In 2023, the app developer bought the domain name "JioHotstar.com" in anticipation of an expected merger between Reliance's JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar. The anonymous app developer signed his letter as "a dreamer," and approached Reliance Industries with a proposal that Reliance Industries would fund his higher education in exchange for the domain.
Before the United States placed oil sanctions on Venezuela in 2019, Reliance was the second-largest private buyer of Venezuelan crude oil, trailing only China's China National Petroleum Corporation.
Rohini Singh posted a tweet accusing the Reliance of funding anti-Muslim media network and asked the Governor of Saudi PIF if he endorsed its deal with Saudi oil company Aramco