July 2024
Kardashian, Blair, Tyson: Global elite flock to Ambani mega-wedding
A pantheon of global celebrities, politicians and CEOs are descending on India’s financial capital for the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.
- George Johnson
March 2024
The rise and rise of crazy rich Indians
Wealth managers on the subcontinent expect the number of dollar millionaires to expand by 15-20 per cent a year.
Gates, Zuckerberg join billionaire’s lavish Indian wedding party
Tycoons from around the world descended on a small Indian city where billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani kick-started wedding celebrations for his son.
- Suhasini Raj
Gates, Fink, Zuckerberg set to party with Asia’s richest man
The lavish pre-wedding celebrations for Mukesh Ambani’s son include chartered jets and a performance by Rihanna. Wall Street and Silicon Valley titans are coming.
- Anto Antony and Bhuma Shrivastava
June 2023
Modi draws CEOs, tech titans to White House dinner
Apple boss Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella joined celebrities for the dinner honouring the Indian prime minister.
- Mackenzie Hawkins
June 2022
Bezos and Ambani to battle over $8b cricket rights
Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani, two of the world’s richest men, are set for another clash.
- Saritha Rai and P R Sanjai
April 2022
Adani joins Musk, Bezos in exclusive $US100b club
Indian tycoon Gautam Adani is the biggest gainer in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index this year, up almost $US24 billion to join Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
- Cecile Vannucci
January 2022
- Opinion
- India
India’s economy won’t rise if it keeps turning inwards
India’s middle-class consumer market is not big enough to support Narendra Modi’s protectionist drift.
- Andy Mukherjee
The world’s biggest crypto fortune began with a friendly poker game
He used to make cheeseburgers at McDonald’s. Now, Changpang Zhao is crypto royalty, worth almost $100 billion.
- Tom Maloney, Yueqi Yang and Ben Bartenstein
December 2021
The five best books of 2021, according to Asia’s richest man
Reliance Industries’ Mukesh Ambani describes the tomes that helped him make sense of this year – and are preparing him for next year.
- Mukesh Ambani
November 2021
- Opinion
- Glasgow summit
Just how clean can two billionaires really be?
Two of the world’s richest businessmen are furiously writing billion-dollar checks in their race to shape the climate future.
- Andy Mukherjee and Anjani Trivedi
October 2021
The real family drama behind ‘Succession’
From sibling squabbles to inheritance infighting, the popular television series has a rich history of familial strife on which to draw.
- Henry Mance
August 2021
Aramco is in advanced talks on up to $US25b Reliance Deal
Saudi Aramco is in advanced talks for an all-stock deal to acquire a stake in Reliance Industries’ oil refining and chemicals business.
- P R Sanjai, Baiju Kalesh and Dinesh Nair
June 2021
Asia’s richest man to plough $13b into green energy
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani, whose Reliance company has annual revenue of $US63 billion, offers a glimpse of the new order awaiting some of the world’s big fossil-fuel producers.
- Rajesh Kumar Singh and Debjit Chakraborty
Why Amazon is confronting the richest man in India
The technology giant put down $US200 million two years ago to get first dibs to buy the retail assets of the Future Group, but that put Amazon in the way of Reliance Industries.
- Aman Sethi
March 2021
Amazon, Google vie for piece of India’s digital payments market
The companies are part of four consortiums preparing to apply for licences to operate retail payments and settlement systems in the country.
- Saritha Rai
January 2021
Tycoons Adani and Ambani caught in Indian crossfire over farming
Two of India's richest men are under fire from farmers as potential beneficiaries of new farm legislation that removes a government price guarantee from agricultural produce.
- Bhuma Shrivastava, Bibhudatta Pradhan and P R Sanjai
December 2020
'The jury is out': Pressure mounts on India's richest man
Mukesh Ambani sold a $35 billion tech dream to the US tech giants – now the pressure is on India's richest man to deliver.
- Anto Antony, P R Sanjai and Saritha Rai
November 2020
- Opinion
- Billionaires
It's Bezos versus Ambani in the battle for India's riches
Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani are fighting over pole position in the only billion-plus-people consumer market available to both of them.
- Andy Mukherjee
October 2020
The relentless rise of Asia’s richest man
The sprawling business interests and political clout of Mukesh Ambani mean he's now seen as a gateway into India’s blossoming digital and consumer-led economy.
- Benjamin Parkin and Anjli Raval