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Malala is one of the UK’s Most Influential women

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9 months ago

2017-11-18

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Nobel laureate who is fighting for the rights of children is Malala Yousafzai got another rear identification. Malala Yousufzai has selected UK’s 150 most Influential women according to the list published by Harper’s Bazaar. The title of the list is named as ‘Bazaar 150 Visionary Women’. The magazine has released the most Influential list on the occasion of 150th Anniversary.

Amal Clooney, a barrister specialising in international law and human rights, founder of the Clooney Foundation for Justice and Amal Clooney Scholarship, Hollywood Actress Emma Watson, Harry Potter’s author J.K. Rowling were also in the list.

All the individuals on the list were in the high-achieving and an inspirational role model to women said authorities of Harper’s Bazaar. They have released the list to acknowledge females from fashion, beauty and travel to finance, science and the arts”.

Malala has already received most prestigious Nobel Award for her tremendous work about the rights of girls and their right to education.

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She was the youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She has received it in the year 2014. She has already started a school for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon.She is known as an activist to encourage and to support female education in Pakistan. Currently, she is studying a PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) degree at the Oxford University.

Other famous personalities such as Victoria Beckham, Kate Middleton, Adele and Kate Winslet were also included in the of 150 women. PM Abbasi and Malala were discussed women education in Pakistan at UN.

Malala Yousafzai was born in Mingora Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan on 12 July 1997. She is considering Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models. She was injured by a Taliban gunman when he was attempting to murder her.she was nominated for the Internation Children’s Peace Prize by an activist Desmond Tutu.

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Oscars 2018 award winners: The Shape of Water won best picture

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4 weeks ago

2018-07-20

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LOS ANGELES :

The most prestigious and international award Oscar award ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre on Sunday evening in Los Angeles. The event was hosted by popular American television host Jimmy Kimmel. Many popular Hollywood celebrities have attended the event.

The Shape of Water won total four Academy Awards including best picture and best director. Pixar’s Coco emerged victorious won the best-animated feature film among the animation films and also won Best original song Oscars.

Frances McDormand won the best actress Oscar. In her acceptance speech, she thanked “every single person in this building” and her sister. She requested all the female nominees in the room to stand. Look around ladies and gentleman because We all have stories to tell and projects we need financed, she added. She finished her speech by saying “I have two words to say: inclusion rider.”

Oscar

Best picture: The Shape of Water

Best Director: Guillermo del Toro, The Shape of Water

Best Actress: Frances McDormand, Three Billboards Outside

Best Actor: Gary Oldman, Darkest Hour

Best Actress in a supporting role: Allison Janney, I, Tonya

Best Actor in a supporting role: Sam Rockwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Best Animated feature film: Coco, Lee Unkrich and Darla K. Anderson

Best Animated Short film: Dear Basketball, Glen Keane and Kobe Bryant

Best Cinematography: Blade Runner 2049, Roger Deakins

Best Costume Designer: Phantom Thread, Mark Bridges

Best Documentary Feature: Icarus, Bryan Fogel and Dan Cogan

Best Short film: Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405, Frank Stiefel

Makeup and Hairstyling: Darkest Hour, Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick

Best editor: Dunkirk, Lee Smith

Best sound mixing: Dunkirk, Mark Weingarten, Gregg Landaker and Gary A. Rizzo

Best Production Design: The Shape of Water, Nathan Robitaille and Nelson Ferreira

Best Foreign Film: A Fantastic Woman (Chile)

Best visual effects: Blade Runner 2049, John Nelson, Paul Lambert, Richard R. Hoover and Gerd Nefzer

Best Live action short film: The Silent Child, Chris Overton and Rachel Shenton

Best Adapted Screenplay: Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory

Best Original Screenplay: Get Out, Jordan Peele

Best Original song: Remember Me” from Coco, Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez

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Amazon chief Bezos is now world’s richest man on the Earth

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4 weeks ago

2018-07-20

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According to Forbes magazine’s annual billionaires list Amazon chief Jeff Bezos is now the world’s richest man with $112 billion fortune in 2018. The founder of Microsoft Bill Gates drops to second place according to Forbes magazine. The list was published on Tuesday, March 6.

Forbes said over the last 12 months there is a 59 percent raise in the Amazon shares so that Jeff Bezos wealth increased to $112 billion. The founder of Microsoft Bill Gates who is the second richest person in the world with $90 billion fortune.

The legendary investor Warren Buffet stood in the third position with $84 billion and the fourth place is occupied by Bernard Arnault and family with $72 billion. Facebook founder CEO Mark Zuckerberg occupied fifth place with $71 billion.

US President Donald Trump fell from 544th place to 766th place and his present wealth $3.1 billion, $400 million less than a year ago. Two Chinese billionaires grab the place in the top 20 list Ma Huateng who chairs Tencent Holdings with $45.3 billion and Alibaba chairman Jack Ma with $39 billion.

According to the Forbes total 119 Indian billionaires on the list, 18 billionaires added than the last year. Forbes estimated this year list consists of 2,043 of the richest people in the world and their combined net worth is $9.1 trillion, up 18 percent from last year.

Indian industry tycoon Mukesh Ambani, the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, stood in the 19 position on the list with $40.1 billion. The Hinduja family net worth is $19.5 billion and Wipro Chairman Azim Premji stood in the 58th position with $18.8 billion.

Lakshmi Mittal with $18.5 billion and HCL founder Shiv Nadar with $14.6 billion, founder of Sun Pharma Dilip Shanghvi with $12.8 billion and Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Birla with $11.8 billion, Kotak Mahindra Executive Vice-Chairman and MD Uday Kotak with $10.7 billion, Investor Radhakishan Dhamani with $10 billion, Serum Institute of India founder Cyrus Poonawalla with $9.1 billion were also in the list.