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Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani

Height: 1.69 m DOB: 19 April 1957

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian business tycoon. He is the chairman, managing director and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL). Since 1981, he started working alongside his father Dhirubhai Ambani in their family business, Reliance. RIL deals mainly in petrochemicals, refining and in the oil and gas sectors. Over the years, the business has expanded to provide products and services like Retail Markets and Telecommunications. In the country’s telecommunication services, Reliance’s Jio has earned a top five spot. It was launched on September 5, 2016. On the Forbes magazine's list for the past ten years, Ambani has consistently held the title of being India's richest person. As of January 2018, by Forbes, he was ranked as the 18th-wealthiest person in the world. With a net worth of $44.3 billion in July 2018, he surpassed Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba Group, to become Asia's richest person. Outside North America and Europe, he is also the wealthiest person in the world. He also owns the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians. At the Antilia Building, Ambani resides. With its value reaching $1 billion, it is one of the world's most expensive private residences. Early life: Mukesh was born in Aden, Yemen. He was brought up in Mumbai, India. In the early 1970s, in Chemical Engineering, he received his degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology.

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Anant Ambani taking a walk on Mumbai streets with Rolls Royce in tow? Video goes viral

May 21, 2016, 06:01 PM IST

Mumbai: Having made news for his drastic weight loss recently, billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son Anant Ambani has the internet in awe, again. In a video that has gone viral this time around, a boy,

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Mukesh Ambani’s reply to pretty girl seeking husband with Rs 100 cr salary is worth a read

Life | May 19, 2016, 06:31 PM IST

New Delhi: A pretty girl, probably having her hopes too high, posted a long-detailed post on a popular social media platform asking how she can get to marry a guy with Rs 100 cr annual

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Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Siddhivinayak, performs aarti and meets Mukesh Ambani's Son

May 18, 2016, 08:14 PM IST

Mumbai: Global tech giant Apple Inc's CEO Tim Cook kicked off his maiden India trip with an early morning visit to the famed Shree Siddhivinayak temple in Prabhadevi, central Mumbai, where he performed a special

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Reliance Jio becomes the fifth largest smartphone vendor in Q1 2016: IDC

May 18, 2016, 01:58 PM IST

New Delhi: The launch of Reliance Jio‘s 4G LTE service, expected to disrupt the 4G space in the country, is still on line. In the meantime though, Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio is making waves in

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Reliance Jio now available to select consumers in 17 circles, offer through invitation only

May 05, 2016, 07:01 PM IST

Mumbai: After several failed launch dates and immense speculation over the arrival of Reliance Jio, the much-awaited 4G service from Reliance has finally made its debut.

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Salman Khan lauds Anant Ambani for losing 108 Kg in 18 months

Bollywood | Apr 11, 2016, 01:30 PM IST

Superstar Salman Khan lauds Mukesh Ambani's youngest son Anant for a major weight loss session in just 18 months.

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Fat to fit! Ambani’s son amazes everyone, sheds 108 kg in 18 months

Life | Apr 10, 2016, 07:06 PM IST

Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son Anant Ambani today became one of the top trends on microblogging website Twitter, for a surprising reason -- he lost 108 kg weight and that too in just 18 months.

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Top 10 richest Indians in the world

Mar 02, 2016, 05:47 PM IST

New Delhi: AS on today, India has a higher number of billionaires than it ever had, according to Forbes' annual ranking of billionaires.Forbes magazine announced the annual list of world's richest person on Tuesday (March

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Bill Gates richest man in world, Mukesh Ambani richest in India

Mar 02, 2016, 11:08 AM IST

New Delhi: Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates continued his reign as the world's richest person with a net worth of $75 billion, according to Forbes' annual ranking of billionaires, with Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani leading

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Microsoft founder Bill Gates tops worlds billionaire list

Jan 29, 2016, 08:44 AM IST

Bengaluru: India's richest business mogul Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Indian IT czar Azim Premji of Wipro and drug maker Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharma rank among world's top 50 wealthiest billionaires.According to Wealth-X and

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Mukesh, Premji, Shanghvi among top 50 in world wealthiest list

Jan 28, 2016, 08:18 PM IST

New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries, Azim Premji of Wipro and Dilip Shanghvi of Sun Pharma are the only three Indians to have made it to a global list 50 of the wealthiest people

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What a co-incidence! 9 celebs tweet the same words last night

Bollywood | Dec 28, 2015, 06:23 PM IST

New Delhi: The telecom arm of Reliance Industries Limited, Reliance Jio rolled out 4G telecom services for its employees, yesterday. RIL has roped in superstar Shah Rukh Khan as the brand ambassador and the event

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Reliance Jio may rope in Shah Rukh Khan as brand ambassador

Dec 24, 2015, 11:29 PM IST

New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio Infocomm is said to be in plans to rope in superstar Shah Rukh Khan as its brand ambassador, media reports suggest.Reliance's much awaited 4G services were to roll out

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Reliance Jio to launch 4G services for employees on Dhirubhai Ambani's birth anniversary

Dec 19, 2015, 12:03 AM IST

New Delhi: Reliance Jio will launch 4G services for Reliance group employees on December 27, on the eve of its founder chairman's birth anniversary."We are happy to share that we will unveil Jio to our

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B-town biggies attend Mukesh Ambani's bash for newly weds Bhajji & Geeta (View Pics)

Bollywood | Dec 12, 2015, 04:56 PM IST

New Delhi: Last night was a starry one at Antillia, the residence of business tycoon Mukesh Ambani and Nita Ambani as they hosted a party for newly weds Harbhajan Singh and Geeta Basra. Cricketer Harbhajan

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Modi, Ambani, Pichai among Time Person of the Year contenders

World | Nov 19, 2015, 05:16 PM IST

Washington: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Google's India-born CEO Sundar Pichai are among over 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as contenders by Time magazine for its

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Mukesh Ambani is India's richest person for 9th consecutive year

Sep 24, 2015, 06:57 AM IST

Singapore: Industrialist Mukesh Ambani was on Wednesday named India's richest for ninth year in a row with a net worth of USD 18.9 billion even as his wealth dipped by USD 4.7 billion in a

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Vodafone to Roll Out 4G Services by Year-End

Aug 29, 2015, 09:19 AM IST

New Delhi:  Vodafone India will be launching fourth generation (4G) mobile telephony services by 2015-end, days after Bharti Airtel rolled out its network for high-speed data services.Reliance Jio Infocomm, part of India's richest person Mukesh

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Payments bank license to promote massive digital transactions: Mukesh Ambani

Aug 22, 2015, 05:30 AM IST

Mumbai:  Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday said the payments bank license issued to its joint venture with the State Bank of India (SBI) will promote massive adoption of digital transactions with

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RIL's share of profit from investments slips to 29%

Jul 26, 2015, 06:14 PM IST

Mumbai: A shift in investment from bank deposits to instruments like MFs and G-secs has trimmed treasury profit for Reliance Industries to just over 29 percent of the net income in the June quarter, from

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