Dawood among world's most powerful

Underworld don and India's most wanted criminal Dawood Ibrahim is the 50th most powerful man in the world.

In the first ever such list complied by the Forbes magazine, Dawood Ibrahim has been ranked at number 50 in the Forbes list of 'The World's Most Powerful People'.

The list describes Dawood is as the 'boss of Mumbai-based organised crime syndicate D-Company.

Four Indians, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and fugitive Dawood Ibrahim, have made it to the Forbes list of the world's most powerful people topped by US president Barack Obama.

Obama is followed by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in the Forbes annual rankings that also features world's most wanted terrorist Osama bin Laden.

Among the four Indians, Singh has been ranked highest at 36th position, while the country's top corporate house Reliance Industries' chief Mukesh Ambani finds himself ranked 44th ahead of Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata (59th).

Ranked very next to Singh is Al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden at 37th place.

Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind of 9/11 terror strike on US, too has been eluding US-led multi-national armed forces.

The list also features Dalai Lama at 39th rank and Pope Benedict XVI at 11th place.

The Forbes ranking includes total 67 persons from across the world. Among the top-ranked, Obama, Jintao and Putin are followed by US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke (4th) and
internet giant Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page joint fifth. (With PTI inputs)