Top 36 Indian Billionaires

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <h3 class="post-title entry-title"> <br /></h3> <div class="post-body entry-content"> <div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"> India's rising fortunes are underscored by the increasing prosperity of its <br /> wealthiest citizens. Members of our third annual ranking of India's 40 <br /> richest businesspeople are worth a collective $170 billion, up from $106 <br /> billion last year. India's top 10, worth $112 billion, account for <br /> two-thirds of that wealth. The rankings include 36 billionaires, 9 more than <br /> last year. India's hot stock market, up 39% this year, and its robust real <br /> estate market helped swell most fortunes. The minimum net worth needed to <br /> make the cut rose to $790 million, up from $590 million <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/1.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" /># 1 Lakshmi Mittal <br /> $25 billion <br /> Age 56 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Steel <br /> <br /> Steel titan finally won battle for rival Arcelor in June. $34 billion merger <br /> created industry behemoth that now accounts for more than 10% of world's <br /> production, dwarfs rivals. Mittal owns 44.7% of combined Arcelor Mittal; <br /> recently named its chief executive. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#2 Mukesh Ambani <br /> $18.5 billion <br /> Age 49 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Diversified <br /> <br /> Wrested title of India's richest resident from Azim Premji. Since splitting <br /> with brother Anil in June of last year and taking control of $20 billion <br /> (revenues) Reliance Industries, fortune has soared by $11.5 billion. <br /> Oil-refining subsidiary Reliance Petroleum, in which Chevron has 5% stake, <br /> listed in May. Betting $5.5 billion on retail ventures including Reliance <br /> Fresh, chain of food stores. Megaplans include $10 billion investment to <br /> develop special economic zones<br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/3.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#3 Anil Ambani <br /> $14.8 billion <br /> Age 47 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Diversified <br /> <br /> Younger Ambani brother's net worth surged, thanks in part to March listing <br /> of telecom operator Reliance Communications, of which he holds 65%. Spat <br /> with brother continues: dispute with Mukesh over gas supply agreement for <br /> his new power plant now in court. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/4.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#4 Azim Premji <br /> $14 billion <br /> Age 61 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Software <br /> <br /> Runs technology services giant Wipro, which has been on buying spree, <br /> picking up such firms as Finnish telecom software outfit Saraware and <br /> Portuguese retail software group Enabler. Bangalore Tiger, a book on Wipro's <br /> rise, recently published. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/5.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#5 Kushal Pal Singh <br /> $10 billion <br /> Age 75 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Real estate <br /> <br /> Inherited father-in-law' s Delhi Land & Finance; turned it into India's <br /> leading property developer. Plan to list DLF Universal fell apart over <br /> complaint by minority investors. Building Mall of India, country's biggest. <br /> New hotel joint venture with Hilton. Son Rajiv, daughter Pia run operations. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/6.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#6 Sunil Mittal <br /> $6.9 billion <br /> Age 49 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Telecom <br /> <br /> Cofounded and runs, with two brothers, the Bharti group. Its Bharti Airtel, <br /> in which SingTel and Vodafone hold stakes, nation's biggest mobile phone <br /> operator. Plans to partner with foreign retailer, likely Tesco or Wal-Mart. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/7.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#7 Kumar Birla <br /> $6.8 billion <br /> Age 39 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Commodities <br /> <br /> Became chairman of commodities conglomerate at age 28 after father's death. <br /> $8.3 billion (sales) Aditya Birla Group India's largest aluminum, copper <br /> producer. After spat with Tata Group, paid nearly $1 billion to buy former <br /> partner's stake in mobile phone venture Idea. Also moving into retail. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/8.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#8 Tulsi Tanti <br /> $5.9 billion <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Wind energy <br /> <br /> With three siblings founded Suzlon Energy 1995; took it public a decade <br /> later. Group's $8 billion market cap makes it world's most valuable wind <br /> company. In March acquired Hansen Transmissions, Belgian maker of wind <br /> turbine gearboxes. Order backlog now $1.5 billion, mainly from customers in <br /> U.S., Europe and China. <br /> <br /> <br /> #9 Ramesh Chandra <br /> $5.3 billion <br /> Age 67 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Real estate <br /> <br /> Banker's son studied structural engineering in U.K., then returned home to <br /> start consulting firm. Moved into residential real estate, building <br /> middle-class housing in Gurgaon and later in southern and eastern India. The <br /> market cap of his Unitech has soared to $6.7 billion, from $302 million in <br /> January. