Personalities

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries, has been appointed as the member of Advisory Committee to the President of the 28th Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Gautam Adani is now within striking distance of entering the top 20 billionaires club in the world, once again. After a massive run up in all the ten Adani group stocks on Monday, the group added ₹1 lakh crore to its market cap. As a result, Gautam Adani’s wealth grew $5.35 billion to his wealth, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Tata Sons Chairman N. Chandrasekaran has been honoured with France's highest order of merit, Legion d'Honneur, for bolstering relations and building business between India and France.

In Monobala’s passing, Tamil cinema loses an ‘enthusiast of cinema’...

The richest 100 people in the world collectively hold wealth worth $$4,387 billion, Forbes real-time billionaires list has revealed. Upon a quick analysis of the list, here are some quite interesting facts about world's richest that Business Insider has gathered. The data reflected below was collected on April 28, 2023.

Tarek Fatah: The journalist who identified as one of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children...

Indian-American scientist Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao's work in statistics has propelled the field of science, including data analytics and analysing data from the Large Hadron Collider, which found the elusive God particle, the Higgs Boson, a decade ago. Rao's extensive work also includes shape analysis and the concept of quadratic entropy, a general measure of diversity or non-homogeneity in a population, helping scientists estimate results of experiments from basic sciences to artificial intelligence and radar systems. Rao will soon receive the International Prize in Statistics, similar to the Nobel Prize in statistics.

19-year-old Nandini Gupta from Kota, Rajasthan was crowned Femina Miss India World 2023 at the glamorous 59th edition of the...

British fashion designer Mary Quant is credited with revolutionising British fashion in the 1950s and 60s. One of the most endearing elements of Quant’s legacy remains the miniskirt — a design she helped popularise. In 1966 Quant was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her outstanding contribution to the fashion industry.

Gigantic glass houses, lasers to robotic dinosaurs: Exotic hobbies of eccentric billionaires...

Icon & the pioneer: Two Indians make it to Time 100: Most Influential People for 2023...

92-year-old Lachman Das Mittal is India’s oldest billionaire with a net worth of $2.5 billion as per Forbes. Mittal is the founder and chairman of Sonalika Group, India's third-largest tractor maker by market share and India’s largest tractor export brand. The billionaire is a former LIC employee who holds a master’s degree in arts in English and Urdu languages.

Ever since Musk took on Twitter, his activities on the platform have almost always caused a furor. Recently, he started foll...

The life and times of Keshub Mahindra, India’s oldest billionaire...

Keshub Mahindra, the former chairman of Mahindra and Mahindra group, died at the age of 99. He was a key figure in building India's indigenous auto industry. Despite facing challenges such as license raj and government controls, he led the company to become cost-competitive through frugal engineering methods. Under his leadership, the group expanded its interests in software, financial services, tractors, and farm equipment. Apart from his business achievements, he also made philanthropy a priority, supporting projects such as educating girls and providing housing for cancer patients.

Meet the top five Indian American women on Wall Street...

On April 4, Forbes released its annual billionaires' lists for 2023 - from the world’s richest billionaires to the world’s y...

Indian history’s one of the bravest and enlightened rulers, Chatrapati Shivaji is a legend for all times. His stupendous achievements carved him a unique place in the annals of this nation. The feats he could show to the world in terms of warfare, administration and nation building were phenomenal which few could replicate. Chatrapati Shivaji was a visionary who dreamt of a broad and wide Hindu nation that would also proclaim tolerance and comradeship in a tall manner.

Legendary Malayalam actor Innocent – School dropout, cancer survivor, politician & more...

Rekha Rakesh Jhunjhunwala has emerged as the top Indian entrant in the 2023 M3M Hurun Global Rich List. She is the widow of ...

Over the years, the contribution of women to the wealth of the nation has been growing. According to a report by Hurun and K...

From Lucknow to USA: Indian-American Neal Mohan’s journey to becoming YouTube CEO...