Gautam Adani becomes richest Indian; net worth touches $100 billion

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Adani is at 10th position in the Index, while Mukesh Ambani is just behind him at 11th position with a net worth of $99 billion.

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Gautam Adani, the chairman of Adani Group, has overtaken Reliance Industries CMD Mukesh Ambani to become

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the richest Indian with a net worth of $100 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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Adani is at 10th position in the Index, while Ambani is just behind him at 11th position with a net worth of $99 billion.

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Adani has added $23.5 billion to his net worth year-to-date (YTD), the highest in the list.

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Meanwhile, Ambani added $9.03 billion to his net worth in the same period.

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Both the industrialists are betting big on green and renewable energy, in consonance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for India.

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Adani also declared last year that his group, which already has a presence in renewable energy, would invest $20 billion

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in renewable energy generation, component manufacturing, transmission and distribution over the next decade.

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Meanwhile, Tesla's Elon Musk continues to be the richest men in the world with a net worth of $273 billion

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followed by Amazon's Jeff Bezos at the second spot with $188 billion of net worth.

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fLVMH owner Bernard Arnault is on the third spot ($148 billion), while Microsoft co-founder

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Bill Gates is on the fourth spot ($133 billion), as per Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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