{"id":12468,"date":"2016-06-11T09:24:40","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T09:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2016-06-16T09:55:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-16T09:55:46","slug":"worlds-100-powerful-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-100-powerful-women\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: How many Indians have been named in recently released World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women list?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 3<br \/>\n(b) 4<br \/>\n(c) 6<br \/>\n(d) 5<br \/>\n<strong>Ans:(b)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On 6 June 2016 Forbes an American business magazine has released the list of World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2016 .<\/li>\n<li>The 100 most powerful women on the list represent eight categories or power bases: billionaires, business, finance, media, politics, philanthropists and NGOs, and technology.<\/li>\n<li>The world\u2019s most powerful woman in the list is German Chancellor Angela Merkel who ranked first for the sixth consecutive year.<\/li>\n<li>The top three most powerful in the list are politicians: Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel, U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Federal Reserve Chai, Janet Yellen.<\/li>\n<li>Melinda Ann Gates, the co-founder of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation has been ranked fourth in the list.<\/li>\n<li>Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors has been ranked fifth in the list and tops the list in the automotive section.<\/li>\n<li>Four Indians have been named in the Forbes list of World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chair-Managing Director of State Bank of India (SBI) stood at 25th position compared to last year\u2019s 30th position.<\/li>\n<li>Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO of ICICI Bank, was placed at 40th position compared to last year\u2019s 35th position.<\/li>\n<li>Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Founder-chair of Biocon Limited, was placed at 77th position compared to last year\u2019s 93rd position.<\/li>\n<li>Shobhana Bhartia, Chairperson and Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times Media, is placed at 93rd position.<\/li>\n<li>Apart from them, one women of Indian-origin, PepsiCo Chief Indra Nooyi is placed at 14th position.<\/li>\n<li>In the list Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counselor, Myanmar has been ranked 25th. Nepal&#8217;s first female president Vidya Devi Bhandari, Prime minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, are ranked 52nd and 36th respectively.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alixmcnamara\/2016\/06\/06\/the-worlds-most-powerful-women-in-2016\/#11aa2e4477cb\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alixmcnamara\/2016\/06\/06\/the-worlds-most-powerful-women-in-2016\/#11aa2e4477cb<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/power-women\/#\/tab:overall_page:3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/power-women\/#\/tab:overall_page:3<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: How many Indians have been named in recently released World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women list? (a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) 5 Ans:(b) Related facts: On 6 June 2016 Forbes an American business magazine has released the list of World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women of 2016 . The 100 most powerful women on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}