Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has got 5.52 lakh shares of his flagship firm Reliance Industries (RIL) in the just-concluded Rs 53,124 crore rights issue, according to the company's regulatory filing on Thursday.

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio has received an investment worth whooping Rs 87,655 crore in the last 6 weeks. The most recent of the lot came in face of Rs 9,093 crore invested by Abu Dhabi based Mubadala investment company. Mubadala's investment in Reliance Jio will translate into 1.85 per cent equity state.

With this investment, Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms has raised Rs 87,655.35 crore from leading global technology and growth investors, including Facebook, Silver Lake, Vista Equity Partners, General Atlantic, KKR and Mubadala, in less than six weeks.

Reliance Industries mega Rs 53,124 crore rights issue is the largest in the world by a non-financial issuer in the last 10 years, an analyst said. Oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd's rights issue opened for the subscription of shareholders on May 20 and will close on Wednesday.

The Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has received a resounding response to its Rs 53,124 crore RIL rights issue. The country's largest-ever fundraising initiative got oversubscribed 1.1 times on June 1, 2020, with two more days to go.

Riding on the Rs 1.3 lakh crore in aggregate fund raising in the last few weeks, Reliance Industries is expected to repay its entire reported net debt even if the Saudi Aramco deal is delayed, a brokerage report said.

Anant Ambani, the youngest son of Mukesh Ambani, has formally joined the Reliance Industries's digital venture Jio Platforms as an additional director. RIL's Jio Platforms has been in the news for the past few weeks as it received billions of dollars of investment from Facebook, KKR, Vista and others.

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd has launched an online grocery service, JioMart across India, after running pilot programme in Maharashtra’s Navi Mumbai, Thane, and Kalyan. Reliance's JioMart is expected to challenge its rivalling Amazon.com's local unit and Walmart Inc's Flipkart in the huge Indian market.

Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and Jio Platforms Limited, India's leading digital services platform, on Friday announced the sale of a 2.32 per cent stake in its digital unit to US private equity giant KKR for Rs 11,367 crore, the fifth deal in four weeks that will inject a combined Rs 78,562 crore in the oil-to-telecom conglomerate to help it pare debt.

Despite losing an estimated $38 billion as part of his recent divorce, Bezos is still by far the world's richest person and his net worth has grown by 34 per cent on average over the last five years, said the study, by Comparisun, a company which helps organisations compare different business products.

Reliance Industries Limited on Friday informed the BSE Sensex that Vista Equity Partners will invest ₹ 11,367 crore into Jio Platforms. With this Jio Platforms has now raised ₹ 60,596.37 crore from leading technology investors in less than three weeks.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has accelerated the timeframe for wiping out Rs 1.61 lakh crore of net debt at his Reliance Industries by bringing in strategic investors in key businesses as well as committing more equity.

Mukesh Ambani, chairman of the Reliance Industries, has decided to forego all his remuneration. With this, India's largest company will also cut the salary of most of its employees by 10 to 50 percent.

Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd and Mark Zuckerberg-founded Facebook on Wednesday announced that the US tech giant will buy a 9.99 per cent stake for $5.7 billion (Rs 43,574 crore) in India's oil-retail-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) led Jio Platforms.

Reliance Industries' Chairman Mukesh Ambani has been ranked 17th in the latest world billionaires list by Forbes with a net worth of $44.3 billion – once again leading the tally from Indias perspective.

​Reliance Industries' chief Mukesh Ambani on Monday committed a further Rs 500 crore to the Prime Minister's COVID-19 fund, topping up over the multi-crore initiative of India's first coronavirus hospital, meals to the needy, and fuel to emergency vehicles.  

India is among several other countries, who are battling against deadly coronavirus that has triggered a 21-day lockdown across the country and has sent us in a state of emergency and panic. During this worst-phase, several Indian business tycoons like Mukesh Ambani, Anand Mahindra, Ratan Tata among others have pledged to help fight the coronavirus that has thrown life off-track, in India and across the world. Here's what the India Inc biggies so far have committed to donating in the fight against COVID-19.

Coronavirus Outbreak: Reliance Foundation is already providing free meals to people across various cities in partnership with NGOs and has also said it would double the salaries of those who earn less than Rs 30,000.

The world's biggest oil exporter Saudi Aramco has said it is focusing its downstream investments in high-growth nations such as India as it negotiates a deal to buy up to 20 per cent stake in Reliance Industries' USD 75 billion oil-to-chemical business. In its latest annual report, Aramco said it is looking at investment opportunities in high-growth markets as well as nations that rely on importing crude oil.

Mukesh Ambani, Reliance Industries MD and Indian energy tycoon, is no longer Asia’s richest man after he lost $5.6 billion on the back of a severe decline in RIL's share price. Mukesh Ambani lost his Aisa's riches man crown to Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba Group.