Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Reliance Industries
Chairman Mukesh Ambani and Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai are
among over 50 global leaders, business chiefs and pop icons named as
contenders(a competitor for a championship or high honor) by Time magazine for its annual ‘Person of the Year’ honor.
The
Time Person of the Year 2015 will be announced next month and the
publication said the title will be bestowed(present) on the person who “most
influenced the news this year for better or worse.”
Time
said Mr. Modi has “encouraged foreign direct investment in India and is
trying to modernize the world’s largest democracy”, but added that the
Indian leader has also “faced controversy over what some see as
right-wing extremism(the holding of extreme political or religious views)”.
Mr. Modi was a contender for
the honor last year also and while he was not chosen the Person of the
Year by Time editors, he was named winner of the readers’ poll, securing
more than 16 per cent of the almost five million votes cast.
On
Mr. Ambani, Time said the richest person in India is the chairman of
Reliance Industries “which owns everything from telecom properties to
the world’s largest crude oil refinery”.
Also among the contenders is Mr. Pichai.
“After
11 years at Google, most recently as co-founder Larry Page’s right
hand, Mr. Pichai assumed the tech giant’s top job,” Time said.
In
a separate “Face-off” poll, Mr. Modi has been pitted against Mr.
Jinping, while Mr. Ambani has been pitted against Nigerian President
Muhammudu Buhari.
Time asked its readers to vote for
the individual who they think should get the title of Person of the Year
and the winner of the reader’s choice poll will be announced next month
before Time’s editors choose the individual from the 58 candidates as
the honoree.
Mr. Modi has so far got 1.3 per cent of the votes, the same as Mr. Pichai and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Mr. Ambani has garnered(gather or collect) a mere 0.2 per cent of the votes cast.
The
other candidates in the fray(a fight) for the Person of the Year title include
US President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Chinese
President Xi Jinping, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Democratic
Presidential front runner Hillary Clinton, the refugees fleeing
conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan and East and West Africa, Pakistani
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, Tesla head Elon Musk, Apple
CEO Tim Cook and last year’s winner Pope Francis.
From
Mahatma Gandhi, Adolf Hitler, Elizabeth II to The Computer,
Whistleblowers(a person who informs on a person or organization regarded as engaging in an unlawful or immoral activity), The American Soldier and The Protester, Time has named a
Person of the Year for the past nine decades.
Data that may be helpful:
Meanings:-
Important Points:-
Meanings:-
- contenders :- a competitor for a championship or high honor
- bestowed :- present
- extremism :- the holding of extreme political or religious views
- garnered :- gather or collect
- fray :- a fight
- Whistleblowers :- a person who informs on a person or organization regarded as engaging in an unlawful or immoral activity
Important Points:-
- Google’s India-born CEO Sundar Pichai
- Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani
- Larry Page :- Co-founder of Google Inc. and CEO of Alphabet Inc
- Google’s India-born CEO :- Sundar Pichai
- Reliance Industries Chairman :- Mukesh Ambani
- Nigerian President :- Muhammudu Buhari
- Russian President :- Vladimir Putin
- US President :- Barack Obama
- French President :- Francois Hollande
- Chinese President :- Xi Jinping
- ISIS leader :- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
- United States Secretary of State :- Hillary Clinton
- Malala Yousafzai :- Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate
- Elon Musk :- South African-born Canadian-American business magnate, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the CEO and CTO of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors, and chairman of SolarCity.
- Apple CEO :- Tim Cook
Source :- The Hindu, 19- Nov- 2015
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