A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India
Struggling to pay a $1.6 billion debt, Chandra's Zee Entertainment shares have declined 40 percent in the past year, and his personal fortune is now not enough to make the list
As India pursues its lunar ambitions, Prime Minister Modi needs to tackle crucial structural reforms to give the economy its own escape velocity.
Shares of Chaand's auto parts company Motherson Sumi Systems, dropped 61% over the past year, knocking Sehgal's net worth down 55% to $2.45 billion
Reddy's Megha Engineering & Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) is building India's largest lift irrigation project by value, in Telangana. It has driven the Reddy family's net worth up 6% to $3.3 billion, bringing him up to No. 39 from No. 47 on the Forbes India Rich list
From taking new roles in their family businesses to starting their own, here's how the new generation of flag-bearers are moving up
Radha Vembu has led Zoho Mail on a growth trajectory with her unwavering focus
The stock market is the ultimate measure of a company's success, or failure. Here, we track 10 companies each that have created and lost the maximum amount of wealth at the bourses in the last 15 years
Gautam Adani has made significant gains as he enters the airport management business and expands his gas distribution franchise
At No. 98, Engineer realises the pipe dream with a net worth of $1.45 billion, surging partly because of its Bollywood and cricket associations
The Patels of Cadila are betting big in the high-risk, high-return arena of new drug discovery, but they are hedging it with a presence across the pharma value chain
The 2019 Forbes India Rich List has six new faces, plus the biggest wealth gainers and losers of the year, in a series of nifty charts
Poonawalla recently set up Poonawalla Finance to provide loans to low- and middle-income consumers as well as to small businesses.
With a slowing economy, billionaires who had leveraged to expand their businesses hit a wall. Fifty-two listees saw their rankings fall, while seven fell off the list
In the past five years, Wipro's growth has lagged rivals Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services. Rishad Premji takes over from his father, Azim Premji, at a challenging time
Riding on digital services, the IT services bellwether has made some founders richer, but recent whistleblower allegations of corporate governance lapses came as a bolt from the blue
Uday Kotak has steered the Kotak Mahindra group successfully through three decades, and some tumultuous times
Intas's Hasmukh Chudgar is among the pharma tycoons to have grown their wealth this year
With a slow and steady approach, the Dhingras have made Berger Paints India's second-largest paint company
Youngest Burman on his new role as non-executive additional director at Dabur
Murali Krishna Divi's journey has been as much about choice as it has about chance
How the Jaquar group, a new entrant to the Rich List, is expanding its global footprint and inching towards the $1 billion-turnover mark
Himself vegetarian, Jaipuria's RJ Corp is banking on the KFC franchise game to bring in big business over the next decade
Anurag Behar, CEO of Azim Premji Foundation, elaborates why in the social sector there can be no certain solutions, only efforts towards improvements
Byju's has aced the online education market like no one else, making its CEO Byju Raveendran a new entrant in this year's Rich List
Philanthropy in India is a half-written story. The super-rich need to push the envelope of giving in the social sector
Five years ago, billionaire Harsh Mariwala made a smart decision to hand management of his company Marico to CEO Saugata Gupta
Rather than compete in shampoos and soaps, Marico has expanded to lines of soups, teas, flavoured oatmeal, grooming products. "If Parachute and Saffola are engine No 1, these new products are engine No 2 and engine No 3," says CEO Saugata Gupta
How a simple snack took a Bikaner family from a small chawl to the list of billionaires
Mukesh Ambani's retail and telecom bets are paying off; he adds $4.1 billion to his net worth to remain India's richest person for the 12th consecutive year
Asian Paints' promoters saw their wealth soar to over $1 billion each on the back of buoyant sales
The origins of many of the entrepreneurs on the Rich List could help us conclude that migration makes most people better off
Shari Redstone faced a vicious uphill battle for her father's company—including, at times, with Sumner Redstone himself. Finally victorious in uniting Viacom and CBS under her, she tells her side of the story for the first time
Shivani and Sahil Malik of Da Milano, a leather accessories brand, show us how to unwind with class
Like all things big, multi-million dollar businesses start out small. Here are some of the first offices where today's tycoons initially set up shop