Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2020

Time 100 is an annual listicle of the 100 most influential people in the world, assembled by the American news magazine Time. Recently the Magazine listed 100 Most Influential People of 2020’ includes five Indians who have made waves in the last one year.

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020

Key-Points

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been featured in TIME Magazine’s annual list of the world’s 100 most influential people for the fourth time since he took office in 2014. He was named under the category of ‘Leaders’.

Professor Ravindra Gupta spearheaded a study that led to the second man in history being cured of HIV in London, last year. He is a professor of clinical microbiology at the Cambridge University. He is in the list under the ‘Pioneers’ category.

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai is in the list under the category of ‘Titans’.

Ayushmann Khurrana was the only Indian actor to make it to the list this year. He was named under the ‘Artist’ category.

The 82-year-old Bilkis Bano, who came to be known as the “Dadi of Shaheen Bagh”, was a defining presence at the prolonged protest against Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) at the small neighbourhood of Shaheen Bagh in southeast Delhi. She is in the list under the category of ‘Icons’.