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India's Richest 2019: Essel's Subhash Chandra drops off the list

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

India needs a successful economic moon shot

As India pursues its lunar ambitions, Prime Minister Modi needs to tackle crucial structural reforms to give the economy its own escape velocity.

India's Richest 2019: Vivek Chaand Sehgal's stalled engine

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

India's Richest 2019: PP Reddy's ambitious plan to move a river

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

Isha Ambani to Rishad Premji: Seven next-gen tycoons furthering family businesses

From taking new roles in their family businesses to starting their own, here's how the new generation of flag-bearers are moving up

Meet Radha Vembu, the 'invisible' force behind Zoho Mail's success

Radha Vembu has led Zoho Mail on a growth trajectory with her unwavering focus

The wealth index: The 10 best and worst performing stocks

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

India's Richest 2019: Adani moves up eight spots

Gautam Adani has made significant gains as he enters the airport management business and expands his gas distribution franchise

India's Richest 2019: Astral Pipes' Sandeep Engineer makes debut on the list

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

India's Richest 2019: Cadila's Patels' quest for the magic pill

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

India's Richest 2019: Fun facts, figures and factors behind the dollars

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

India's Richest 2019: Adar Poonawalla diversifies into finance

Poonawalla recently set up Poonawalla Finance to provide loans to low- and middle-income consumers as well as to small businesses.

India's Richest 2019: Those who slipped and crashed out

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

India's Richest 2019: Rishad Premji has tough calls to make

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

India's Richest 2019: Why Infy founders bucked the trend

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

India's Richest 2019: What makes Uday Kotak Mr Bankable

Uday Kotak has steered the Kotak Mahindra group successfully through three decades, and some tumultuous times

India's Richest 2019: Hasmukh Chudgar is pharma's silver lining in tough year

Intas's Hasmukh Chudgar is among the pharma tycoons to have grown their wealth this year

India's Richest 2019: Berger Paints' Dhingras score flying colours

With a slow and steady approach, the Dhingras have made Berger Paints India's second-largest paint company

We don't like breaking things. We like breaking perceptions: Aditya Burman

Youngest Burman on his new role as non-executive additional director at Dabur

How do India's ultra-rich spend their billions?

The answers may surprise you

India's Richest 2019: Divi's journey into the elite league of drug makers

Murali Krishna Divi's journey has been as much about choice as it has about chance

India's Richest 2019: Jaquar's Rajesh Mehra makes fitting debut

How the Jaquar group, a new entrant to the Rich List, is expanding its global footprint and inching towards the $1 billion-turnover mark

India's Richest 2019: KFC's Ravi Jaipuria chicken wings-bet

Himself vegetarian, Jaipuria's RJ Corp is banking on the KFC franchise game to bring in big business over the next decade

'Philanthropists need to be humble': Azim Premji Foundation CEO

Anurag Behar, CEO of Azim Premji Foundation, elaborates why in the social sector there can be no certain solutions, only efforts towards improvements

India's Richest 2019: Byju Raveendran makes a big splash

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

India's ultra-rich and philanthropy: Someone's gotta give

Philanthropy in India is a half-written story. The super-rich need to push the envelope of giving in the social sector

India's Richest 2019: How ceding control paid off for Marico's Harsh Mariwala

Five years ago, billionaire Harsh Mariwala made a smart decision to hand management of his company Marico to CEO Saugata Gupta

Beyond Parachute, Saffola: Marico looks to new avenues

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

India's Richest 2019: Haldiram's incredible success story

How a simple snack took a Bikaner family from a small chawl to the list of billionaires

India's Richest 2019: How Mukesh Ambani remains consumer king

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

India's Richest 2019: Asian Paints is a bright picture

Asian Paints' promoters saw their wealth soar to over $1 billion each on the back of buoyant sales

The mobility of the rich

The origins of many of the entrepreneurs on the Rich List could help us conclude that migration makes most people better off

Shari Redstone and the real-life life 'Succession' drama

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

Style: How Delhi's power couple dresses for a day of leisure

Shivani and Sahil Malik of Da Milano, a leather accessories brand, show us how to unwind with class

First offices: How Amul, Marico, Emami, and other conglomerates started out

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

Thoughts of billionaires