{"id":467046,"date":"2022-02-09T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T04:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=467046"},"modified":"2022-02-09T10:13:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T04:43:19","slug":"gautam-adani-overtakes-mukesh-ambani-as-asias-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gautam-adani-overtakes-mukesh-ambani-as-asias-richest-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Adani overtakes Mukesh Ambani as Asia\u2019s 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 \u2014 whose controversial Australian mine project drew flak from climate activists including Greta Thunberg \u2014 has increasingly looked beyond the fossil fuel for expansion. He\u2019s moving into renewable energy, airports, data centers and defense contracting \u2014 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 \u2014 whose controversial Australian mine project drew flak from climate activists including Greta Thunberg \u2014 has increasingly looked beyond the fossil fuel for expansion. He\u2019s moving into renewable energy, airports, [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467046","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=467046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}