Dhirubhai Ambani

Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002), Reliance

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Come, Captains

It needed the patriarch, Dhirubhai Ambani, to bring together Anil and Mukesh. In a grand, glad photo-op with ‘Uncle Pranab’, the family presents Dhirubhai’s Padma Vibhushan...

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A TV Grab shows - The Ambani brothers, Mukesh and Anil, listen to their mother, Kokilaben in their home town of Chorwad in Gujarat for the inauguration of a memorial of their fathe...

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The Ambani brothers at a family reunion - together after a long time. Tina and Nita Ambani, wives of the Ambani brothers, Mukesh and Anil (R), play dandiya in their home town of Ch...

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Way in Dhirubhai and sons at the Patalganga petrochem complex inaugural in the ’80s

Jayanta Saha
Anil and Mukesh Ambani at a Reliance AGM prior to the split

AFP (From Outlook, November 01, 2010)
Mukesh, Dhirubhai and Anil at the Vimal plant inauguration in Naroda, Gujarat, 1977-78

Jayanta Saha
Dhirubhai and Kokilaben at the inauguration of the Dhirubahi Ambani Hospital, Raigarh, 1998

Abhijit Bhatlekar
The Enriched Circle: Patriarch Dhirubhai Ambani in a rare photo from the mid-’90s with the whole, extended family

Jayanta Saha

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Ambani Bomb Scare Case: Raj Thackeray Seeks Centre's Intervention In Finding Truth

The basic issue of who placed the explosives-laden vehicle and on whose instructions it was done needs to be found out, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief said.

Mar 21, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
Mansukh Hiran Death Probe: Court Defers Hearing On Sachin Waze's Pre-Arrest Bail Plea

Sachin Waze was earlier arrested by the NIA in connection with the explosives-laden car found outside industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence in Mumbai.

Mar 19, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
Antilia Scare: Mumbai Cop Sachin Waze Moves Bombay HC, Challenges Arrest

The petition, filed through his brother Sudharm, claimed that Waze was made a 'scapegoat' by 'certain political powers'

Mar 15, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
Antilia Scare: Mumbai Cop Sachin Waze Remanded To NIA Custody Till March 25

The NIA arrested Sachin Waze for his alleged involvement in placing the explosives-laden vehicle on Carmichael Road near billionaire Mukesh Ambani's residence Antilia.

Mar 14, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
Something 'Fishy' Over NIA Taking Over: Uddhav Thackeray On Explosives-Laden Car Outside Ambani Home

Opposition leaders in the state Assembly have been demanding an NIA probe in the case after the death of a 'prime witness' Mansukh Hiren was discovered

Mar 08, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
Explosives-Laden Vehicle Outside Ambani's House: Dead Owner's Viscera Sent For Analysis

Mansukh Hiren was found dead in a creek in the neighbouring city of Thane and his autopsy report reserved the opinion on the cause of his death

Mar 06, 2021

| Outlook Web Bureau
'Demonetisation, Hastily Implemented GST Caused Tremendous Pressure On Economy: Rahul Gandhi At UC Berkeley

Without naming the government, Gandhi also spoke the recent incidents of mob violence and attacks on journalists.

Sep 12, 2017

| Outlook Web Bureau
Dhirubhai, R.I.P

Arguably the most powerful man in India, his huge success dwarfed the controversies of wheelings and dealings that surrounded him but his overall warmth and humility won him many friends and well-wishers cutting across the full spectrum of society.

Jul 07, 2002

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How To Buy Peace, Win Friends And Influence People - Ambani Style

The business-bureaucracy-politics-media nexus has always existed, but no one group has managed to have so many friends in so many high places before.

Apr 30, 2001

| Paranjoy Guha Thakurta

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Dhirubhai Ambani (1932-2002) Reliance

“The whole DNA of his business was not only to innovate for survival but also to innovate to change the rules of the business game,” says Pritam Singh, former director, IIM Lucknow.

Mar 23, 2017

| Arindam Mukherjee
At The Hollow Observatory

Reliance’s first foray into the media, in the late ’80s, fizzled out in a decade

Jul 14, 2014

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The Polyester Prince

Banned book: The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani HarperCollins, 1998
Status: Injunction against the book in 1998

Mar 03, 2014

| Hamish McDonald
Kingmaker’s Sceptre

Nov 05, 2012

| Alam Srinivas
‘He Won’t Be A Dynamic Figurehead’

Pranab Mukherjee is closely related to the meteoric rise of Dhirubhai Ambani. We spoke to the latter's biographer

Jul 02, 2012

| Lola Nayar
It Worked For Us

India Shining, a story of accidents, from policy to crony capitalism.

Jan 10, 2011

| R. Jagannathan
Cream Weaver

An unauthorised biography of Dhirubhai Ambani, unavailable to Indian readers thanks to legal opposition from Reliance group, is finally here

Oct 04, 2010

| Hamish McDonald
Dhirubhai Ambani

Aug 19, 2002

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When The Eyes Locked In

I'll never forget Dhirubhai's parallel processing mind and the eyes that took in everything

Jul 22, 2002

| Omkar Goswami
The King And His Realm

Dhirubhai Ambani, maverick tycoon, will leave behind in Reliance a business empire even bigger than him

Jul 08, 2002

| Team Outlook