Keshub Mahindra, 99, is India’s oldest billionaire, as per the recently published Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest. The chairman emeritus of Mahindra & Mahindra group figures among the 169 other Indian billionaires who made it to the world’s richest list in 2023. With a net worth of $1.2 billion, Keshub had earlier lost his place on the coveted list.

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Mr. Keshub Mahindra, Chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra, snapped at the 72nd annual meeting of ASSOCHAM in New Delhi on September 30, 1992.

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Industrialists Ratan Tata (left), Keshub Mahindra and R.P. Goenka at the meeting of Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry at the Prime Minister's residence, in New Delhi on December 18, 2007.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Keshub Mahindra, Governor/Director Anand Mahindra at the inauguration of Van Vihar Biodiversity Park & Reserve at Mahindra United World College of India in Pune.

Mr Keshub Mahindra with Mr R. Gopalakrishnan, Executive Director, Tata Sons, who received 'The Management Man of the Year' award and Ms Simone Tata, Chairperson, Trent Ltd, who got 'Special Award for Innovation' at a function organized by the Bombay Management Association in Mumbai.

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Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Mr. Murli Deora with Mr. Keshub Mahindra , Chairman Mahindra group, sitting at the wheel of M&M''s Scorpio in New Delhi on February 7, 2007.

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The Then TN Chief Minister, Ms. Jayalalitha with Keshub Mahindra, unveiling the plaque announcing the laying of the foundation stone for the Mahindra-Ford car project in February 23, 1996.

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Keshub Mahindra presenting a shawl to the Then TN Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi at the exchanging of documents at the Secretariat in Chennai on February 26, 2007.

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Mr. Keshub Mahindra, chairman, Mahindra & Mahindra. (Pubd. in BUSINESS LINE on January 08, 1995)
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