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Four Indians among Asia's 25
By agencies
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Tuesday, 11 October 2005, 19:30 IST
NEW DELHI: Four Indians- Ratan Tata, Nandan Nilekani, Azim Premji and Mukesh Ambani are among Asia's 25 most powerful business leaders listed by the latest issue of Fortune' magazine.
Ratan Tata, the chairman of the Tata Group, is ranked 12th and Mukesh Ambani of the Reliance Industries comes 17th on the list which also features Infosys CEO Nandan Nilekani (rank 13) and Wipro chairman Azim Premji (rank 19).
Ratan Tata was not on the list last year while Nilekani has moved up to 13 from 23 and Mukesh Ambani has dropped to 17 from 13 and Premji from 10 to 19.
Fortune said Ratan Tata, 67 shows no signs of slowing down''. In the past year, he has been busy buying companies in Korea, Singapore, and Africa.''
Nilekani is described as one of the architects of India's IT revolution'' who earned himself a starring role this year in American journalist Thomas Friedman's best-selling book The World is Flat' as the man who first suggested that the world is being flattened by new technologies.