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...
Second largest man-made lake in Asia. About 50 km southeast of Udaipur is the Jaisamand Lake built by Maharana Jai Singh. Ranked as the second-largest man-made lake in Asia, the lake is flanked by the summer palaces and marble chhatris of the Udaipur queens.
Indian think tanks in the world list India has as many as 192 think tanks, and as per the latest survey of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania, ranks fifth in the world for its number of think...
Britain’s greatest battle Britain’s National Army Museum has drawn up a list (based on contest findings) of the 20 greatest battles in the 20th century. The battles of Imphal and Kohima, both fought between March 8, 1944, and July 3, 1944, have been ranked as...
Asia’s largest mandi Asia’s largest wholesale market for fruits and vegetables is located in New Delhi. Over 3000 trucks bring fresh goods to the Azadpur Mandi every day. It retails to over 30,000 outlets in the National Capital Region.
