First woman chief in an oil company In March 2014, Nishi Vasudeva became the first woman in India to head an oil company, when she took over the reins of Hindustan Petroleum Company Limited. Globally, only three other women hold such a key position in...
Only Asian in ITWA In June 2013, the then newly constituted board of the International Tennis Writers’ Association (ITWA), which has representatives from Europe, the North, and South Americas, and Australia, nominated The Times of India’s tennis editor, Prajwal Hegde, to the board. Hegde is...
Great women scientists Sunetra Gupta, a chemist, and physicist is a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology. Professor Gupta’s main area of interest is the evolution of diversity in pathogens, with particular reference to the infectious agents responsible for...
Indian women, American state Nisha Desai Biswal, is a person of Indian origin in the United States, who was referred to by John Kerry in his speech at the swearing-in ceremony of assistant secretaries in the US in November 2013: ‘It’s a great story, it’s...
A bank for women by women The first all-women bank, the Bharatiya Mahila Bank was inaugurated in Mumbai on November 19, 2013, by the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The bank’s focus is on women-oriented products. There is a focus on providing loans for projects...
SBI’s first woman chairperson When Arundhati Bhattacharya became the first woman chairperson of the 206-year-old State Bank of India, in October 2013, she also became the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 company in India. In 2014, Forbes listed Bhattacharya as the 36th most...
The tribal women’s football team wins a medal A team of teenage tribal women won the bronze medal in the famed Gastiez Cup football tournament at Victoria Gastiez, in Spain, on July 13, 2013. The victory was exceptionally remarkable and drew worldwide admiration. At their...
Cochin or Kochi, “Venice of the East” Kochi, the port city in Kerala, is an amalgam of Arabic, Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch and British lifestyles. Spices like pepper, cardamom, cinnamon, and nutmeg have been shipped out from here for centuries. While Kochi has had mosques since...
Tallest temple towers Meenakshi temple in Madurai has the tallest temple towers at a height of 48 meters. The temple, dedicated to Lord Shiva as Sundareswara and Goddess Meenake has a hall with 997 pillars that produce different musical sounds when tapped.
Vedapuri Pondicherry is also known as Poduke and Puducherry, but its earliest name was Vedapuri. Auroville or the City of Dawn’, located in Puducherry, was founded by Mirra Alfassa, Sri Aurobindo’s French disciple, also known as “The Mother”. Auroville was conceived as a city where...
