New Delhi: Here's another good news for the fastest sprinter of country Dutee Chand as she found place in the list of India's 50 most powerful people.
Olympian Dutee has been ranked 47th in the most powerful Indians list published in August edition of India Today, country's leading English magazine.
She was featured in this year's list for her outstanding performance at 2018 Asian Games and 2019 World Unversiade.
The weekly magazine termed her first openly 'gay' sportsperson in its brief description.
"India's first openly 'gay' sportsperson, Dutee Chand won two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Games. She also won gold at the 2019 World Unversiade. With the gold, Dutee Chand became the second Indian sprinter ever to do so at a global event," India Today wrote.
The power list 2019 is topped by the world's 13th richest man Mukesh Ambani, who has a net worth of $50 billion (Rs 3.45 lakh crore).
Kumar Mangalam Birla found second spot in the list of most powerful Indians followed by Gautam Adani, Uday Kotak, Anand Mahindra and Ratan Tata. Indian cricket skipper Virat Kohli has been ranked 7th in the list, while Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan is in the 9th position in the list.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi topped the list of India's most powerful politician followed by Amit Shah, Mohan Bhagwat, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari.
Here's the list of 50 most powerful Indians
1. Mukesh Ambani
2. Kumar Mangalam Birla
3. Gautam Adani
4. Uday Kotak
5. Anand Mahindra
6. Ratan Tata
7. Virat Kohli
8. N Chandrashekharan
9. Amitabhh Bachchan
10. Shiv Nadar
11. Ajay Piramal
12. Azim H Premji
13. Sajjan Jindal
14. Anil Agarwal
15. Uday Shankar
16. Amit Agarwal
17. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
18. Sanjiv Goenka
19. Harish Salve
20. Sunil Bharti Mittal
21. Akshay Kumar
22. Aditya Puri
23. Nita Ambani
24. Ajay Singh
25. Baba Ramdev
26. Vineet Jain
27. Ranveer Singh
28. Shashi Tharoor
29. Salman Khan
30. RC Bhargava
31. Mahendra Mohan Gupta and Sanjay Gupta
32. Sanjiv Puri
33. Vijay Shekhar Sharma
34. Dr Naresh Trehan
35. Rahul Bhatia
36. Rajinikanth
37. Sanjiv Bajaj
38. Dilip Shanghvi
39. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw
40. Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
41. Pawan Munjal
42. Deepika Padukone
43. Ritesh Agarwal
44. Kiran Nadar
45. Byju Raveendran
46. Prasoon Joshi
47. Dutee Chand
48. Ekta Kapoor
49. Monika Shergill
50. Amish Tripathi