India Business News: The Hurun India rich list of 2023 includes 84 startup founders with a total wealth of Rs 4,23,600 crore. The average age of these founders is 41, and
Mukesh Ambani has surpassed Gautam Adani to become the richest Indian, according to the Hurun India Rich List 2023. Ambani s wealth exceeded Adani s by Rs 3.3 lakh crore, despite Adani being ahead by Rs 3 lakh crore in 2022. Cyrus Poonawalla retained the third position, while HCL Tech s Shiv Nadar and Radha Vembu of Zoho also featured on the list.
Two of India’s richest men have landed in an unlikely controversy over farming laws, becoming targets of protesters who allege the tycoons have benefited from their close links to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. For weeks, tens of thousands of farmers have camped outside the nation’s capital, demanding the withdrawal of recently passed legislation they say, without evidence, was designed to allow billionaires such as Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani to enter farming. The tycoons say they have no such interest. More than 1,500 phone towers of Ambani’s wireless carrier were vandalised last month and some farmers called for a boycott of their businesses.