Priyanka is the eight highest paid TV actress in the world with earnings of $11 million.
Forbes magazine has compiled a list of the best 2000 global companies. 48 Indian companies figured on this list. Top amongst the Indian companies are Reliance Industries and PSU major ONGC at 193rd and 198th ranks. HSBC topped the list. Other Indian companies on the list are SBI, Indian Oil, ICICI Bank, NTPC, SAIL, Tata Steel, Bharti Airtel, RComm, HDFC, L&T, BPCL, RPower, RCap, BHEL, Infosys, Tata Motors, Wipro, ITC,Canara Bank, Central Bank of India, Union Bank of India,DLF
Deepika Padukone makes it to the list for the very first time!
United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi and India-origin PepsiCo chief Indra Nooyi figure among the top 10 in the global list of most powerful women, in the league of leaders like Angela Merkel, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.
New Year resolutions often focus on lofty ambitions, say, shedding 20 kg within six months, without considering processes. What we may be lacking is a concrete plan, observes Kumar Abishek.
Citigroup has been ranked number 1 in Forbes 2000. Following it are Bank of America, HSBC Holdings, General Electric, JP Morgan Chase, American Intl Group, and ExxonMobil.
Asian Paints, Cipla, Bharat Forge, Dabur India, Nicholas Piramal and Satyam Computer Services are among the 20 Indian corporate entities that have found place in Forbes' list of 'Best Small Asian Companies'.
While Nooyi had a compensation of $10.66 million, that of Mohapatra was $10.29 million and Narayen had a pay packet of $1.88 million.
One Brazilian fan could not think of a more deserving recipient of his worldly goods than Neymar Jr!
Check out which of the younger crop of celebs has made it to the list this year.
PepsiCo's Chennai-born Indra Nooyi tops the list of Indian-origin CEOs in the US.
'Being financially independent is crucial.' 'This spares women a lot of grief if the marriage, especially in large business families, breaks down.'
Acknowledging him as the person trying to direct the path of the offshoring movement, US magazine Forbes has described, Nasscom president Kiran Karnik, as the 'Face of the Year'.
Tirthak Saha is living the American dream, but his work has a typically Indian context.
12 Indian-origin persons have made it to a list of 100 dealmakers with the Midas-touch, based on the value of the companies these people have taken public or sold in the past five years.
Cristiano Ronaldo has yet again left the competition behind as the five-time Ballon D'Or winner was named Instagram's top earner for the third year in a row.
The top 200 companies were picked from over 12,000 publicly-listed firms with sales of less than $1 billion in the Asia-Pacific region.
Technology barons Azim Premji and Shiv Nadar are among seven Indians in U S-based business magazine Forbes' latest list of the world's 476 dollar billionaires released this week.
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Meet Bhumika Arora, 29, who made the cut!
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has overtaken Adani Group chairman Gautam Adani to become the richest Indian in the world with a net worth of $84.3 billion, according to Forbes Real-time billionaire list for 2023. Ambani overtook Adani after the Reliance Industries chairman's assets went up 0.19 per cent with an increase of wealth by $64 million while Gautam Adani's assets went down by 4.62 per cent with the industrialist's weath pegged at $84.1 billion according to the real time tracker of Forbes of 5 pm EST on Tuesday. Adani who figured among the top three billionaires in the world has dropped in the ranking to number 10 just below Mukesh Ambani.
India, with 22 entries, is fourth in terms of the number of the companies included in the list, which is led by Greater China outperforming the others in the Asia-Pacific region with 88 entries followed by Taiwan and Japan with 24 and 23 firms, respectively. The annual 'Best Under a Billion' list picks the best 200 small and medium sized companies from 24,155 listed firms in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ten Indian companies led by the likes of state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals, telecom major Bharti Airtel and Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries have made their way into the Forbes' list of 50 best listed companies in the Asia-Pacific region.
Google board member Ram Shriram is among three Indian investors who have made it to the top 10 in the Forbes Midas 100 list of venture capitalists.
Of the, four are co-founders of Infosys.
While movie stars like Akshay Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are among the top I-T payers, very few of the wealthiest Indians figure on the list.
The CEO of ICICI Bank is the third Indian in four years to win the accolade.
Team India's Jasprit Bumrah, India women's cricketer Harmanpreet Kaur and shooter Heena Sindhu have exceeded expectations to make the cut.
The company has signed deals Mint and digital television network Ping.
Sridhar Vembu, Zoho Corp's chief executive officer (CEO), said on Tuesday a report that he financially abandoned his wife and son is "complete fiction". An article in Forbes magazine alleged Vembu, founder of the Indian SaaS company, had abandoned his wife Pramila Srinivasan and their special needs son in the US in 2020. Srinivasan and Vembu are fighting a divorce case in California.
Business conglomerate Adani Group's chairman Gautam Adani is now the world's second-richest person after overtaking Louis Vuitton's Bernard Arnault, according to Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires List. At the time of writing this report, Gautam Adani's net worth was $153.9 billion, compared to Arnault's net worth of $153.7 billion. Adani is now just behind business magnate Elon Musk, according to Forbes' data.
Though Cristiano Ronaldo scored an impressive number of goals, he remained empty handed in his debut season in Saudi Arabia.
Reliance Industries Ltd, the country's largest company by revenues, profits and market value, has topped Indian corporate in the World's Best Employers rankings 2021 published by Forbes. Reliance was placed at 52 in the overall ranking of 750 global corporates likes Phillips, Sanofi, Pfizer and Intel. Other Indian names in the top 100 rankings were ICICI Bank at 65, HDFC Bank at 77 and HCL Technologies at 90, according to the Forbes ranking.
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to take on record the suggestion of one of the petitioners and a report published by Forbes in a batch of PILs on the recent Adani group shares crash triggered by Hindenburg Research's fraud allegations.
LeBron James has a net worth of $1 billion, including upwards of $900 million in income from endorsements and other business ventures.
Software giants Infosys Technologies and Wipro along with ICICI Bank are the three Indian companies that figure in the list of 50 fabulous Asian firms compiled by Forbes magazine.
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