Many have pledged billions of dollars to charity.
French hospitality at its best at a state dinner in honour of China's President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan at Elysee Palace, Paris.
Quoting officials, The Washington Post said, the foiled assassination was part of an escalating campaign of aggression by RAW against the Indian diaspora in Asia, Europe and North America.
Richest 100 billionaires added $241 billion to their wealth in 2012.
The house has six stories of underground parking, three helicopter pads, and reportedly requires a staff of 600 to keep it running.
Besides, India would meet over half of its proposed expenditure for the next fiscal with its billionaires' wealth, while the American billionaires' total wealth would meet only one-third of their country's proposed $3 trillion expenditure in the next financial year.
On a surprise visit to Beijing amid speculation that he may unveil Tesla's autonomous driving technology in the burgeoning electric vehicle (EV) market in China, billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday met Chinese Premier Li Qiang and discussed future expansion plans for his automobile.
Top 100 billionaires see their wealth rise 10%; top 20 account for half of total wealth of top 100.
We played 20 questions with America's wealthiest entrepreneurs--and they were willing to share.
India, whose high economic growth is driven mostly by the private sector, will witness a rise in the number of billionaires as compared to China in 2006, an official with the Forbes Asian Rich List said in Beijing on Thursday.
A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Gauri Godse quashed the sessions court's 2013 judgment acquitting Sharma, terming it as "perverse" and "unsustainable".
Let's take a look at billionaires globally who left their studies incomplete and still managed to make it big.
Number of people with net worth of at least Rs 100 crore at 475 now.
Aespite an enviable track record, Sun Pharma's MD has always been modest about his achievements.
Let's take a look at some of the countries that have the most billionaires in the world.
Gayatri and Vivek are doing fine, according to his office.
Billionaire investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala explains why he thinks Modi should be at the helm of India.
Everyone is always talking about how the rich are getting richer--and it's usually true. But not always.
February will see only mid to decent budgeted films arriving.
'For experienced and risk-taking investors, now may be the time to go all in.' 'By 'experienced and risk-taking', I refer to those who remained net buyers in equities during the early stages of the 2020 pandemic.' 'On the other hand, those who exited the markets during the pandemic may go the SIP way.'
Both Goyal and Mallya had figured in Forbes' annual list of world's billionaires published earlier last month, where Mukesh and Anil Ambani were named as two richest in India. According to Forbes, Goyal's fortune is valued at $ 1.4 billion, while that of Mallya is $ 1.2 billion. Naresh Goyal and Vijay Mallya are both vying for dominance of Indian skies. The are the only Indian names on the list. It also includes the feud between Russia's Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov
'Besides Ayodhya, the BJP lost in nine other constituencies with a Ramayana imprint; it tasted success only in Thrissur.' 'In Rameswaram, K Navaskani of the Indian Union Muslim League won with a 44% voteshare in a 84% Hindu constituency.' 'In the 21 seats in the Ayodhya and Varanasi regions, both crucial to the Hindutva project, the BJP won just 7.' 'It won just 3 out of 12 seats around Modi's constituency,' points out Krishna Prasad.
The conglomerate controlled by Len Blavatnik, the Russian-born billionaire, has been declared the winner of an auction for Warner Music Group.
From Steven Spielberg's seaside spread to Bill Gates' costly compound, peek behind the doors of these and other Forbes 400 residences.
The case has been brought by Srichand Parmanand Hinduja, 84, described as the "patriarch" of the family, against brothers G P Hinduja, 80, P P Hinduja, 75, and A P Hinduja, 69, and revolves around the "validity and effect" of a letter dated July 2, 2014. The letter includes statements to the effect that the brothers appoint each other as their executors, and that assets held in any single brother's name belong to all four. A related second letter, dated July 1, 2014, is also linked to the dispute.
The membership of the Billionaire Club has touched 533 and their combined wealth stands at Rs 12.32 lakh crore. The top five are worth over Rs 50,000 crore each.
American tech billionaire Elon Musk on Saturday said his proposed visit to India has been postponed due to "very heavy Tesla obligations". The electric carmaker Tesla CEO -- who was expected to be in India on April 21 and 22 and scheduled to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- wrote on X that he is looking forward to coming to India later this year.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg deserves the position because he dreamed it, planned it and worked it out.
Jeff 'Amazon' Bezos' $250-million purchase of the iconic Washington Post last week has sparked a debate on why billionaires are buying into a medium that is staring at irrelevance, if not death.
Whether it is jumping from a plane at 10,000 feet or just working away at his latest hospitality project, real estate tycoon Vicky, as Oberoi is fondly known to friends, believes in having fun.
India's share of world GDP is just 2 per cent, and of global poverty an embarrassing 30 per cent.
Tata Sons Private Limited, the holding company of the Tata group, witnessed a precipitous drop in its net debt to Rs 5,656 crore in the 10 months ended January this year, as its cash reserves burgeoned to Rs 9,516 crore during this period. Eight years ago, in 2015-16, Tata Sons reported a net debt of Rs 5,132 crore; from March 2017 until March 2023, this figure was above the Rs 14,700 mark, peaking at Rs 27,437 crore at the end of March 2019, according to data sourced from Capitaline. The company's gross debt nearly halved to Rs 15,173 crore until January 2024 on a standalone basis, down from a peak of Rs 31,363 crore reported in the financial year ended March 2019.
Yoshiaki Tsutsumi had been one of only four honour members, a list that also includes former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
A 30-year-old woman has accused industrialist Sajjan Jindal of raping her after promising to marry her, a charge denied on Sunday by the billionaire. The woman, whose social media profile describes her as an actor, claimed she met Jindal (64), the chairman and managing director of the $23-billion JSW Group, at a cricket match in Dubai a few years ago which led to a friendship and subsequently to the industrialist getting attracted to her. The alleged sexual assault happened on January 24 last year inside the JSW Group headquarters, the woman, a Mumbai resident, has claimed, adding that the industrialist had promised to marry her.
Almost all of the billionaires until recently came from Western cities, but now the picture is changing.
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