Indian-origin steel magnate Lakshmi N Mittal, until now based in Britain and a regular on the country's richest billionaires tally, has decided to quit the UK as the Labour Party-led government's feared tax shake-up for the super-rich nears, according to a UK media report on Sunday.
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'What made Gopi a man above others was his belief that business carried a broader purpose -- creating opportunity and bridging cultures.' Lakshmi Mittal, executive chairman, ArcelorMittal, pays tribute to Gopichand Hinduja who passed into the ages on November 4, 2025.
French government is up in arms against Lakshmi Mittal after 629 workers lost their jobs on closure of two furnaces of ArcelorMittal. Things have got so bad that President Holland has threatened to temporary nationalise ArcelorMittal. In France, people consider him as a big-bad mega-rich Indian who came to lay off workers and drive French steel industry to ruin.
In its annual ranking of the world's richest people released last month, Forbes had named Mittal at the eighth place with a net worth of $19.3 billion.
Non-Resident Indian business tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, who owns world's largest steel company Mittal Steel, has emerged as the richest man in Europe with a wealth worth 24 billion euros, a study has said.
Mittal, now worth 10 billion pounds, saw the biggest fall in wealth terms.
According to the Asian Rich List 2010, brought out by Eastern Eye, a publication of the Asian Media & Marketing Group, 59-year-old Mittal is followed by the Hinduja brothers -- Srichand and Gopichand -- with estimated wealth of 8 billion pounds, Anil Agarwal of mining group Vedanta Resources with 4 billion pounds, Sir Anwar Pervez of Bestways with 715 million pounds and industrialist Swraj Paul of Caparo with 510 million pounds.
According to a British magazine, 59-year-old Mittal, who bought a 20 per cent stake in Queens Park Rangers Football Club for 200,000 in December 2007, is considered the wealthiest man among football club owners, with an estimated value of 18.4 billion at his command.
American business magazine Forbes said on Monday that India-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal is being conferred the third Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award, which honours heroes of entrepreneurial capitalism and free enterprise.
Non-Resident Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has won this year's Asian Achievers Award for entrepreneurship for his outstanding achievement in the global steel industry where his company has taken the top spot.
According to the Rich List, Mittal remains at the top of the list despite the value of his stake in Arcelor Mittal SA having come down to more than half in the past year.
Non-Resident Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal has said he does not want a cricket team in the Indian Premier League, and was "glad" for not having bought one already, given the recent controversy shrouding the twenty-twenty format of the game.
ArcelorMittal chief Lakshmi Mittal is the richest man in British football.
Deepening global credit crisis is taking a toll not just on financial institutions but is eroding individual wealth as well, with Britain's richest man Lakshmi Mittal losing nearly pound seven million per hour in the last four months, media reports said in London.
It is Aditya Mittal, son of steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal and CFO of ArcelorMittal, who persuaded his father to accept a shareholding of below 51 per cent in the company post its takeover of European giant Arcelor. Before Arcelor takeover, Mittal family held an 88 per cent stake in Mittal Steel. Aditya, who visited a steel plant first at the age of eight, joined his father in early 1997, after working for less than a year as an investment banker at CSFB.
Non-Resident Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal has donated £2 million to the Labour party.
The Mittal family stake has shot up to £14.881 billion ($26.517 billion), according to the Sunrise Rich List.
Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal became the third richest person in the world, trailing only Microsoft chief Bill Gates and US investment guru Warren Buffett.
The estimated costs of these weddings start from Rs 100 crore and go up to Rs 700 crore.
India is trying hard to erase Indonesia's wariness about New Delhi, building security cooperation in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. If Indonesia decides to buy the Brahmos missile, it would further strengthen relations between the world's most populous nation and the most populous Islamic country.
Mittal's wealth dropped with the Arcelor Mittal share price falling
Serum Institute of India chief Adar Poonawalla will pay 138 million (about Rs 1,444 crore) for a Mayfair mansion in London in one of the city's most expensive home sales of the year
But he is actively pursuing greenfield steel plants in Karnataka and Jharkhand; ultimately, only one of these might come up.
NRI business tycoon Lakshmi N Mittal, who is set to control the world's largest steelmaker, has emerged as the richest man in Britain.
Non-Resident Indian steel magnate Lakshmi N Mittal, the richest Asian in the United Kingdom, has bought a central London house for a record price of £70 million, a leading daily reported on Sunday.
It also asked why the data shared pertained to a period from April 2019 even though the scheme for anonymous political funding was introduced in 2017.
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Friday described the electoral bonds scheme as a 'very big scam' and demanded that a special investigation team (SIT) be set up with court-appointed officials to probe the alleged quid pro quo and wrongdoings under it.
From steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal to billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal's Airtel, Anil Agarwal's Vedanta, ITC, Mahindra and Mahindra, and a lesser-known Future Gaming and Hotel Services were among the prominent buyers of the now-scrapped electoral bonds for making political donations.
Global steel giant ArcelorMittal on Thursday announced the appointment of Aditya Mittal as its chief executive officer (CEO). Aditya Mittal, son of steel baron Lakshmi N Mittal, is the chief financial officer (CFO) of the company, and will succeed his father in the new role.
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The second richest Indian said he felt bad about the delays his projects faced in India.
'Interim Budget has ignited the entrepreneurial spirit.'
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the world looks at India as an important pillar of stability, a trusted friend, an engine of growth in the global economy, a technology hub for finding solutions and a powerhouse of talented youth. He also said that in the rapidly changing world order, India is moving forward as 'vishwa mitra' (friend of the world). Speaking at the inauguration of the 10th edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit, which saw participation of state hea
At a time when there is a growing number of edtech companies laying off employees in a bid to conserve cash and focus on profitability amid a funding winter, Ronnie Screwvala-led upGrad is expanding its facilities and hiring talent. The company plans to hire over 1400 team members between November 2022 and March 2023 in India and at offices outside the country. upGrad has also signed new leases in the past few months for 335,000 sq ft of space across four cities -- Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune and Noida.
Radhakishan S Damani, investor and promoter of the D-Mart supermarket chain, has broken into the elite club of the top 100 global billionaires. Damani, who grew up in a single-room apartment in Mumbai, is now ranked 98th on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index with $19.2 billion as his net worth. The index is a daily ranking of the world's richest people. The other Indians on the top 100 rich list ahead of Damani are Mukesh Ambani, Gautam Adani, Azim Premji, Shiv Nadar, and Lakshmi Mittal.
According to the newspaper, Lakshmi Mittal said large parts of manufacturing industry would not suffer the same problems as those parts of the world economy more closely linked to banking and finance such as housing and consumer goods. The India-origin billionaire indicated that substantial parts of the broad industrial sector across the world would perform in a satisfactory way in the next one to two years.
Verma, 54, who served as a former US ambassador to India from January 16, 2015, to January 20, 2017 is currently the chief legal officer and head of global public policy at Mastercard.
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