Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in the 59th position in the list of 100 powerful women across the world.

The influential United States magazine Forbes published the list on Tuesday in its 2015 edition.

Sheikh Hasina was in the 47th position last year.

Forbes wrote Sheikh Hasina came to power ‘after a violent election with suspiciously low voting in January 2014.’

Forbes wrote ‘Her victory has been called an electoral farce.’

About Sheikh Hasina, the magazine said, ‘She has been leader of the ruling Awami League since 1981, and her father, Skeikh Mujibur Rahman, was the first president of the country and assassinated in 1975.’

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is at the top of the list followed by former US former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is in the third place.