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Savitri Jindal, the non-executive chairperson of the Jindal Group has been named as the richest women in India by the Forbes magazine. In the recent list of the richest persons of India, 58 year old Savitri Jindal occupies the seventh position.

The wealthiest women on Earth have a combined net worth of $160 billion.
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Even billionaires are feeling the pinch of the recession.Forbes released their Billionaires List Wednesday evening, including the world’s youngest plutocrats. The magazine’s Web site reported that the elite club of billionaires under 40 is a lot smaller this year. The average age of the world’s 20 youngest billionaires is 35 this year, up from last year’s average of 32.

The Indian edition of Forbes, the first of any foreign or business publication in the country, was launched here today by its Chairman,CEO and Editor-In-Chief Steve Forbes. , Forbes Media LLC and of the magazine Steve Forbes.

Petrochemicals giant Reliance Industries’ chief Mukesh Ambani has clinched the title of the world’s richest Indian from NRI steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, even as both of them saw their fortunes dwindle to less than half in a year, US magazine Forbes has said.
With a net worth of $19.5 billion, Mukesh Ambani has been ranked seventh in the global list, topped by software czar and Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($40 billion). Mukesh, who has lost more than $23 billion, was ranked at fifth position last year.

Mukesh and Anil Ambani, steel czar Lakshmi Mittal and K.P. Singh, now the richest real estate baron, have been named by Forbes as the four Indians among the world’s top 10 richest people.The announcement saw Warren Buffett dethrone Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates as the world’s richest man. Gates had held the slot for 13 straight years.

A PhD holder in neuroscience, the chief executive officer of the world's largest presentation sharing web site, and a super sexy and desirable lady?For Non-Resident Indian Rashmi Sinha, it's all in a day's work.

In a recently published article, appropriately named 'Women on Top', Playboy magazine has named its 10 sexiest CEOs in America. Sinha, the lone Indian on the list, features in the seventh spot.

Mexico's most wanted man Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, blamed for thousands of deaths in a drug war, has made it onto the Forbes Magazine list of the world's richest people with an estimated $1 billion fortune.Guzman, who is just 5 feet tall (1.55 metres), escaped from prison in 2001 to set off a wave of killings across Mexico in an attempt to dominate the country's highly lucrative drug trade into the United States.

After winning a surprise Nobel Peace Prize, President Barack Obama has been ranked by the Forbes magazine as the world’s most powerful person, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at No. 36 on the list.