
New York: Billionaire Indian industrialist Mukesh Ambani's wife Nita describes their 27-storey Mumbai house Antilia as a "modern home with an Indian heart" and the "only home we have in the world." The ultra-luxurious 400,000 sq feet Ambani mansion and its contents continue to fascinate people not only in India but also abroad. Vanity Fair, which interviewed Nita last November, will publish a few pictures from inside Antilia in its...

03:18 PM, May 17, 2012

Mumbai: Tata group firm TCS on Wednesday replaced Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries as the country's most valued company in terms of market capitalisation, as investors rallied behind the shares of the IT giant. At the end of Wednesday's trade, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) commanded a market value of Rs 2,48,116 crore, higher than Reliance Industries' Rs 2,43,413 crore. While RIL shares fell 0.25 per cent in an overall lacklustre market,...

04:23 AM, May 03, 2012

Mumbai: FMCG major ITC on Tuesday replaced Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) as the most influential stock on Indian bourses. Based on its weightage on the stock market's index Sensex, RIL slipped to the second position after ITC. At close on Tuesday, ITC grabbed the top slot in terms of Sensex weightage, which is measured by the value of a company's free-float or non-promoter shares that can be freely...

06:44 PM, Apr 17, 2012

Washington: Caught on the wrong foot over the detaining of Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan at a US airport twice, Washington has asserted it was not a case of racial profiling or a pattern. Suggesting that Khan was not 'detained', but 'simply delayed', State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters Friday: "I wouldn't necessarily look at this as some sort of pattern but rather two separate incidents." "Obviously, we've expressed...

03:51 PM, Apr 14, 2012

New York: Unfazed by his detention at a New York airport by US immigration authorities for a couple of hours, Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, joked about the incident later at Yale University, where he was honoured as a Chubb Fellow. Khan, who has millions of fans in India and around the world, was detained at New York's White Plains airport, about 35 miles from New York, when he arrived...

06:25 PM, Apr 13, 2012

Twenty-four unsung heroes were honoured by CNN-IBN and Reliance Foundation in the 5th edition of the Real Heroes awards. ...

11:45 AM, Apr 01, 2012

Mumbai: 'RA.One' animator Charu Khandal, who has met with a serious road accident, will undergo surgery at the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital later on Thursday, a close friend said, adding that she had been planning to get married by the end of the year. Mauli Singh, a close friend of Charu, told IANS: "Charu will undergo major surgery today. The surgery was supposed to happen at 7:30 in the morning...

01:55 PM, Mar 29, 2012

Twenty-four unsung heroes were honoured on Saturday night by CNN-IBN and Reliance Foundation in the 5th edition of the Real Heroes awards. ...

10:49 AM, Mar 25, 2012

Mumbai: Reliance Foundation Chairperson Nita Mukesh Ambani launched India's first registered national Braille newspaper in Hindi in association with CNN-IBN's Real Hero Swagat Thorat on Monday. It was Real Hero Thorat's dream to print India's first Braille newspaper in Hindi, and Reliance Foundation made his dream a reality. Nita Ambani launched 'Reliance Drishti' with Thorat as the chief editor, lighting up the lives of the blind and giving them their...

03:49 PM, Mar 20, 2012

Washington: Reliance India chairman Mukesh Ambani with a net worth of $22.3 billion emerged as the world's richest Indian in the Forbes list of billionaires featuring 48 Indians. India's top ten included Savitri Jindal & family (world rank 80), Sunil Mittal & family (113), Kumar Birla (116) Anil Ambani (118) Dilip Shanghvi (124) Shashi & Ravi Ruia (133) and Kushal Pal Singh (153). Ambani, despite losing $4.7 billion in the...

07:45 PM, Mar 08, 2012

New York: India is home to over four per cent of the world's billionaires, including the likes of the Ambani brothers, Azim Premji and NR Narayan Murthy alongside Warren Buffet and Bill Gates in Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people. Forbes's list of 1226 billionaires is topped by Mexico's 72-year-old telecom czar Carlos Slim, boasting of a networth of $ 69 billion. Slim retained his title as...

08:26 AM, Mar 08, 2012