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Mumbai. India's top industrialist Mukesh Ambani has once again become the richest man in Asia. Forbes gave this information in the list of 2023 billionaires released on Tuesday. Ambani's main rival Gautam Adani has fallen to the 24th position in the world list. On January 24, Adani was the third richest person in the world. At that time his wealth was 126 billion dollars. His fortunes plummeted following a report by American short-seller Hindenburg Research. According to Forbes, Adani's total wealth is now 47.2 billion dollars and he is the second richest Indian after Ambani.
Ambani 9th richest people in the world
According to the list, Mukesh Ambani is the 9th richest person in the world with a net worth of $83.4 billion. Forbes said that last year, Ambani's Reliance Industries Limited became the first Indian company to earn more than $100 billion. Reliance's business is spread across various sectors like oil, telecom to retail. According to Forbes, the total wealth of the 25 richest people in the world is 2,100 billion dollars. In the year 2022, this figure was 2,300 billion dollars. Two-thirds of the world's top 25 richest have seen their wealth decline over the past year, according to the Forbes list.
Nader is the third richest Indian
According to the Forbes list, Shiv Nader is the third richest Indian. Cyrus Poonawala has become the fourth richest person in the country. Lakshmi Mittal is at fifth position. Savitri Jindal of OP Jindal Group is sixth, Dilip Sanghvi of Sun Pharma is seventh and Radhakrishna Damani of Dmart is eighth. Notably, Gautam Adani was earlier counted among the top 3 richest people in the world. He was just one step away from becoming the richest person in the world. Then only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon's Jeff Bezos were richer than him.