London: India's leading industrialist brothers, Mukesh and Anil Ambani, have been together listed as 20th richest in the world in the Sunday Times Rich List 2013.
The brothers, who have separate industrial empire in India, have been clubbed together under the category of Petrochemicals and they are jointly assessed worth 17 billion pounds as against 19 billion pounds in 2012.
The Hinduja brothers, Srichand and Gopichand Hinduja, Chairman and Co-Chairman respectively of the Hinduja Group, are 47th richest in the world with a fortune worth 11 billion pounds in 2013 as against 9 billion pounds in 2012....
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12:59 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Bangalore: The real estate lobby entered the Karnataka state politics in the late 90s. CNN-IBN takes a look at some of the richest candidates in the fray for this year's Assembly polls, many of them from the real estate business. Priyakrishna is the richest candidate in the fray and also one of the youngest. When he successfully contested an Assembly by-poll at the age of 25, his declared assets value...
09:07 AM, Apr 12, 2013
Leading NRI businessmen Srichand Hinduja and Gopi Hinduja, Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Hinduja Group, have emerged as the richest Asians in Britain in 2013. After playing second fiddle for years to steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, the London-based Hinduja brothers have come out top this year with net wealth assessed at 12.5 billion pounds - up 3 billion pounds on the 2012 figure. ...
08:23 PM, Mar 23, 2013
Mukesh Ambani retained the top spot among Indians on Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires on Monday with an estimated worth of $21.5 billion. The head of Reliance Industries was placed 22nd on a list headed by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim. ...
08:21 PM, Mar 04, 2013
William Henry 'Bill' Gates with an estimated wealth of $65 billion is as rich as two Kenyas, three Trinidads and a dozen Montenegros but is now engaged in the process of ridding himself of all the money in the hope of extending the lives of others less fortunate than himself. Having already given away $28 billion, the 57-year-old Microsoft co-founder now intends to eradicate polio, the British newspaper Telegraph reported....
09:52 PM, Jan 19, 2013
London: When you think of India's all-time richest people, what are the names that cross your mind? No, it's not the Tatas, Birlas or Ambanis, it's Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam (or ruler) of Hyderabad. According to a new inflation-adjusted list of the world's richest people of all time, the Nizam, who ruled Hyderabad between 1886 and 1967, was ranked sixth with $236 billion. Osman Ali Khan died in...
07:10 PM, Oct 16, 2012
New York: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has retained his position as the richest person in America for the 19th year in a row this year, according to Forbes' annual ranking of the nation's 400 super rich people who have a combined net worth of $ 1.7 trillion dollars. With a net worth of $ 66 billion, Gates not only remained the richest person in America but is also "the planet's...
11:05 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New York: Five Indian-Americans, including Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and founder of IT major Syntel, Bharat Desai, have been named among the richest people in the US by Forbes, a list of 400 billionaires topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates. Gates, 56, whose net worth grew seven billion dollars from a year earlier to $66 billion in 2012, topped the list for the 19th year in a row....
10:42 AM, Sep 20, 2012
New Delhi: In the past seven years, the Congress has been the top earner among all political parties with Rs 2008 crore. It is followed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with Rs 994 crore. These are the figures which have been released by the political watchdog, Election Watch, on the basis of donations received and income of all parties. Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is third on the list...
03:30 PM, Sep 10, 2012
London: Team India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has pipped the likes of 'Sprint King' Usain Bolt, tennis ace Novak Djokovic and teammate Sachin Tendulkar in the latest list of world's 100 richest sportspersons, released by the Forbes magazine. According to the list, Dhoni is ranked 31st, which is way ahead of Djokovic (62nd), Bolt (63rd) and Tendulkar (78th). Star footballers Wayne Rooney and Fernando Torres are also behind Dhoni in...
06:54 PM, Jun 19, 2012
Dubai: Qatar has been ranked as the world's wealthiest country in a new list compiled by the prestigious US magazine Forbes. The Gulf State with a population of 1.7 million topped the list as the world's richest country per capita, thanks to a rebound in oil prices and its massive natural gas reserves. Adjusted for purchasing power, Qatar booked an estimated gross domestic product per capita of more than $...
09:59 AM, Feb 26, 2012
New Delhi: A woman breaks the glass ceiling among India's richest for the first time as Forbes names Savitri Jindal at No. 5, while Mukesh Ambani still maintains the top spot. The Forbes list of the world's richest people shows how India's Richie Rich club has not been immune to global recessionary trends. The new list estimates that 100 richest Indians have lost 20 per cent of their total wealth,...
08:42 AM, Oct 27, 2011
New York: Bill Gates tops this year's Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth calculated at $ 59 billion. Forbes says the Microsoft co-founder saw his wealth increase by $ 5 billion from last year. Investor Warren Buffett ranks second with a fortune of $ 39 billion, though Forbes says the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chief executive's wealth shrank by $ 6 billion from a year ago....
08:37 AM, Sep 22, 2011
New York: It doesn't take a visit to the Genius Bar to figure out how Apple became the most valuable company in America. Its lineup of sleek phones, computers and iPods, irresistible to customers even in tough economic times, propelled it to the No. 1 position by market value Wednesday, surpassing Exxon Mobil. Apple's stock on the open market is now worth more than any other company's. Apple's stock fell...
02:54 PM, Aug 12, 2011
London: Indians are the most likely members of the global super rich to spend more on private jets and yachts over the next five years while Africans and Russians are expected to increase their charitable giving, a survey showed on Wednesday. A poll of 160 advisers at a private bank within global financial firm Citigroup Inc, which represents 5,000 clients worth on average more than $100 million each, found super...
01:03 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Rapper Sean 'Diddy' Combs is the wealthiest hip-hop singer with a fortune of $475 million, heading the Forbes magazine's new list. In list of the wealthiest hip-hop artists, 'Diddy' sits at the top beating Jay-Z who has an estimated wealth of $450 million, reports Contactmusic.com His net worth is attributed to his Sean John clothing line, Bad Boy label, and Croc, which has become the top premium vodka on the...
02:41 PM, Mar 11, 2011
NEW YORK: Things are on the up for U.S. billionaires with more than half of them adding to their net worth in a year which once again saw Bill Gates as the richest of them all, Forbes magazine said on Wednesday. Gates, founder of Microsoft, was the richest person in the United States for the 17th year in a row with an estimated worth of $ 54 billion, up $...
10:27 AM, Sep 23, 2010
