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Top ten Indian billionaires,
Forbes Rich List, March 2007
Of India's 83,000 millionaires and 36 billionaires, these
are the ten richest
1. Lakshmi Mittal, Steel , $32bn (£15.6bn)
2. Mukesh Ambani , Petrochemicals , $20.1bn
3. Anil Ambani, Diversified , $18.2bn
4. Azim Premji, Software , $17.1bn
5. Kushal Pal Singh, Property , $10bn
6. Sunil Bharti Mittal, Telecoms , $9.5bn
7. Kumar Birla, Commodities , £8bn
Ruia brothers, Diversified , $8bn
8. Ramesh Chandra, Property , $6.4bn
9. Pallonji Mistry, Construction , $5.6bn,
10. Adi Godrej and family, Diversified , $4.1bn
30
NRI wealthiest persons in Britain
- LN
Mittal (7th), Ambani Brothers (30th, Petrochems 8.2 bn pounds),
Azim Premji (32nd Software, 7.6 bn pounds) richest in world.
- Robson
Walton (USA, Retail) the richest person in world with 45.1
bn pounds.
- Bill
Gates (Microsoft) second with 28.6 bn pounds.
More
NRIs in UK
- Anurag
Dikshit (Internet Gambling, 1.704 bn pounds), Anil Agarwal
(mining 1.680 bn pounds), Jatania brothers (beauty products
850 mn pounds), Naresh Goyal (Airlines, 780 mn pounds) Vikrant
Bhargava (Internet Gambling 592 mn pounds), Gulu Lalvani
(consumer electronics 450 mn pounds), Bhikhu and Vijay Patel
(Pharmaceuticals 444 mn pounds), Lord Bagri and family (60
mn pounds), Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia (100 mn pounds) and
Sir Gulam Noon
London,
April 23, 2006
Agencies
- NRI
steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal was on Sunday declared the
wealthiest person in Britain and seventh richest in the
world. Mittal headed the list with a fortune worth 14.881
billion pounds. Mittal also donated 2 million pounds to
Labour party in 2005. Last year Mittal Steel announced that
it was in talks to buy 49 per cent of China's Baotous Iron
and Steel Group. The move came three months after Mittal
acquired a 36.7 per cent stake in Hunan Valin Steel Tube
and Wire for about 183 million pounds. Last October it won
an auction to acquire Krivorozhstal, Ukraine's premier steel
mill, for nearly 2.8 billion pounds
- The
Hinduja brothers -- Sri Chand and Gopi Chand, Chairman
and President respectively of the Hinduja Group -- emerged
as the seventh richest in Britain with a wealth of 3.6 billion
pounds. Mittal is third richest in Europe next only to Karl
and Theo Albrecht (Germany, supermarkets, 18.4 billion pounds)
and Ingvar Kamprad (Sweden - retail 16 billion pounds).
- As
many as 30 NRIs in the UK, including Lord Swraj Paul, had
fortunes worth over 60 million pounds each.
- The
combined wealth of top 1,000 rich people in the UK has soared
by over 50 billion pounds in a single year to 300.9 billion
pounds, The Sunday Times Rich List 2006 revealed.
- Lord
Paul, NRI industrialist, is listed 145 with a fortune worth
465 million pounds, ahead of Queen Elizabeth II who is listed
192 with a wealth worth 300 million pounds. According to
Philip Beresford, author of The Sunday Times Rich List,
the Caparo Group, headed by Lord Paul is looking to invest
in the Indian economy. "It will be a case of coming
home for the steel and industrial group's Indian-born founder
Paul, 75, who moved to England 40 years ago," he said.
- The
Sunday Times also published a list of 50 richest in
the world including three Indians - Lakshmi Mittal (7th),
Mukesh and Anil Ambani (30th, Petrochemicals 8.2 billion
pounds) and Azim Premji (32nd Software, 7.6 billion pounds).
- Lakshmi
Mittal (7th), Mukesh and Anil Ambani (30th, Petrochemicals
8.2 billion pounds) and Azim Premji (32nd Software, 7.6
billion pounds).
- Anurag
Dikshit (Internet Gambling, 1.704 billion pounds), Anil
Agarwal (mining 1.680 billion pounds), the Jatania brothers
(beauty products 850 million pounds), Naresh Goyal (Airlines,
780 million pounds) Vikrant Bhargava (Internet Gambling
592 million pounds), Gulu Lalvani (consumer electronics
450 million pounds), Bhikhu and Vijay Patel (Pharmaceuticals
444 million pounds), Lord Bagri and family (60 million pounds),
Sukhpal Singh Ahluwalia (100 million pounds) and Sir Gulam
Noon (65 million pounds).
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