Month: March 2021

“#NariShakti Rail: The first woman driver of Indian Railways, Smt. Surekha Yadav drives the all women-staffed Mumbai-Lucknow Special, in celebration of #InternationalWomensDay,” Goyal tweeted.

Gangwar had boarded the flight ATR-72 at Delhi at 9 am and the 72-seater plane landed at the Bareilly airport to a water canon salute for the new air service and the all-women crew members.

Odissi exponent Kumkum Mohanty was conferred the lifetime achievement award on the occasion.  Conservation architect Vijaya Amujure was awarded in the Art and Culture category, while Gitanjali Rout and Bijeta Rana were felicitated for social work, Tanaya Patnaik in entrepreneurship, Sasmita Lenka in wildlife conservation, Sucheta Priyabadini in education and research, Lopita Mishra and Nazia Alam in music, Chinmayee Bhuyan and Jayanti Behera in sports and Jayanti Buruda in the field of media among others.

Odisha

While Raji George from Ernakulam district scripted the success story in integrated farming, Smija, an engineering diploma holder who hails from Moothakunnam chose cage fish farming as her profession.

Palayil Pathazapurayil Narayanan made the journey across the Palakkad Gap and onwards to Madras and Malaya in the early 1930s to further his education….

Ramkumar Sarangapani, a Dubai resident, now holds the most number of world records by an individual in the UAE and India