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Kylie Jenner tops Forbes’ list of highest-paid celebrities of 2020

December 17, 2020
highest-paid celebrities
  • American media personality and reality TV star, Kylie Jenner has been topped the highest-paid celebrity of 2020 by Forbes.
  • The top-earning stars in the world earned a combined of $6.1 billion in 2020 with Kylie Jenner. Placing aside Kylie’s history with Forbes, the financial experts there calculated her earning this year to be at $590 million after she sold a majority of her beauty brand’s stake to Coty Inc.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stands at 41 on Forbes 2020 list

December 10, 2020
Nirmala Sitharaman
  • Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has stood on the 41st spot in the 2020 list of Forbes 100 most powerful women in the world.
  • This is the second time she features in the list, in 2019 stood at 34 and ranked 41st in 2020.
  • India’s leading Businesswomen, Kiran Mazumdar-shaw, Chairman of Biocon Limited also featured in the list at 68th position.

Mukesh Ambani tops the Forbes India Rich List 2020

October 10, 2020
Mukesh Ambani
  • The Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani, has topped the Forbes India Rich list for 2020.
  • Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani, with a net worth of $25.2 billion got the 2nd position. Tech tycoon Shiv Nadar acquired the third spot with a net worth of $20.4 billion.

Mukesh Ambani becomes the world’s fifth richest person

July 24, 2020
Mukesh Ambani
  • Billionaire Mukesh Ambani has come up as the fifth richest person in the world, according to the Billionaires List by business magazine Forbes.
  • The chairman of oil-to-telecom conglomerate Reliance Industries exceeded ace American investor Warren Buffett to obtain the fifth spot on the real-time ranking by Forbes, which counted Mr. Ambani’s wealth at $75 billion (Rs 5.61 lakh crore at $1 = Rs 74.76).

Forbes highest-paid celebrities: Kylie Jenner ranks first and Akshay Kumar (Rank 52) only Indian on the list

June 6, 2020
Akshay Kumar
  • Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is the only Indian star to feature on Forbes 2020 list of World’s 100 Highest-Paid celebrities. While the actor’s rank has observed a drop from last year. Forbes also showed the actor’s earning and stated that Akshay had an approximated $48.5 million earnings this year, matched to $65 million last year. From the 33rd spot, Akshay has fallen to the 52nd spot.

Kohli only cricket in Forbes first 100 highest-paid athletes; Federer top

May 31, 2020
Virat Kohli
  • India captain Virat Kohli stayed the only cricketer to be involved in the list of top 100 highest-paid athletes of 2020 made forward by Forbes magazine. According to Forbes, Kohli had calculated total earnings of $26 million ($24m from endorsements and $2m from salary/winnings- June 1, 2019, until June 1, 2020).