New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Paytm Founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma were the only two Indians to make it to an annual list of '100 Most Influential People in the World' this year released by the TIME magazine dated May 1- May 8, 2017. The list features pioneers, artists, titans, leaders and icons from around the world honoured for "the power of their inventions, the scale of their ambitions, and the genius of their solutions to problems that no one before them could solve."
The magazine has also included US President Donald Trump, Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner, Pope Francis, Chinese President Xi Jinping and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Theresa May in the new list of 100 most influential people.
