in[Read More…]
“Sir Jio nahi chal raha hai,” says photographer to Mukesh Ambani at DeepVeer’s reception
“Sir, Jio nahi chal raha hai,” (Sir, Jio isn’t working) a photographer at the reception party of Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh said when the Ambanis took their places to get themselves clicked. Mukesh Ambani had come to attend the wedding reception with his wife Nita Ambani, daughter Isha, and sons Akash and[Read More…]
All phones in India to have 4G by 2020: Mukesh Ambani
New Delhi: Reliance Industries (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Thursday said all mobile phones in India will be connected through 4G network by 2020. Speaking at the inaugural session of the India Mobile Congress 2018, he also said that India would be ahead of other countries in adopting 5G technology.[Read More…]
Reliance Jio tops Fortune ‘Change The World’ list
Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio has been ranked the top company globally in the Fortune’s fourth annual “Change The World” list released on Monday. The list ranked companies as per their profit motive to help the planet and tackle social problems. “If access to the Internet is a basic human right[Read More…]
Reliance AGM 2018: What to expect from JioGigafiber, JioPhone 2
Speaking at the 41st Reliance annual general meeting, Chairman Mukesh Ambani officially launched the new fibre broadband system ‘Jio GigaFiber’ across 1,100 cities on Thursday, stepping up its push on internet services. This much awaited, fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) broadband services, which will be available for both residential and commercial locations, will[Read More…]
Reliance AGM 2018 Live: Mukesh Ambani unveils JioGigafiber, JioPhone 2
The 41st annual general meeting of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is being held today, where the chairman spells out the direction the energy-to-telecom conglomerate will take in 2018-19. Speaking at the 41st annual general meeting, Ambani mentioned of the 25 million Jio phone users in India. He unveiled[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani’s daughter Isha to wed Piramal scion Anand
Mumbai: Business tycoon and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani’s daughter Isha will tie the knot with Anand Piramal, son of corporate magnates Ajay Piramal and Swati Piramal, in December this year, family sources said on Sunday. Anand and Isha have been long-time friends and both the families[Read More…]
Jio to invest Rs 10,000 crore in 3 years in UP: Mukesh Ambani
Lucknow: Reliance Jio will invest another Rs 10,000 crore in Uttar Pradesh over the next three years, Reliance Industries Limited Chairman Mukesh Ambani said here on Wednesday. “Today I am happy to inform this audience that Jio is one of the largest investors in Uttar Pradesh with investments of over Rs[Read More…]
Money has never meant much to me: Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday said money never meant much to him and that as a resource, money enables the company to take risks. “Money has never meant much to me… I abhor the labels and the titles that all of you refer to me,” Ambani said at[Read More…]
Mamata cares for Mukesh Ambani, not for those dying from dengue: Vijayvargiya
BJP national General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Thursday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for meeting industrialist Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai at a time when her state is in the grip of dengue. “You are in Mumbai to meet Mukesh Ambani. A 21-year-old youth died in Kolkata’s alleys due[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes’ 2017 list of India’s 100 richest tycoons
With a net worth of $38 billion, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped Forbes annual list of Indias 100 richest tycoons of 2017, a statement said here on Thursday. “Reliance Industries Ltd chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped Forbes’s annual list of India’s 100 richest tycoons, with a[Read More…]
Bookings for JioPhone to start at 5 pm today
While the highly-awaited Jio Phones will hit the stores in September, the bookings for the same will start on Thursday at 5 pm. People who wish to buy the JioPhone, can pre-book it using MyJio app or by clicking on the ‘Keep me posted’ option available on the Reliance Jio[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani is now Asia’s second wealthiest person with net worth of 2.2 lakh cr
With a net worth increase of USD 12.1 billion (Rs 77,000 cr) this year, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has become the second-richest man in Asia. India’s richest man, Ambani has overtaken Hong Kong-based Li Ka-Shing who until now was the second-richest person in Asia. According to the Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index,[Read More…]
No “WhatsApp” on Reliance Jio Phone
The zero-rupee Jio phone which was recently launched offering lifelong free voice calls bundled with 4G data streaming will not have popular chatting application Whatsapp on it. The company is preparing to launch it in the second half of August. However, there is sad news as the Jio phone will[Read More…]
Jio will cover 99% of India’s population in 12 months: Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday said Reliance has grown from small startup to the most admired company in the world. Speaking at the 40th AGM, the RIL chairman, Mukesh Ambani, said the company’s revenue jumped 4700 times to over Rs 3,30,000 crore now from Rs 70 crore in[Read More…]
Is the Indian telecom industry ready to move out of Jio’s shadow?
Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries created a splash in the Indian telecom industry with its entry. The revenues of India’s telecom industry have seen a big fall after the entry of Jio despite the number of telephone subscribers in India rising from[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes list of Global Game Changers
Just when Reliance was enjoying Jio’s popularity and success over making 4G Internet incredibly accessible to Indians, Mukesh Ambani, 60, comes at the top of the list for his game-changing efforts to bring the internet to India’s masses. “Anything and everything that can go digital is going digital. India cannot[Read More…]
Investors make beeline for Punjab; state may attract upto Rs 1 lakh cr this fiscal
Punjab CM Amarinder Singh’s outreach to meet investors and business leaders in Mumbai seems to have bode well with India Inc. Sources close to the Punjab CM told Newsd that every top corporate honcho who met Capt Singh evinced interest in the impending growth story of the state. “Of them,[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani launches Reliance Jio Prime membership at Rs 99
Mukesh Ambani announced the Jio Prime membership for initial customers of Reliance Jio on Tuesday. Under this Jio Prime plan, members will be able to enjoy one whole year of its 4G services at Rs 99. The chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, cleared that the registrations for Jio Prime membership[Read More…]
Reliance Jio crosses 100 million users in under 6 months
Reliance Jio has managed to cross 100-million in subscribers in less than six months of its launch. According to a Times of India report, Mukesh Ambani is expected to make an announcement regarding the future growth plans for the company on Tuesday. In September, Ambani had publicly announced his desire to[Read More…]
New record! Reliance Jio bags 16 million subscribers in 26 days
Reliance Jio has created a world record by grossing 16 million subscribers in its first month of operations, a company statement said on Sunday. The company commercially launched its services on September 5. “We are delighted and humbled by the overwhelming response across India to the Jio Welcome Offer. Jio[Read More…]
Mukesh Ambani miles ahead of others as he tops Forbes India’s annual rich list
With a net worth of $22.7 billion, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani has topped the annual Forbes’ list of richest Indians for the ninth straight time. The industrialist was leaps ahead of the second ranked Dilip Shangvi, who was quoted to be worth $16.9 billion. The interesting pick of the[Read More…]
It is the time to get together and deliver PM Modi’s mission: Mukesh Ambani
Reliance group’s chairman, managing director and India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani recently spoke about his “most ambitious venture” and constant obsession- technology. Talking about his latest entry into the telecom sector, Jio which has taken the entire industry by storm he said, “We saw mobile internet as the winning horse[Read More…]