Indian-American Bharat Desai among Forbes eight self-made stars

October 8th, 2009 KOLKATA - Birla Corp, the flagship company of the MP Birla Group, has been included in the "Best Under a Billion" list by the Forbes Magazine. Altogether 200 companies feature on the list picked up from more than 25,326 publicly listed firms with sales of less than $1 billion in the Asia-Pacific region, a Birla Corp release said Thursday.

September 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Reliance Industries (RIL), Bharti Airtel, Infosys Technologies and Tata Consultancy Services are among the 13 Indian companies that have made it to the list of Forbes' 50 Best companies in the Asia-Pacific region. "Our list is a mix of giant, established companies this year which includes Australian miner BHP Billiton, Hong Kong conglomerate Noble Group and Indian oil and gas heavyweight RIL - and smaller outfits such as Agile Property Holdings, Anhui Conch Cement and Digital China Holdings," Forbes Asia said in a statement.

September 3rd, 2009 MOSCOW - The Russian capital as well as Indian cities of Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad have every chance of becoming global capitals on par with cities such as New York, London and Tokyo, according to the latest issue of Forbes magazine. The influential publication assessed the rapidly changing forces driving the global economy, such as the inflow of capital and labour resources, and the pace of infrastructure development, and looked into the future, ranking the Russian capital alongside Shanghai, Beijing, Sao Paolo, Dubai and the Indian cities of Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

July 20th, 2009 NOIDA - The financial imbalance in the world economy is one of the major causes of the current global meltdown, according to noted economist Lord Meghnad Desai. The message of Desai, Professor emeritus of London School of Economics, was read out at the brainstorming session organised by the Global Economic Forum (GEF) here Monday on After-effects of financial meltdown: World economy five years ahead.

July 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday stepped up by 45 percent the budgetary allocation for the flagship Bharat Nirman (Build India) programme that focuses on rural development and poverty alleviation.

May 10th, 2009 LONDON - Vanisha Mittal, the only daughter of the world's fourth-richest man, steel baron Lakshmi, and Holly Branson, Virgin boss Richard's baby girl, will be two of the planet's most powerful women when they inherit the family firms. Vanisha is already dubbed "Woman of Steel" after joining the board of her dad Lakshmi's 80billion dollar global metals empire, and Holly gave up her medical career to join Virgin instead.

April 15th, 2009 WASHINGTON - American socialite Kim Kardashian and German model Heidi Klum are among the girls who have made it as the Top 10 Bikini-Clad Reality Stars. Glamour model Kendra Wilkinson, known for having dated Hugh Hefner from April 2004 to December 2008, was also among them, reports Radar Online.

April 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Despite plunging steel prices, Indian-born steel czar Lakshmi Mittal with a net worth of $19.3 billion remains the world's richest soccer club owner in the Forbes list of soccer billionaires. 'Anybody can buy a ticket to a soccer game; these moguls own the teams on the field,' the American business publication said about the top soccer 10 ten picked up from its list of the World's Billionaires published in March.

April 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - With $34 billion in sales from its oil and gas operations, Reliance Industries tops 47 Indian companies that figure in the Forbes list of the world's biggest 2,000 companies. Ranked 121st, Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance also makes it to the list of top 200 companies with two other Indian entities, State Bank of India (150) and Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (152), in the list compiled by the US business magazine.

March 30th, 2009 CHENNAI - India's engineering industry, which saw 20 percent fall in exports this fiscal, should focus on increasing trade with the 'untapped' markets in Latin America and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), a top industry leader said here Monday. 'Exports to Latin American countries have increased from $1 billion in 2006-07 to $1.15 billion in 2007-08, which proves that these markets are largely untapped,' Mahesh K.

March 29th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Amar Bose, the Indian American founder-chairman of the famed speakers company Bose Corporation, has dropped off the Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires. Bose faced a similar fate in the recent economic downturn, according to the Worcester Business Journal.

March 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - R and B singer Jennifer Hudson, Simon Cowell, and Paula Abdul are among a list of American Idol stars who will be immortalised on trading cards. As per the New York Post, U.S.

March 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Where do the world's super-rich go for fun in these tough times? If the world's richest Indian Mukesh Ambani is turning his home in Mumbai into a playground, Lakshmi Mittal, the person he displaced as the top Indian in the latest Forbes list of billionaires, has been going to his Alpine getaway in St. Moritz, Switzerland, for decades.

February 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Leading US business magazine Forbes has urged President Barack Obama to maintain the 'exhilarating degree of cooperation' that existed between India and US during the Bush administration and make an early trip to New Delhi to dispel Indian apprehensions about his administration. In an article titled 'Obama should visit India soon', Tunku Varadarajan, a professor at New York University's Stern Business School and a fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, also points to an early mis-step in the new administration's dealings with India.

January 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama takes oath as America's first black president Tuesday, no Indian American will be happier than the first Fulbright Fellow from India, Rajendra Desai, who describes Obama as 'the greatest change God has granted America'. 'I was considered to be a black man and forced to sit with blacks in bus and restaurants in the early 1950s,' 85-year-old Desai told IANS on phone from his home in New Port Beach in California.