Sonia Gandhi voted one of the world’s most powerful women

 

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One up on US First Lady Michelle Obama, Sonia Gandhi scores as the 6th most powerful woman in the world in the 2012 Forbes Magazine survey.
Last year she was ranked 7th! However, this year she scored one up on US First lady Michelle Obama. Once reluctant to take over the reigns of the Congress, today she is a force to reckon with, comfortably wearing the garb of power like a second skin. The list that ranks 100 women across the world is once again topped by the “Iron Lady of Europe” German Chancellor, Angela Markell, second year in a row.
Other Indian women to make it to this list are Indra Nooryi, Chairman and CEO Pepsico, ranked 12th; Padmashree Warrior, Cisco Systems Chief Technology and Strategy officer at 58th place; ICICI Bank Managing Director and CEO Chanda Kochar at 59th place and Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw at 80th place
                                                                                                                      

                                                                              (Based on India today.intoday.in)