World’s most powerful: Obama on top, Osama makes it too

New York, November 12: Four Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, have made it to the Forbes list of the world’s most powerful people topped by US president Barack Obama.

Obama is followed by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Forbes annual rankings that also features world’s most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Among the four Indians, Singh has been ranked highest at 36th position, while the country’s top corporate house Reliance Industries’ chief Mukesh Ambani finds himself ranked 44th ahead of Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata (59th).

Ranked very next to Singh is al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden at 37th place, while Indian underworld don Dawood Ibrahim is at 50th position.
–PTI