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Rekha Jhunjhunwala

Rekha Jhunjhunwala is a Mumbai-based investor who inherited and manages the multibillion-dollar stock portfolio of her late husband, the investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, who died in 2022.

Rekha Sharma (Haryana politician)

Rekha Sharma is an Indian BJP politician and Rajya Sabha member from Haryana for the 2024 to 2028 term, after nine years with the National Commission for Women.

Rekhetre

Rekhetre, also written Rekhit-Ra', was a king's daughter and king's wife of Old Kingdom Egypt, a daughter of Khafre buried in mastaba G 8530 at Giza.

Rekhmire

Rekhmire, also Rekhmira, was a vizier of Egypt and governor of Thebes under the 18th-Dynasty kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, in the first half of the 15th century BC.

Rekidai Hōan

Rekidai Hōan (歴代宝案) is a compilation of the Ryukyu Kingdom's diplomatic correspondence with China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, covering 1424 to 1867 in classical Chinese.

Reko Diq case

The Reko Diq case is the Tethyan Copper v. Pakistan ICSID dispute (ARB/12/1) over Balochistan's 2011 denial of a mining lease, settled in 2022 with Barrick operating the reconstituted copper-gold project.

Relación de Michoacán

The Relación de Michoacán is a sixteenth-century colonial manuscript recording the history, religion, and government of the Purépecha (Tarascan) people of Michoacán in western Mexico.

Related diversification

Related diversification is corporate growth into new businesses that share resources, capabilities, customers, or technologies with a firm's existing operations, in contrast to unrelated conglomerate diversification.

Related Real Estate

Related Real Estate is the fund series of Related Fund Management, a New York real estate private equity affiliate of Related Companies formed in 2009.

Related Real Estate Debt

Related Real Estate Debt is the commercial real estate debt fund program of Related Companies, the New York developer, which launched its fund management business in 2009.

Related rights

Related rights, also called neighboring rights, are intellectual property rights granted to performers, producers of phonograms, and broadcasting organizations rather than authors, first covered internationally by the 1961 Rome Convention.

Related-party transaction

A related-party transaction is a transfer of resources, services, or obligations between a reporting entity and a related party, whether or not a price is charged.

Relation (1605 newspaper)

The Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, a weekly news publication printed in Strasbourg by Johann Carolus from 1605, is generally regarded as the first printed weekly newspaper.

Relation Therapeutics Inc.

Relation Therapeutics Inc. is an AI-driven drug-discovery biotechnology company founded in 2021, whose lead indication is osteoporosis and which partners with GSK on fibrotic diseases and osteoarthritis.

Relational contract

A relational contract is an informal agreement sustained not by courts but by the value of the future relationship between the parties, so it must be self-enforcing.

Relationism (philosophy)

Relationism is a family of metaphysical positions on which relations are ontological primitives; about space, it holds there are only material bodies spatially related, not space itself, opposing Newton's absolutism.

Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world

Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world, 1933–1945: limited German geopolitical interest, Arabic-language propaganda and the Voice of Free Arabism, al-Husayni's collaboration, and diverse Arab responses.

Relationship marketing

Relationship marketing is the process of identifying, developing, and maintaining long-term customer exchanges to enhance performance, attributed to Leonard Berry in 1983 and defined by Morgan and Hunt's 1994 commitment-trust theory.

Relationship of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

Hamilton-Jefferson relationship: the rivalry between Washington's Treasury and State secretaries over debt assumption, the national bank, and the 1790 capital compromise, which created America's first party system and outlasted Hamilton's 1804 death.

Relationship of Bill Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein

Bill Clinton's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein: White House visits (1993-1995), donations, 26 flight-log legs on Epstein's jet in 2002-2003, disputed island-visit claims, denials, and the 2026 House depositions.

Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein

Friendship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: Palm Beach neighbors from the late 1980s, at least seven flights on Epstein's jet in the 1990s, a 2004 falling out, and disputed claims in the released Epstein files.

Relationship of Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

The relationship of Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein was a financial and business association that began in the mid-1980s. Epstein became a trusted adviser to Wexner and received broad authority over his.

Relationship of Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein

Documented relationship between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein, 2002–2016: 100+ emails, birthday-book tribute, alleged payments, 2009 townhouse stay, and Mandelson's 2025 dismissal as UK ambassador to the US.

Relationship of Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein

The friendship between Prince Andrew (Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor), Duke of York, and Jeffrey Epstein: met via Ghislaine Maxwell around 1999, contact continued past Epstein's 2008 conviction, Giuffre's 2021 lawsuit settled in 2022, and Andrew lost all titles in 2025.

Relative clause

Relative clause: a subordinate clause modifying a noun or noun phrase, also called a relativization construction. Covers restrictive vs non-restrictive types, WALS word-order typology (579 postnominal of 824 languages), English relativizer history, and LLM attachment processing.

Relative income hypothesis

The relative income hypothesis is a theory of consumption proposed by Harvard economist James Duesenberry in 1949, holding that household saving depends on income relative to other households.

Relative strength index

The relative strength index (RSI) is a momentum oscillator developed by J. Welles Wilder that measures price movement speed on a 0 to 100 scale.

Relativism

Relativism is the family of philosophical views holding that truth, moral and epistemic standards, and justification hold only relative to a framework of assessment. Also called alethic, moral, or epistemic relativism; traced to Protagoras' 'man is the measure of all things' and distinguished from skepticism, contextualism, and realism.

Relativity Space

Relativity Space is an American launch-vehicle developer in Long Beach, California, founded by Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone; its 3D-printed Terran 1 reached space in March 2023.

Relay Investments

Relay Investments is a Boston, Massachusetts investment firm, co-founded in 2013 by Alessandro (Sandro) Mina, that invests exclusively in search funds and the companies they acquire.