New Delhi: Indian businessmen scrambled to showcase many of their existing investment plans and allocations as a response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Digital India initiative, which was launched on Wednesday. By the end of the day, they had announced planned investments of Rs.4.5 trillion, and hires of 1.8 million people, over the next 5-10 years.

The numbers sound highly laudable, but are mostly investments in their own businesses, experts said.

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), HDFC Bank and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories are the only three Indian firms to figure in Barclays’ top 111 stock picks from across the world for 2015.

In its ‘Global Top Picks’ report, Barclays has said more than six years into the recovery, the key drivers of the market rally u2013 low inflation, moderate growth and unprecedented monetary support u2013 are set to have a reduced impetus.

New Delhi, June 29 (PTI): Reliance Industries may defer the development of R-Series and other satellite gasfields in the eastern offshore KG-D6 block if the price outlook is uncertain, its junior partner Niko Resources of Canada said.

RIL has made 19 oil and gas discoveries in the KG-DWN-98/3 block in the Bay of Bengal and so far only three - Dhirubhai-1 and 3 gas and MA oil and gasfields - have been brought to production. Multi-billion dollar development plans for five other finds, including the significant R-Series, have been approved.

NEW DELHI: India's Reliance Industries Ltd plans to shut a crude distillation unit (CDU) for a 10-day planned maintenance in the first half of July, it said in a statement on Monday, halving crude processing at its 580,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery during the shutdown duration.

The export-focussed refinery at the Jamnagar complex in western Gujarat state has two crude distillation units of equal size.

Leading private sector lender HDFC Bank has “exceeded” the single-borrower limits prescribed by Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in case of its credit exposure to corporate giant Reliance Industries (RIL).

The bank, however, said its board of directors approved “the said excess in respect of this exposure” and it was within the 20 per cent ceiling of capital funds. The central bank has fixed the credit exposure ceiling of a bank at 15 per cent of capital funds in the case of a single borrower and at 40 per cent for a borrower group.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has concluded its final hearing in the matter of Reliance Industries and Reliance Petroleum merger, sources have said.

In the matter spanning for eight years the regulator would look to pass a final order in the matter under the charges of Fraudulent and Unfair Trade Practices (FUTP).

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has completed its investigation into the eight-year-old case of Reliance Industries’ (RIL) fraudulent and unfair trade practices (FTUP), sources said.

“The investigation has been completed. RIL counsel would be awarded a final hearing in the coming weeks before any conclusion is reached,” said a source.

Did Mukesh Ambani say something unusual at Reliance Industries’ 41st annual general meeting (AGM) last week that resulted in the sharp move of its stock price? The stock has rallied over 12 per cent in the past week, closing at Rs 996.50 on Friday.

Analysts think so. Most of them have either upgraded their recommendation or have changed their price target.

Did Mukesh Ambani say something unusual at RIL's 41st annual general meeting last week that has resulted in the sharp move of its stock price? The stock has rallied nearly 12% in the last one week and is trading at Rs 993 levels currently.

Analysts do feel so. Most of them have either upgraded their recommendation or have changed their price target.

Shares of Reliance Industries (RIL) has moved higher by 5% to Rs 974, extending its in past four day’s rally on the NSE, after the company said Jio and retail will place Reliance in a select group of most valuable companies in the world.

Currently, the stock trading at its highest level since December 2014 and rallied 11% in past one-week from Rs 877 on June 11, 2015. The CNX Nifty gained 2.3% during the same period.

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