The survivors of the MeToo movement that took Bollywood and the media industry by storm in the country were named “Personality of the Year 2018” by search engine major Yahoo India on Tuesday. In its “2018 Year in Review” for India (YIR)
report
, the company said Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
once again grabbed the top spot in the list of “Top Newsmakers of 2018”, followed by former Chief Justice of India
Dipak Misra
, who made it to the list with his landmark verdicts on
Triple Talaq
and
Article 377
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#MeToo is a movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault, that first went viral in October 2017.[/caption] Every year Yahoo publishes the list of top newsmakers and happenings that catches the interest of Internet users in India in the “Year in Review for India” report.
Reserve Bank of India
(RBI) Governor Urjit Patel headed the “Top Finance Newsmakers” list followed by while Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Users on the platform bid adieu to Bollywood actress
Sridevi
with grief and love online, thus, making her one of the “Most Searched Female Celebrities” in 2018. [caption id=“attachment_4368849” align=“alignnone” width=“1280”]
Sridevi. PTI[/caption] Actor
Salman Khan
became the “Most Searched Male Celebrity” of 2018. Close on his heels was American singer
Nick Jonas
who moved up the list post his engagement to actress
Priyanka Chopra
. New entrants like actress
Janhvi Kapoor
and
Sara Ali Khan
, besides Sprinter
Hima Das
also made it to “India’s Top 10 Heartthrobs” of 2018.