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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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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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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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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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Jul 23, 2015, 08:41 PM IST

New Delhi: As Indian companies ready themselves to launch and expand their fourth generation (4G) telecom services, industry analysts expect the advent of the technology to prove a game-changer as in China, but also forecast

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Jul 06, 2015, 08:27 AM IST

New Delhi:  Billionaire industrialist and India's richest Mukesh Ambani has not taken a pay hike for seven years, but his salary is over 205-times that of the median employee remuneration at Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL).However,

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Jul 01, 2015, 10:13 AM IST

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the Digital India Week on July 1 here aiming to encourage involvement and creating awareness about the field.Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad informed that many

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PM Modi to launch Digital India programme on July 1

India | Jun 25, 2015, 11:24 PM IST

New Delhi:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on July 1 launch the ambitious 'Digital India' programme with top industry leaders like Mukesh Ambani, Satya Nadella, Cyrus Mistry and Azim Premji in attendance.While Modi will present

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Jun 20, 2015, 11:56 PM IST

New Delhi: Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani, the multi-billionaire industrialist, has acquired world's most sophisticated armoured vehicle for enhancing his personal security.The armoured vehicle was today registered at the Mumbai Central Regional Transport Office (RTO).  With

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Mukesh Ambani buys world's most sophisticated armoured Mercedes to protect self

Jul 06, 2015, 09:00 AM IST

Mumbai: Reliance Industries has procured the world's most sophisticated armoured vehicle for enhanced personal security of its chairman and managing director.The fortified Mercedes Benz is mounted on a normal S600. The RIL car has Level-9

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Jun 12, 2015, 08:58 PM IST

Mumbai: Reliance Industries will begin commercial operations of its much-awaited 4G telecom services by December, while it plans to complete projects worth over Rs 2 lakh crore in existing and new businesses over the next

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Jun 12, 2015, 01:24 PM IST

Mumbai: Reliance Industries will launch its broadband services by December this year, by which time 4G devices under its own brand name "Jio" will be available for as little as Rs.4,000 at the entry level,

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Reliance Industries Limited leads India Inc as the highest profit earner

May 31, 2015, 10:54 PM IST

Mumbai:  With the results season for 2014-15 drawing to a close, oil refining-to-retail major Reliance Industries Limited has emerged as the top Indian corporate to earn the highest net profit, followed by Tata Consultancy Services

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Mukesh Ambani keeps salary capped at Rs 15 crore for 7th year

May 21, 2015, 01:58 PM IST

New Delhi: Reliance Industries' Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani kept his annual salary capped at Rs 15 crore for the seventh year in a row even as the remuneration of most directors declined marginally.Ambani,

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Mukesh Ambani regains richest Indian slot from pharma tycoon Dilip Shanghvi

Apr 28, 2015, 09:38 AM IST

Washington: Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani on Monday regained his position as the world's richest Indian with a net worth of $19.6 billion, pushing Sun Pharmaceuticals founder Dilip Shanghvi back to the second place after

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Reliance launches Whatsapp competitor, Jio Chat

Apr 10, 2015, 04:19 PM IST

New Delhi: Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio Infocomm has just launched an IM app, the Jio Chat, on iOS and Android. The app is available for download from the App Store and Google Play.The new

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New Delhi: In a terse message to industry, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has blamed private sector of still being stuck with "legacy issues" like tax terrorism and selective exemption, and said that "red tape" can't

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Mukesh Ambani richest Indian for 8th year in a row

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New York: Mukesh Ambani has retained his position as the richest Indian for the eighth year in a row with a networth of US dollar 21 billion, while moving up one place on the global

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