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="285" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/10.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="420" />#10 Pallonji Mistry <br /> $4.9 billion <br /> Age 77 <br /> Marital Status Married, 4 children <br /> Industry Construction <br /> <br /> Low-profile construction magnate is single largest shareholder in Tata Sons, <br /> holding company of $22 billion (sales) Tata Group. Its Tata Consultancy <br /> Services is India's largest software exporter; its Tata Steel recently bid <br /> $8 billion to acquire Corus group, Europe's second-largest steel producer. <br /> Stepped down from Tata Sons board last year; younger son Cyrus took spot. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/11.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#11 Anil Agarwal <br /> $4.5 billion <br /> Age 53 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Mining <br /> <br /> Chairs $3.7 billion (sales) London-listed metals and mining giant Vedanta <br /> Resources; brother Navin is number two. Main assets in India, Australia and <br /> Zambia. Plans to build Vedanta University, India's answer to Stanford, in <br /> eastern India; has pledged $1 billion. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="285" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/12.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="420" />#12 Shashi & Ravi <br /> <br /> Ruia <br /> $4.1 billion <br /> Age 63/57 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children/Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Diversified <br /> <br /> Consolidating steel, shipping, oil and gas, construction, telecom into $2.8 <br /> billion (sales) Essar Global. Feisty Ruias are reportedly fighting partner <br /> Li Ka-shing over their biggest asset, 33% stake in Hutchison Essar, India's <br /> third-largest mobile phone operator in which Li's Hutchison Whampoa owns <br /> 67%. Differences have delayed its IPO. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/13.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" /> #13 Adi Godrej <br /> $4 billion <br /> Age 64 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Diversified <br /> <br /> Chairs 109-year Godrej empire, best known for consumer products; also stakes <br /> in agro-foods, engineering, pesticides, software, chemicals. Extensive land <br /> holdings in Mumbai soaring in value lately. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/14.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="200" />14 Shiv Nadar <br /> $3.7 billion <br /> Age 61 <br /> Marital Status Married, 1 child <br /> Industry Technology <br /> <br /> Heads $3.5 billion (sales) HCL Group, which makes PCs and provides software <br /> and outsourcing to such customers as Boeing, IBM. HCL, which celebrated 30th <br /> anniversary in August, has 41,000 employees in 17 countries. An engineer, <br /> funds private engineering school that runs courses in association with <br /> Carnegie Mellon. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="115" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/15.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="90" /> #15 Indu Jain <br /> $3 billion <br /> Age NA <br /> Marital Status Widowed, 2 children <br /> Industry Media <br /> <br /> Chairs India's largest media group, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Now run by sons <br /> Samir and Vineet. Businesses include newspapers (The Times of India), FM <br /> radio stations, music stores (Planet M). In surprising move, partnering with <br /> age-old rival Hindustan Times to launch New Delhi newspaper. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/16.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#16 Dilip Shanghvi <br /> $2.7 billion <br /> Age 51 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Pharma <br /> <br /> Founded and runs Sun Pharmaceuticals, maker of branded generics with <br /> factories in India, Europe and U.S. Investing in drug discovery. Its <br /> anti-allergy molecule undergoing U.S. clinical trials. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/17.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#17 Rahul Bajaj <br /> $2.3 billion <br /> Age 68 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Manufacturing <br /> <br /> Outspoken head of 80-year-old Bajaj Group. Its Bajaj Auto, India's <br /> second-largest motorcycle maker, run by sons Rajiv and Sanjiv, is closing <br /> gap with rival Hero Honda. Elected to parliament in June. Sits on New York <br /> Stock Exchange's international advisory board. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="170" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/18.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="120" />#18 Grandhi Rao <br /> $2.2 billion <br /> Age 57 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Infrastructure <br /> <br /> Former jute trader, split from brothers and moved into banking, later <br /> infrastructure. Shot into limelight this year after winning bid to modernize <br /> New Delhi airport. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/19.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#19 Baba Kalyani <br /> $2.1 billion <br /> Age 57 <br /> Marital Status Married, 1 child <br /> Industry Manufacturing <br /> <br /> Runs family's Kalyani group, world's second-largest forgings manufacturer. <br /> His Bharat Forge has joint venture with Faw, China's largest forging <br /> company. Along with state government setting up special economic zone in <br /> western India expected to attract investments of over $5 billion. