{"id":466850,"date":"2022-02-08T08:45:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466850"},"modified":"2022-02-08T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T03:59:36","slug":"coal-magnate-gautam-adani-surpasses-mukesh-ambani-as-asias-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/coal-magnate-gautam-adani-surpasses-mukesh-ambani-as-asias-richest-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Coal magnate Gautam Adani surpasses Mukesh Ambani as Asia&#8217;s richest person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire who turned a small commodities trading business into a conglomerate spanning ports, mines and green energy, is now Asia\u2019s richest person.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old mogul\u2019s net worth reached $88.5 billion on Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, eclipsing fellow countryman Mukesh Ambani\u2019s $87.9 billion. With an almost $12 billion jump in his personal fortune, Adani is the world\u2019s biggest wealth-gainer this year.<\/p>\n<p>The coal magnate&#8211;whose controversial Australian mine project drew flak from climate activists including Greta Thunberg&#8211;has increasingly looked beyond the fossil fuel for expansion. He\u2019s moving into renewable energy, airports, data centers and defense contracting&#8211;priorities Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi also considers crucial to nation-building and meeting the country\u2019s long-term economic goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gautam Adani, the Indian billionaire who turned a small commodities trading business into a conglomerate spanning ports, mines and green energy, is now Asia\u2019s richest person. The 59-year-old mogul\u2019s net worth reached $88.5 billion on Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, eclipsing fellow countryman Mukesh Ambani\u2019s $87.9 billion. With an almost $12 billion jump in his personal fortune, Adani is the world\u2019s biggest wealth-gainer this year. The coal magnate&#8211;whose controversial Australian mine project drew flak from climate activists including Greta Thunberg&#8211;has increasingly looked beyond the fossil fuel for expansion. He\u2019s moving into renewable energy, airports, data centers and defense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}