The 79-year-old tech magnate donated Rs 2,153 crore in the financial year 2024 - translating to Rs 5.9 crore every single day, according to the EdelGive-Hurun India Philanthropy List 2024.
Gautam Adani and family have topped the 2024 Hurun India Rich List, as they saw a 95% increase in wealth, bringing their total to Rs 1,161,800 Cr.
Juhi Chawla, boasting of Rs 4600 crore wealth, made it to the list comprising names like Radha Vembu (Rs 47,500 crore), Falguni Nayar and Family, Jayshree Ullaal, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw among others.
The cumulative wealth of all individuals on the list amounts to Rs 159 trillion, accounting for more than half of India's gross domestic product (GDP)
With a net worth of Rs 7,300 crore, Shar Rukh Khan is the richest Bollywood actor on the Hurun India Rich List 204, followed by Juhi Chawla
For the first time, the Hurun India Rich List has exceeded 1,500 entries, recording individuals with wealth more than Rs 1,000 crore
The youngest billionaires of the country are Harshil Mathur and Shashank Kumar, ( both aged 33) and founder of RazorPay, a payment solutions app.
The top 10 unicorns are mainly found in China and the US, with both countries having four each. The list is rounded off with one unicorn each from Australia and Malta
Country added 94 new billionaires in 2023, the most for any country after the United States
These companies are ranked according to their value, defined as market capitalization for listed companies and valuations for non-listed companies.
Philanthropy report card: Indian billionaires donated 59% more
Eight of the top ten richest billionaires in the list, except Adani and Radhakishan Damani, saw their wealth jump in 2023
India's future unicorns are currently worth $57bn, with an increase of 16% as Compared to last year - mainly driven by addition of new future unicorns to the list
The total value of the top 500 companies in India declined marginally by 6.4% to Rs 212 trillion from Rs 227 trillion as of October 30,2022.
With a value of Rs 16.3 trillion, Reliance Industries is India's most valuable company, followed by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) with Rs 11.8 lakh crore and HDFC Bank with Rs 9.4 lakh crore
Among the top 10, Mangal Prabhat Lodha and family of Macrotech Developers saw the steepest wealth erosion of 20 per cent in 2022-23: Grohe-Hurun India Real Estate Rich List 2023
The Pune-based vaccine producer's value has increased 20 per cent to Rs 2.2 trillion in the past one year
Top 500 companies in Burgundy Private Hurun India's list are worth $2.7 trillion
10 models of British automaker's made-to-order India models sold in pre-launch phase
HCL founder Shiv Nadar topped as the most generous person in the country with an annual donation of Rs 1,161 crore, the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2022 revealed on Thursday. Nadar, 77, has reclaimed the 'India's most generous' title with a donation of Rs 3 crore per day, according to the report. Wipro's Azim Premji, 77, slipped to the second position with an annual donation of Rs 484 crore after ruling at the top position for the last two consecutive years, it said. India's richest man Gautam Adani, 60, ranked seventh in Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2022, with a donation of Rs 190 crore. The report further revealed that in India a total of 15 individuals made an annual donation of over Rs 100 crore, 20 donated over Rs 50 crore and 43 over Rs 20 crore. A M Naik, 80, group chairman of Larsen and Toubro, who donated Rs 142 crore, is the country's most generous professional manager, the report stated. It further said that Nithin Kamath and Nikhil Kamath of Zerod