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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicIndian Billionaires

Topic: Indian Billionaires

15 ‘oligarch billionaires’ run India: Ex-Trump negotiator Lighthizer on why he failed with New Delhi

In his book No Trade Is Free, ex-USTR writes how an Indian friend corrected him and said only seven billionaires run the country; the others just try to influence these seven.

Richest Asian, busiest dealmaker: Gautam Adani’s Rs 1,32,124 crore spree

A $10.5 billion pact announced Sunday marked some 32 acquisitions for the Adani Group this past year, with the ambitious tycoon rapidly diversifying his business into new areas.

Don’t look at Netflix’s Bad Boy Billionaires for closure. Love-hate relationship will go on

Indians' worshipped their bad boy billionaires Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Subrata Roy, until their ultra-rich idols ran into legal hurdles.

Chyawanprash to sanitisers — Dabur’s Burman family bets on Covid products

Sales of Dabur's flagship Chyawanprash rose 700% last quarter from the previous 3 months, said Gaurav Burman who runs his family office, which oversees about $1.5 billion in assets.

Mukesh Ambani is now world’s fourth richest man, overtakes Europe’s wealthiest

Reliance's shares have more than doubled from a low in March as its digital unit got billions in investments from companies including Facebook Inc. and Google.

Now, Mukesh Ambani is richer than Elon Musk and Google founders

Mukesh Ambani is now worth $72.4 billion, making him the sixth richest person in the world. Last week he surpassed Warren Buffet.

Swasth, the alliance of billionaires & start-ups that hopes to fix India’s healthcare system

Swasth, to be launched this week, will digitise patient data & records and create online platforms for hospital care and doctor consultations.

India’s rich are passing coronavirus to the poor, but not offering monetary help

Be it Akshay Kumar or Anurag Kashyap, Ambanis or Adanis, India's wealthy have yet to open their hearts, let alone their purse, in times of coronavirus.

These new Indian billionaires are racing ahead as the old ones are fading away

Number of billionaires in India more than doubled to 119 between 2013 & 2018 & the country will lead global growth in ultrahigh net worth individuals.

Richest Indians got wealthier by 39%, world’s poorest saw their fortunes dip by 11% in 2018, says Oxfam study

In its annual study released ahead of the start of the World Economic Forum, Oxfam said 13.6 crore Indians who make up the poorest 10% of the country remained in debt since 2004.

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

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.