While India is home to numerous billionaires, Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries, is the only Indian business giant to enter the Hurun Global Rich List 2022's top ten. According to this ranking, Ambani's net worth is USD103 billion, up USD20 billion in the last year, and he continues to hold the title of India's richest person.
According to Hurun's report, the Reliance Industries chairman also purchased the Mandarin Oriental in New York for USD98 million in January of this year. Furthermore, according to this ranking, Gautam Adani, head of the Adani Group, added the highest wealth in the recent year, totaling USD49 billion. Every week, Gautam Adani added Rs 6,000 crore to his fortune. Adani's current net worth is USD81 billion dollars.
Adani is the second richest Indian and the 12th richest person in the world, according to this list. Cyrus Poonawalla, Chairman of the Serum Institute of India, had his net worth increase by 41% year over year. Poonawalla now has a net worth of USD26 billion.
NR Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys, Shiv Nadar, the founder of HCL Technologies, and Pankaj Munjal, the Chairman and MD of Hero Cycles, are among the other notable figures included in the Hurun research. Shiv Nadar's net worth has risen to USD27 billion, an increase of USD10 billion. The rise in Nadar's net worth is accompanied by a 66% increase in HCL's stock price.
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