7.12.12

Top 20



Prime minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi have been named among the top 20 most powerful persons in the world by Forbes magazine in its annual power rankings which placed US President Barack Obama as number one for a second year in a row.
India's richest businessman Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani and and Arcelor Mittal CEO Lakshmi Mittal also feature in the list that comprises 71 mighty heads of state, CEOs, entrepreneurs and philanthropists who “truly run and shape the world of 7.1 billion people.“
Gandhi dropped a notch from last year's list and ranks at number 12 this year ahead of Chinese vice-premier Li Keqiang and French President Francois Hollande.
Forbes said the leader of India's ruling political party has the reins of the world's second-most-populous country and 10th-largest economy.

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