Gautam Adani and his family have become the richest people in the country. According to the M3M Hurun India Rich List 2026, the Adani family has left behind Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani and his family. According to the report released on September 23, Gautam Adani’s total wealth has increased by 13% to Rs 9.23 lakh crore. At the same time, there has been a decline of 10% in the wealth of Mukesh Ambani and he has slipped to second place with assets worth Rs 8.63 lakh crore. This year’s rich list includes 1,810 people with assets worth Rs 1,000 crore or more. The total wealth of all the rich included in the list has increased by 12.8% year-on-year to Rs 187.5 lakh crore. LN Mittal’s entry in top 3, Anil Aggarwal reached 9th position. ArcelorMittal’s LN Mittal and his family have climbed eight places to reach the third position in the list. His wealth has increased by 93% to Rs 3.39 lakh crore. His wealth has increased due to Europe’s steel trade protection measures and rising steel prices. Vedanta’s Anil Aggarwal and his family have reached 9th position with a net worth of Rs 2.08 lakh crore with 87% wealth growth. Sameer Mehta of Torrent Pharmaceuticals and his family stood at 10th position in the top 10 for the first time by creating a wealth of Rs 1.89 lakh crore with a growth of 52%. Dominance of AI sector for the first time: Total wealth of 19 rich is ₹3.07 lakh crore. For the first time, AI has been included as a separate sector in the Hurun Rich List. 19 rich people from AI sector have made it to the list, whose total wealth is Rs 3.07 lakh crore. Of these, there are 15 new names which have been included in this list for the first time. These 15 new AI business persons have added wealth worth Rs 1.82 lakh crore. Those who made it to the list include promoters of companies like Control S Datacenters, Yotta, Astera Labs, Parallel Web Systems, Servum AI and Emergent AI. 28 year old Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg are the youngest AI businessmen in the list. AI revolution has given birth to new and young billionaires in the country. Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, founders of AI company ‘Wispr Flow’, have become the youngest AI business persons to join the list. The assets of each of the two 28-year-old founders are estimated at Rs 4,200 crore. Record 391 dollar billionaires in India, increase by 154 in 5 years. The number of dollar billionaires in India, i.e. people with wealth more than 1 billion dollars, is continuously increasing. In the last one year, 27 new dollar billionaires have been added to India, taking the total number to a record 391. 5 years ago there were only 237 dollar billionaires in India. If we talk about the entire rich list, this year 128 new people have been added to the list, whereas in the last 5 years, 803 new names have been included in it. The special thing is that in this list, there are 70% i.e. 1,266 people who have achieved this position on their own. Mumbai is the richest among industrial products. If we look at the sector wise, the richest are from the ‘Industrial Products’ sector, whose number is 166. After this, 142 people from the chemicals sector and 136 people from the pharmaceuticals sector are included in this list. Talking about cities, Mumbai remains the favorite city of the rich. Maximum 465 rich people live in Mumbai. New Delhi (236) is at second place and Bengaluru (129) is at third place. Roshni Nadar is the richest woman in the country, 131 women included in the list. This time the participation of women in the Hurun Rich List has also increased. A total of 131 women are included in the list, which is much more than last year’s 100 women. HCL Technologies’ Roshni Nadar Malhotra and her family remain India’s richest women with a net worth of Rs 2.79 lakh crore.
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Now Mukesh Ambani, not Gautam Adani, is the richest woman in the country: In Huron list, wealth increased by 13% to ₹ 9.23 lakh crore, Roshni Nadar is the richest woman.
