{"id":5508,"date":"2015-10-20T04:06:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T04:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2015-10-20T04:06:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T04:06:45","slug":"forbes-asias-new-list-of-philanthropists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/forbes-asias-new-list-of-philanthropists\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes Asia\u2019s new list of Philanthropists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:\u00a0 How many Indians have featured in the new group of philanthropist in the latest 9th edition of Forbes Asia magazine in the Asia-Pacific region?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(a) 9<br \/>\n(b) 7<br \/>\n(c) 6<br \/>\n(d) 5<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans (7)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On 27 August 2015 Forbes Asia magazine released the list of the new group of philanthropist in its latest 9<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>edition.<\/li>\n<li>The list has featured top 40 philanthropists from 13 Asia-Pacific region countries for their individual noteworthy contributions to health and education sectors including 7 Indians.<\/li>\n<li>Important to know that out of 7 Indians, 4 persons are co-founders of Infosys Ltd.<\/li>\n<li>Infosys is the second largest software firm in India.<\/li>\n<li>Sunny Varkey who has pledge to donate half his fortune worth US 2.25 billion dollars as charity as a follow-up to the Giving Pledge Initiative, led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.<\/li>\n<li>Varkey is the founder of GEMS Education which is based in Dubai. It has a chain of 70 private schools in 14 countries.<\/li>\n<li>Infosys co-founders Nandan Nilekani, Senapathy Gopalakrishnan and SD Shibulal have been featured in the list for their individual contributions to the health and education sectors.<\/li>\n<li>Rohan Murthy, son of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy also included as a philanthropist in the list.<\/li>\n<li>He had donated US 5.2 million dollars to Harvard University Press for promoting ancient Indian literary classics.<\/li>\n<li>London-based India-born brother entrepreneurs Suresh Ramakrishnan and Mahesh Ramakrishnan also have featured in the list.<\/li>\n<li>The brothers donated USD 3 million for training of more than 4,000 people in tailoring across India. Beneficiaries include the 2004 tsunami victims and \u201cill-fated\u201d women.<\/li>\n<li>They are founders of Whitcomb &amp; Shaftesbury Tailors on London\u2019s Saville Row.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forbesindia.com\/article\/special\/seven-indians-on-forbes-asias-list-of-philanthropists\/40993\/1\">http:\/\/forbesindia.com\/article\/special\/seven-indians-on-forbes-asias-list-of-philanthropists\/40993\/1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnkoppisch\/2015\/08\/26\/in-asia-40-heroes-of-philanthropy-are-making-their-mark\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/johnkoppisch\/2015\/08\/26\/in-asia-40-heroes-of-philanthropy-are-making-their-mark\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anuraghunathan\/2015\/08\/26\/indian-fisherman-make-bespoke-suits-for-londons-savile-row\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anuraghunathan\/2015\/08\/26\/indian-fisherman-make-bespoke-suits-for-londons-savile-row\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anuraghunathan\/2015\/08\/26\/indian-tech-czars-pour-money-into-philanthropy\/\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/anuraghunathan\/2015\/08\/26\/indian-tech-czars-pour-money-into-philanthropy\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/navbharattimes.indiatimes.com\/business\/business-news\/7-indians-feature-in-forbes-asias-heroes-of-philanthropy-list\/articleshow\/48871233.cms\">http:\/\/navbharattimes.indiatimes.com\/business\/business-news\/7-indians-feature-in-forbes-asias-heroes-of-philanthropy-list\/articleshow\/48871233.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0 How many Indians have featured in the new group of philanthropist in the latest 9th edition of Forbes Asia magazine in the Asia-Pacific region? (a) 9 (b) 7 (c) 6 (d) 5 Ans (7) Related facts: On 27 August 2015 Forbes Asia magazine released the list of the new group of philanthropist in its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5508","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\/5508","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/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\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5508"}],"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=5508"},{"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=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}