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Anita Anand | As Billionaires Are Rising, Govts Busy Defending Wealth & Eroding Freedom

Anita Anand | As Billionaires Are Rising, Govts Busy Defending Wealth...

The 2025 Oxfam America report, “Unequal: The Rise of a New American Oligarchy and the Agenda We Need”, notes that the...

8 Feb 2026 12:37 AM IST

Asian billionaires compared to 563 of the super-rich in the US, though the total wealth of American billionaires is still higher at $2.8 trillion compared to $2.0 trillion in Asia, said a report published on Thursday by UBS and PwC that tracks 1,542 billionaires globally.

Chinese boom helps Asia pip US in billionaires count

The total wealth of billionaires rose by 17 percent in 2016 to $6.0 trillion after falling in 2015, said the report.

27 Oct 2017 5:06 AM IST

The Twitter co-founder has for years elected to not receive any salary from Twitter. (Photo:Twitter)

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey receives salary of 1 dollar 40 cents for 2018

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey received USD 1.40 as his first salary in 2018 - one cent for each of the 140...

9 April 2019 11:00 AM IST

Dangote said he regretted the customs and administrative problems that hamper business development throughout the continent. (Photo:AP)

Richest man in Africa withdrew USD 10 million just to look at it

'When you're young your first million is important, but after, the numbers don't mean much,' Dangote, a manufacturing...

7 April 2019 8:26 AM IST

Sunanda K Datta Ray | Hope in the new dawn after ravages of 2020?

India's rich became richer amidst the pain and penury, death and disease that marked 2020 as a year of suffering

1 Jan 2021 4:18 AM IST

Visiting Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said in New Delhi on Monday that Venezuela wants trade with India in oil and other commodities such as food and medicines to be conducted in Indian Rupees and not in US Dollars. (Representational image)

India's billionaire count to rise 3 times by 2027: report

India is the sixth wealthiest country in the world with a total wealth of USD 8,230 billion.

23 May 2018 3:10 PM IST

Nirav Modi drops out of Forbes billionaires list

Modi, who had featured in Forbes' 2017 rich list with a fortune of USD 1.8 billion, could not make the cut in this...

7 March 2018 1:20 PM IST

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

World's 500 richest people have lost combined 107 bn USD this week

Dow Jones Industrial Average has slid about 3.5 pc this week after US President Donald Trump invited a trade war.

3 March 2018 10:18 AM IST

The decline in retail inflation has been mainly on account of falling prices of vegetables and pulses.

D-Mart's market debut propels Damani into India's richest-20

Shares controlled by Damani, his family members and investment firms, now worth a stellar $5.1 bn.

22 March 2017 4:06 PM IST