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Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) leads 30 Indian companies, which have found place on Forbes magazine’s list of top 2,000 corporate titans across the world.
The Indian companies in oil and gas and banking sectors dominate the list, which includes corporations from manufacturing, and software to utilities and telecommunications. ONGC occupies the 265th position followed by State Bank of India group at 269th and Indian Oil at the 273rd slot. The rankings are based on four metrics — sales, profits, assets and market value.
Citigroup tops the world list followed by General Electric, American Intl Group, Bank of America and HSBC Group.
Other Indian companies on the list include Reliance (309), National Thermal Power (486), ICICI Bank (757), Steel Authority of India (831), BPCL (914) and HPCL (1,011).
Following them are TCS (1,167), PNB (1,186), Gail (1,250), Infosys Technologies (1,250), Canara Bank (1,260), Tata Iron and Steel (1,302), ITC (1,336) and Wipro (1,362). Further down the scale are HDFC (1,364), Bank of Baroda (1,370), Bank of India (1,371), Tata Motors (1,519), Union Bank of India (1,618), Bharti Televentures (1,648), oriental Bank of Commerce (1,811) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (1,835). Further down in the listing for Indian corporations are Bharat Electricals (1,907) and Ranbaxy (1,936).