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="217" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/20.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="242" /># 20 Kalanithi Maran <br /> $1.9 billion <br /> Age 41 <br /> Marital Status Married, 1 child <br /> Industry Media <br /> <br /> Politician's son dabbled in family's modest publishing business before <br /> launching Sun TV when India's satellite television market opened up in the <br /> 1990s. Sun now owns 14 channels, 4 radio stations, newspapers and magazines. <br /> Group's April listing made Maran, who owns 90%, a billionaire. Brother <br /> Dayanidhi ex-minister for communications and IT. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/21.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="158" />#21 Savitri Jindal <br /> $1.87 billion <br /> Age 56 <br /> Marital Status Widow, 9 children <br /> Industry Steel <br /> <br /> Husband, steel baron Om Prakash Jindal, died last year in helicopter crash. <br /> Her four sons each run parts of the family's $4 billion (sales) Jindal <br /> group, which also has interests in power, industrial gases and ports. She <br /> remains chairperson of several group companies. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="152" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/22.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="203" />#22 Yusuf Hamied <br /> $1.85 billion <br /> Age 70 <br /> Marital Status Married <br /> Industry Pharma <br /> <br /> With brother, runs Cipla, India's most valuable drugmaker. Products, which <br /> include AIDS drugs and a medicine to treat bird flu, are sold in 140 <br /> countries. Wife Farida gave him a Lexus with RC1PLAS on the license plate <br /> for his 70th birthday. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="221" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/23.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="207" />#23 Subhash Chandra <br /> $1.84 billion <br /> Age 56 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Media <br /> <br /> Founded and runs Essel group, with interests in media, packaging, amusement <br /> parks, online lottery and cable networks. Restructuring flagship Zee <br /> Television into three companies, to be separately listed.J Launched DishTV, <br /> a direct-to-home service, which competes with Tata Sky, Tata Group's joint <br /> venture with Star TV. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/24.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" /> #24 Malvinder & <br /> <br /> Shivinder Singh <br /> $1.8 billion <br /> Age 34/31 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children/Married, 4 children <br /> Industry Pharma <br /> <br /> Brothers are largest shareholders in Ranbaxy Laboratories, India's largest <br /> pharmaceutical firm in terms of sales. With Malvinder now chief executive, <br /> company on acquisition binge. Paid $324 million in March for Terapia, a <br /> Romanian generics outfit. Shivinder heads Fortis Healthcare, a chain of <br /> hospitals, which he is readying to take public. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="98" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/25.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="80" />#25 Vivek Burman <br /> $1.76 billion <br /> Age 69 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Consumer goods <br /> <br /> Fourth-generation head of Dabur, maker of herbal products. Family also has <br /> stakes in Punjab Tractors, Centurion Bank of Punjab; life insurance joint <br /> venture with Aviva, U.K.; another with Fidelity to sell mutual funds in <br /> India. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/26.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="200" />#26 Venugopal Dhoot <br /> <br /> <br /> $1.75 billion <br /> Age 54 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Electronics <br /> <br /> With two brothers controls $3 billion (sales) Videocon group, consumer <br /> electronics and home appliances manufacturer with factories in India, <br /> Poland, Italy, Mexico and China. Is world's third-largest maker of color <br /> picture tubes. In October announced $700 million deal for South Korea's <br /> Daewoo Electronics. Also has oil interests. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/27.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#27 Uday Kotak <br /> $1.59 billion <br /> Age 47 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Banking <br /> <br /> Runs Kotak Mahindra Bank, which he cofounded as finance firm in 1985. In <br /> March bank ended 14-year partnership with Goldman Sachs when it acquired the <br /> American firm's 25% stake in two subsidiaries for $72 million. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/28.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#28 N.R. Narayana <br /> <br /> Murthy <br /> $1.58 billion <br /> Age 60 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Software <br /> <br /> Much-venerated cofounder of $2 billion (revenue) software services firm <br /> Infosys Technologies, which celebrated silver jubilee this year. Stepped <br /> down as executive chairman in August upon turning 60 but is still chief <br /> mentor and nonexecutive chairman. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/29.