Famous Personalities - Current Affairs for May, 2015

Four Indians have been named in Forbes list including Arundhati Bhattacharya, Chairperson of State Bank of India (SBI), who stood at 30th position, Chanda Kochhar, MD and CEO of ICICI Bank (35th position), Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, CMD of Biocon Limited (85th position) and Shobhana Bhartia, Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times Group,( 93rd position).

The world’s most powerful woman in the list is German Chancellor Angela Merkel who fetched the first spot. This year’s top 10 women are: Angela Merkel and Hillary Clinton followed by Melinda Gates, Janet Yellen, Mary Barra, Christine Lagarde, Dilma Rousseff, Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Wojcicki and Michelle Obama.

A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash, a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. His theories were used in economics, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory.

The golden jubilee celebration of Ramdhari Singh Dinkar’s two works – “Sanskriti ke Chaar Adhyaye” and “Parshuram ki Pratiksha” were inaugurated by Narendra Modi at a function held at Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on 22nd May 2015.

Barack Obama debuted on Social Media Platform Twitter with @POTUS account. He beat the previous record, which was set in April 2014 by Iron Man star Robert Downey Jr., after the actor reached a million followers in 23 hours and 22 minutes.