The combined networth of India's 100 wealthiest is $381 billion (nearly Rs 25.5 lakh crore), a rise of 10 per cent from $ 345 billion in 2015
The total wealth of India's top five billionaires, which stands at a whopping $83.7 billion, is more than the cost of 1,230 Mars Orbiter 'Mangalyaan' Missions and is more than 18 times the cost of hosting the 2016 Rio Olympics
He is followed by Nandan Nilekani and Narayan Murthy in Hurun India Philanthropy List
Top 100 billionaires see their wealth rise 10%; top 20 account for half of total wealth of top 100.
Pallon has already joined the boards of some of the unlisted companies such as Afcons
Top leaders from India Inc may be busy throughout the year, but they too have a very strong social life beyond work.
Cyrus Mistry undertook quite a few significant initiatives at the Tata Group in the past two years.
Flipkart's co-founders Sachin and Binni Bansal made their debut at 86th position with a net worth of $1.3 billion each.
Mistry is not the first Tata bigwig to be ousted and Tata is not the only big name which saw a doyen or two leave
The list has been compiled by the Shanghai-based The Hurun Research Institute, the second year it has done this ranking, of an 'India philanthropy list'.
Tata Group shares were among the top losers while Adani Ports emerged as the top gainer
Of the 23 Indian billionaires mentioned in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, only one saw a reduction in net worth, with the companies owned by most of them outperforming the Nifty 50 index by a big margin.
Here's a look at how key Tata group companies fared under Cyrus Mistry's stewardship.
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