Amritsar

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India's second woman #IPS officer after Kiran Bedi, Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya set the bar by thriving in a male-dominated profession, becoming a icon for an entire generation of Indian women. #RIP #Respect #FirstWomen

Present at #JallianwalaBagh on the fateful day, Sashti Charan Mukherji escaped death by hiding under the dais. What he did next ensured that the British were unable to obliterate the signs of the 1919 massacre.

"Benjamin Guy Horniman was British by birth, but for about 40 years, he was the Bayard of Indian journalism. . . He was our greatest tradition, or banner of freedom and our school of journalism. His epitaph should be 'England's greatest and perhaps the only real gift to India'."

Dr Anita Sharma called about 2000 driving schools across India asking if they give lessons to the differently-abled. Disappointed by their answers, she decided to change the status quo herself!

Book Fairies is an international movement whose genesis can be traced back to the United Kingdom, where on March 8, 2016, a day also celebrated as International Women’s Day, the founder Cordelia Oxley gave shape to this movement.

Pritam Kaur and Bhagwan Singh Maini had met just once when they got engaged. The second time they met was at one of the teeming refugee camps that dotted Amritsar.

Shallu will be representing India at the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi & Dubai. More than 7,000 athletes will compete in 24 sports.

While the Indian Railways maintained that it wasn’t at fault as it wasn’t notified about the Dussehra celebrations, the transport giant is now taking measures to prevent such incidents.

A baby would have been one among the 59 who left their families bereft if it wasn’t for 55-year-old Meena Devi who saved his life.