Was googling for predictions on the 2010 list of Forbes Billionaires and came across this article on Reuters which says Forbes announced their annual list of Billionaires in November 2009.
IIRC Forbes published a similar list in the first quarter of 2009 too. Perhaps it is a biannual list. This article on Ruters says the number of Indian Billionaires has nearly doubled, from 27 in 2008 to 52 in 2009.
Forbes gave the figure as 24 in March last year. I guess the difference is because some of these billionaires are of Indian origin but do not hold Indian citizenship. Depends which way you want to look at the glass.
Top 3 in the Forbes India Billionaires list 2010 are :
* Lakshmi Mittal - Net Worth US $ 30 billion.
* Anil Ambani - Net Worth US $ 17.5 billion.
Complete list on Forbes India.
The combined net worth of India's 100 wealthiest people is $ 276 billion, about 25% of the country's GDP. For China the figure stands at $ 170 billion. It seems Chinese capitalism is more socialist. China's GDP is nearly 5 times that of India.
There is an interesting article on the Forbe's website ; "Billionaire Predictions 2010". It has predictions by Norman Braman, John Catsimatidis, David Cheriton, Leon Charney, Mark Cuban, Adi Godrej, R.J. Kirk, Arnon Milchan, Peter Sondakh and Mortimer Zuckerman on Global Economy this year.
Found a few interesting, scammy looking sites while googling for billionaires 2010 :
billionaires dot 00 cash dot com
billionaires dot biz dot tc
swissbillionaires dot fws1 dot com
billionaires dot 00 server dot com
I'm sure these websites don't mean business but I couldn't understand how some of them have inserted . in the domain name. I'm no tech geek but to the best of my knowledge only alpha numeric characters are allowed in domain names.
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How many Billionaires are there in India? The last i read was 72 but some one has edited the Wike page to 44! Can you update the Wike page for us?
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