Forbes rich list: Mukesh Ambani only Indian in top 20, brother Anil Ambani not even in top 1000

Mukesh Ambani was placed at the 33rd position on the 2017 listing of Forbes.Forbes said he is the richest Indian and ranked 32nd on the 2018 Powerful People listing of the magazine. He was ranked Global Game Changer in 2017.

Ambani leads the 106 billionaires from India on the Forbes list.

Brother Anil Ambani is at the 1349 spot. The list of Indian billionaires includes Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Birla (122), Chairman and founder of the Adani Group Gautam Adani (167), Bharti Airtel head Sunil Mittal (244), co-founder of consumer goods giant Patanjali Ayurveda Acharya Balkrishna (365), Piramal Entreprises Chair Ajay Piramal (436), Biocon founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (617), Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy (962)

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dropped three spots and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg rose by two.

Gates, 63, saw his wealth grow to $96.5 billion, up from $90 billion last year while investment guru Buffett, 88, at third position saw fortunes slipping by $1.5 billion to USD 82.5 billion, Forbes said.

Ahead of Zuckerberg now are Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, Zara and Inditex founder Amancio Ortega of Spain and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

Bernard Arnault, CEO of French luxury good company, LVMH, held on to fourth places while Zuckerberg lost USD 9 billion in networth to slip from fifth the to eighth position.

Jeff Bezos topped the list while Bill Gates and Waren Buffet are at two and third spot respectively. Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim Helu, comes next on the list with $64 Billion worth and Amancio Ortega, one of the world’s wealthiest retailer is at the sixth spot.