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Sensex fell nearly 670 points or over 1% at 66,933.52, dragged by HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries (RIL). The broader S&P BSE 500 index was trading at 27,712.32, down 205.65 points or 0.74% The market breadth skewed in favour of bears with 350 stocks trading with declines. The top gainers in the BSE 500 pack around 11:50 am were Blue Star (15%), SJVN (5.53%), Apar Industries (4.98%), Varroc Engineering (3.82%) and Mahindra & Mahindra Financial (3.80%) while the top losers were CCL Products India (4.52%), Heidelberg Cement (4.19%), Jindal Stainless (4.04%), Kalyan Jewellers (3.99%) and HDFC Bank (3.83%). Indian shares fell amid negative global cues as Street awaits the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) policy outcome.

Ganesh Chaturthi, which marks the birth of Lord Ganesha. And this special occasion is being celebrated by everyone across the nation including industrialist Mukesh Ambani and Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. The festival holds special significance for the Ambani family, as this year's celebration marks the expansion of their family with the arrival of their grandchildren and the addition of their youngest son, Anant Ambani's fiancée, Radhika Merchant.

streaming and television business including billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd., according to people familiar with the matter. The US entertainment giant has discussed a range of options with would-be suitors, from a deal for the entire Disney Star business to a piecemeal transaction that may include some combination of its assets including sports rights and regional streaming service Disney+ Hotstar, the people said. Disney has been weighing strategic options for the business including an outright sale or setting up a joint venture, Bloomberg News reported in July after the Indian unit lost its streaming rights to the Indian Premier League cricket tournament to Viacom18 Media Pvt., a tie-up between Paramount Global and Reliance. Disney had approached Reliance about potentially buying a stake in the business, a person familiar with the matter said at the time. Discussions are ongoing and may not lead to any deal, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is private.

Here’s a quick question: What is common to former German chancellor Angela Merkel, British comedian Rowan ‘Mr Bean’ Atkinson, former president of India APJ Abdul Kalam, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, supermodel Cindy Crawford, first man on the moon Neil Armstrong, India’s richest businessman Mukesh Ambani, Delhi's chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bollywood heartthrob Vicky Kaushal, and Bloomberg founder and CEO and three-time New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg? The answer: They are all engineers. This eclectic list serves as a counter-narrative, challenging the notion that engineering no longer opens doors to opportunity, particularly in India.

KKR is investing another ₹2,069.5 crore through an affiliate in Reliance Retail Ventures (RRVL), holding company for the retail businesses of Reliance Industries (RIL). KKR's follow-on investment will translate into an additional equity stake of 0.25% in RRVL, according to a press release issued on Monday, which added that this takes the private equity giant's holding to 1.42%. This round of fundraising has increased RRVL's valuation to around ₹8.36 lakh crore, from ₹8.28 lakh crore, when Qatar Investment Authority invested ₹8,278 crore less than three weeks ago. RIL said this puts Reliance Retail Ventures on the list of the country's top four companies by equity value. ET on August 25 reported that Reliance Industries is likely to sell a fresh round of 8-10% in RRVL to fund expansion, retire debt and prepare for the unit's initial public offering, which would take total stake sold to 19-21%.Global interest The stake sale is crucial because at the current valuation, RRVL's IPO size will be too large for the current liquidity to absorb. At a recent annual general meeting, Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani said several global investors had shown keen interest in the conglomerate's retail business. The latest investment by KKR comes primarily from its Asian Fund IV. In 2020, KKR invested Rs 5,550 crore in Reliance Retail Ventures.

KKR, will invest Rs 2,069.50 crore in Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd, thereby raising its stake to 1.42% from 1.17% in the retail behemoth. The follow-on investment by KKR values the retail subsidiary of Reliance Industries at Rs 8.36 lakh crore (approximately $101 billion), which is the double the valuation it got during the fundraising in 2020. “This investment values RRVL at a pre-money equity value of Rs 8.361 lakh crore, which makes it among the top four companies by equity value in the country,” RIL said in a release. In 2020, KKR had invested Rs 5,550 crore in Reliance Retail for a 1.17% stake. Three years ago, the retail behemoth had raised Rs 47,265 crore from various global investors, including KKR, at a pre-money equity value of Rs 4.21 lakh crore. “Throughout our investment period in Reliance Retail, we have been impressed by the company’s vision and extensive work to empower retailers across India through digitalization, as well as by its resilience and performance in spite of the pandemic and other disruptions,” said Joe Bae, Co-CEO, KKR. Reliance Retail operates India's largest retail business with an integrated omni-channel network of over 18,500 stores and digital commerce platforms across grocery, consumer electronics, fashion & lifestyle, and pharma consumption baskets. “We look forward to continued engagement with KKR and to benefit from their global platform, industry knowledge and operational expertise, in our journey towards driving transformation of the Indian retail sector,” said Isha Mukesh Ambani, director, Reliance Retail. The investment by KKR follows Qatari sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority’s $1 billion investment in Reliance Retail for a nearly 1% stake.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has begun exploring a foray into semiconductor manufacturing, a move that could address its supply chain needs and cater to growing chip demand in India, two people familiar with its strategy said. The telecoms-to-energy conglomerate, encouraged by the Indian government, has held early-stage talks with foreign chipmakers that have the potential to become technology partners, said one of the people who has direct knowledge of the plans. "There is intent, there is no timeline," said the person, adding that Reliance has "yet to make a call on whether they want to ultimately invest." The names of the foreign chipmakers could not be immediately learned.

