
New Delhi: We all heard of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee making it to the Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Another Indian to make it to the coveted list is advocate and gender rights activist Anjali Gopalan. Gopalan, 54, is the founder and Executive Director of The Naz Foundation (India) Trust, an NGO dedicated to the fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic in...

06:54 PM, Apr 19, 2012

New York: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was on Wednesday named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the world. Banerjee chose to dedicate the "inclusion" to the people of Bengal. "I don't care about conspiracies. I dedicated the Time magazine inclusion to the people of Bengal," she said. Banerjee now joins a club of "people who inspire us, entertain us, challenge us and...

06:16 PM, Apr 18, 2012

New Delhi: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's gone international in style. After making it to the cover of Time in March, he's now number three in a global online poll by the magazine, to pick the hundred most influential people in the world today. Modi got 2,56,792 votes in his favour. Interestingly 2,66,684 people also voted against him - making him the most unpopular figure on the list, just behind...

08:44 PM, Apr 13, 2012

London: UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and industrialist Ratan Tata were among the world's 50 most influential people along with German chancellor Angela Merkel, who was ranked No 1, according to a survey by UK-based magazine NewStatesman. The list, however, features a number of controversial figures including the chief of the Pakistan Army General Ashfaq, Pervez Kayani, the Republican Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann, described as "scarier than Sarah Palin" and...

05:19 PM, Sep 25, 2011

Noted Indian American physician-TV presenter Sanjay Gupta figures among Forbes' 10 'Most Influential Celebrities', with famed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg narrowly edging out television show host Oprah Winfrey for the top spot. "The CNN personality was almost named US surgeon general in 2009, but withdrew his name when it looked like too many members of congress would oppose his appointment," the US business magazine said, ranking Gupta eighth in its...

11:04 AM, Jan 14, 2011
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