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#29 Anurag Dikshit <br /> $1.5 billion <br /> Age 33 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Online gaming <br /> <br /> Internet gambling mogul feeling pain: shares of PartyGaming, which he ran <br /> until recently, tanked after U.S. Congress passed law forbidding companies <br /> from facilitating payments to gambling sites. Sold $275 million worth of <br /> shares before crackdown. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="120" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/30.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="136" /> #30 Jaiprakash Gaur <br /> $1.4 billion <br /> Age 76 <br /> Marital Status Married, 5 children <br /> Industry Construction <br /> <br /> Sits at helm of the Jaypee group, which he founded in 1972. Believes water <br /> is liquid gold: group leading hydropower producer, constructed 13 projects <br /> in India; one in Bhutan. Other interests in engineering, cement, hotels. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/31.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#31 Vijay Mallya <br /> $1.3 billion <br /> Age 50 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Liquor <br /> <br /> Flamboyant liquor tycoon, who sports diamond ear studs even to business <br /> meetings, took over the United Breweries group from late father in 1983. <br /> Built it into world's third-largest spirits company. Best known for such <br /> brands as Kingfisher, also the name of his lossmaking 18-month-old domestic <br /> airline. <br /> <br /> #32 Rajan Raheja <br /> $1.2 billion <br /> Age 53 <br /> Marital Status Married <br /> Industry Diversified <br /> <br /> Moving beyond family's real estate business, low-profile Raheja now has <br /> interests in car batteries, cement, ceramic tiles, publishing, cable, <br /> petrochemicals, retail and software. Holds stake in some hotels and a mutual <br /> fund. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/33.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" /> #33 Nandan Nilekani <br /> $1.15 billion <br /> Age 51 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Software <br /> <br /> Cofounded Infosys, which he runs as chief executive and managing director. <br /> In bid to diversify company's 66,000-plus workforce is hiring graduates from <br /> U.S. universities. Awarded the Padma Bhushan, one of nation's highest <br /> civilian honors. Recently appointed to Reuters' board. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="106" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/34.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="88" />#34 Senapathy <br /> <br /> Gopalakrishnan <br /> $1.1 billion <br /> Age 52 <br /> Marital Status Married, 1 child <br /> Industry Software <br /> Infosys cofounder also its president, chief operating officer. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/35.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#35 Brijmohan Lall <br /> <br /> Munjal <br /> $1.08 billion <br /> Age 84 <br /> Marital Status Married, 4 children <br /> Industry Manufacturing <br /> <br /> Patriarch of Hero Group. Its Hero Honda, a 23-year joint venture with <br /> Japan's Honda, is nation's top motorcycle maker. Rising costs, intense <br /> competition from Bajaj Auto dented net margin, stock price. <br /> <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/36.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#36 Naresh ( The <br /> <br /> Crook ) Goyal <br /> $1 billion <br /> Age 57 <br /> Marital Status Married, 2 children <br /> Industry Airlines <br /> <br /> Founder of Jet Airways, India's biggest domestic airline. In bid to fight <br /> off emerging rivals like Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines, inked $500 million <br /> deal to acquire ailing rival Air Sahara in January then backed out. Unhappy <br /> investors drove stock down 46%. Wildly Rumoured ( But not proved ) to be <br /> connected to the Islamic terrorist Dawood Ibrahim - operating from Pakistan <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/37.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#37 Keshub Mahindra <br /> $930 million <br /> Age 83 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Manufacturing <br /> <br /> Chairs $3 billion (revenues) Mahindra & Mahindra, country's leading <br /> tractormaker, now in its 60th year. Has joint venture with France's Renault <br /> to make cars (will launch next year) and one with British communications <br /> group BT, which listed this year. Nephew Anand runs show as vice chairman <br /> and managing director. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="179" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/38.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="124" /> #38 Jignesh Shah <br /> $840 million <br /> Age 39 <br /> Marital Status Married, 1 child <br /> Industry Finance <br /> <br /> Cofounded and runs Financial Technologies, firm that specializes in trading <br /> and financial software for stock markets. Set up India's largest commodities <br /> exchange. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/39.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#39 Habil Khorakiwala <br /> $825 million <br /> Age 64 <br /> Marital Status Married, 3 children <br /> Industry Pharma <br /> <br /> Has 74% stake in $313 million (sales) pharmaceutical firm Wockhardt, which <br /> bought Irish maker of generics, Pinewood Laboratories, for $150 million. <br /> <br /> <img border="0" height="280" src="http://www.pkp.in/images/Viyabari/40.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" width="400" />#40 K. 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