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Friday, September 5, 2025
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Topic: billionaire

Billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed, former Harrods owner whose son died with Princess Diana, dies at 94

Al-Fayed, who could be charming, autocratic, vindictive, spent 10 years trying to prove Diana and his son Dodi were murdered when their car crashed in road tunnel in Paris in 1997.

Jeff Bezos to give away majority of $124 billion wealth during lifetime, says report

Bezos, who stepped down as Amazon's CEO last year, owns about 10% of the e-commerce giant, along with news organization Washington Post and space tourism company Blue Origin.

SubscriberWrites: In praise of making money & why it’s a good idea to let a thousand billionaires bloom

Shaunak Desai defends the super rich from the charge that their creation of wealth also creates greater inequality in society.

India adds 40 billionaires to Hurun Global rich list, Mukesh Ambani among world’s top 10

According to Hurun Global Rich List 2021, India is home to 177 billionaires, making it the third highest in world.

Which billionaire has the greatest carbon footprint? We calculated — mansions, yachts included

Elon Musk, Roman Abramovich to Bill Gates, we combed 82 databases of public records to document billionaires’ houses, vehicles, aircraft and yachts.

On Camera

Vijay is winning nickname war in Tamil Nadu. He’s attacking Brand Stalin with ‘uncle’ taunt

If Stalin ignores the taunt, it spreads unchecked. If he responds, he legitimises Vijay. Either way, the Tamil Nadu politics binary bends.

GST 2.0: India streamlines indirect tax regime amid Trump tariffs & what it means for consumers

Goods and Services Tax Council paves way for a broad two-slab structure of 5% and 18% with a demerit rate of 40% for super luxury and 'sin' goods.

Trump to sign executive order to rebrand Pentagon, reviving historic ‘Department of War’ name

New Delhi: US President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order Friday renaming the Department of Defence the ‘Department of War’, in...

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.