Tag: Billionaires

Quest for eternity

Can death be postponed? Billionaires and some scientists believe it can be. It is only in such a hope that the quest for immortality has become a multi-billion-dollar industry.

May 11, 2022

Should Billionaires Pay?

The inherent justification of the rich paying for societal issues stems from inequality. Financial inequality is an unfortunate truth around which the world has no answers. But what remains disturbing is its degree the top 1 per cent owns 43 per cent of global wealth, the ratio is worse regionally for developing and underdeveloped nations. Oxfam reports on inequality state that the Covid pandemic has made the world more unequal

January 14, 2022

Indian philanthropy is frugal at best

The writer lives in London and is Executive Director of Pratham UK, a fundraising and awareness raising organisation for Pratham’s work in the education space in India. The views expressed are her own.

June 21, 2021

Cyprus ‘selling’ EU citizenship to Russian, Ukrainian billionaires

The Cyprus government has raised over 4 billion euros ($4.7 billion) since 2013 by “selling” European Union (EU) citizenships to billionaire Russian oligarchs and Ukrainian elite, a media report said. Cyprus has granted the super rich the right to live and work throughout Europe in exchange for cash investment. More than 400 passports are understood...

September 18, 2017

India home to 101 billionaires, Mukesh Ambani tops list: Forbes

India is home to world's fourth highest number of billionaires with Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani leading the club of more than 100 super rich Indians, according to a new list released by Forbes magazine. The Forbes list of the 'World's Billionaires' 2017 consists of 2,043 of the richest people in the world who have...

March 21, 2017