Reliance Industries has tied up with US-based chipmaker Nvidia to develop India’s own foundation large language model trained on the south Asian country's diverse languages and tailored for generative AI applications. In a statement, Nvidia said that it will work with Reliance to build AI infrastructure. The chip maker will provide access to its GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip and DGX Cloud. “As India advances from a country of data proliferation to creating technology infrastructure for widespread and accelerated growth, computing and technology super centres like the one we envisage with Nvidia will provide the catalytic growth just like Jio did to our nation’s digital march,” said Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries. Nvidia’s AI infrastructure will help Reliance build AI applications and services.

Jio Financial Services shares were trading flat at Rs 254 in Thursday's trade after the stock was excluded from Nifty and other NSE indices. However, in today's intraday trade, the stock rallied up to 2% to Rs 257. Earlier, NSE Indices said in a release that Jio Financial Services will exit Nifty 50 and other indices of the NSE effective from September 7.

Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) for around 1 per cent stake in Reliance Retail Ventures Ltd (RRVL), the retail arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led group.

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI : Tata Group's consumer unit is in talks to buy at least 51% of popular Indian snack food maker Haldiram's but is not comfortable with the $10 billion valuation sought, two people briefed on the matter said. If successfully concluded, a deal would see the Indian conglomerate directly compete with Pepsi and billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail. Haldiram's, a household name in India, is also talking with private equity firms including Bain Capital about the sale of a 10% stake, they said.

₹267.00 apiece on the BSE. Jio Financial Services was listed on the stock exchanges on August 21. The stock was listed at ₹265 apiece on the BSE and ₹262 per share on the NSE as compared to its discovered price of ₹261.85 apiece.

₹1 in legal fees for representing Jadhav and his gesture earned him high praise. Tata Group, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, and ITC Group are some of his prominent clients. He also appeared in the Krishna Godavari Basin gas dispute case against Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources Ltd.

Kotak Mahindra Bank: Uday Kotak on 1 September announced to step down as managing director and chief executive officer of Kotak Mahindra Bank, and with this, the baton was passed to Joint Managing Director at Kotak Mahindra Bank -- Dipak Gupta. Gupta will carry out the duties of the MD and CEO until 31 December, which is subject to the approval of the RBI and the members of the bank.

NEW DELHI/SYDNEY : Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail Ventures is in advanced talks with global investors to raise around $2.5 billion by the end of September, ahead of a potential stock market listing, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. Three sources said the target fund raise of $2.5 billion is part of a combined $3.5 billion target the firm has set for itself, a part of which - $1 billion - came from Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and was announced last month.

Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani made many announcements at the company’s 46th announcement on Monday. One of them being that the conglomerate's financial services division Jio Financial Services (JFS) is keen to introduce blockchain-related products as well as digital rupee. «JFS products will not just compete with current industry benchmarks but also explore path-breaking features such as blockchain-based platforms and CBDC. They will adhere to the highest standards of security, regulatory norms and ensure protection of customer transaction data at all times,» Ambani told shareholders at the company's AGM.Blockchain rose to prominence as the underlying technology for Bitcoin. Blockchain solutions is a distributed database that maintains a continuously growing list of ordered records called blocks and is deemed to be very transparent as all the stakeholders can view progress in real-time. Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) allow the recording, sharing and transfer of data or value without the need for a central record keeping as in the case of a traditional ledger. Such records are immutable and non-repudiable. «Jio Financial Services is uniquely positioned to disrupt India's financial sector. By leveraging open-source blockchain technology, JFS can build apps and smart contracts on top of India's Aadhaar stack. This opens up a host of opportunities, from microfinance to SME lending to serve a diverse range of financial needs,» said Rajagopal Menon, Vice-President at WazirX.

Jio Financial Services will foray into the insurance space to offer life, general and health insurance products “through a seamless digital interface”, RIL’s chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Monday. “JFS will enter the insurance segment to offer simple, yet smart life, general and health insurance products through a seamless digital interface, potentially partnering with global players,” Ambani said. 

Executives from Reliance have met several firms in recent weeks to help them map top talent across life, health and general insurance segments, according to the people, who asked not be identified because the discussions are private. Korn Ferry and Spencer Stuart Inc.

₹232.70 apiece on the BSE. On NSE, JFSL shares were also at 5% upper circuit limit at ₹231.25 apiece, becoming the top Nifty gainer. According to ET Now report, promoter entity Jamnagar Utilities and Power, a step-down unit of Reliance Industries (RIL), likely bought about 5 crore Jio Financial Services shares at ₹208-211 apiece.

Jio Financial Services hit the 5% upper circuit on Wednesday following a likely block deal in pre-market trade wherein 12.7 lakh shares of the company changed hands. The development invited a strong investor response with over 1.58 crore shares trading on the NSE in the opening trade. The block deal reported by ET NOW is the second in a row and follows a deal on Tuesday which saw 0.8% equity changing hands.

real estate, metals, and auto sectors. Nifty Realty, Auto, Metal, Consumer Durables ended in green with 0.63% to 1.7% gains. "Domestic indices traded in positive territory for the second consecutive day amid gains in global equities.