Mallya, Goyal in Forbes battling billionaires list

NEW YORK: It is a new Forbes list and covers rich people and their fights, but for a change the Ambani brothers are not its India connection ��� rather, Vijay Mallya and Naresh Goyal have made to the magazine���s battling billionaires list for their fight to lord over Indian skies.

���The two are now going tit for tat connecting Indian cities to foreign hubs,��� Forbes noted, while listing out eight pairs of the ���battling billionaires��� from across the world.

Both Goyal and Mallya had figured in Forbes��� annual list of world���s billionaires published earlier last month, where Mukesh and Anil Ambani were named as two richest in India with net worths of $43 billion and $42 billion, respectively.

According to Forbes, Goyal���s fortune is valued at $1.4 billion while that of Mallya is $1.2 billion. ���Naresh Goyal and Vijay Mallya are both vying for dominance of Indian skies. Goyal is the established player in the country���s air travel with Jet Airways. Mallya is the upstart with Kingfisher, an airline he established only a few years ago,��� it said.