24 Indians in ‘World’s Richest’ club

INDIA is a POOR Country but not INDIANS.

We occupied 24 positions in Forbes World’s Richest Club with 4 positions in top 10  men on planet. Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates was in 3 rd position for this time who leads the club for 13 years.For this year, Warren Buffett is on TOP.

Steel czar Lakshmi Mittal, heading the world’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal, is in the fourth place with a personal fortune of $45 billion. A long-time resident of London, he is also Europe’s richest resident, notes the US business magazine.

Next comes Mukesh Ambani, ‘Asia’s richest resident, who heads petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries, India’s most valuable company by market cap’ with $43 billion.

The year’s biggest gainer, Anil Ambani, is in the sixth place with a f ortune of $42 billion. He is up $23.8 billion in the past year, and is closing the gap with his estranged brother Mukesh.

K.P. Singh, now the world’s richest real estate baron after listing his real estate development company DLF in 2007, takes the eighth place in the list with $30 billion.

The other 20 Indians in the billionaires list are

Shashi and Ravi Ruia (43)

Azim Premji (60)

Sunil Mittal and family (64)

Kumar Birla (76)

Ramesh Chandra (86)

Gautam Adani (91)

Savitri Jindal and family (110)

Anil Agarwal (164)

Adi Godrej and family (178)

G.M. Rao (198)

Indu Jain (236)

Dilip Shanghvi (260)

Jaiprakash Gaur (277)

Shiv Nadar (277)

Uday Kotak (288)

Cyrus Poonawalla (307)

Anand Jain (327)

Chandru Raheja (368)

Tulsi Tanti (368)

Rakesh Wadhawan and family (428).

Top 10  BILLIONAIRES
  1. Warren Buffett
  2. Carlos Slim Helu
  3. William Gates III
  4. Lakshmi Mittal
  5. Mukesh Ambani
  6. Anil Ambani
  7. Ingvar Kamprad
  8. KP Singh
  9. Oleg Deripaska
  10. Karl Albrecht

You can full list of Billionainers at here (Forbes web site) .