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The Reliance Jio board on Tuesday approved the appointment of Akash Ambani as the chairman of the board. Mukesh Ambani has resigned as the director of the company effective from 27 June. He has also been appointed as the Non-executive Director of Reliance Jio. The board at its meeting today also approved the appointment of Pankaj Mohan Pawar as Managing Director of the Reliance Jio for five years commencing from June 27, 2022.Jio named Raminder Singh Gujrat, K V Chowdhary as Additional Directors of the Company, designated as Independent Directorsdirectors for a period of five years commencing from June 27, 2022. "In accordance with the circular dated June 20, 2018, issued by the Stock Exchanges, we hereby confirm that Raminder Singh Gujral and KV Chowdary are not debarred from holding the office of Director by virtue of any Securities and Exchange Board of India order or any other such authority," the company said in a regulatory filing.

In the past seven trading days, the stock price of RIL has appreciated by 11 percent from a level of Rs 2,544 on April 18, 2022. In the past three months, the stock has rallied 20 percent, as compared to a 0.42 percent decline in the S&P BSE Sensex. Read more

A downgrade of Reliance Industries Ltd by Nomura Holdings Inc. analyst Anil Sharma’s team will pique investor interest for multiple reasons. Apart from the timing, with commodities hitting new records and Reliance’s earnings due on Friday, this move to slash billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s oil-to-tech conglomerate to neutral from buy may carry more weight with investors due to the analyst’s background. It’s also the broker’s first downgrade on the stock in many years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. While the outlook for Reliance’s key businesses has continued to improve, the company’s valuations look expensive after a recent surge in its shares, Sharma and his associate Aditya Bansal wrote in a note dated Oct. 18. Shares have risen more than 30% from the end of July, compared with an 18% advance in the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex Index. Read more

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced a Rs 75,000 crore investment in setting up four 'Giga' factories to make solar photovoltaic cells, green hydrogen, batteries, and fuel cells over the next three years. He also said Reliance will set up 100 GW of solar power generating capacity. India will present to the world a template of a Green Economy Movement. We will build two additional divisions to further strengthen the green energy ecosystem. He also announced the launch of JioPhone Next, a fully-featured smartphone, that is developed in partnership with Google.JioPhone next will be launched first in India on September 10, and later it will be taken to many other countries. Mukesh Ambani said that Jio will use Google Cloud's next-generation technologies to power Jio's 5G solutions. Read more

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman, Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has said that the partnership between Jio and Facebook is great for India, Indians and small Indian businesses. Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday said at the first Facebook Fuel for India 2020 event that its partnership with Jio Platforms will help support millions of small businesses in India." At Facebook, we are in the business of serving small businesses. And nowhere is this more true than in India," the Facebook CEO said. He also said that supporting small businesses has become more important in view of the Covid-19 induced impact on the economy.“With more than 60 million small businesses and millions of people around the country relying on them for jobs - these small businesses form a big part of what our partnership with Jio can serve here. This is especially important because small businesses in India will be a key part of the global economic recovery going forward. And we're focused on making sure we build. Read more

Reliance Industries is net debt-free after raising a record Rs 1.69 lakh crore from global investors and a rights issue in almost two months, said group chairman Mukesh Ambani in a statement today(19th June 2020). The statement came after Reliance said yesterday Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund will buy a 2.32 percent stake in its digital unit Jio Platforms for Rs 11,367 crore. “We have received strong interest from strategic and financial investors in our consumer businesses, Jio and Reliance Retail. We will move towards the listing of both these companies within the next five years,” said Ambani. Read more