An incredible woman who left her mark in the world of biochemistry, Kamala Sohonie's story remains a landmark not just for Indian science, but for the women behind it too.
In India of today, it is little known that the flourishing silk industry of Karnataka was revived by the same visionary who laid the foundation of iron and steel industry in India - Jamsetji Tata.
One of India's earliest action stars, Mary Anne Evans – or Fearless Nadia, as she was more famously known – swashbuckled her way through gender and cultural barriers in the late 1930s.
Harakchand Salwa, founder of Jeevan Jyot Foundation, provides healthy meals to 700 cancer patients from underprivileged backgrounds and their families, twice every day.
IIT Bombay's Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) in Mumbai and Global Venture Alliance (GVA) in Moscow are partnering to run a bilateral Entrepreneur Exchange Programme- "India Russia Bridge for Innovations (IRBI)". This is a press release by the organisers.
In the 1880s, at a time when Indian women hardly had any rights to speak of, a gutsy and determined woman did the impossible. Not only did Rukhmabai fight an iconic case that defied child marriage, she went on to become India's first practicing lady doctor.
In order to reduce the dependence of engineering aspirants on coaching centres and to reach students in rural India, professors from IITs across the country will soon provide coaching classes through four DTH channels.