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	<img align="" alt="PM Narendra Modi upon his arrival at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Sunday, November 29, 2015 PTI" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-11/30/full/1448867102-9009.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="PM Narendra Modi upon his arrival at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris on Sunday, November 29, 2015 PTI" width="620" />
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		Narendra Modi- The former Gujarat chief minister and current prime minister surpassed expectations by leading the Bharatiya Janata Party to a huge majority in the Lok Sabha, the first since 1984<br />
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			<img align="" alt="Manmohan Singh- The two-term PM's stewardship of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal (2005) put India back on the global map but the coming year could be challenging as the court case examining his role in coal block allocations continues" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-05/27/full/1432729308-0106.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Manmohan Singh- The two-term PM's stewardship of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal (2005) put India back on the global map but the coming year could be challenging as the court case examining his role in coal block allocations continues" width="620" />
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				Manmohan Singh- The two-term PM&rsquo;s stewardship of the Indo-US civil nuclear deal (2005) put India back on the global map but the coming year could be challenging as the court case examining his role in coal block allocations continues<br />
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					<img align="" alt="Sonia Gandhi, CIC, BJP, UPA" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-05/06/full/1430912471-4272.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Sonia Gandhi, CIC, BJP, UPA" width="620" />
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						Sonia Gandhi- As president of the Congress, she re-established the party as a powerful force with a cogent ideology for two terms in power; now yearning to see her son Rahul settled in a leadership role<br />
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						&nbsp;<strong>Solo players</strong><br />
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							<img align="" alt="Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses a seminar on completion of four years of Right to Service Act in Bihar, at Adhiveshan Bhawan in Patna on Thursday, 27 August 2015 &lt;b&gt;Picture by PTI&lt;/b&gt;" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-08/27/full/1440671148-6761.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal addresses a seminar on completion of four years of Right to Service Act in Bihar, at Adhiveshan Bhawan in Patna on Thursday, 27 August 2015 &lt;b&gt;Picture by PTI&lt;/b&gt;" width="620" />
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								Arvind Kejriwal- The obstreperous bureaucrat&rsquo;s rise to Delhi&rsquo;s chief ministership became the harbinger of a new cult of accountability and a redefinition of Centre-state relations<br />
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									<img align="" alt="Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar, Oath, Bihar" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-11/20/full/1448005812-1086.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar, Oath, Bihar" width="620" />
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										Mamata Banerjee- Her rowdy brand of politics brought down the Left Front in Bengal after three decades in power and forced Tata Motors to abandon its showcase Nano project in Singur<br />
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											<img align="" alt="Odisha Chief Minister Naveen patnaik with, Chairman of TATA Group, Cyrus Pallonji  Mistry at the Secretariat in Bhubaneswar" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-11/18/full/1447850638-0929.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Odisha Chief Minister Naveen patnaik with, Chairman of TATA Group, Cyrus Pallonji  Mistry at the Secretariat in Bhubaneswar" width="620" />
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												Naveen patnaik- The first Odisha chief minister to serve three consecutive terms, his party has won all other elections as well &ndash; from Lok Sabha to municipality and panchayat elections<br />
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												&nbsp;<strong>The change agents</strong><br />
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													<img align="" alt="Kailash Satyarthi- The child rights activist, who influenced ILO's child labour guidelines, won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2014-10/17/full/1413556585-8033.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Kailash Satyarthi- The child rights activist, who influenced ILO's child labour guidelines, won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai" width="620" />
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														Kailash Satyarthi- The child rights activist, who influenced ILO&rsquo;s child labour guidelines, won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistan&rsquo;s Malala Yousafzai<br />
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															<img align="" alt="Aruna Roy" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451396592-128.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Aruna Roy" width="620" />
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																Aruna Roy- As part of the National Advisory Council (NAC) Roy got the rare chance to re-enter the system she had exited as an officer of the IAS, but this time as a representative of an NGO. Drove the Right to Information law<br />
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																	<img align="" alt="Vinod Rai" class="imgCont" height="464" src="http://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2015-12/29/full/1451396613-0324.jpg" style="border: 1px solid #DDD; margin-right: 10px; padding: 1px; float: left; z-index: 0;" title="Vinod Rai" width="620" />
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																		Vinod Rai- As Comptroller & Auditor General from 2008 to 2013, Rai raised questions on the allotment of telecom spectrum and coal mines, forcing the government to switch from allocation of natural resources to auctions</div>
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Who gained, lost, made the front page, set new trends, departed- portraits from 1st decade and a half of 21st century

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen patnaik with, Chairman of TATA Group, Cyrus Pallonji  Mistry at the Secretariat in Bhubaneswar


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