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India's 100 richest see combined wealth fall by 9 per cent to $1 trillion, reflecting market volatility and currency headwinds

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has retained its position as the highest-ranked Indian company on the 2025 Fortune Global 500 list, according to the latest rankings released by the publication. The oil-to-telecom-and-retail conglomerate has been ranked at No.88 on the latest list, down from 86th position in 2024. However, the company has gained a whopping 67 places in the last four years, from No.155 in 2021. US retail giant Walmart continues to be the top-ranked company in the world, followed by Amazon. The top 10 has three Chinese companies - state-owned electric utility State Grid at No.3, China National Petrol at No.5 and oil and gas giant Sinopec Group at No.6. World's largest oil exporter Saudi Aramco is ranked at No.4 and Apple at No.8. India has 9 companies in the Fortune's Global 500 list this year - 5 of them from the public sector and 4 from the private sector. Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is ranked at No.95, unchanged from last year. Indi

India leads the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia 2025 list with 94 entries, including actors Ananya Panday and Ishaan Khatter, along with innovators across tech and social impact

This year marks a milestone for India's wealthiest, as the collective wealth of top 100 richest Indians crossed $1 trillion for the first time. Mukesh Ambani tops Forbes' 2024 List as India's richest

Mukesh Ambani retained his position as the ninth richest person in the world and both India's and Asia's richest person in 'Forbes World's Billionaires List 2024: The Top 200'

Byju's has been grappling with delayed financial results, a wave of board member departures, and various other challenges

The Global 2000 ranks the largest companies in the world using four metrics: sales, profits, assets, and market value, Forbes said while releasing the 2023 ranking of the world's top 2,000 companies

Reliance Industries, the country's largest company by revenues, profits and market value, is India's best employer and the world's 20th best firm to work with, according to Forbes' World's Best Employers rankings 2022. The global ranking was topped by South Korean giant Samsung Electronics, followed by US giants Microsoft, IBM, Alphabet and Apple. US companies occupy rankings from 2nd to 12th , followed by German automaker BMW Group at 13th. The world's largest online retailer Amazon is ranked 14th in the list and French giant Decathlon is at 15th rank. Oil-to-telecom-to-retail conglomerate Reliance, with 2,30,000 employees, is ranked 20th - the highest ranked Indian firm. It is ranked above Mercedes-Benz of Germany, US beverage maker Coca-Cola, Japanese auto giants Honda and Yamaha, and Saudi Aramco. There is no Indian company other than Reliance in the top 100. HDFC Bank is ranked 137th. Bajaj (173rd), Aditya Birla Group (240th), Hero Motocorp (333rd), Larsen & Toubro (354th), .

In June, the Adani family committed a donation of Rs 60,000 crore towards charity initiatives in health care, education, and skill development

"Energy and banking sector corporations were among the highest-ranking Indian companies in Forbes' Global 2000 list of public companies this year," the publication said.

Agriculture startup Aquaconnect, BeatO (biotech and healthcare), Bellatrix Aerospace (logistics and transportation), Betterplace (education and recruitment) are among the Indian firms in the list

In March 2020, Ambani was ranked 21st on Forbes' annual billionaire list, with a net worth of $36.8 billion, while Page and Brin were 13th and 14th.

Forbes also reported that due to coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic almost every sport has seen a dip in the players earnings with America Football being an exception

With an estimated $106.3 million earned over the past 12 months, the Swiss maestro edged out Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo from the top spot

Cristiano Ronaldo topped the list with a total pay of $93 mn; Serena Williams sole woman listed

The 28-year-old Indian star player is placed at the seventh spot with a brand value of $14.5 million

Ranked 83rd last year, Kohli has climbed down to the 100th and last spot despite an increase of $1 million in endorsements

As many as 17 Indian firms, including Infosys, TCS and HDFC, have been named in the list of World's Best Regarded Companies compiled by Forbes

National Award-winning actor Akshay Kumar has made it to the fourth position on the Forbes magazine's Worlds Highest-Paid Actors Of 2019 list

China's Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) tops the list for the seventh year in a row.