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Sonia Gandhi ranked 6th in the list of World’s Most Powerful Woman
Forbes magazine’s has ranked Sonia Gandhi at number 6 in the list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. The
other four Indian women in the list with their respective ranks are:
 Indira Nooyi (12th ),
 Padmashree Warrior (58th ),
 Chanda Kochar (59th )
 Kiran Mazzomdar Shaw (80th ).
Top Rankers:
 German Chancellor Angella Markel
 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
 Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff

Forbes  released the list of 400 richest Americans. Bill Gates with his total net worth of $ 66 billion managed to remain at the top position for 19th year in a row. Warren Buffet of Berkshire Hathaway with net asset of $ 46 billion was at second position in the list. Larry Ellison of Oracle remained at third position with net asset of $ 41 billion. Some of the known names in the list include:

1. Jeff Bezos, at No. 11, with estimated net worth of $23.2 billion
2. Steve Ballmer at 19th position with net asset of $15.9 billion
3. Paul Allen grabbed 20th position with net asset of $15 billion
4. Mark Zuckerberg of facebook, slipped from his previous year’s 11th position to 36th position with net asset of $17.5 billion
5. James Jannard secured 150th position with his net asset of $2.8 billion
6. Craig McCaw was placed at number 311 in the list with his net asset of $1.5 billion
7. Bruce Nordstrom remained at. 360th position with net asset of $1.2 billion

The Chairperson and Managing Director of Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL), Naveen Jindal was placed at top in the Executive Pay Chart of the listed companies for the fiscal year 2011-2012.

Top fifteen highest paid executives of the year:

1. Naveen Jindal, Chairperson and MD of JSPL - 73.42 crore
2. Kalanithi Maran of Sun TV Network - 57.01 crore
3. Kavery Maran of Sun TV Network - 57.01 crore
4. Pawan Munjal of Hero MotoCorp - 34.47 crore
5. Brijmohan Lall Munjal of Hero MotoCorp - 34.44 crore
6. PRR Rajha of Madras Cements - 29.34 crore
7. Shinzo Nakanishi of Maruti Suzuki - 28.14 crore
8. BG Raghupaty of BGR Energy -25.98 crore
9. Carl-Peter Forster of Tata Motors - 23.97 crore
10. Murali K Divi of Divi's Labs - 23.15 crore
11. Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel - 21.3 crore
12. D Bhattacharya of Hindalco - 19.5 crore
13. Sajjan Jindal of JSW Steel - 18.18 crore
14. Jayadev Galla  of Amara Raja Batteries - 17.23 crore
15. Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries - 15 crore

Recently which among the following Indian company has not
made into list of 100 most innovative firms in the world, prepared by US business
magazine Forbes-----Larsen & Toubro
Biocon Recently five Indian companies — Larsen & Toubro, Hindustan Unilever,
Infosys, Tata Consultancy and Sun Pharma — have made it to the list of 100 most
innovative firms in the world, prepared by US business magazine Forbes.