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Billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani, advocate Karuna Nundy named amongst TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022

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Billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani and advocate Karuna Nundy have been named by TIME journal on Monday as among the many 100 Most Influential People of 2022.

The listing contains US President Joe Biden, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, tennis icon Rafael Nadal, Apple CEO Tim Cook and media mogul Oprah Winfrey.

Adani’s profile within the TIME says that “Adani’s once regional business now spans airports, private ports, solar and thermal power, and consumer goods. Adani Group is now a national behemoth in the world’s sixth largest economy, though Adani stays out of the public eye, quietly building his empire.” On Nundy, it says that she isn’t just a lawyer but in addition a “public activist who ably—and bravely—makes use of her voice each inside and out of doors the courtroom to result in change. She is a champion of girls’s rights who has advocated for the reform of anti­rape legal guidelines and fought instances regarding sexual harassment within the office. Most lately, she is litigating a problem to India’s rape regulation that accommodates a authorized exemption for marital rape.

Also on the listing is Khurram Parvez, chairperson of the Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances.