NEW DELHI: The government has ordered Reliance Industries (RIL), Shell and ONGC to pay a combined $3 billion in penalty following an arbitration award in the Panna Mukta Tapti (PMT) oil field dispute that went in favour of the government, according to people familiar with the matter. RIL and Shell have appealed the arbitration award in a UK court.

The oil ministry sent out a demand notice last month to Reliance and Shell, which own 30% each in the PMT fields off the Mumbai coast, as well as to ONGC that owns the balance 40% participating interest. The three companies have to pay the penalty proportionate to their stake in the fields.

Reliance Industries, the most valuable firm on the bourses, added another feather in its cap by crossing the Rs 5 lakh crore market-capitalisation for the first time in its trading history.

It has become the second only firm to do so after Tata Consultancy Service (TCS), which is now the second most valuable company in terms of market-capitalisation.

Reliance Industries (RIL) hit an over 9-year high of Rs 1,525, up 2% on BSE in early morning trade.

The stock was trading at its highest level since January 17, 2008. Thus far in the calendar year 2017, it outperformed the market by surging 41% as compared to 19% rise in the S&P BSE Sensex.

The share price of Reliance Industries (RIL) rose 3.4% on Friday to hit a nine-year high. The company’s market capitalisation on Friday is Rs 4.84lakh crore. The petrochemicals giant recently forayed into the mobile telephony space via RJio and has managed to garner more than 70 million subscribers. A total of 88.71 lakh shares were traded in the counters of BSE and NSE, 1.97 times more than its three-month daily average of 44.95 lakh shares. The company is understood to be gearing up to launch a 4G VoLTE feature phone at a very attractive price.

Online entertainment ticketing firm BookMyShow (BMS) has acquired Burrp, a Mumbai-based local restaurant recommendation engine, from Network18.

The acquisition is being carried out on a slump sale basis by Foodfesta Wellcare, an arm of Big Tree -- an associate firm of Reliance Industries, which is also the promoter group company of Network18.

At a time when the ministry of petroleum and natural g4as is exploring ways to start home delivery of petroleum products such as diesel and petrol, Reliance Industries (RIL) is looking to enter the segment as well. According to three people close to development who requested not to be named, RIL has applied for a licence to home-deliver motor fuel to the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO). However, though the company has been allowed to use bowsers to transport fuel to its mobile phone towers, it has not been granted licence for fuel home delivery as of now. Reliance operates a mobile phone network under the brand Jio.

Tata Consultancy Services on Wednesday surpassed Reliance Industries to reclaim the status of the country's most valued firm by market valuation.

At close of trade today, the market capitalisation (m- cap) of TCS stood at Rs 4,63,287.02 crore, which was Rs 8,555.55 crore more than RIL's Rs 4,54,731.47 crore valuation.

MUMBAI: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has left his salary unchanged at Rs 15 crore for the ninth consecutive year, while remuneration of most other whole-time directors of the company has increased.

Ambani, who is the richest Indian, will still take home a hefty dividend payment for his shareholding in the energy conglomerate.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) plans to raise Rs 25,000 crore through privately placed debentures as the energy-to-retail conglomerate seeks to replace existing high-cost borrowings as well as build a war chest for its aggressive expansion strategy in the telecom space.

The Mukesh Ambani-led firm sought shareholders' nod to issue redeemable non-convertible debentures (NCDs) on private placement.

After a gap of 2-months, Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) regained the status of the country's most valued firm on Friday, overtaking Tata Group's TCS in terms of market valuation.

At close of trade, RIL commanded a market capitalisation (m-cap) of Rs 4,66,599.69 crore, which was Rs 1,450.62 crore more than TCS' Rs 4,65,149.07 crore valuation.

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