Time Magazine has recently released its 2016 edition of the ‘100 most influential people in the world’. The list ranges from politicians, to sport icons, to transgender advocates and actors and musicians. In its’ 2016 edition, six Indians have been named. These are the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Dr. Raghuram Rajan, New Delhi-based environmentalist Sunita Narain, tennis player Sania Mirza, bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra and Founders of the e-commerce website Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal.

 Others in the  Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people are include Barack Obama (President of United States), Xi Jinping (President of the People’s Republic of China), Donald Trump (Ppresidential candidate of United States), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Sundar Pichai (Google), Tim Cook (Apple), Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, Pope Francis, WWE star turned Hollywood actor Dwayne Johnson, etc.

Among the 40 women to be honored were Melissa McCarthy (American actress), Caitlyn Jenner (an American television personality and retired Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete), Nikki Haley (South Carolina Governor), Ariana Grande (American singer and actress), Ronda Rousey (American martial artist and actress) , Diana Natalicio (American academic administrator) and the Amrican Olympic swimmer, Katie Ledecky.

Note: Time Magazine is one of the leading news magazines of United States, founded in 1932 in New York City.