India, Jan. 16 -- Reliance Industries Ltd. barely grew its bottomline in the fiscal third quarter as weak oil & gas revenue offset gains in the telecom and retail businesses.

Consolidated net profit of India's largest company by market capitalisation rose 0.56% year-on-year to Rs.18,645 crore on revenue that increased 10.51% to Rs.2,69,496 crore, according to an exchange filing on Friday. Analysts polled by Bloomberg had estimated the bottomline at Rs.19,896 crore.

One basis point is one-hundredth of a percentage point.

On Friday, RIL shares fell 0.06% to Rs.1457.60 apiece on the BSE even as the benchmark Sensex ended the 0.23% higher at 83,570.35 points. The quarterly results were declared after market hours.

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