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Forbes India 13th Anniversary: Rewind of Key Milestones of India's Corporates and Startups

A rewind of the key milestones in India's corporates and startups, through the lens of 13 years of Forbes India

Ambani cashes in

Recent fundraising by Reliance Industries has allowed the company to position itself for the next leg of growth

Indian billionaires take a knock, have a slow year

The collective wealth of Indian billionaires fell by 22.8 percent compared to last year; the pandemic will hurt company valuations in the coming quarters as well

Wealth map: Where are India's billionaires living?

Mumbai and Delhi lead with the most number of billionaires in India, but you'll find one each in Thrisur, Haridwar and Hisar too

World's billionaires: Those who fell off the list

March's pandemic crash erased nearly all the stock-market gains enjoyed by billionaires over the past year. It also knocked many from the billionaire ranks entirely. Altogether, 267 from last year's list of 2,153 (12.4 percent) fell below the $1 billion threshold this year, including 127 who tumbled off in early March. Twenty-one others died

Covid-19: Special children face a challenged world

Technology has filled some of the gaps caused by school closures. But the absence of the human touch remains a critical factor for children who are differently abled

Covid-19 vaccine: Pfizer's Moon Shot

Albert Bourla has boldly predicted his company might find and distribute a vaccine by this fall. The first look inside a $1 billion bet that could change the world

Jeff Bezos to Mukesh Ambani: The Forbes World Billionaires 2020 list

The richest people on Earth are not immune to the coronavirus. Of the billionaires who remain, 51 percent are poorer than they were last year

World's Billionaires: Zoom's Eric Yuan makes booming debut

Eric Yuan is helping millions of people survive social distancing by giving away his videoconferencing tool, Zoom, for free. The move is earning him much respect, and when the pandemic has passed, the billionaire's business will likely be stronger than ever. But in the midst of a global crisis, can his app withstand a 610 percent spike in traffic virtually overnight and the scrutiny of prime time?

World's Billionaires: Masayoshi Son's last laugh?

Between the WeWork debacle and the coronavirus, the markets have deemed his $100 billion Vision Fund largely worthless. But the world's most important investor over the past three years, SoftBank's Masayoshi Son, has other assets, a track record—and a plan

The Anti We-Work: Why Mark Dixon's coworking company will survive Covid-19

WeWork looks like it might die of coronavirus, but its oldest and largest competitor, Switzerland-based IWG, is well-positioned to survive the outbreak—and thrive in its aftermath. That should be no surprise. After all, IWG's founder, Mark Dixon, has seen this movie before

Billionaires: Larry Ellison's big data battle plan to fight Covid-19

The fifth-richest person in the world has been quietly turning an entire Hawaiian island into a wellness experiment. Now Oracle founder Larry Ellison has been drafted into the fight against the coronavirus, a critical test of whether data can indeed save us

Inside the $2.5 trillion debt binge that took titans from blue chips to near junk

Thanks to the Federal Reserve's low-rate religion, big S&P 500 companies such as Boeing and AT&T have spent the last decade gorging on debt, some recklessly. But instead of heading towards bankruptcy, they're now being propped up by the government

How could the way out of coal be...more coal?

For generations, the Navajo relied on coal mining for good jobs and to fill the tribal coffers. But with the end in sight for unclean power, the tribe created a company to get them through the transition—yet, unbelievably, it bought them more mines. This surprise deal made them America's third-largest coal miners

Fresh air, fresh profits: How Covid-19 kindled this campsite empire

As the lodging industry collapses amid the pandemic, entrepreneur Warren Meyer has found the only sure thing. His biggest obstacle: Government lawyers

Greater capitalism: How the pandemic is reshaping our economic system for the better

The coronavirus pandemic is transforming the economic system day by day, hour by hour. What's emerging is something better, fairer, smarter—and it's happening right now

Capitalism in Covid times

The pandemic may have deepened the chasm between the have-much and the have-little

Cover story: Billionaire Harindarpal 'Harry' Banga's second act

Amritsar-born Banga's next coming, as founder of the Hong Kong-headquartered Caravel Group, has the makings of surpassing his three-decade-long success as a shipping and commodities tycoon

Should the RBI limit bank CEOs?

The RBI wants to see improved governance from private banks through proposed rules that limit the roles and tenures of CEOs. But will they work?

Share the ride, not the virus

As the pandemic influences what commuters want, ride-sharing startups are innovating with products and services

Thoughts on Ingenuity