vIndianz.com (11 Mar, 2010) — Laskhmi Mittal and Mukesh Ambani and four more prominent Indian businessman have found their slots among the world’s top 50 billionaires as listed by Forbes. While Ambani and Mittal figured among world’s top ten billionaires in a list where Mexican tycoon Carlo Slim Helu beat Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person in the world. While Ambani was ranked fourth, Mittal came fifth.
The 2010 Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires has a total of 49 Indians in the array of 1,011 richest people.
Significant is the fact that Carlo Slim Helu pushed Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, who we all thought was unbeatable and had been holding the title of world’s richest for 14 of the past 15 years. Gates, worth $53 billion, has been ranked second with a rise of $13 billion in assets compared to the figures of last year.
India has reasons to rejoice owing to the fact that it has doubled the number of billionaires from last year’s numbers.Other nations who have doubled the figure are China, Turkey and South Korea.
Mukesh Ambani is worth $29 billion while Lakshmi Mittal is worth $28.7 billion. Others in the list include Azim Premji ($17.0 billion – rank 28), Ruia brothers ($13.0 billion – rank 40), Savitri Jindal ($12.2 billion – rank 44). Other names such as Kushal Pal Singh (rank 74), Kumar Birla (86), Sunil Mittal (87), Anil Agarwal (113), Adi Godrej & family (148), Shiv Nadar (201), N.R. Narayana Murthy & family (616), Rahul Bajaj (880) and Vijay Mallya (937) complete the Indian presence.
Further Reading- P Diddy tops rap’s rich list – NME.com
- Baidu CEO and Bill Gates Take On Smoking – Wall Street Journal
- Bill Gates in China push against secondhand smoke – The Seattle Times
- U.S. billionaires happy to pay more taxes – UPI.com
- Microsoft’s Gates, Baidu Set Health Alliance – Bloomberg
- Mazumdar, Nilekani in Forbes list
- Charlie Rose Talks to Bill Gates – BusinessWeek
- Groupon IPO to deal new members into Chicago’s billionaires club – Chicago Tribune
- Groupon IPO to deal new members into Chicago’s billionaires club – Chicago Tribune
- Groupon IPO to deal new members into Chicago’s billionaires club – Chicago Tribune
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