Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been ranked as the world’s ninth most powerful person by Forbes magazine in a 2015 list which is topped by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
PM Modi was placed 14th in the 2014 Forbes list of world’s powerful people.
Forbes said, “India’s populist PM presided over 7.4 per cent GDP growth in his first year in office and raised his profile as a global leader during official visits with Barack Obama and Xi Jinping.
A brainstorming tour of Silicon Valley reinforced his nation’s massive importance in tech.”