NEW YORK: Sonia Gandhi, chief of India's key ruling alliance member Congress Party, and Ratan Tata, who heads one of the country's top business houses, have been named in a list of 100 most influential in the world by Time magazine.
The list also includes international figures like Tibetan leader Dalai Lama, US President George Bush as well as three presidential aspirants Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
The annual Time 100 list, published in the latest issue of Time magazine hitting the news-stands tomorrow, has been divided into five categories -- leaders and revolutionaries, heroes and pioneers, scientists and thinkers, artists and entertainers, and builders and titans. Sonia has been named to the first leaders and revolutionaries category, along side Dalai Lama, Putin, Obama, Hillary, McCain and Bush.
The most influential business people, named under the 'Builders and Titans' category, include global food and beverage giant PepsiCo's India-origin chief Indra Nooyi, besides Ratan Tata of Indian conglomerate Tata group. Others who have been named to this category include global media conglomerate News Corp's Rupert Murdoch, Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Mexican billionaire telecom tycoon Carlos Slim.-
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