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The Indian Ambani family hosts a three-day pre-wedding party that attracts the world’s elite.
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Guests such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Ivanka Trump led to an increase in private jets at the local airport.
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Government officials agreed to set up a separate passport control center for this event.
The party of the month (year?) is in full swing in India and the local airport is pulling out all the stops to cope with it.
The Ambani family hosts a party to celebrate the wedding of one of their children, Anant, to Radhika Merchant.
The Ambanis are the richest family in Asia; their patriarch Mukesh Ambani has a fortune of 111 billion dollars.
Thanks to the enormous wealth of his company Reliance Industries, he ranks 11th in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
This puts him just behind Google founder Sergei Brin and ahead of Mexican Carlos Slim, who was once the richest man in the world.
This is not the actual wedding, which will take place in July. It is a pre-wedding celebration that will take place over three days in Reliance Township in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Fink, Ivanka Trump and a number of India’s richest and most famous people will be in attendance. Rihanna will be performing.
Such a guest list includes many private jets, and the local airport in Jamnagar is not designed for them.
An article in the Indian daily The Hindu wondered about the 150 planes that came down at about the same time.
About 50 of these are private jets from other countries, which means that passport checks are carried out on the passengers.
If you think this means that billionaires will line up in anger, as was the case in Davos, you are wrong.
An airport official told The Hindu that he had spoken to the Indian government and provided additional capacity to accommodate the powerful guests.
“With the approval of the Government of India, we have set up a Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) centre at the airport. This will facilitate direct landing of international visitors at Jamnagar,” said DK Singh, the airport’s director.
Everyone seems determined to make the party an impressive experience.
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