Rs 2,600 cr wealth: Zepto co-founder, not Aadit Palicha, is India’s youngest rich lister

Dubai: Gautam Adani and his family have reasserted their position at the top of the Hurun India Rich List, boasting a combined fortune exceeding Rs922 billion (Rs9.22 lakh crore) in the 2026 ranking published on Wednesday. This marks a reversal of fortune from earlier this year when Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries, led the list with a family wealth of Rs863 billion (Rs8.63 lakh crore).

Adani, whose business portfolio encompasses energy and infrastructure, is based in Ahmedabad, while Ambani's conglomerate, Reliance Industries, is headquartered in Mumbai. The rankings were followed by steel mogul Lakshmi Niwas Mittal and his family, with a net worth of Rs339 billion (Rs3.39 lakh crore). Mittal's core business is ArcelorMittal, a London-based company.

Other notable entries include Cyrus Poonawalla and his family from the Serum Institute of India, ranked fourth with Rs303 billion, Roshni Nadar Malhotra and her family from HCL in fifth place with Rs278 billion, and Kumar Mangalam Birla and his family from the Aditya Birla Group in sixth with Rs269 billion. The rankings also featured Sun Pharmaceutical Industries, Wipro, Vedanta Resources, Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Kotak Mahindra Bank, DLF, Sunil Mittal and his family from Bharti Airtel, TVS Motor's Venu Srinivasan, Asian Paints' Ina Ashwin Dani and her family, Zoho's Radha Vembu and Zerodha co-founder Nikhil Kamath, among others.